History log of /fs/block_dev.c
Revision Date Author Comments
b2de525f095708b2adbadaec3f1e4017a23d1e09 29-Sep-2014 David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com> Return short read or 0 at end of a raw device, not EIO

Author: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Changes to the basic direct I/O code have broken the raw driver when reading
to the end of a raw device. Instead of returning a short read for a read that
extends partially beyond the device's end or 0 when at the end of the device,
these reads now return EIO.

The raw driver needs the same end of device handling as was added for normal
block devices. Using blkdev_read_iter, which has the needed size checks,
prevents the EIO conditions at the end of the device.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
447f05bb488bff4282088259b04f47f0f9f76760 10-Oct-2014 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> block_dev: implement readpages() to optimize sequential read

Sequential read from a block device is expected to be equal or faster than
from the file on a filesystem. But it is not correct due to the lack of
effective readpages() in the address space operations for block device.

This implements readpages() operation for block device by using
mpage_readpages() which can create multipage BIOs instead of BIOs for each
page and reduce system CPU time consumption.

Install 1GB of RAM disk storage:

# modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 delay=0

Sequential read from file on a filesystem:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/$DEV
# mount /dev/$DEV /mnt
# fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/mnt/file
...
read : io=524288KB, bw=2133.4MB/s, iops=546133, runt= 240msec

Sequential read from a block device:
# fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/dev/$DEV
...
(Without this commit)
read : io=524288KB, bw=1700.2MB/s, iops=435455, runt= 301msec

(With this commit)
read : io=524288KB, bw=2160.4MB/s, iops=553046, runt= 237msec

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
018a17bdc8658ad448497c84d4ba21b6985820ec 08-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> bdi: reimplement bdev_inode_switch_bdi()

A block_device may be attached to different gendisks and thus
different bdis over time. bdev_inode_switch_bdi() is used to switch
the associated bdi. The function assumes that the inode could be
dirty and transfers it between bdis if so. This is a bit nasty in
that it reaches into bdi internals.

This patch reimplements the function so that it writes out the inode
if dirty. This is a lot simpler and can be implemented without
exposing bdi internals.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
ff9ea323816dc1c8ac7144afd4eab3ac97704430 08-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it

bdev_get_queue() returns the request_queue associated with the
specified block_device. blk_get_backing_dev_info() makes use of
bdev_get_queue() to determine the associated bdi given a block_device.

All the callers of bdev_get_queue() including
blk_get_backing_dev_info() assume that bdev_get_queue() may return
NULL and implement NULL handling; however, bdev_get_queue() requires
the passed in block_device is opened and attached to its gendisk.
Because an active gendisk always has a valid request_queue associated
with it, bdev_get_queue() can never return NULL and neither can
blk_get_backing_dev_info().

Make it clear that neither of the two functions can return NULL and
remove NULL handling from all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
8d0207652cbe27d1f962050737848e5ad4671958 05-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> ->splice_write() via ->write_iter()

iter_file_splice_write() - a ->splice_write() instance that gathers the
pipe buffers, builds a bio_vec-based iov_iter covering those and feeds
it to ->write_iter(). A bunch of simple cases coverted to that...

[AV: fixed the braino spotted by Cyrill]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868 05-Jun-2014 Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> fs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()

A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation. These
will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized I/O to
page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O). This does preclude I/Os that
are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance gain for
some devices.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1456c0a87c4241d3a801651019e66983c69ad17d 03-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> blkdev_aio_write() - turn into blkdev_write_iter()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
a886038baa48a17f2cf77fb5dcc204fd28659d8f 03-Apr-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> fs/block_dev.c: switch to ->read_iter()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
37938463540b075e9166cf774c59274379f7a8ca 22-Mar-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> blkdev_aio_read(): switch to generic_file_read_iter(), get rid of iov_shorten()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
31b140398ce56ab41646eda7f02bcb78d6a4c916 05-Mar-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> switch {__,}blockdev_direct_IO() to iov_iter

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
d8d3d94b80aa1a1c0ca75c58b8abdc7356f38418 05-Mar-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> pass iov_iter to ->direct_IO()

unmodified, for now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
91b0abe36a7b2b3b02d7500925a5f8455334f0e5 03-Apr-2014 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache

Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page. As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently. At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate. Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
45d4f855046631d63dab8832ba8a8369ed8e04bd 03-Apr-2014 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> fs/direct-io.c: remove some left over checks

We know that "ret > 0" is true here. These tests were left over from
commit 02afc27faec9 ('direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO') and aren't
needed any more.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
41fc56d573c35a212688b12b48af8c303f9bb6d2 09-Feb-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()

It's always equal to &iocb->ki_pos, where iocb is the value of the 1st
argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
02afc27faec94c9e068517a22acf55400976c698 04-Sep-2013 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO

Call generic_write_sync() from the deferred I/O completion handler if
O_DSYNC is set for a write request. Also make sure various callers
don't call generic_write_sync if the direct I/O code returns
-EIOCBQUEUED.

Based on an earlier patch from Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> with updates from
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> and Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
73a7075e3f6ec63dc359064eea6fd84f406cf2a5 10-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry()

This code doesn't serve any purpose anymore, since the aio retry
infrastructure has been removed.

This change should be safe because aio_read/write are also used for
synchronous IO, and called from do_sync_read()/do_sync_write() - and
there's no looping done in the sync case (the read and write syscalls).

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
a8855990e382fc81c04187c5fdb48743307baf32 09-Jul-2013 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writeback: Do not sort b_io list only because of block device inode

It is very likely that block device inode will be part of BDI dirty list
as well. However it doesn't make sence to sort inodes on the b_io list
just because of this inode (as it contains buffers all over the device
anyway). So save some CPU cycles which is valuable since we hold relatively
contented wb->list_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
b45972265f823ed01eae0867a176320071665787 04-Jul-2013 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account

Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
5d48f3a2de568ba2c9d06ecbdf995e0702748f22 23-Jun-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 28-Jun-2013 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount

Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.

Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().

Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe <Bert.DeJonghe@amplidata.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 3.0
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
a27bb332c04cec8c4afd7912df0dc7890db27560 08-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4385bab128911df14ab25f0b5ae1a48d7b53dd94 06-May-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> make blkdev_put() return void

same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
db2a144bedd58b3dcf19950c2f476c58c9f39d18 06-May-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> block_device_operations->release() should return void

The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
b4ea2eaa11fa2588c241a80d6d1e59f0f68f7b29 01-May-2013 Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com> fs/block_dev.c: no need to check inode->i_bdev in bd_forget()

Its only caller evict() has promised a non-NULL inode->i_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Yan Hong <clouds.yan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
6f8f5c260af67fed49fe14efc3ad1f69654c260e 29-Apr-2013 Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()

blkdev_aio_read() test 'size' to see if it is equal or greater than the
target count we request(iocb->ki_left). If so there is no need to call
iov_shorten() to reduce number of segments and the iovec's length. So the
judgement should be changed to 'if (size < iocb->ki_left)' instead.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
c1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd 01-Apr-2013 Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use

struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".

But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a

To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().

The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:

dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
while [ true ]; do
losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
losetup -d /dev/loop0
done

[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is
Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
it will get EBUSY. And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
device we'll get ENXIO.

loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
496ad9aa8ef448058e36ca7a787c61f2e63f0f54 23-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> new helper: file_inode(file)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
de33127d8d3f1d570aad8c2223cd81b206636bc1 22-Feb-2013 Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()

bd_openers is stable under bd_mutex, no need to check it twice.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
d646a02a9d44d1421f273ae3923d97b47b918176 22-Feb-2013 Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()

blkdev_ioctl(GETBLKSIZE) uses i_size_read() to read size of block device.
If we update block size directly, reader may see intermediate result in
some machines and configurations. Use i_size_write() instead.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
7630b661da330b35dd57b6f5d6d62b386f2dd751 22-Feb-2013 MITSUNARI Shigeo <herumi@nifty.com> fs/block_dev.c: page cache wrongly left invalidated after revalidate_disk()

We found that bdev->bd_invalidated was left set once revalidate_disk()
is called, which results in page cache flush every time that device is
open.

Specifically, we found this problem in MD block device. Once we resize
a MD device, mdadm --monitor periodically flush all page cache for that
device every 60 or 1000 seconds when it opens the device.

This bug lies since at least 3.2.0 till the latest kernel(3.6.2). Patch
is attached.

The following steps will reproduce the problem.

1. prepair a block device (eg /dev/sdb).

2. create two partitions:

sudo parted /dev/sdb
mklabel gpt
mkpart primary 0% 50%
mkpart primary 50% 100%

3. create a md device.

sudo mdadm -C /dev/md/hoge -l 1 -n 2 -e 1.2 --assume-clean --auto=md --symlink=no /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2

4. create file system and mount it

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/md/hoge
sudo mkdir /mnt/test
sudo mount /dev/md/hoge /mnt/test

5. try to resize the device

sudo mdadm -G /dev/md/hoge --size=max

6. create a file to fill file cache.

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/test/data bs=1M count=10

and verify the current status of file by free command.

7. mdadm monitor will open the md device every 1000 seconds and you
will find all file cache on the device are cleared.

The timing can be reduced by the following steps.

a) kill mdadm and restart it with --delay option

/sbin/mdadm --monitor --delay=30 --pid-file /var/run/mdadm/monitor.pid --daemonise --scan --syslog

or open the md device directly.

sudo dd if=/dev/md/hoge of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1

Signed-off-by: MITSUNARI Shigeo <herumi@nifty.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
965c8e59cfcf845ecde2265a1d1bfee5f011d302 18-Dec-2012 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"

But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead. Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
684c9aaebbb0ea3a9954d605d4908e650659e7db 08-Dec-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> vfs: fix O_DIRECT read past end of block device

The direct-IO write path already had the i_size checks in mm/filemap.c,
but it turns out the read path did not, and removing the block size
checks in fs/block_dev.c (commit bbec0270bdd8: "blkdev_max_block: make
private to fs/buffer.c") removed the magic "shrink IO to past the end of
the device" code there.

Fix it by truncating the IO to the size of the block device, like the
write path already does.

NOTE! I suspect the write path would be *much* better off doing it this
way in fs/block_dev.c, rather than hidden deep in mm/filemap.c. The
mm/filemap.c code is extremely hard to follow, and has various
conditionals on the target being a block device (ie the flag passed in
to 'generic_write_checks()', along with a conditional update of the
inode timestamp etc).

It is also quite possible that we should treat this whole block device
size as a "s_maxbytes" issue, and try to make the logic even more
generic. However, in the meantime this is the fairly minimal targeted
fix.

Noted by Milan Broz thanks to a regression test for the cryptsetup
reencrypt tool.

Reported-and-tested-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
bbec0270bdd887f96377065ee38b8848b5afa395 29-Nov-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> blkdev_max_block: make private to fs/buffer.c

We really don't want to look at the block size for the raw block device
accesses in fs/block-dev.c, because it may be changing from under us.
So get rid of the max_block logic entirely, since the caller should
already have done it anyway.

That leaves the only user of this function in fs/buffer.c, so move the
whole function there and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1e8b33328a5407b447ff80953655a47014a6dcb9 29-Nov-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> blockdev: remove bd_block_size_semaphore again

This reverts the block-device direct access code to the previous
unlocked code, now that fs/buffer.c no longer needs external locking.

With this, fs/block_dev.c is back to the original version, apart from a
whitespace cleanup that I didn't want to revert.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1a25b1c4ce189e3926f2981f3302352a930086db 15-Oct-2012 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Lock splice_read and splice_write functions

Functions generic_file_splice_read and generic_file_splice_write access
the pagecache directly. For block devices these functions must be locked
so that block size is not changed while they are in progress.

