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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>
2012-10-30cciss: select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATUREAkinobu Mita
The patch cciss-use-check_signature.patch in -mm tree introduced a build error: drivers/built-in.o: In function `CISS_signature_present': drivers/block/cciss.c:4270: undefined reference to `check_signature' Add missing CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to fix this issue. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-10-23drivers/block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it. CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> CC: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> CC: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-05block: remove the deprecated ub driverCong Wang
It was scheduled to be removed in 3.6. Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-16usb/ub: deprecate & schedule for removal the "Low Performance USB Block" driverSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Deprecate this driver. All devices which can be handled by this driver can also be handled by the usb-storage driver. Acked-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-01-18Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvmeLinus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvme: (105 commits) NVMe: Set number of queues correctly NVMe: Version 0.8 NVMe: Set queue flags correctly NVMe: Simplify nvme_unmap_user_pages NVMe: Mark the end of the sg list NVMe: Fix DMA mapping for admin commands NVMe: Rename IO_TIMEOUT to NVME_IO_TIMEOUT NVMe: Merge the nvme_bio and nvme_prp data structures NVMe: Change nvme_completion_fn to take a dev NVMe: Change get_nvmeq to take a dev instead of a namespace NVMe: Simplify completion handling NVMe: Update Identify Controller data structure NVMe: Implement doorbell stride capability NVMe: Version 0.7 NVMe: Don't probe namespace 0 Fix calculation of number of pages in a PRP List NVMe: Create nvme_identify and nvme_get_features functions NVMe: Fix memory leak in nvme_dev_add() NVMe: Fix calls to dma_unmap_sg NVMe: Correct sg list setup in nvme_map_user_pages ...
2011-11-05block: Add driver for Micron RealSSD pcie flash cardsSam Bradshaw
This adds mtip32xx, a driver supporting Microns line of pci-express flash storage cards. Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-11-04NVMe: New driverMatthew Wilcox
This driver is for devices that follow the NVM Express standard Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
2011-08-09Merge branch 'stable/for-jens' of ↵Jens Axboe
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus
2011-08-09xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
With the frontend having Xen but the backend not, it just looks odd: <*> Xen virtual block device support <*> Block-device backend driver Fix it to have the 'Xen' in front of it. Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-07-31loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop ↵Kay Sievers
devices Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services, even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0 loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic /dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free devices. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-12xen/blkback: Flesh out the description in the Kconfig.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
with more details. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-18xen/blkback: Move it from drivers/xen to drivers/blockKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
.. and modify the Makefile and Kconfig files appropriately. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-05xen: separate out frontend xenbusIan Campbell
Impact: refactor Make a distinct frontend xenbus, in preparation for adding a backend xenbus. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> [corresponds to 2fd433a4188f in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git with adjustments to reflect changes in the code which is moved] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2010-10-20rbd: introduce rados block device (rbd), based on libcephYehuda Sadeh
The rados block device (rbd), based on osdblk, creates a block device that is backed by objects stored in the Ceph distributed object storage cluster. Each device consists of a single metadata object and data striped over many data objects. The rbd driver supports read-only snapshots. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-05-11paride: fix menu indentationRandy Dunlap
Make the PARIDE menu be displayed correctly, with proper/expected indentation, by moving the GDROM kconfig symbol, which was splitting the PARIDE kconfig symbol from its dependent symbols. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01The DRBD driverPhilipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2009-06-24osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objectsJeff Garzik
Submitted driver exports a block device of the form /dev/osdblkX, where X is a decimal number. It does that by mounting a stacking block device on top of an osd object. For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device, you can then use this module to present that 2G object as a Linux block device. See inside patch for exact documentation. [Sitting at linux-next helped fix proper Kconfig dependency for this driver, thanks to Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
2009-06-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (55 commits) microblaze: Don't use access_ok for unaligned microblaze: remove unused flat_stack_align() definition microblaze: Fix problem with early_printk in startup microblaze_mmu_v2: Makefiles microblaze_mmu_v2: Kconfig update microblaze_mmu_v2: stat.h MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Elf update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update dma.h for MMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Update cacheflush.h microblaze_mmu_v2: Update signal returning address microblaze_mmu_v2: Traps MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Enable fork syscall for MMU and add fork as vfork for noMMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Update linker script for MMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Add MMU related exceptions handling microblaze_mmu_v2: uaccess MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update exception handling - MMU exception microblaze_mmu_v2: entry.S, entry.h microblaze_mmu_v2: Add CURRENT_TASK for entry.S microblaze_mmu_v2: MMU asm offset update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update tlb.h and tlbflush.h ...
