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2020-02-06virtio-blk: remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI supportChristoph Hellwig
Since the need for a special flag to support SCSI passthrough on a block device was added in May 2017 the SCSI passthrough support in virtio-blk has been disabled. It has always been a bad idea (just ask the original author..) and we have virtio-scsi for proper passthrough. The feature also never made it into the virtio 1.0 or later specifications. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2019-07-15docs: blockdev: add it to the admin-guideMauro Carvalho Chehab
The blockdev book basically contains user-faced documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15docs: blockdev: convert to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab
Rename the blockdev documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. The drbd sub-directory contains some graphs and data flows. Add those too to the documentation. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-06-14docs: cdrom: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rstMauro Carvalho Chehab
The stuff there is almost already at ReST format. A conversion for them is trivial: just add a missing titles and fix some scape codes for them to match ReST syntax. While here, rename the cdrom-standard.txt, with was converted from LaTeX to ReST on the previous patch, and add it to the index file. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-17drivers/block: Remove DAC960 driverHannes Reinecke
The DAC960 driver has been obsoleted by the myrb/myrs drivers, so it can be dropped. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-10drivers/block: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig-sBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig setting so there is no need to write it explicitly. Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same regardless of 'default n' being present or not: ... One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making the following two definitions behave exactly the same: config FOO bool config FOO bool default n With this change, neither of these will generate a '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied). That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is redundant. ... Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-02cdrom: Use struct scsi_sense_hdr internallyKees Cook
This removes more casts of struct request_sense and uses the standard struct scsi_sense_hdr instead. This also fixes any possible stale values since the prior code did not check the sense length. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-11null_blk: remove explicit 'select FAULT_INJECTION'Arnd Bergmann
Selecting FAULT_INJECTION causes a Kconfig warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set: warning: (BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK && DRM_I915_SELFTEST) selects FAULT_INJECTION which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL) The other drivers that use FAULT_INJECTION tend to have a separate Kconfig symbol for turning on that feature, so let's do the same thing here. This may add a bit more complexity than we like, but it avoids the warning and is more consistent with the rest of the kernel. Fixes: 93b570464cce ("null_blk: add option for managing IO timeouts") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-10null_blk: add option for managing IO timeoutsJens Axboe
Use the fault injection framework to provide a way for null_blk to configure timeouts. This only works for queue_mode 1 and 2, since the bio mode doesn't have code for tracking timeouts. Let's say you want to have a 10% chance of timing out every 100,000 requests, and for 5 total timeouts, you could do: modprobe null_blk timeout="100000,10,0,5" This is useful for adding blktests to test that IO timeouts are handled appropriately. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-17Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams: "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a build success notification. The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged. - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable 'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk") before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler. Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag is validated as supported by the filesystem's ->mmap() file operation. - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods. This enables interoperability with environments that only implement the standardized methods. - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods. - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection, and SMART alarm threshold control. - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only. - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support dynamic unlock of the label area. - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands. Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next: - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"): Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and 7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()") Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits) acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush() brd: remove dax support dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported() fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault() ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault() dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault() dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault() ...
2017-11-14brd: remove dax supportDan Williams
DAX support in brd is awkward because its backing page frames are distinct from the ones provided by pmem, dcssblk, or axonram. We need pfn_t_devmap() entries to fully support DAX, and the limited DAX support for pfn_t_special() page frames is not interesting for brd when pmem is already a superset of brd. Lastly, brd is the only dax capable driver that may sleep in its ->direct_access() implementation. So it causes a global burden with no net gain of kernel functionality. For all these reasons, remove DAX support. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-11-14Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ...