This patch is an additional fix for commit b87570f5d349 ("Fix a crash
when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time")
that locked aio_read, aio_write and mmap against block size change.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
3eab7315c8dd6685f58acba00319dd8b80a21d7a 26-Sep-2012 Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared

blkdev_mmap() isn't used outside of fs/block_dev.c, mark it as
static.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
62ac665ff9fc07497ca524bd20d6a96893d11071 26-Sep-2012 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore

This avoids cache line bouncing when many processes lock the semaphore
for read.

New percpu lock implementation

The lock consists of an array of percpu unsigned integers, a boolean
variable and a mutex.

When we take the lock for read, we enter rcu read section, check for a
"locked" variable. If it is false, we increase a percpu counter on the
current cpu and exit the rcu section. If "locked" is true, we exit the
rcu section, take the mutex and drop it (this waits until a writer
finished) and retry.

Unlocking for read just decreases percpu variable. Note that we can
unlock on a difference cpu than where we locked, in this case the
counter underflows. The sum of all percpu counters represents the number
of processes that hold the lock for read.

When we need to lock for write, we take the mutex, set "locked" variable
to true and synchronize rcu. Since RCU has been synchronized, no
processes can create new read locks. We wait until the sum of percpu
counters is zero - when it is, there are no readers in the critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
b87570f5d349661814b262dd5fc40787700f80d6 26-Sep-2012 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time

The kernel may crash when block size is changed and I/O is issued
simultaneously.

Because some subsystems (udev or lvm) may read any block device anytime,
the bug actually puts any code that changes a block device size in
jeopardy.

The crash can be reproduced if you place "msleep(1000)" to
blkdev_get_blocks just before "bh->b_size = max_blocks <<
inode->i_blkbits;".
Then, run "dd if=/dev/ram0 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1 iflag=direct"
While it is waiting in msleep, run "blockdev --setbsz 2048 /dev/ram0"
You get a BUG.

The direct and non-direct I/O is written with the assumption that block
size does not change. It doesn't seem practical to fix these crashes
one-by-one there may be many crash possibilities when block size changes
at a certain place and it is impossible to find them all and verify the
code.

This patch introduces a new rw-lock bd_block_size_semaphore. The lock is
taken for read during I/O. It is taken for write when changing block
size. Consequently, block size can't be changed while I/O is being
submitted.

For asynchronous I/O, the patch only prevents block size change while
the I/O is being submitted. The block size can change when the I/O is in
progress or when the I/O is being finished. This is acceptable because
there are no accesses to block size when asynchronous I/O is being
finished.

The patch prevents block size changing while the device is mapped with
mmap.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
53362a05ae683e12a20d9ffdf58a88094a0bed9d 02-Aug-2012 Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> fs/block-dev.c:fix performance regression in O_DIRECT writes to md block devices

For regular file, write operaion used blk_plug function.But for block
file,write operation did not use blk_plug.
This patch is also for write-cache mode for block-device.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
5c0d6b60a0ba46d45020547eacf7199171920935 03-Jul-2012 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
080399aaaf3531f5b8761ec0ac30ff98891e8686 11-May-2012 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as mapped

Hi,

We have a bug report open where a squashfs image mounted on ppc64 would
exhibit errors due to trying to read beyond the end of the disk. It can
easily be reproduced by doing the following:

[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# ls -l install.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142032896 Apr 30 16:46 install.img
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# mount -o loop ./install.img /mnt/test
[root@ibm-p750e-02-lp3 ~]# dd if=/dev/loop0 of=/dev/null
dd: reading `/dev/loop0': Input/output error
277376+0 records in
277376+0 records out
142016512 bytes (142 MB) copied, 0.9465 s, 150 MB/s

In dmesg, you'll find the following:

squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 43.106012] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106029] loop0: rw=0, want=277410, limit=277408
[ 43.106039] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138704
[ 43.106053] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106057] loop0: rw=0, want=277412, limit=277408
[ 43.106061] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138705
[ 43.106066] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106070] loop0: rw=0, want=277414, limit=277408
[ 43.106073] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138706
[ 43.106078] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106081] loop0: rw=0, want=277416, limit=277408
[ 43.106085] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138707
[ 43.106089] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106093] loop0: rw=0, want=277418, limit=277408
[ 43.106096] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138708
[ 43.106101] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106104] loop0: rw=0, want=277420, limit=277408
[ 43.106108] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138709
[ 43.106112] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106116] loop0: rw=0, want=277422, limit=277408
[ 43.106120] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138710
[ 43.106124] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106128] loop0: rw=0, want=277424, limit=277408
[ 43.106131] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138711
[ 43.106135] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106139] loop0: rw=0, want=277426, limit=277408
[ 43.106143] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138712
[ 43.106147] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106151] loop0: rw=0, want=277428, limit=277408
[ 43.106154] Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 138713
[ 43.106158] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106162] loop0: rw=0, want=277430, limit=277408
[ 43.106166] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106169] loop0: rw=0, want=277432, limit=277408
...
[ 43.106307] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 43.106311] loop0: rw=0, want=277470, limit=2774

Squashfs manages to read in the end block(s) of the disk during the
mount operation. Then, when dd reads the block device, it leads to
block_read_full_page being called with buffers that are beyond end of
disk, but are marked as mapped. Thus, it would end up submitting read
I/O against them, resulting in the errors mentioned above. I fixed the
problem by modifying init_page_buffers to only set the buffer mapped if
it fell inside of i_size.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

--

Changes from v1->v2: re-used max_block, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
dbd5768f87ff6fb0a4fe09c4d7b6c4a24de99430 03-May-2012 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()

After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense
to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode()
which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
b502bd1152472dc1b98c60434f23c23b280c7b94 23-Mar-2012 Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@gmail.com> magic.h: move some FS magic numbers into magic.h

- Move open-coded filesystem magic numbers into magic.h

- Rearrange magic.h so that the filesystem-related constants are grouped
together.

Signed-off-by: Muthukumar R <muthur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fe316bf2d5847bc5dd975668671a7b1067603bc7 02-Mar-2012 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

process A process B
----------------------------------------------
sys_open
__blkdev_get
sd_open
returns -ENOMEDIUM
scsi_remove_device
<scsi_device torn down>
rescan_partitions
sd_revalidate_disk
<oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
3167760f83899ccda312b9ad9306ec9e5dda06d4 21-Sep-2011 Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> mm: cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/

Per akpm suggestions alter the use of the term flush to be
invalidate. The next patch will do this across all MM.

This change is completely cosmetic.

[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 3]

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v10: Fixed fs: move code out of buffer.c conflict change]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
87192a2a49c475cf322cb143e0fa63b0102d8567 13-Jan-2012 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> vfs: cache request_queue in struct block_device

This makes it possible to get from the inode to the request_queue with one
less cache miss. Used in followon optimization.

The livetime of the pointer is the same as the gendisk.

This assumes that the queue will always stay the same in the gendisk while
it's visible to block_devices. I think that's safe correct?

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ace8577aeb438025ecf642f5eda3aa551d251951 10-Jan-2012 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> block_dev: Suppress bdev_cache_init() kmemleak warninig

Kmemleak reports the following warning in bdev_cache_init()
[ 0.003738] kmemleak: Object 0xffff880153035200 (size 256):
[ 0.003823] kmemleak: comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294667299
[ 0.003909] kmemleak: min_count = 1
[ 0.003988] kmemleak: count = 0
[ 0.004066] kmemleak: flags = 0x1
[ 0.004144] kmemleak: checksum = 0
[ 0.004224] kmemleak: backtrace:
[ 0.004303] [<ffffffff814755ac>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
[ 0.004446] [<ffffffff811100ba>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xca/0x1dc
[ 0.004592] [<ffffffff811371b1>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x1f/0x198
[ 0.004736] [<ffffffff811375c5>] vfs_kern_mount+0x36/0xd2
[ 0.004879] [<ffffffff8113929a>] kern_mount_data+0x18/0x32
[ 0.005025] [<ffffffff81ab9075>] bdev_cache_init+0x51/0x81
[ 0.005169] [<ffffffff81ab8abf>] vfs_caches_init+0x101/0x10d
[ 0.005313] [<ffffffff81a9bae3>] start_kernel+0x344/0x383
[ 0.005456] [<ffffffff81a9b2a7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xae/0xb2
[ 0.005602] [<ffffffff81a9b3ad>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x102/0x111
[ 0.005747] [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
[ 0.008653] kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xffff880153035220 as Grey
[ 0.008754] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc0-dbg-04200-g8180888-dirty #888
[ 0.008856] Call Trace:
[ 0.008934] [<ffffffff81118704>] ? find_and_get_object+0x44/0x118
[ 0.009023] [<ffffffff81118fe6>] paint_ptr+0x57/0x8f
[ 0.009109] [<ffffffff81475935>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x23/0x42
[ 0.009195] [<ffffffff81ab9096>] bdev_cache_init+0x72/0x81
[ 0.009282] [<ffffffff81ab8abf>] vfs_caches_init+0x101/0x10d
[ 0.009368] [<ffffffff81a9bae3>] start_kernel+0x344/0x383
[ 0.009466] [<ffffffff81a9b2a7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xae/0xb2
[ 0.009555] [<ffffffff81a9b140>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x140/0x140
[ 0.009643] [<ffffffff81a9b3ad>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x102/0x111

due to attempt to mark pointer to `struct vfsmount' as a gray object, which
is embedded into `struct mount' returned from alloc_vfsmnt().

Make `bd_mnt' static, avoiding need to tell kmemleak to mark it gray, as
suggested by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
ff01bb4832651c6d25ac509a06a10fcbd75c461c 16-Sep-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> fs: move code out of buffer.c

Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.

Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
6b520e0565422966cdf1c3759bd73df77b0f248c 12-Dec-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
f47ec3f28354795f000c14bf18ed967ec81a3ec3 22-Nov-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> trim fs/internal.h

some stuff in there can actually become static; some belongs to pnode.h
as it's a private interface between namespace.c and pnode.c...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
f992ae801a7dec34a4ed99a6598bbbbfb82af4fb 17-Oct-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue

The following command sequence triggers an oops.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
# umount /mnt

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in:

Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d0879>] [<ffffffff810d0879>] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810d2845>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
[<ffffffff81aed87b>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
[<ffffffff811573bc>] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
[<ffffffff811c2f6c>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
[<ffffffff811c3fcb>] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
[<ffffffff811c4010>] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
[<ffffffff811c40df>] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
[<ffffffff8118f18d>] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
[<ffffffff8118f4a5>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
[<ffffffff8119003a>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
[<ffffffff811ac4ad>] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
[<ffffffff811acf2e>] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
[<ffffffff81aeeeab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
associated queue. If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
dereferencing already freed bdi.

Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
queue is very unusual and error-prone.

Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
523e1d399ce0e23bec562abe2b2f8d297af81161 19-Oct-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue

The following command sequence triggers an oops.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
# umount /mnt

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in:

Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d0879>] [<ffffffff810d0879>] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810d2845>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
[<ffffffff81aed87b>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
[<ffffffff811573bc>] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
[<ffffffff811c2f6c>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
[<ffffffff811c3fcb>] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
[<ffffffff811c4010>] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
[<ffffffff811c40df>] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
[<ffffffff8118f18d>] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
[<ffffffff8118f4a5>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
[<ffffffff8119003a>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
[<ffffffff811ac4ad>] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
[<ffffffff811acf2e>] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
[<ffffffff81aeeeab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
associated queue. If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
dereferencing already freed bdi.

Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
queue is very unusual and error-prone.

Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3 10-Sep-2011 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Avoid dereferencing a 'request_queue' after last close.

On the last close of an 'md' device which as been stopped, the device
is destroyed and in particular the request_queue is freed. The free
is done in a separate thread so it might happen a short time later.

__blkdev_put calls bdev_inode_switch_bdi *after* ->release has been
called.

Since commit f758eeabeb96f878c860e8f110f94ec8820822a9
bdev_inode_switch_bdi will dereference the 'old' bdi, which lives
inside a request_queue, to get a spin lock. This causes the last
close on an md device to sometime take a spin_lock which lives in
freed memory - which results in an oops.

So move the called to bdev_inode_switch_bdi before the call to
->release.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
d27769ec3df1a8de9ca450d2dcd72d1ab259ba32 23-Aug-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN

There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions. disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland. show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
da5aa861bea09197e6ae4d7c46618616064891e4 02-Aug-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> fix block device fallout from ->fsync() changes

blkdev_fsync() needs to write pages in pagecache...

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
782b94cdf577b4df1feb376f372dccc28e66a771 30-Jun-2011 Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com> block: initialise bd_super in bdget()

bd_super is currently reset to NULL in kill_block_super() so we rely on previous
users of the block_device object to initialise this value for the next user.
This quirk was exposed on RHEL5 when a third party filesystem did not always use
kill_block_super() and therefore bd_super wasn't being reset when a block_device
object was recycled within the cache. This may not be a problem upstream but
makes sense to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
02c24a82187d5a628c68edfe71ae60dc135cd178 17-Jul-2011 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers

Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
06222e491e663dac939f04b125c9dc52126a75c4 18-Jul-2011 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek

This converts everybody to handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly. In some cases
we just return -EINVAL, in others we do the normal generic thing, and in others
we're simply making sure that the properly due-dilligence is done. For example
in NFS/CIFS we need to make sure the file size is update properly for the
SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA case, but since it calls the generic llseek stuff itself
that is all we have to do. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
85ef06d1d252f6a2e73b678591ab71caad4667bb 01-Jul-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)

Currently, only open(2) is defined as the 'clearing' point. It has
two roles - first, it's an acknowledgement from userland indicating
that the event has been received and kernel can clear pending states
and proceed to generate more events. Secondly, it's passed on to
device drivers as a hint indicating that a synchronization point has
been reached and it might want to take a deeper look at the device.

The latter currently is only used by sr which uses two different
mechanisms - GET_EVENT_MEDIA_STATUS_NOTIFICATION and TEST_UNIT_READY
to discover events, where the former is lighter weight and safe to be
used repeatedly but may not provide full coverage. Among other
things, GET_EVENT can't detect media removal while TUR can.

This patch makes close(2) - blkdev_put() - indicate clearing hint for
MEDIA_CHANGE to drivers. disk_check_events() is renamed to
disk_flush_events() and updated to take @mask for events to flush
which is or'd to ev->clearing and will be passed to the driver on the
next ->check_events() invocation.

This change makes sr generate MEDIA_CHANGE when media is ejected from
userland - e.g. with eject(1).

Note: Given the current usage, it seems @clearing hint is needlessly
complex. disk_clear_events() can simply clear all events and the hint
can be boolean @flush.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
d4c208b86b8be4254eba0e74071496e599f94639 13-Jun-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: use the passed in @bdev when claiming if partno is zero

6b4517a791 (block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block)
introduced claiming block to support O_EXCL blkdev opens properly.

bd_start_claiming() looks up the part 0 bdev and starts claiming
block. The function assumed that there is only one part 0 bdev and
always used bdget_disk(disk, 0) to look it up; unfortunately, this
isn't true for some drivers (floppy) which use multiple block devices
to denote different operating parameters for the same physical device.
There can be multiple part 0 bdev's for the same device number.

This incorrect assumption caused the wrong bdev to be used during
claiming leading to unbalanced bd_holders as reported in the following
bug.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28522

This patch updates bd_start_claiming() such that it uses the bdev
specified as argument if its partno is zero.

Note that this means that different bdev's can be used for the same
device and O_EXCL check can be effectively bypassed. It has always
been broken that way and floppy is fortunately on its way out. Leave
that breakage alone.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Tested-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # >= v2.6.36
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
f758eeabeb96f878c860e8f110f94ec8820822a9 22-Apr-2011 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock

Split the global inode_wb_list_lock into a per-bdi_writeback list_lock,
as it's currently the most contended lock in the system for metadata
heavy workloads. It won't help for single-filesystem workloads for
which we'll need the I/O-less balance_dirty_pages, but at least we
can dedicate a cpu to spinning on each bdi now for larger systems.

Based on earlier patches from Nick Piggin and Dave Chinner.

It reduces lock contentions to 1/4 in this test case:
10 HDD JBOD, 100 dd on each disk, XFS, 6GB ram

lock_stat version 0.3
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vanilla 2.6.39-rc3:
inode_wb_list_lock: 42590 44433 0.12 147.74 144127.35 252274 886792 0.08 121.34 917211.23
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
inode_wb_list_lock 34 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
inode_wb_list_lock 12893 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 10702 [<ffffffff8115afef>] writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x20a
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
inode_wb_list_lock 19 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
inode_wb_list_lock 5550 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 8511 [<ffffffff8115b4ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157

2.6.39-rc3 + patch:
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock: 11383 11657 0.14 151.69 40429.51 90825 527918 0.11 145.90 556843.37
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 10 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1493 [<ffffffff8115b1ed>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3d/0x150
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3652 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1412 [<ffffffff8115a38e>] writeback_single_inode+0x17f/0x223
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3 [<ffffffff8110b5af>] bdi_lock_two+0x46/0x4b
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 6 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2061 [<ffffffff8115af97>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2629 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f

hughd@google.com: fix recursive lock when bdi_lock_two() is called with new the same as old
akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup bdev_inode_switch_bdi() comment

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
4c49ff3fe128ca68dabd07537415c419ad7f82f9 01-Jun-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: blkdev_get() should access ->bd_disk only after success

d4dc210f69 (block: don't block events on excl write for non-optical
devices) added dereferencing of bdev->bd_disk to test
GENHD_FL_BLOCK_EVENTS_ON_EXCL_WRITE; however, bdev->bd_disk can be
%NULL if open failed which can lead to an oops.

Test the flag after testing open was successful, not before.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
ff2a9941ca27ab18169d17b3803aca68b154951c 23-May-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: move bd_set_size() above rescan_partitions() in __blkdev_get()

02e352287a4 (block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on
-ENOMEDIA too) relocated partition rescan above explicit bd_set_size()
to simplify condition check. As rescan_partitions() does its own bdev
size setting, this doesn't break anything; however,
rescan_partitions() prints out the following messages when adjusting
bdev size, which can be confusing.

sda: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856
sdb: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856

This patch restores the original order and remove the warning
messages.

stable: Please apply together with 02e352287a4 (block: rescan
partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
7e69723fef8771a9d57bd27d36281d756130b4b5 23-May-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: move bd_set_size() above rescan_partitions() in __blkdev_get()

02e352287a4 (block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on
-ENOMEDIA too) relocated partition rescan above explicit bd_set_size()
to simplify condition check. As rescan_partitions() does its own bdev
size setting, this doesn't break anything; however,
rescan_partitions() prints out the following messages when adjusting
bdev size, which can be confusing.

sda: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856
sdb: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856

This patch restores the original order and remove the warning
messages.

stable: Please apply together with 02e352287a4 (block: rescan
partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Stable note: 2.6.39 only.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
02e352287a40bd456eb78df705bf888bc3161d3f 29-Apr-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too

__blkdev_get() doesn't rescan partitions if disk->fops->open() fails,
which leads to ghost partition devices lingering after medimum removal
is known to both the kernel and userland. The behavior also creates a
subtle inconsistency where O_NONBLOCK open, which doesn't fail even if
there's no medium, clears the ghots partitions, which is exploited to
work around the problem from userland.

Fix it by updating __blkdev_get() to issue partition rescan after
-ENOMEDIA too.

This was reported in the following bz.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13029

Stable: 2.6.38

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
d4dc210f69bcb0b4bef5a83b1c323817be89bad1 21-Apr-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: don't block events on excl write for non-optical devices

Disk event code automatically blocks events on excl write. This is
primarily to avoid issuing polling commands while burning is in
progress. This behavior doesn't fit other types of devices with
removeable media where polling commands don't have adverse side
effects and door locking usually doesn't exist.

This patch introduces new genhd flag which controls the auto-blocking
behavior and uses it to enable auto-blocking only on optical devices.

Note for stable: 2.6.38 and later only

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
1196f8b814f32cd04df334abf47648c2a9fd8324 21-Apr-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA too

__blkdev_get() doesn't rescan partitions if disk->fops->open() fails,
which leads to ghost partition devices lingering after medimum removal
is known to both the kernel and userland. The behavior also creates a
subtle inconsistency where O_NONBLOCK open, which doesn't fail even if
there's no medium, clears the ghots partitions, which is exploited to
work around the problem from userland.

Fix it by updating __blkdev_get() to issue partition rescan after
-ENOMEDIA too.

This was reported in the following bz.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13029

Note for stable: 2.6.38 and later only

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 31-Mar-2011 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
a66979abad090b2765a6c6790c9fdeab996833f2 22-Mar-2011 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock

Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock
inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and
traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the
list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and
hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 22-Mar-2011 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock

Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the
inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions
independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling
away the inode_lock from the code.

This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks
during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread
marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the
reference.

Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation
required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW.
Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the
state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky,
remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
4345caba340f051e10847924fc078ae18ed6695c 19-Mar-2011 Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()

"disk" is always NULL when we goto out. There was a check for this
before, but it was removed in 69e02c59a7d9 "block: Don't check events
while open is in progress".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl>
7eaceaccab5f40bbfda044629a6298616aeaed50 10-Mar-2011 Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> block: remove per-queue plugging

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
69e02c59a7d962dced8047401b81a8d897e1702e 09-Mar-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: Don't check events while open is in progress

Not all block drivers clear events immediately after reporting. Some
do so in ->revalidate_disk() or other steps during ->open(). There is
a slim chance event poll may happen between the clearing event check
from check_disk_change() and the actual clearing of the events which
would result in spurious events.

Block event checks while block device open is in progress. There is
no need to kick explicit event check afterwards as events are always
checked during open.

-v2: The original patch could have called disk_unblock_events() with
an already released or %NULL @disk causing oops. Fixed by making
sure references are put after disk_unblock_events() is called.
It also makes the error path of __blkdev_get() a bit simpler.
This problem was reported by Jens.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
6936217cc7e58573026bdba25b1bfb778e8f2267 09-Mar-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: Don't check events on close unless it was blocked

The block event mechanism currently always checks events when the
device is being closed regardless of the open mode. The intention was
to allow detection of EJECT_REQUEST when a device is closed whether
disk event polling is enabled or not.

This is unnecessary as, for devices of interest, events are checked
from either userland or kernel and in the former case ->check_events()
is performed on open of each poll attempt anyway. Furthermore, this
unconditional event check on close makes the code susceptible to event
loop if the block driver doesn't clear reported events correctly - an
event triggers userland to open and close the device which in turn
causes another event, rinse and repeat.

