user/sven/linux.git/block, branch v3.8

block: prevent race/cleanup

2012-12-19T19:36:10Z

Remove a race condition which causes a warning in disk_clear_events. This is a race between disk_clear_events() and disk_flush_events(). ev->clearing will be altered by disk_flush_events() even though we are blocking event checking through disk_flush_events(). If this happens after ev->clearing was cleared for disk_clear_events(), this can cause the WARN_ON_ONCE() in that function to be triggered. This change also has disk_clear_events() not go through a workqueue. Since we have to wait for the work to complete, we should just call the function directly. Also, since this work cannot be put on a freezable workqueue, it will have to contend with increased demand, so calling the function directly avoids this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello in comment] Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove deadlock in disk_clear_events

2012-12-19T19:36:05Z

In disk_clear_events, do not put work on system_nrt_freezable_wq. Instead, put it on system_nrt_wq. There is a race between probing a usb and suspending the device. Since probing a usb calls disk_clear_events, which puts work on a frozen workqueue, probing cannot finish after the workqueue is frozen. However, suspending cannot finish until the usb probe is finished, so we get a deadlock, causing the system to reboot. The way to reproduce this bug is to wake up from suspend with a usb storage device plugged in, or plugging in a usb storage device right before suspend. The window of time is on the order of time it takes to probe the usb device. As long as the workqueues are frozen before the call to add_disk within sd_probe_async finishes, there will be a deadlock (which calls blkdev_get, sd_open, check_disk_change, then disk_clear_events). This is not difficult to reproduce after figuring out the timings. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up comment] Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-12-18T04:58:12Z

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: "Incoming: - lots of misc stuff - backlight tree updates - lib/ updates - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes - checkpatch - rtc - aoe - more checkpoint/restart support I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging later today after which that is good to go. A number of other things are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (180 commits) scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error. docs: update documentation about /proc//fdinfo/ fanotify output fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output docs: add documentation about /proc//fdinfo/ output fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error ubifs: use prandom_bytes mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes ...

percpu_rw_semaphore: introduce CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM

2012-12-18T01:15:18Z

Currently only block_dev and uprobes use percpu_rw_semaphore, add the config option selected by BLOCK || UPROBES. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-12-17T21:39:11Z

Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe: "Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The branch contains: - A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the situation on individual pulls can be improved. - A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss. - Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is also using it. - A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne. - Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID to be used as an identifier." * 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits) drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options drbd: Remove obsolete check drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface xen-blkfront: free allocated page xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36 block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string cciss: use check_signature() cciss: cleanup bitops usage drbd: use copy_highpage drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed ...

Merge branch 'for-3.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-12-17T16:27:23Z

Pull block layer core updates from Jens Axboe: "Here are the core block IO bits for 3.8. The branch contains: - The final version of the surprise device removal fixups from Bart. - Don't hide EFI partitions under advanced partition types. It's fairly wide spread these days. This is especially dangerous for systems that have both msdos and efi partition tables, where you want to keep them in sync. - Cleanup of using -1 instead of the proper NUMA_NO_NODE - Export control of bdi flusher thread CPU mask and default to using the home node (if known) from Jeff. - Export unplug tracepoint for MD. - Core improvements from Shaohua. Reinstate the recursive merge, as the original bug has been fixed. Add plugging for discard and also fix a problem handling non pow-of-2 discard limits. There's a trivial merge in block/blk-exec.c due to a fix that went into 3.7-rc at a later point than -rc4 where this is based." * 'for-3.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: export block_unplug tracepoint block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard block: discard granularity might not be power of 2 deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed partitions: enable EFI/GPT support by default bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() block: Make blk_cleanup_queue() wait until request_fn finished block: Avoid scheduling delayed work on a dead queue block: Avoid that request_fn is invoked on a dead queue block: Let blk_drain_queue() caller obtain the queue lock block: Rename queue dead flag bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads block: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 block: recursive merge requests block CFQ: avoid moving request to different queue

block: export block_unplug tracepoint

2012-12-14T19:49:27Z

This allows stacked devices (like md/raid5) to provide blktrace tracing, including unplug events. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard

2012-12-14T19:46:04Z

Last post of this patch appears lost, so I resend this. Now discard merge works, add plug for blkdev_issue_discard. This will help discard request merge especially for raid0 case. In raid0, a big discard request is split to small requests, and if correct plug is added, such small requests can be merged in low layer. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: discard granularity might not be power of 2

2012-12-14T19:46:04Z

In MD raid case, discard granularity might not be power of 2, for example, a 4-disk raid5 has 3*chunk_size discard granularity. Correct the calculation for such cases. Reported-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2012-12-12T16:18:24Z

Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. The big changes are focused on making cgroup hierarchy handling saner. - cgroup_rmdir() had peculiar semantics - it allowed cgroup destruction to be vetoed by individual controllers and tried to drain refcnt synchronously. The vetoing never worked properly and caused good deal of contortions in cgroup. memcg was the last reamining user. Michal Hocko removed the usage and cgroup_rmdir() path has been simplified significantly. This was done in a separate branch so that the memcg people can base further memcg changes on top. - The above allowed cleaning up cgroup lifecycle management and implementation of generic cgroup iterators which are used to improve hierarchy support. - cgroup_freezer updated to allow migration in and out of a frozen cgroup and handle hierarchy. If a cgroup is frozen, all descendant cgroups are frozen. - netcls_cgroup and netprio_cgroup updated to handle hierarchy properly. - Various fixes and cleanups. - Two merge commits. One to pull in memcg and rmdir cleanups (needed to build iterators). The other pulled in cgroup/for-3.7-fixes for device_cgroup fixes so that further device_cgroup patches can be stacked on top." Fixed up a trivial conflict in mm/memcontrol.c as per Tejun (due to commit bea8c150a7 ("memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops") in master touching code close to commit 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error handling") in for-3.8) * 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (65 commits) cgroup: update Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX cgroup_rm_file: don't delete the uncreated files cgroup: remove subsystem files when remounting cgroup cgroup: use cgroup_addrm_files() in cgroup_clear_directory() cgroup: warn about broken hierarchies only after css_online cgroup: list_del_init() on removed events cgroup: fix lockdep warning for event_control cgroup: move list add after list head initilization netprio_cgroup: allow nesting and inherit config on cgroup creation netprio_cgroup: implement netprio[_set]_prio() helpers netprio_cgroup: use cgroup->id instead of cgroup_netprio_state->prioidx netprio_cgroup: reimplement priomap expansion netprio_cgroup: shorten variable names in extend_netdev_table() netprio_cgroup: simplify write_priomap() netcls_cgroup: move config inheritance to ->css_online() and remove .broken_hierarchy marking cgroup: remove obsolete guarantee from cgroup_task_migrate. cgroup: add cgroup->id cgroup, cpuset: remove cgroup_subsys->post_clone() cgroup: s/CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN/CGRP_CPUSET_CLONE_CHILDREN/ cgroup: rename ->create/post_create/pre_destroy/destroy() to ->css_alloc/online/offline/free() ...