2017-11-03cdrom: hide CONFIG_CDROM menu selectionJens Axboe
We don't need to expose this. The point is that drivers select the uniform CDROM layer, if they need it, the user should not have to make a conscious decision on whether to include this separately or not. Fixes: 2a750166a5be ("block: Rework drivers/cdrom/Makefile") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-01block: Rework drivers/cdrom/MakefileBart Van Assche
Instead of referring from inside drivers/cdrom/Makefile to all the drivers that use this driver, let these drivers select the cdrom driver. This change makes the cdrom build code follow the approach that is used for most other drivers, namely refer from the higher layers to the lower layer instead of from the lower layer to the higher layers. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-03null_blk: change configfs dependency to selectJens Axboe
A recent commit made null_blk depend on configfs, which is kind of annoying since you now have to find this dependency and enable that as well. Discovered this since I no longer had null_blk available on a box I needed to debug, since it got killed when the config updated after the configfs change was merged. Fixes: 3bf2bd20734e ("nullb: add configfs interface") Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-09-07Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, zfcp and a host of minor updates. The major driver change here is the elimination of the block based cciss driver in favour of the SCSI based hpsa driver (which now drives all the legacy cases cciss used to be required for). Plus a reset handler clean up and the redo of the SAS SMP handler to use bsg lib" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (279 commits) scsi: scsi-mq: Always unprepare before requeuing a request scsi: Show .retries and .jiffies_at_alloc in debugfs scsi: Improve requeuing behavior scsi: Call scsi_initialize_rq() for filesystem requests scsi: qla2xxx: Reset the logo flag, after target re-login. scsi: qla2xxx: Fix slow mem alloc behind lock scsi: qla2xxx: Clear fc4f_nvme flag scsi: qla2xxx: add missing includes for qla_isr scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code scsi: aacraid: report -ENOMEM to upper layer from aac_convert_sgraw2() scsi: aacraid: get rid of one level of indentation scsi: aacraid: fix indentation errors scsi: storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy scsi: scsi_transport_sas: switch to bsg-lib for SMP passthrough scsi: smartpqi: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: hpsa: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: bsg-lib: pass the release callback through bsg_setup_queue scsi: Rework handling of scsi_device.vpd_pg8[03] scsi: Rework the code for caching Vital Product Data (VPD) scsi: rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected() ...
2017-09-07Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after the churn of the last few series. This contains: - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov. - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960. - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects. - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart. - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo. - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle. - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan. - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and device remova. From David Jeffery. - A few nbd fixes from Josef. - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua. - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it to actually hold data, among other things. - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang. - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big machines. - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code. - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch fall through case complaints" * 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits) kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array() drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper" drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence. drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code. drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2 drbd: mark symbols static where possible drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null) drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug ...
2017-08-24scsi: cciss: Drop obsolete driverHannes Reinecke
The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and make hpsa an alias to cciss. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-08-24x86/lguest: Remove lguest supportJuergen Gross
Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is "Odd Fixes". Remove it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173157.8633-3-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-23nullb: add configfs interfaceShaohua Li
Add configfs interface for nullb. configfs interface is more flexible and easy to configure in a per-disk basis. Configuration is something like this: mount -t configfs none /mnt Checking which features the driver supports: cat /mnt/nullb/features The 'features' attribute is for future extension. We probably will add new features into the driver, userspace can check this attribute to find the supported features. Create/remove a device: mkdir/rmdir /mnt/nullb/a Then configure the device by setting attributes under /mnt/nullb/a, most of nullb supported module parameters are converted to attributes: size; /* device size in MB */ completion_nsec; /* time in ns to complete a request */ submit_queues; /* number of submission queues */ home_node; /* home node for the device */ queue_mode; /* block interface */ blocksize; /* block size */ irqmode; /* IRQ completion handler */ hw_queue_depth; /* queue depth */ use_lightnvm; /* register as a LightNVM device */ blocking; /* blocking blk-mq device */ use_per_node_hctx; /* use per-node allocation for hardware context */ Note, creating a device doesn't create a disk immediately. Creating a disk is done in two phases: create a device and then power on the device. Next patch will introduce device power on. Based on original patch from Kyungchan Koh Signed-off-by: Kyungchan Koh <kkc6196@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-05-05Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last couple days, but the whole set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot. Change summary: - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of namespace modes or state. This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error" requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus devices. - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations. This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent memory support. - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event. Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally, fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for -stable. - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM payload debug available by default, and various fixes. Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock": Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com> - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing" Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits) libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking" libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison() libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush() libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem() block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access() block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access() filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access() Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads" ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations ...