Check events on close only if it was blocked by excl write open.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
facc31ddc3570a3a0d8951c94f16b898e01b464d 09-Mar-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: Don't implicitly trigger event check on disk_unblock_events()

Currently, disk_unblock_events() implicitly kick event check if the
block count reaches zero. This behavior is not described in the
comment and hinders with future changes. Make the unblocker
explicitly check events by calling disk_check_events() as necessary.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
e6eb5ce1b202ac9cdcfda5be559c9b9d8ec7542c 26-Feb-2011 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> fs/block_dev.c: fix new kernel-doc warning

Fix new kernel-doc warning in fs/block_dev.c:

Warning(fs/block_dev.c:937): No description found for parameter 'kill_dirty'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
e7407d1619713f4b1fdff3a485e1bd8e77bd480d 24-Feb-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: bd_link_disk_holder() should hold on to holder_dir

The new implementation of bd_link_disk_holder() added by 49731baa41d
(block: restore multiple bd_link_disk_holder() support) didn't get an
extra reference for the holder_dir kobject of the slave bdev; however,
bdev kills holder_dir on removal, not release, so if the slave bdev is
removed while there are holder links, the holder_dir will be destroyed
while there still are holder links, which leads to oops later when
bd_unlink_disk_order() tries to remove those links.

Make bd_link_disk_holder() grab an extra reference for the slave's
holder_dir and put it in bd_unlink_disk_holder().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
93b270f76e7ef3b81001576860c2701931cdc78b 24-Feb-2011 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.

There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.

In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.

In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data. In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.

flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.

invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.

invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.

So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.

flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.

dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.

md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.

This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
e51900f7d38cbcfb481d84567fd92540e7e1d23a 17-Feb-2011 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> block: revert block_dev read-only check

This reverts commit 75f1dc0d076d ("block: check bdev_read_only() from
blkdev_get()"). That commit added stricter checking to make sure
devices that were being used read-only were actually opened in that
mode.

It turns out that the change breaks a bunch of kernel code that opens
block devices. Affected systems include dm, md, and the loop device.
Because strict checking for read-only opens of block devices was not
done before this, the code that opens the devices was opening them
read-write even if they were being used read-only. Auditing all that
code will take time, and new userspace packages for dm, mdadm, etc.
will also be required.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
49731baa41df404c2c3f44555869ab387363af43 14-Jan-2011 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: restore multiple bd_link_disk_holder() support

Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum. dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.

Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking. The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.

While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones. Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
c74a1cbb3cac348f276fabc381758f5b0b4713b2 12-Jan-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fa0d7e3de6d6fc5004ad9dea0dd6b286af8f03e9 07-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> fs: icache RCU free inodes

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
77ea887e433ad8389d416826936c110fa7910f80 08-Dec-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> implement in-kernel gendisk events handling

Currently, media presence polling for removeable block devices is done
from userland. There are several issues with this.

* Polling is done by periodically opening the device. For SCSI
devices, the command sequence generated by such action involves a
few different commands including TEST_UNIT_READY. This behavior,
while perfectly legal, is different from Windows which only issues
single command, GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION. Unfortunately, some
ATAPI devices lock up after being periodically queried such command
sequences.

* There is no reliable and unintrusive way for a userland program to
tell whether the target device is safe for media presence polling.
For example, polling for media presence during an on-going burning
session can make it fail. The polling program can avoid this by
opening the device with O_EXCL but then it risks making a valid
exclusive user of the device fail w/ -EBUSY.

* Userland polling is unnecessarily heavy and in-kernel implementation
is lighter and better coordinated (workqueue, timer slack).

This patch implements framework for in-kernel disk event handling,
which includes media presence polling.

* bdops->check_events() is added, which supercedes ->media_changed().
It should check whether there's any pending event and return if so.
Currently, two events are defined - DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE and
DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST. ->check_events() is guaranteed not to be
called parallelly.

* gendisk->events and ->async_events are added. These should be
initialized by block driver before passing the device to add_disk().
The former contains the mask of all supported events and the latter
the mask of all events which the device can report without polling.
/sys/block/*/events[_async] export these to userland.

* Kernel parameter block.events_dfl_poll_msecs controls the system
polling interval (default is 0 which means disable) and
/sys/block/*/events_poll_msecs control polling intervals for
individual devices (default is -1 meaning use system setting). Note
that if a device can report all supported events asynchronously and
its polling interval isn't explicitly set, the device won't be
polled regardless of the system polling interval.

* If a device is opened exclusively with write access, event checking
is automatically disabled until all write exclusive accesses are
released.

* There are event 'clearing' events. For example, both of currently
defined events are cleared after the device has been successfully
opened. This information is passed to ->check_events() callback
using @clearing argument as a hint.

* Event checking is always performed from system_nrt_wq and timer
slack is set to 25% for polling.

* Nothing changes for drivers which implement ->media_changed() but
not ->check_events(). Going forward, all drivers will be converted
to ->check_events() and ->media_change() will be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
451a3c24b0135bce54542009b5fde43846c7cf67 17-Nov-2010 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>

The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
d4d77629953eabd3c14f6fa5746f6b28babfc55f 13-Nov-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: clean up blkdev_get() wrappers and their users

After recent blkdev_get() modifications, open_by_devnum() and
open_bdev_exclusive() are simple wrappers around blkdev_get().
Replace them with blkdev_get_by_dev() and blkdev_get_by_path().

blkdev_get_by_dev() is identical to open_by_devnum().
blkdev_get_by_path() is slightly different in that it doesn't
automatically add %FMODE_EXCL to @mode.

All users are converted. Most conversions are mechanical and don't
introduce any behavior difference. There are several exceptions.

* btrfs now sets FMODE_EXCL in btrfs_device->mode, so there's no
reason to OR it explicitly on blkdev_put().

* gfs2, nilfs2 and the generic mount_bdev() now set FMODE_EXCL in
sb->s_mode.

* With the above changes, sb->s_mode now always should contain
FMODE_EXCL. WARN_ON_ONCE() added to kill_block_super() to detect
errors.

The new blkdev_get_*() functions are with proper docbook comments.
While at it, add function description to blkdev_get() too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
75f1dc0d076d1c1168f2115f1941ea627d38bd5a 13-Nov-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get()

bdev read-only status can be queried using bdev_read_only() and may
change while the device is being opened. Enforce it by checking it
from blkdev_get() after open succeeds.

This makes bdev_read_only() check in open_bdev_exclusive() and
fsg_lun_open() unnecessary. Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
6a027eff62f6ae32d49f2ae5dadd6f4eee1ddae2 13-Nov-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: reorganize claim/release implementation

With claim/release rolled into blkdev_get/put(), there's no reason to
keep bd_abort/finish_claim(), __bd_claim() and bd_release() as
separate functions. It only makes the code difficult to follow.
Collapse them into blkdev_get/put(). This will ease future changes
around claim/release.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
e525fd89d380c4a94c0d63913a1dd1a593ed25e7 13-Nov-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access

Over time, block layer has accumulated a set of APIs dealing with bdev
open, close, claim and release.

* blkdev_get/put() are the primary open and close functions.

* bd_claim/release() deal with exclusive open.

* open/close_bdev_exclusive() are combination of open and claim and
the other way around, respectively.

* bd_link/unlink_disk_holder() to create and remove holder/slave
symlinks.

* open_by_devnum() wraps bdget() + blkdev_get().

The interface is a bit confusing and the decoupling of open and claim
makes it impossible to properly guarantee exclusive access as
in-kernel open + claim sequence can disturb the existing exclusive
open even before the block layer knows the current open if for another
exclusive access. Reorganize the interface such that,

* blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management.
@holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will
gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses.

* blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and
if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when
the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are
removed automatically.

* bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer
necessary and either made static or removed.

* bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder()
is no longer necessary and removed.

* open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev()
and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only()
test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get().

* open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to
blkdev_get().

Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put()
and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as
it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and
invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases.

open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup -
rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop
special features. Well, let's leave them for another day.

Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more
involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the
same.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
e09b457bdb7e8d23fc54dcef0930ac697d8de895 13-Nov-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: simplify holder symlink handling

Code to manage symlinks in /sys/block/*/{holders|slaves} are overly
complex with multiple holder considerations, redundant extra
references to all involved kobjects, unused generic kobject holder
support and unnecessary mixup with bd_claim/release functionalities.

Strip it down to what's necessary (single gendisk holder) and make it
use a separate interface. This is a step for cleaning up
bd_claim/release. This patch makes dm-table slightly more complex but
it will be simplified again with further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
51139adac92f7160ad3ca1cab2de1b4b8d19dc96 25-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> convert get_sb_pseudo() users

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
7ccf19a8042e343f8159f8a5fdd6a9422aa90c78 21-Oct-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> fs: inode split IO and LRU lists

The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two
different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes
makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different
operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of
the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two
separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
a5491e0c7bb7387e3e6ff9994d6dc2efc78af56c 21-Oct-2010 Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly

bdev inodes can remain dirty even after their last close. Hence the
BDI associated with the bdev->inode gets modified duringthe last
close to point to the default BDI. However, the bdev inode still
needs to be moved to the dirty lists of the new BDI, otherwise it
will corrupt the writeback list is was left on.

Add a new function bdev_inode_switch_bdi() to move all the bdi state
from the old bdi to the new one safely. This is only a temporary
measure until the bdev inode<->bdi lifecycle problems are sorted
out.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
7de9c6ee3ecffd99e1628e81a5ea5468f7581a1f 23-Oct-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> new helper: ihold()

Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
dd3932eddf428571762596e17b65f5dc92ca361b 16-Sep-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT

All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For
blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
b7300b78d1a87625975a799a109a2f98d77757c8 11-Aug-2010 Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
permission to a disk partition that is not currently open. Part of
blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.

Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition
on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access
to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in
a different context.

The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
partition.

Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
b57922d97fd6f79b6dbe6db0c4fd30d219fa08c1 07-Jun-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
155130a4f7848b1aac439cab6bda1a175507c71c 04-Jun-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> get rid of block_write_begin_newtrunc

Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating
version to block_write_begin.

While we're at it also remove several unused arguments to block_write_begin.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
eafdc7d190a944c755a9fe68573c193e6e0217e7 04-Jun-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants

Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence. This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway. Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
6e9624b8caec290d28b4c6d9ec75749df6372b87 07-Aug-2010 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> block: push down BKL into .open and .release

The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
e75aa85892b2ee78c79edac720868cbef16e62eb 04-Aug-2010 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> block_dev: always serialize exclusive open attempts

bd_prepare_to_claim() incorrectly allowed multiple attempts for
exclusive open to progress in parallel if the attempting holders are
identical. This triggered BUG_ON() as reported in the following bug.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16393

__bd_abort_claiming() is used to finish claiming blocks and doesn't
work if multiple openers are inside a claiming block. Allowing
multiple parallel open attempts to continue doesn't gain anything as
those are serialized down in the call chain anyway. Fix it by always
allowing only single open attempt in a claiming block.

This problem can easily be reproduced by adding a delay after
bd_prepare_to_claim() and attempting to mount two partitions of a
disk.

stable: only applicable to v2.6.35

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
3e6c05052c262ebe7fdd85e75e9d4f956cdd8d82 07-Jun-2010 Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> block: remove duplicate BUG_ON() in bd_finish_claiming()

We do the same BUG_ON() just a line later when calling into
__bd_abort_claiming().

Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
b0018361c3f934858592cbbb5e1a4f318c2a70ed 25-May-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> block: bd_start_claiming cleanup

I don't like the subtle multi-context code in bd_claim (ie. detects where it
has been called based on bd_claiming). It seems clearer to just require a new
function to finish a 2-part claim.