2009-06-12trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module namesPavel Machek
.ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-05-21microblaze: Kconfig: Enable drivers for MicroblazeMichal Simek
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2009-04-28mg_disk: fix dependency on libataBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add local copies of ata_id_string() and ata_id_c_string() to mg_disk so there is no need for the driver to depend on ATA and SCSI. [ Impact: break dependency on libata by copying ata id string functions ] Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07mflash: initial supportunsik Kim
This driver supports mflash IO mode for linux. Mflash is embedded flash drive and mainly targeted mobile and consumer electronic devices. Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports 2 different operation (ATA, IO) modes. ATA mode doesn't need any new driver and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's one chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have IDE interface. Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode. A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm, write confirm) B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface. C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash. This driver is quitely similar to a standard ATA driver, but because of following reasons it is currently seperated with ATA layer. 1. ATA layer deals standard ATA protocol. ATA layer have many low- level device specific interface, but data transfer keeps ATA rule. But, mflash IO mode doesn't. 2. Even though currently not used in mflash driver code, mflash has some custom command and modes. (nand fusing, firmware patch, etc) If this feature supported in linux kernel, ATA layer more altered. 3. Currently PATA platform device driver doesn't support interrupt. (I'm not sure) But, mflash uses interrupt (polling mode is just for debug). 4. mflash is somewhat under-develop product. Even though some company already using mflash their own product, I think more time is needed for standardization of custom command and mode. That time (maybe October) I will talk to with ATA people. If they accept integration, I will integrate. Signed-off-by: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-26m68k: mac - Add SWIM floppy supportLaurent Vivier
It allows to read data from a floppy, but not to write to, and to eject the floppy (useful on our Mac without eject button). Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2008-11-14Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.Randy Dunlap
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it. Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory. Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/. Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/. Update all relevant 00-INDEX files. Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-07-16update the BLK_DEV_HD help textAdrian Bunk
Many people will see this option the first time now that it is in drivers/block/ Make it clear that virtually noone needs it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-16move ide/legacy/hd.c to drivers/block/Adrian Bunk
This patch moves hd.c to drivers/block/ Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-17The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to beingAdrian Bunk
no longer working for some time. A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-08rd: support XIPNick Piggin
Support direct_access XIP method with brd. 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>
2008-02-08rewrite rdNick Piggin
This is a rewrite of the ramdisk block device driver. The old one is really difficult because it effectively implements a block device which serves data out of its own buffer cache. It relies on the dirty bit being set, to pin its backing store in cache, however there are non trivial paths which can clear the dirty bit (eg. try_to_free_buffers()), which had recently lead to data corruption. And in general it is completely wrong for a block device driver to do this. The new one is more like a regular block device driver. It has no idea about vm/vfs stuff. It's backing store is similar to the buffer cache (a simple radix-tree of pages), but it doesn't know anything about page cache (the pages in the radix tree are not pagecache pages). There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice. However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the device is now reclaimable (because we're not playing crazy games with it), so under memory intensive situations, footprint should effectively be the same -- maybe even a slight advantage to the new driver because it can also reclaim buffer heads. The fact that it now goes through all the regular vm/fs paths makes it much more useful for testing, too. text data bss dec hex filename 2837 849 384 4070 fe6 drivers/block/rd.o 3528 371 12 3911 f47 drivers/block/brd.o Text is larger, but data and bss are smaller, making total size smaller. A few other nice things about it: - Similar structure and layout to the new loop device handlinag. - Dynamic ramdisk creation. - Runtime flexible buffer head size (because it is no longer part of the ramdisk code). - Boot / load time flexible ramdisk size, which could easily be extended to a per-ramdisk runtime changeable size (eg. with an ioctl). - Can use highmem for the backing store. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [byron.bbradley@gmail.com: make rd_size non-static] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-04virtio: Put the virtio under the virtualization menuAnthony Liguori
This patch moves virtio under the virtualization menu and changes virtio devices to not claim to only be for lguest. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-28cdrom: Add support for Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM.Adrian McMenamin
This patch adds support for the GD-Rom drive, SEGA's proprietary implementation of an IDE CD Rom for the SEGA Dreamcast. This driver implements Sega's Packet Interface (SPI) - at least partially. It will also read disks in SEGA's propreitary GD format. Unlike previous drivers (which were never in mainline) this uses DMA and not PIO to read disks. It is a new driver, not a refactoring of old drivers. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>