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver() init/main: properly align the multi-line comment init/main: Fix double "the" in comment Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org drivers: Clean up duplicated email address treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall" selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/ HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/ net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo UBI: Fix typos Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment treewide: Fix typos in printk
2017-04-24virtio_blk: Fix English description of VIRTIO_BLK_SCSIJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Fixes: 97b50a654d5d ("virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable") Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-19brd: add dax_operations supportDan Williams
Setup a dax_inode to have the same lifetime as the brd block device and add a ->direct_access() method that is equivalent to brd_direct_access(). Once fs/dax.c has been converted to use dax_operations the old brd_direct_access() will be removed. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-19block: remove the osdblk driverChristoph Hellwig
This was just a proof of concept user for the SCSI OSD library, and never had any real users. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-14remove the mg_disk driverChristoph Hellwig
This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver. It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05remove the obsolete hd driverChristoph Hellwig
This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere in the kernel these days. It's also been marked broken forever. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.orgSeongJae Park
URLs to ftp.kernel.org are still exist though the service is closed [0]. This commit fixes the URLs to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-01-31virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurableChristoph Hellwig
The SCSI passthrough idea was a a bad idea to start with (guess who came up with it?), and has been removed from the virtio 1.O spec, and is not enabled by defauly by any host I know of. Add a separate config option for it so that we don't need to enable it for most setups. That way any bugs related to it (like the one recently fixed for vmapped stacks) do not affect other users, and the size of the virtblk_req structure also shrinks significantly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31block: make scsi_request and scsi ioctl support optionalChristoph Hellwig
We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio. And at least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with. This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use, say eMMC a bit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-21pktcdvd: mark as unmaintained and deprecatedJens Axboe
This driver is both orphaned, and not really useful anymore. Mark it as such, and remove it in a future kernel after a release or two. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-14cpqarray: remove it from the kernelJens Axboe
We disabled the ability to enable this driver back in October of 2013, we should be able to safely remove it at this point. The initial goal was to remove it in 3.15, so now is the time. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-09nvme: move to a new drivers/nvme/host directoryJay Sternberg
This patch moves the NVMe driver from drivers/block/ to its own new drivers/nvme/host/ directory. This is in preparation of splitting the current monolithic driver up and add support for the upcoming NVMe over Fabrics standard. The drivers/nvme/host/ is chose to leave space for a NVMe target implementation in addition to this host side driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com> [hch: rebased, renamed core.c to pci.c, slight tweaks] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-24libnvdimm, pmem: move pmem to drivers/nvdimm/Dan Williams
Prepare the pmem driver to consume PMEM namespaces emitted by regions of an nvdimm_bus instance. No functional change. Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-04-01drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memoryRoss Zwisler
PMEM is a new driver that presents a reserved range of memory as a block device. This is useful for developing with NV-DIMMs, and can be used with volatile memory as a development platform. This patch contains the initial driver from Ross Zwisler, with various changes: converted it to use a platform_device for discovery, fixed partition support and merged various patches from Boaz Harrosh. Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427872339-6688-3-git-send-email-hch@lst.de [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-16brd: rename XIP to DAXMatthew Wilcox
Since this is relating to FS_XIP, not KERNEL_XIP, it should be called DAX instead of XIP. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30zram: promote zram from stagingMinchan Kim
Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice. The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and recently our production team released android smart phone with zram which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs. In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example, Lubuntu start to use it. The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could encounter OOM kill. :( Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap storage performance. Quote from Luigi on Google "Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the available RAM. " and he announced. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on the internet start zram as /var/tmp. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23drivers/block/Kconfig: update RAM block device module nameFabian Frederick
RAM block device support module name changed to brd.ko some years ago with an "rd" alias to match previous module implementation. This patch updates its Kconfig definition. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-14Merge branch 'for-3.13/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the block driver pull request for 3.13. As with the core pull request just sent out, this was rebased on top of the core branch again after the immutable series was pulled. This also means that bcache gets to sit the initial pull over. I will send a second driver pull request in the merge window to get those fixes in, once they have been rebased and tested on top of the non-immutable stack. This pull request contains: - Add support for the sTec Kronos pci-e flash card from sTec. Also has various cleanups for this driver, from myself, Bart, Mike Snizter, and Wei Yongjun. - Add surprise removal support for the micron mtip32xx driver from Micron. - Floppy documentation fix from Ben Harris. - debugfs bug fix for pktcdvd from Dan Carpenter. - Fix for the mtip32xx driver stack usage in the debugfs path, dynamically allocating those buffers instead. From David Milburn. - Disable cpqarray in Kconfig. The plan is to remove it on request of HP, but lets disable it for a few revisions just to see if anyone yells. - drbd fixes from Lars Ellenberg and Philipp Reisner. - Elevator switch fix for the s390 block driver from Heiko Carstens. - loop crash fix on IO to unassigned device from Mikulas Patocka. - A series of bug fixes for the IBM rsxx pci-e flash driver from Philip J Kelleher. - cciss probe fix from Stephen Cameron. - Xen block front/back fixes from Roger Pau Monne and Vegard Nossum" * 'for-3.13/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (41 commits) floppy: Correct documentation of driver options when used as a module. pktcdvd: debugfs functions return NULL on error xen-blkfront: restore the non-persistent data path skd: fix formatting in skd_s1120.h skd: reorder construct/destruct code skd: cleanup skd_do_inq_page_da() skd: remove SKD_OMIT_FROM_SRC_DIST ifdefs skd: remove redundant skdev->pdev assignment from skd_pci_probe() skd: use <asm/unaligned.h> skd: remove SCSI subsystem specific includes skd: register block device only if some devices are present skd: fix error messages in skd_init() skd: fix error paths in skd_init() skd: fix unregister_blkdev() placement skd: more removal of bio-based code skd: cleanup the skd_*() function block wrapping skd: rip out bio path skd: fix error return code in skd_pci_probe() s390/dasd: hold request queue sysfs lock when calling elevator_init() cciss: return 0 from driver probe function on success, not 1 ...