Also improve commentary in bd_start_claiming as to how it should
be used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
cf3425707ed9ce0d5ebaba20bc3d22dd39e52f2f 25-May-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> block: bd_start_claiming fix module refcount

bd_start_claiming has an unbalanced module_put introduced in 6b4517a79.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
3322e79a3860fd0d50e3c1879b2e98ac582c0ff6 27-May-2010 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> fs: convert simple fs to new truncate

Convert simple filesystems: ramfs, configfs, sysfs, block_dev to new truncate
sequence.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
7ea8085910ef3dd4f3cad6845aaa2b580d39b115 26-May-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
18e9e5104fcd9a973ffe3eed3816c87f2a1b6cd2 23-Mar-2010 Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Introduce freeze_super and thaw_super for the fsfreeze ioctl

Currently the way we do freezing is by passing sb>s_bdev to freeze_bdev and then
letting it do all the work. But freezing is more of an fs thing, and doesn't
really have much to do with the bdev at all, all the work gets done with the
super. In btrfs we do not populate s_bdev, since we can have multiple bdev's
for one fs and setting s_bdev makes removing devices from a pool kind of tricky.
This means that freezing a btrfs filesystem fails, which causes us to corrupt
with things like tux-on-ice which use the fsfreeze mechanism. So instead of
populating sb->s_bdev with a random bdev in our pool, I've broken the actual fs
freezing stuff into freeze_super and thaw_super. These just take the
super_block that we're freezing and does the appropriate work. It's basically
just copy and pasted from freeze_bdev. I've then converted freeze_bdev over to
use the new super helpers. I've tested this with ext4 and btrfs and verified
everything continues to work the same as before.

The only new gotcha is multiple calls to the fsfreeze ioctl will return EBUSY if
the fs is already frozen. I thought this was a better solution than adding a
freeze counter to the super_block, but if everybody hates this idea I'm open to
suggestions. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
d3f2147307cce9eac56dd91d381709aa3f1615b3 23-Mar-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Move grabbing s_umount to callers of grab_super()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fbd9b09a177a481eda256447c881f014f29034fe 28-Apr-2010 Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> blkdev: generalize flags for blkdev_issue_fn functions

The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common
set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
6b4517a7913a09d3259bb1d21c9cb300f12294bd 07-Apr-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: implement bd_claiming and claiming block

Currently, device claiming for exclusive open is done after low level
open - disk->fops->open() - has completed successfully. This means
that exclusive open attempts while a device is already exclusively
open will fail only after disk->fops->open() is called.

cdrom driver issues commands during open() which means that O_EXCL
open attempt can unintentionally inject commands to in-progress
command stream for burning thus disturbing burning process. In most
cases, this doesn't cause problems because the first command to be
issued is TUR which most devices can process in the middle of burning.
However, depending on how a device replies to TUR during burning,
cdrom driver may end up issuing further commands.

This can't be resolved trivially by moving bd_claim() before doing
actual open() because that means an open attempt which will end up
failing could interfere other legit O_EXCL open attempts.
ie. unconfirmed open attempts can fail others.

This patch resolves the problem by introducing claiming block which is
started by bd_start_claiming() and terminated either by bd_claim() or
bd_abort_claiming(). bd_claim() from inside a claiming block is
guaranteed to succeed and once a claiming block is started, other
bd_start_claiming() or bd_claim() attempts block till the current
claiming block is terminated.

bd_claim() can still be used standalone although now it always
synchronizes against claiming blocks, so the existing users will keep
working without any change.

blkdev_open() and open_bdev_exclusive() are converted to use claiming
blocks so that exclusive open attempts from these functions don't
interfere with the existing exclusive open.

This problem was discovered while investigating bko#15403.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15403

The burning problem itself can be resolved by updating userspace
probing tools to always open w/ O_EXCL.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
1a3cbbc5a5e8a66934aa0947896a4aca6fd77298 07-Apr-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: factor out bd_may_claim()

Factor out bd_may_claim() from bd_claim(), add comments and apply a
couple of cosmetic edits. This is to prepare for further updates to
claim path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
b8af67e2681c693a21f3933e3bdfce4cf66596d3 23-Apr-2010 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> fs/block_dev.c: fix performance regression in O_DIRECT|O_SYNC writes to block devices

We are seeing a large regression in database performance on recent
kernels. The database opens a block device with O_DIRECT|O_SYNC and a
number of threads write to different regions of the file at the same time.

A simple test case is below. I haven't defined DEVICE since getting it
wrong will destroy your data :) On an 3 disk LVM with a 64k chunk size we
see about 17MB/sec and only a few threads in IO wait:

procs -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
r b bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 3 0 16170 656 2259 0 0 86 14 0
0 2 0 16704 695 2408 0 0 92 8 0
0 2 0 17308 744 2653 0 0 86 14 0
0 2 0 17933 759 2777 0 0 89 10 0

Most threads are blocking in vfs_fsync_range, which has:

mutex_lock(&mapping->host->i_mutex);
err = fop->fsync(file, dentry, datasync);
if (!ret)
ret = err;
mutex_unlock(&mapping->host->i_mutex);

commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new
helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) offers
some explanation of what is going on:

Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.

Thanks Jan for such a good commit message! As well as dropping i_mutex,
Christoph suggests we should remove the call to sync_blockdev():

> sync_blockdev is an overcomplicated alias for filemap_write_and_wait on
> the block device inode, which is exactly what we did just before calling
> into ->fsync

The patch below incorporates both suggestions. With it the testcase improves
from 17MB/s to 68M/sec:

procs -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
r b bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 7 0 65536 1000 3878 0 0 70 30 0
0 34 0 69632 1016 3921 0 1 46 53 0
0 57 0 69632 1000 3921 0 0 55 45 0
0 53 0 69640 754 4111 0 0 81 19 0

Testcase:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#define NR_THREADS 64
#define BUFSIZE (64 * 1024)

#define DEVICE "/dev/mapper/XXXXXX"

#define ALIGN(VAL, SIZE) (((VAL)+(SIZE)-1) & ~((SIZE)-1))

static int fd;

static void *doit(void *arg)
{
unsigned long offset = (long)arg;
char *b, *buf;

b = malloc(BUFSIZE + 1024);
buf = (char *)ALIGN((unsigned long)b, 1024);
memset(buf, 0, BUFSIZE);

while (1)
pwrite(fd, buf, BUFSIZE, offset);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int flags = O_RDWR|O_DIRECT;
int i;
unsigned long offset = 0;

if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "O_SYNC"))
flags |= O_SYNC;

fd = open(DEVICE, flags);
if (fd == -1) {
perror("open");
exit(1);
}

for (i = 0; i < NR_THREADS-1; i++) {
pthread_t tid;
pthread_create(&tid, NULL, doit, (void *)offset);
offset += BUFSIZE;
}
doit((void *)offset);

return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
b1dd3b2843b3b73b7fc2ee47d96310cd1c051371 06-Apr-2010 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> vfs: rename block_fsync() to blkdev_fsync()

Requested by hch, for consistency now it is exported.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
55ab3a1ff843e3f0e24d2da44e71bffa5d853010 06-Apr-2010 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> raw: fsync method is now required

Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new
helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke
the raw driver.

We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync ->
vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has:

if (!fop || !fop->fsync) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}

But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method.

We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm
happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it
is rarely used.

The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of
the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over.

If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be
useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4b06e5b9ad8abb20105b2b25e42c509ebe9b2d76 29-Jan-2010 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> freeze_bdev: don't deactivate successfully frozen MS_RDONLY sb

Thanks Thomas and Christoph for testing and review.
I removed 'smp_wmb()' before up_write from the previous patch,
since up_write() should have necessary ordering constraints.
(I.e. the change of s_frozen is visible to others after up_write)
I'm quite sure the change is harmless but if you are uncomfortable
with Tested-by/Reviewed-by on the modified patch, please remove them.

If MS_RDONLY, freeze_bdev should just up_write(s_umount) instead of
deactivate_locked_super().
Also, keep sb->s_frozen consistent so that remount can check the frozen state.

Otherwise a crash reported here can happen:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/16/37
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/28/53

This patch should be applied for 2.6.32 stable series, too.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
ab0a9735e06914ce4d2a94ffa41497dbc142fe7f 29-Oct-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> blkdev: flush disk cache on ->fsync

Currently there is no barrier support in the block device code. That
means we cannot guarantee any sort of data integerity when using the
block device node with dis kwrite caches enabled. Using the raw block
device node is a typical use case for virtualization (and I assume
databases, too). This patch changes block_fsync to issue a cache flush
and thus make fsync on block device nodes actually useful.

Note that in mainline we would also need to add such code to the
->aio_write method for O_SYNC handling, but assuming that Jan's patch
series for the O_SYNC rewrite goes in it will also call into ->fsync
for 2.6.32.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
960cc0f4fef607baabc2232fbd7cce5368a9dcfd 26-Oct-2009 Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> block: use after free bug in __blkdev_get

commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735
(from 14 months ago) introduced a use-after-free bug which has just
recently started manifesting in my md testing.
I tried git bisect to find out what caused the bug to start
manifesting, and it could have been the recent change to
blk_unregister_queue (48c0d4d4c04) but the results were inconclusive.

This patch certainly fixes my symptoms and looks correct as the two
calls are now in the same order as elsewhere in that function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
4504230a71566785a05d3e6b53fa1ee071b864eb 03-Aug-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks

Currently we held s_umount while a filesystem is frozen, despite that we
might return to userspace and unlock it from a different process. Instead
grab an active reference to keep the file system busy and add an explicit
check for frozen filesystems in remount and reject the remount instead
of blocking on s_umount.

Add a new get_active_super helper to super.c for use by freeze_bdev that
grabs an active reference to a superblock from a given block device.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
4fadd7bb20a1e7c774ed88dc703d8fbcd00ff917 03-Aug-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem

Now that we have the freeze count there is not much reason for bd_mount_sem
anymore. The actual freeze/thaw operations are serialized using the
bd_fsfreeze_mutex, and the only other place we take bd_mount_sem is
get_sb_bdev which tries to prevent mounting a filesystem while the block
device is frozen. Instead of add a check for bd_fsfreeze_count and
return -EBUSY if a filesystem is frozen. While that is a change in user
visible behaviour a failing mount is much better for this case rather
than having the mount process stuck uninterruptible for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
83d5cde47dedf01b6a4a4331882cbc0a7eea3c2e 22-Sep-2009 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> const: make block_device_operations const

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2c96ce9f2084c1e04d02883e622f74a537a63aea 15-Sep-2009 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info

It has been unused since it was introduced in:

commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700

[PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure

So lets just kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
eef99380679e20e7edc096aa4d8a98b875404d79 20-Aug-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock

generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
dddac6a7b445de95515f64fdf82fe5dc36c02f26 29-Jul-2009 Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_count

Create bdgrab(). This function copies an existing reference to a
block_device. It is safe to call from any context.

Hibernation code wishes to copy a reference to the active swap device.
Right now it calls bdget() under a spinlock, but this is wrong because
bdget() can sleep. It doesn't need a full bdget() because we already
hold a reference to active swap devices (and the spinlock protects
against swapoff).

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13827

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
60b0680fa236ac4e17ce31a50048c9d75f9ec831 27-Apr-2009 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> vfs: Rename fsync_super() to sync_filesystem() (version 4)

Rename the function so that it better describe what it really does. Also
remove the unnecessary include of buffer_head.h.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0 27-Apr-2009 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)

It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
__fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.

Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers()
is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks.

sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now.

[build fixes folded]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
429479f031322a0cc5c921ffb2321a51718dc875 27-Apr-2009 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> vfs: Make __fsync_super() a static function (version 4)

__fsync_super() does the same thing as fsync_super(). So change the only
caller to use fsync_super() and make __fsync_super() static. This removes
unnecessarily duplicated call to sync_blockdev() and prepares ground
for the changes to __fsync_super() in the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2e1483c995bbd0fa6cbd055ad76088a520799ba4 11-Jun-2009 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

There are allocations for which the main pointer cannot be found but
they are not memory leaks. This patch fixes some of them. For more
information on false positives, see Documentation/kmemleak.txt.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
172124e220f1854acc99ee394671781b8b5e2120 04-Jun-2009 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"

This reverts commit db2dbb12dc47a50c7a4c5678f526014063e486f6.

It apparently causes problems with partition table read-ahead
on archs with large page sizes. Until that problem is diagnosed
further, just drop the readpages support on block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
e1defc4ff0cf57aca6c5e3ff99fa503f5943c1f1 22-May-2009 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size

Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
db2dbb12dc47a50c7a4c5678f526014063e486f6 22-Apr-2009 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> block: implement blkdev_readpages

Doing a proper block dev ->readpages() speeds up the crazy dump(8)
approach of using interleaved process IO.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
47e4491b40df73c3b117e3d80b31b5b512a4b19f 01-Apr-2009 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225

fsync_bdev() export and a bunch of stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK case had
been left behind

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 25-Feb-2009 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c

Move some block device related code out from buffer.c and put it in
block_dev.c. I'm trying to move non-buffer_head code out of buffer.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fcccf502540e3d752d33b2d8e976034dee81f9f7 10-Jan-2009 Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze feature

The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below.
o Freeze the filesystem
int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg)
fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze
arg: Ignored
Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1

o Unfreeze the filesystem
int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg)
fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
FITHAW: request code for unfreeze
arg: Ignored
Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen,
errno is set to EINVAL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
d3374825ce57ba2214d375023979f6197ccc1385 08-Jan-2009 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.

Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module
is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a
reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the
gendisk, this a circular reference.

If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure
that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it
is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable
this.

So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the
gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a
complication.
Between the call
__blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe
and the call
__blkdev_get->md_open

there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so
unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be
destroyed prematurely.

Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable
moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during
which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to
ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must
fail.

So:
1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which
indicates that the array should be treated as active, even
though there are no references, and no appearance of activity.
This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it
is no longer needed.
This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and
md_open.

2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches
the gendisk that we did open.
If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify
__blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case.
In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until
the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so
we loop at most once.

Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first
appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open
to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev
configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened
and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open,
and then close and so on.
So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active
at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that
all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly
when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it
cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be
removed).

As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute
echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state
we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other
kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to
complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work().



Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
94e2959e7a6a4ef0969932c30349ce6f4469a3cf 06-Jan-2009 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> fs: fix function param name in kernel-doc

Fix function parameter name in kernel-doc:

Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/block_dev.c:1272): No description found for parameter 'pathname'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git5//fs/block_dev.c:1272): Excess function parameter 'path' description in 'lookup_bdev'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
87d8fe1ee6b8d2f95076142d58c440dba4e7bdc2 03-Jan-2009 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems

Implement blkdev_releasepage() to release the buffer_heads and pages
after we release private data belonging to a mounted filesystem.

Cc: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
c2acf7b90821785fe812cc0aa05148e5a1f84204 01-Dec-2008 Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com> fs/block_dev.c: __read_mostly improvement and sb_is_blkdev_sb utilization

- iget5_locked in bdget really needs blockdev_superblock, instead of
bd_mnt, so bd_mnt could be just a local variable;

- blockdev_superblock really needs __read_mostly, while local var bd_mnt
not;

- make use of sb_is_blkdev_sb in bd_forget, instead of direct reference
to blockdev_superblock.

Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fd4ce1acd0f8558033b1a6968001552bd7671e6d 05-Nov-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW

Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the
magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW. It would be even better to do this directly
in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files,
not just block special files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
ebbefc011e56bd85b4745d01e5b8d7d05d95ed5d 05-Nov-2008 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [PATCH] clean up blkdev_get a little bit

The way the bd_claim for the FMODE_EXCL case is implemented is rather
confusing. Clean it up to the most logical style.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
89f97496e81d2112b5e41416fe3020688c443818 05-Nov-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices

Commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735 moved disk_get_part()
in front of recursive get on the whole disk, which caused removable
devices to try disk_get_part() before rescanning after a new media is
inserted, which might fail legit open attempts or give the old
partition.

This patch fixes the problem by moving disk_get_part() after
__blkdev_get() on the whole disk.

This problem was spotted by Borislav Petkov.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
421748ecde8e69a6364e5ae66eb3bf87e1f995c0 02-Aug-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] assorted path_lookup() -> kern_path() conversions

more nameidata eviction

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
56b26add02b4bdea81d5e0ebda60db1fe3311ad4 19-Sep-2008 Al Viro <al@aretha.pdmi.ras.ru> [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls

Now we can switch blkdev_ioctl() block_device/mode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
572c48921574dbe6dceb958cf965aa962baefde4 08-Oct-2007 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends

* get rid of fake struct file/struct dentry in __blkdev_get()
* merge __blkdev_get() and do_open()
* get rid of flags argument of blkdev_get()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
30c40d2c01f68c7eb1a41ab3552bdaf5dbf300d4 23-Feb-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl

replace open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl with variants taking fmode_t.
superblock gets the value used to mount it stored in sb->s_mode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
9a1c3542768b5a58e45a9216921cd10a3bae1205 23-Feb-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
90b8f2824ce68dd87d304641a1d5a048dfff39f5 02-Mar-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
d4430d62fa77208824a37fe6f85ab2831d274769 02-Mar-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] beginning of methods conversion

To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers;
to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following:
1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct
prototypes, make (few) callers handle both. That's this changeset.
2) for each driver convert to new methods. *ALL* drivers
are converted in this series.
3) kill the old (renamed) methods.

Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the
end of this series no trace of old methods remain. The only reason why
we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver
debugging if anything goes wrong.

New methods:
open(bdev, mode)
release(disk, mode)
ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called without BKL */
compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)
locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called with BKL, legacy */

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
86d434dede14108dd917b25af0f29c0cb28b8d18 27-Aug-2007 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] eliminate use of ->f_flags in block methods

store needed information in f_mode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
aeb5d727062a0238a2f96c9c380fbd2be4640c6f 02-Sep-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
496aa8a98f5ab22ced46be5dc2087cdf3d029bd7 16-Oct-2008 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> block: fix current kernel-doc warnings

Fix block kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//fs/block_dev.c:1272): No description found for parameter 'path'
Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'cpu'
Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'part'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.27-git4//block/genhd.c:544): No description found for parameter 'partno'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
57d1b5366f46fe434e565b710baf683daff78dd8 09-Oct-2008 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> block_dev: fix kernel-doc in new functions

Fix kernel-doc in new functions:

Error(mmotm-2008-1002-1617//fs/block_dev.c:895): duplicate section name 'Description'
Error(mmotm-2008-1002-1617//fs/block_dev.c:924): duplicate section name 'Description'
Warning(mmotm-2008-1002-1617//fs/block_dev.c:1282): No description found for parameter 'pathname'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
608aeef17a91747d6303de4df5e2c2e6899a95e8 04-Sep-2008 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Call flush_disk() after detecting an online resize.

We call flush_disk() to make sure the buffer cache for the disk is
flushed after a disk resize. There are two resize cases, growing and
shrinking. Given that users can shrink/then grow a disk before
revalidate_disk() is called, we treat the grow case identically to
shrinking. We need to flush the buffer cache after an online shrink
because, as James Bottomley puts it,

The two use cases for shrinking I can see are

1. planned: the fs is already shrunk to within the new boundaries
and all data is relocated, so invalidate is fine (any dirty
buffers that might exist in the shrunk region are there only
because they were relocated but not yet written to their
original location).
2. unplanned: In this case, the fs is probably toast, so whether
we invalidate or not isn't going to make a whole lot of
difference; it's still going to try to read or write from
sectors beyond the new size and get I/O errors.

Immediately invalidating shrunk disks will cause errors for outstanding
I/Os for reads/write beyond the new end of the disk to be generated
earlier then if we waited for the normal buffer cache operation. It also
removes a potential security hole where we might keep old data around
from beyond the end of the shrunk disk if the disk was not invalidated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
56ade44b46780fa291fa68b824f1dafdcb11b0ca 04-Sep-2008 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Added flush_disk to factor out common buffer cache flushing code.

We need to be able to flush the buffer cache for for more than
just when a disk is changed, so we factor out common cache flush code
in check_disk_change() to an internal flush_disk() routine. This
routine will then be used for both disk changes and disk resizes (in a
later patch).

Include the disk name in the text indicating that there are busy
inodes on the device and increase the KERN severity of the message.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
c3279d1454cdfed02a557d789d8a6d08ab4cbe70 04-Sep-2008 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Adjust block device size after an online resize of a disk.

The revalidate_disk routine now checks if a disk has been resized by
comparing the gendisk capacity to the bdev inode size. If they are
different (usually because the disk has been resized underneath the kernel)
the bdev inode size is adjusted to match the capacity.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
0c002c2f74e10baa9021d3ecc50585c6eafea568 04-Sep-2008 Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Wrapper for lower-level revalidate_disk routines.

This is a wrapper for the lower-level revalidate_disk call-backs such
as sd_revalidate_disk(). It allows us to perform pre and post
operations when calling them.

We will use this wrapper in a later patch to adjust block device sizes
after an online resize (a _post_ operation).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735 25-Aug-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: always set bdev->bd_part

Till now, bdev->bd_part is set only if the bdev was for parts other
than part0. This patch makes bdev->bd_part always set so that code
paths don't have to differenciate common handling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
4c46501d1659475dc6c89554af6ce7fe6ecf615c 25-Aug-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: move holder_dir from disk to part0

Move disk->holder_dir to part0->holder_dir. Kill now mostly
superflous bdev_get_holder().

While at it, kill superflous kobject_get/put() around holder_dir,
slave_dir and cmd_filter creation and collapse
disk_sysfs_add_subdirs() into register_disk(). These serve no purpose
but obfuscating the code.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
b5d0b9df0ba5d9a044f3a21e7544f53d90bd1465 03-Sep-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: introduce partition 0

genhd and partition code handled disk and partitions separately. All
information about the whole disk was in struct genhd and partitions in
struct hd_struct. However, the whole disk (part0) and other
partitions have a lot in common and the data structures end up having
good number of common fields and thus separate code paths doing the
same thing. Also, the partition array was indexed by partno - 1 which
gets pretty confusing at times.

This patch introduces partition 0 and makes the partition array
indexed by partno. Following patches will unify the handling of disk
and parts piece-by-piece.

This patch also implements disk_partitionable() which tests whether a
disk is partitionable. With coming dynamic partition array change,
the most common usage of disk_max_parts() will be testing whether a
disk is partitionable and the number of max partitions will become
much less important.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
ed9e1982347b36573cd622ee5f4e2a7ccd79b3fd 25-Aug-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()

Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device
instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev. To make sure no
user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev.