2013-11-14Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for 3.13. It contains: - The new blk-mq request interface. This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the best part of the request based interface we currently have (which is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface" which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because it's much faster than the request based one. The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into the stack much earlier. This means that drivers end up having to implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging, timeout handling, requeue, etc. The blk-mq interface provides all these. Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads. This is a huge mess. Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code reduction. Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices. So while the model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well. This code has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready to go. A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled for 3.14 conversion. - Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang. - A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost. - Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter. - Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven. - A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout handling from Jeff Moyer. This is what caused the merge conflict with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that. - A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer. - A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent Overstreet. - A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop crash and memory corruption on blk cg. - Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama. A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch. Initially the immutable bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet. So the decision was made to pull this out and postpone it until 3.14. It was a straight forward rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of problems with it. The rest of the patches applied directly and no further changes were made" * 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits) block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup() block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector() block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change() elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses bdi: test bdi_init failure block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set blk-mq: mq plug list breakage blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock ...
2013-11-08block: disable cpqarray in KconfigJens Axboe
Mike writes: "cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP." If nobody yells, we'll remove it from the kernel tree completely for 3.15. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08Add support for sTec's pci-e flash card KronosAkhil Bhansali
Signed-off-by: Akhil Bhansali <abhansali@stec-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Ramprasad Chinthekindi <rchinthekindi@stec-inc.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Folded patch, contributions to clean up this driver from: Jens Axboe Dan Carpenter Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25null_blk: multi queue aware block test driverJens Axboe
A driver that simply completes IO it receives, it does no transfers. Written to fascilitate testing of the blk-mq code. It supports various module options to use either bio queueing, rq queueing, or mq mode. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-25block: drop dependency on ARCH_SHARKLinus Walleij
With this machine deleted, there is no need to maintain the MFM block driver for its hard disk either. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2013-06-19rsxx: Changing the adapter name to the official name.Philip J Kelleher
Changing the adapter name from FlashSystem-80 to the official name: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-11block: IBM RamSan 70/80 branding changes.Philip J Kelleher
This patch includes changing the hardware branding name from IBM RamSan to IBM FlashSystem. v2 Changes include: o Removing the unnecessary IBM Vendor ID #define v1 Changes include: o Changed all references of RamSan to FlashSystem. o Changed the vendor/device IDs for the product. o Changed driver version number. o Updated the MAINTAINERS file. o Various other little things. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'delete-xt-disk' of ↵Jens Axboe
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux into for-3.9/drivers Paul writes: Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c). As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well over a decade. The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)
2013-02-05block: IBM RamSan 70/80 device driverjosh.h.morris@us.ibm.com
This patch includes the device driver for the IBM RamSan family of PCI SSD flash storage cards. This driver will include support for the RamSan 70 and 80. The driver presents a block device for device I/O. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-04block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardwarePaul Gortmaker
This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1 interleave, giving performance on the order of 128kB/s. By the introduction of the PC-AT (286) these controllers were already scrapped in favour of 16 bit controllers with some onboard RAM that could support a 1:1 interleave. The git history doesn't show any evidence of runtime fixes that would reflect active usage; instead just the usual tree-wide API type changes/cleanups. Going back to in-source changelogs, the last "runtime" fix that is evident is something I did over a dozen years ago[1] -- and even back then, the hardware was long since unavailable, so that ancient fix was also not runtime tested. The time is long overdue for this to get flushed, so lets get rid of it before anyone wastes more time doing builds and sparse checks etc. on long since dead code. [1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.2/0027.html Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>