This is in preparation of unifying partition 0 handling with other
partitions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
e71bf0d0ee89e51b92776391c5634938236977d5 03-Sep-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 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>
f331c0296f2a9fee0d396a70598b954062603015 03-Sep-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 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>
cf771cb5a7b716f3f9e532fd42a1e3a0a75adec5 03-Sep-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 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>
d5686b444ff3f72808d2b3fbd58672a86cdf38e7 01-Aug-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] switch mtd and dm-table to lookup_bdev()

No need to open-code it...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
8266602033d6adc6d10cb8811c1fd694767909b0 01-Aug-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] fix bdev leak in block_dev.c do_open()

Callers expect it to drop reference to bdev on all failure exits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
51cc50685a4275c6a02653670af9f108a64e01cf 26-Jul-2008 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor

Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fe6e9c1f25ac01f848bd084ee0ee62a5a0966ff3 23-Jun-2008 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] fix cgroup-inflicted breakage in block_dev.c

devcgroup_inode_permission() expects MAY_FOO, not FMODE_FOO; kindly
keep your misdesign consistent if you positively have to inflict it
on the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
7db9cfd380205f6b50afdc3bc3619f876a5eaf0d 06-Jun-2008 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> devscgroup: check for device permissions at mount time

Currently even if a task sits in an all-denied cgroup it can still mount
any block device in any mode it wants.

Put a proper check in do_open for block device to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
86b6c7a7f78feca58d2d8615e53aee4d59ab9dc6 18-Feb-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> fs/block_dev.c: remove #if 0'ed code

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>
4c54ac62dceecedd82d4a865017bba0b738e2897 18-Feb-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> make struct def_blk_aops static

This patch makes the needlessly global struct def_blk_aops static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
1d957f9bf87da74f420424d16ece005202bbebd3 15-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Introduce path_put()

* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4ac9137858e08a19f29feac4e1f4df7c268b0ba5 15-Feb-2008 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}

This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
<dentry,vfsmount> pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
text data bss dec hex filename
5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
text data bss dec hex filename
5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ba6f867f114760d4e43f0f93abe280ee0a0d696e 06-Feb-2008 Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com> kill an unused PTR_ERR in bdev_cache_init()

Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf 21-May-2007 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices

This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
to the disks.

/sys/class/block
|-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
|-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1
|-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10
|-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5
|-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6
|-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7
|-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8
|-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9
`-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

/sys/block/
|-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
`-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
4ba9b9d0ba0a49d91fa6417c7510ee36f48cf957 17-Oct-2007 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters

Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
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>
6272b5a5868f3d5fbf9815f9984891ced343dabc 16-Oct-2007 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> block_dev: convert to new aops

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
6712ecf8f648118c3363c142196418f89a510b90 27-Sep-2007 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io

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>
20c2df83d25c6a95affe6157a4c9cac4cf5ffaac 20-Jul-2007 Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().

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>
4210df283cc703bc494f450c91b8311bdf7fe5ee 16-Jul-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> bd_claim_by_disk: fix warning

Fix this:

fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_disk':
fs/block_dev.c:970: warning: 'found' may be used uninitialized in this function

and given that free_bd_holder() now needs free(NULL)-is-legal behaviour, we
can simplify bd_release_from_kobject().

Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4e91672c76319aaed24ea3e784e238cf445c57cb 16-Jul-2007 Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de> Replace obscure constructs in fs/block_dev.c

Replace some funky codepaths in fs/block_dev.c with cleaner versions of the
affected places.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
203a2935c734c054bfd4665fb5d8835498af50a8 16-Jul-2007 Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> fs/block_dev.c: use list_for_each_entry()

fs/block_dev.c: Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each()
in nr_blockdev_pages()

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
5ffc4ef45b3b0a57872f631b4e4ceb8ace0d7496 01-Jun-2007 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()

They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
a35afb830f8d71ec211531aeb9a621b09a2efb39 17-May-2007 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1368c4f2482c9e06bcb297217433818b171cc9e3 08-May-2007 Vignesh Babu BM <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> is_power_of_2 in fs/block_dev.c

Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
50953fe9e00ebbeffa032a565ab2f08312d51a87 06-May-2007 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

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>
f9a14399aea13830d8af6798a53207bb0a900945 06-May-2007 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> mm: optimize kill_bdev()

Remove duplicate work in kill_bdev().

It currently invalidates and then truncates the bdev's mapping.
invalidate_mapping_pages() will opportunistically remove pages from the
mapping. And truncate_inode_pages() will forcefully remove all pages.

The only thing truncate doesn't do is flush the bh lrus. So do that
explicitly. This avoids (very unlikely) but possible invalid lookup
results if the same bdev is quickly re-issued.

It also will prevent extreme kernel latencies which are observed when
blockdevs which have a large amount of pagecache are unmounted, by avoiding
invalidate_mapping_pages() on that path. invalidate_mapping_pages() has no
cond_resched (it can be called under spinlock), whereas truncate_inode_pages()
has one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore nrpages==0 optimisation]
Signed-off-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>
f98393a64ca1392130724c3acb4e3f325801d2b6 06-May-2007 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> mm: remove destroy_dirty_buffers from invalidate_bdev()

Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't
been used in 6 years (so akpm says).

find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev |
while read file; do
quilt add $file;
sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file;
done

Signed-off-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>
6d740cd5b18bc8128e70f98cfde8c74ebd21cea1 20-Feb-2007 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [PATCH] lockdep: annotate BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION

>=============================================
>[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
>2.6.19-1.2909.fc7 #1
>---------------------------------------------
>anaconda/587 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>but task is already holding lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>other info that might help us debug this:
>1 lock held by anaconda/587:
> #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>stack backtrace:
> [<c0405812>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
> [<c0405db2>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
> [<c0405e36>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
> [<c043bd84>] __lock_acquire+0x116/0xa09
> [<c043c960>] lock_acquire+0x56/0x6f
> [<c05fb1fa>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe5/0x24a
> [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
> [<c04d82fb>] blkdev_ioctl+0x600/0x76d
> [<c04946b1>] block_ioctl+0x1b/0x1f
> [<c047ed5a>] do_ioctl+0x22/0x68
> [<c047eff2>] vfs_ioctl+0x252/0x265
> [<c047f04e>] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x63
> [<c0404070>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Annotate BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION's bd_mutex locking and add a little comment
clarifying the bd_mutex locking, because I confused myself and initially
thought the lock order was wrong too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ee9b6d61a2a43c5952eb43283f8db284a4e70b8a 12-Feb-2007 Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
b2e895dbd80c420bfc0937c3729b4afe073b3848 03-Feb-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [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.

Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cda9205da24aeaa8fb086b0fb85cdf39571ecc3f 23-Jan-2007 Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> [PATCH] fix blk_direct_IO bio preparation

For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was
lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits. After a
bio is full and got submitted. The outer while (nbytes) { ... } loop will
allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page. It just
forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is
full. Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again
for the next bio.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
790816dd54e22827f63c8cbb30bd623d3d45e594 23-Jan-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [PATCH] blockdev direct_io: fix signedness bug

size_t is unsigned. IO errors aren't getting through.

Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
f73ca1b76c6880b934d3ef566c1592efc80bb759 11-Jan-2007 David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> [PATCH] Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore

Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore so that xfs_freeze -f /mnt/newtest;
xfs_freeze -u /mnt/newtest works safely and doesn't produce lockdep warnings.

(XFS unlocks the semaphore from a different task, by design. The mutex
code warns about this)

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
e61c90188b9956edae1105eef361d8981a352fcd 13-Dec-2006 Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> [PATCH] optimize o_direct on block devices

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>
0f7fc9e4d03987fe29f6dd4aa67e4c56eb7ecb05 08-Dec-2006 Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> [PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
c48f70c3d046f021b1c22438604ef2a583380eca 08-Dec-2006 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [PATCH] bdev: fix ->bd_part_count leak

Don't leak a ->bd_part_count when the partition open fails with -ENXIO.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
6796bf54a64df36f96a42ae222423fffe36c58a5 08-Dec-2006 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> [PATCH] lockdep: use mutex_lock_nested for bd_mutex to avoid lockdep warning

Now that the nesting in blkdev_{get,put} is simpler, adding mutex_lock_nested
is trivial.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
37be41241f43109c55d92cdbf303399eea642f14 08-Dec-2006 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> [PATCH] lockdep: simplify some aspects of bd_mutex nesting

When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the
whole device that holds the partition. The involves some limited recursion.
This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this.

As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when
a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if
any partition is active, as that would be confusing).

The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into
blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for
the partition.

More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly
what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument
(blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument).

If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is
being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be
updated (on success). The particular advantage of pushing this function down
is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already
held at the lower level.

Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count. Instead of
updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated
on the first open or last release. This is an adequate semantic as it is only
ever tested for "== 0".

Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates
from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call
__blkdev_get(... 1). Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count
updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1). This call is moved to the end of
__blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex.

Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed. It was
only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and
protected) within the recursive call.

The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the
modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fd27c7a1bfa9801544ca961cdb4ca0b4998580b8 08-Dec-2006 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> [PATCH] lockdep: remove lock_key approach to managing nested bd_mutex locks

The extra call to get_gendisk is not good. It causes a ->probe and possible
module load before it is really appropriate to do this.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
35a6027f1ab6594068cb8bca7705e4567753946b 08-Dec-2006 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [PATCH] new bd_mutex lockdep annotation

Use the gendisk partition number to set a lock class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2e7b651df113c8a463853e4169951c52c39f9d19 08-Dec-2006 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [PATCH] remove the old bd_mutex lockdep annotation

Remove the old complex and crufty bd_mutex annotation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
e18b890bb0881bbab6f4f1a6cd20d9c60d66b003 07-Dec-2006 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

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>
e94b1766097d53e6f3ccfb36c8baa562ffeda3fc 07-Dec-2006 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
36a561d6a95c4b89ae4845bf91456b4f784b6eec 31-Oct-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [PATCH] find_bd_holder() fix

fs/block_dev.c: In function 'find_bd_holder':
fs/block_dev.c:666: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
fs/block_dev.c:669: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
fs/block_dev.c: In function 'add_bd_holder':
fs/block_dev.c:685: warning: unused variable 'tmp'
fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_kobject':
fs/block_dev.c:773: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

Acked-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
df6c0cd9a872ebf2298f5d66d8c789f62dbe35fc 30-Oct-2006 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> [PATCH] clean up add_bd_holder()

add_bd_holder() is called from bd_claim_by_kobject to put a given struct
bd_holder in the list if there is no matching entry.

There are 3 possible results of add_bd_holder():
1. there is no matching entry and add the given one to the list
2. there is matching entry, so just increment reference count of
the existing one
3. something failed during its course

1 and 2 are successful cases. But for case 2, someone has to free the
unused struct bd_holder.

The current code frees it inside of add_bd_holder and returns same value
0 for both cases 1 and 2. However, it's natural and less error-prone if
caller frees it since it's allocated by the caller.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bcb55165d3d1ae3ec95807d118fd6d5956cd127b 30-Oct-2006 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> [PATCH] fix bd_claim_by_kobject error handling

This fixes bd_claim_by_kobject to release bdev correctly in case that
bd_claim succeeds but following add_bd_holder fails.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
6a2aae06cc1e87e9712a26a639f6a2f3442e2027 28-Oct-2006 Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> [PATCH] Fix potential OOPs in blkdev_open()

blkdev_open() calls bc_acquire() to get a struct block_device. Since
bc_acquire() may return NULL when system is out of memory an appropriate
check is required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
543ade1fc901db4c3dbe9fb27241fb977f1f3eea 01-Oct-2006 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces. Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods. This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ee0b3e671baff681d69fbf0db33b47603c0a8280 01-Oct-2006 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
027445c37282bc1ed26add45e573ad2d3e4860a5 01-Oct-2006 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
b71e8a4ce03b3098c7801ee5e6e08d1a39a226c2 29-Aug-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [PATCH] BLOCK: Move __invalidate_device() to block_dev.c [try #6]

Move __invalidate_device() from fs/inode.c to fs/block_dev.c so that it can
more easily be disabled when the block layer is disabled.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
811d736f9e8013966e1a5a930c0db09508bdbb15 29-Aug-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [PATCH] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #6]

Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.

The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.

It is used by NFS to do writeback.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
07f3f05c1e3052b8656129b2a5aca9f888241a34 30-Sep-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]

Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.

Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
87d7c8aca8670a772f74766c19e0345a606b67a9 29-Sep-2006 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> [PATCH] block_dev.c mutex_lock_nested() fix

In the case below we are locking the whole disk not a partition. This
change simply brings the code in line with the piece above where when we
are the 'first' opener, and we are a partition.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
4d7dd8fd9557840162b724a8ac1366dd78a12dff 29-Sep-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [PATCH] blockdev.c: check driver layer errors

Check driver layer errors.

Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>

In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error
values when some of its operation failed. Among them, it returns -EEXIST when
a given bd_holder object already exists in the list.

However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need
no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object. So I
think it's better to return success after freeing by itself.

Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail.
Typically, lvresize will fails with following message:
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
and you'll see messages like below in kernel log:
device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking
fails. I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause
dereference of freed pointer.

If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes
its job by just incrementing the reference count. In this case, it should be
considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free
temporary bd_holder. Fixed it to return success and free given object by
itself.

Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to
the list so that it can be discarded later. Otherwise, the caller will free
bd_holder which is in the list.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
6946bd636364effce06ea46fe8f8cd6e2edb004e 27-Aug-2006 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [PATCH] lockdep: fix blkdev_open() warning

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:57 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> ---------------------------------------------
> parted/7929 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by parted/7929:
> #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
> stack backtrace:
> [<c1003aad>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x15b
> [<c100495f>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
> [<c1004979>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1a
> [<c102dee5>] __lock_acquire+0x753/0x99c
> [<c102e3b0>] lock_acquire+0x4a/0x6a
> [<c1204501>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc8/0x20c
> [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
> [<c105ecc4>] blkdev_put+0xa/0xc
> [<c105f18a>] do_open+0x336/0x3a8
> [<c105f21b>] blkdev_open+0x1f/0x4c
> [<c1057b40>] __dentry_open+0xc7/0x1aa
> [<c1057c91>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2e
> [<c1057cd1>] do_filp_open+0x2e/0x35
> [<c1057dd7>] do_sys_open+0x38/0x68
> [<c1057e33>] sys_open+0x16/0x18
> [<c1002845>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d

OK, I'm having a look here; its all new to me so bear with me.

blkdev_open() calls
do_open(bdev, ...,BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) and takes
mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL)

then something fails, and we're thrown to:

out_first: where
if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains) which is
__blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) which does
mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_contains->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) <--- lockdep trigger

When going to out_first, dbev->bd_contains is either bdev or whole, and
since we take the branch it must be whole. So it seems to me the
following patch would be the right one:

[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
663d440eaa496db903cc58be04b9b602ba45e43b 03-Jul-2006 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [PATCH] lockdep: annotate blkdev nesting

Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.

Effects on non-lockdep kernels:

- the introduction of the following function variants:

extern struct block_device *open_partition_by_devnum(dev_t, unsigned);

extern int blkdev_put_partition(struct block_device *);

static int
blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags);

which on non-lockdep are the same as open_by_devnum(), blkdev_put()
and blkdev_get().

- a subclass parameter to do_open(). [unused on non-lockdep]

- a subclass parameter to __blkdev_put(), which is a new internal
function for the main blkdev_put*() functions. [parameter unused
on non-lockdep kernels, except for two sanity check WARN_ON()s]

these functions carry no semantical difference - they only express
object dependencies towards the lockdep subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7 30-Jun-2006 Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
f5e54d6e53a20cef45af7499e86164f0e0d16bb2 28-Jun-2006 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ff23eca3e8f613034e0d20ff86f6a89b62f5a14e 21-Jun-2005 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree

Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
454e2398be9b9fa30433fccc548db34d19aa9958 23-Jun-2006 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

(*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
very little.

(*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

(*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
dentries being left unculled.

However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
with child trees.

[*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

(*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
09d967c6f32b35eab15b45862ae16e4f06259d8e 22-Jun-2006 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> [PATCH] Fix a race condition between ->i_mapping and iput()

This race became a cause of oops, and can reproduce by the following.

while true; do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/.static/dev/hdg1 bs=512 count=1000 & sync
done

This race condition was between __sync_single_inode() and iput().

cpu0 (fs's inode) cpu1 (bdev's inode)
----------------- -------------------
close("/dev/hda2")
[...]
__sync_single_inode()
/* copy the bdev's ->i_mapping */
mapping = inode->i_mapping;

generic_forget_inode()
bdev_clear_inode()
/* restre the fs's ->i_mapping */
inode->i_mapping = &inode->i_data;
/* bdev's inode was freed */
destroy_inode(inode);

if (wait) {
/* dereference a freed bdev's mapping->host */
filemap_fdatawait(mapping); /* Oops */

Since __sync_single_inode() is only taking a ref-count of fs's inode, the
another process can be close() and freeing the bdev's inode while writing
fs's inode. So, __sync_signle_inode() accesses the freed ->i_mapping,
oops.

This patch takes a ref-count on the bdev's inode for the fs's inode before
setting a ->i_mapping, and the clear_inode() of the fs's inode does iput() on
the bdev's inode. So if the fs's inode is still living, bdev's inode
shouldn't be freed.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
7f9c51f0d9783c78db5c2aa16806d0c256ac667f 01-May-2006 Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> [PATCH] Add ->splice_read/splice_write to def_blk_fops

It can use the generic handlers.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
4b6f5d20b04dcbc3d888555522b90ba6d36c4106 28-Mar-2006 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
b4cf1b72eec0e197257a5b07dc9ec53552cdd123 27-Mar-2006 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> [PATCH] dm/md dependency tree in sysfs: convert bd_sem to bd_mutex

Convert bd_sem to bd_mutex

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
641dc636b0475582e48584340b774bd1e90d40d9 27-Mar-2006 Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> [PATCH] dm/md dependency tree in sysfs: bd_claim_by_kobject

Adding bd_claim_by_kobject() function which takes kobject as additional
signature of holder device and creates sysfs symlinks between holder device
and claimed device. bd_release_from_kobject() is a counterpart of
bd_claim_by_kobject.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1d8fa7a2b9a39d18727acc5c468e870df606c852 26-Mar-2006 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] remove ->get_blocks() support

Now that get_block() can handle mapping multiple disk blocks, no need to have
->get_blocks(). This patch removes fs specific ->get_blocks() added for DIO
and makes it users use get_block() instead.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fa3536cc144c1298f2ed9416c33f3b77fa2cd37a 26-Mar-2006 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> [PATCH] Use __read_mostly on some hot fs variables

I discovered on oprofile hunting on a SMP platform that dentry lookups were
slowed down because d_hash_mask, d_hash_shift and dentry_hashtable were in
a cache line that contained inodes_stat. So each time inodes_stats is
changed by a cpu, other cpus have to refill their cache line.

This patch moves some variables to the __read_mostly section, in order to
avoid false sharing. RCU dentry lookups can go full speed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
38885bd4c2a4b59ddb22271d3e6c621859c76f02 24-Mar-2006 Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> [PATCH] sb_set_blocksize cleanup

sb_set_blocksize() cleanup: make sb_set_blocksize() use blksize_bits().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fffb60f93ce5880aade88e01d7133b52a4879710 24-Mar-2006 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache format

Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD. This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
4b6a9316fab51af611dc8671f296734089f6a22a 24-Mar-2006 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> [PATCH] cpuset memory spread: slab cache filesystems

Mark file system inode and similar slab caches subject to SLAB_MEM_SPREAD
memory spreading.

If a slab cache is marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, then anytime that a task that's
in a cpuset with the 'memory_spread_slab' option enabled goes to allocate
from such a slab cache, the allocations are spread evenly over all the
memory nodes (task->mems_allowed) allowed to that task, instead of favoring
allocation on the node local to the current cpu.

The following inode and similar caches are marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD:

file cache
==== =====
fs/adfs/super.c adfs_inode_cache
fs/affs/super.c affs_inode_cache
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c befs_inode_cache
fs/bfs/inode.c bfs_inode_cache
fs/block_dev.c bdev_cache
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c cifs_inode_cache
fs/coda/inode.c coda_inode_cache
fs/dquot.c dquot
fs/efs/super.c efs_inode_cache
fs/ext2/super.c ext2_inode_cache
fs/ext2/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c) ext2_xattr
fs/ext3/super.c ext3_inode_cache
fs/ext3/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c) ext3_xattr
fs/fat/cache.c fat_cache
fs/fat/inode.c fat_inode_cache
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c vxfs_inode
fs/hpfs/super.c hpfs_inode_cache
fs/isofs/inode.c isofs_inode_cache
fs/jffs/inode-v23.c jffs_fm
fs/jffs2/super.c jffs2_i
fs/jfs/super.c jfs_ip
fs/minix/inode.c minix_inode_cache
fs/ncpfs/inode.c ncp_inode_cache
fs/nfs/direct.c nfs_direct_cache
fs/nfs/inode.c nfs_inode_cache
fs/ntfs/super.c ntfs_big_inode_cache_name
fs/ntfs/super.c ntfs_inode_cache
fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c dlmfs_inode_cache
fs/ocfs2/super.c ocfs2_inode_cache
fs/proc/inode.c proc_inode_cache
fs/qnx4/inode.c qnx4_inode_cache
fs/reiserfs/super.c reiser_inode_cache
fs/romfs/inode.c romfs_inode_cache
fs/smbfs/inode.c smb_inode_cache
fs/sysv/inode.c sysv_inode_cache
fs/udf/super.c udf_inode_cache
fs/ufs/super.c ufs_inode_cache
net/socket.c sock_inode_cache
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c rpc_inode_cache

The choice of which slab caches to so mark was quite simple. I marked
those already marked SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, except for fs/xfs, dentry_cache,
inode_cache, and buffer_head, which were marked in a previous patch. Even
though SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT is for a different purpose, it marks the same
potentially large file system i/o related slab caches as we need for memory
spreading.

Given that the rule now becomes "wherever you would have used a
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT slab cache flag before (usually the inode cache), use
the SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag too", this should be easy enough to maintain.
Future file system writers will just copy one of the existing file system
slab cache setups and tend to get it right without thinking.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
c039e3134ae62863bbc8e8429b29e3c43cf21b2a 23-Mar-2006 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> [PATCH] sem2mutex: blockdev #2

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1b1dcc1b57a49136f118a0f16367256ff9994a69 10-Jan-2006 Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
bb93e3a52f8db7210258a1a2134cced0b78a46e1 23-Jun-2005 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [PATCH] block: add unlocked_ioctl support for block devices

This patch allows block device drivers to convert their ioctl functions to
unlocked_ioctl() like character devices and other subsystems. All
functions that were called with the BKL held before are still used that
way, but I would not be surprised if it could be removed from the ioctl
functions in drivers/block/ioctl.c themselves.

As a side note, I found that compat_blkdev_ioctl() acquires the BKL as
well, which looks like a bug. I have checked that every user of
disk->fops->compat_ioctl() in the current git tree gets the BKL itself, so
it could easily be removed from compat_blkdev_ioctl().

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2ef41634def0fcb0def3e3c90220c651ca478cb3 06-May-2005 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_device

The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily. Also
update some comments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 17-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!