user/sven/linux.git/drivers/block/Kconfig, branch v4.4.94

nvme: move to a new drivers/nvme/host directory

2015-10-09T16:40:37Z

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 [hch: rebased, renamed core.c to pci.c, slight tweaks] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Keith Busch Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

libnvdimm, pmem: move pmem to drivers/nvdimm/

2015-06-25T01:24:10Z

Prepare the pmem driver to consume PMEM namespaces emitted by regions of an nvdimm_bus instance. No functional change. Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Tested-by: Toshi Kani Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory

2015-04-01T15:03:56Z

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 Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Dan Williams Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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

brd: rename XIP to DAX

2015-02-17T01:56:04Z

Since this is relating to FS_XIP, not KERNEL_XIP, it should be called DAX instead of XIP. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zram: promote zram from staging

2014-01-31T00:56:55Z

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 Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Nitin Gupta Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Bob Liu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Luigi Semenzato Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Seth Jennings Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/block/Kconfig: update RAM block device module name

2014-01-24T00:36:53Z

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 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.13/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-11-14T03:13:05Z

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 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 ...

Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-11-14T03:08:14Z

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 ...

block: disable cpqarray in Kconfig

2013-11-08T16:10:28Z

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

Add support for sTec's pci-e flash card Kronos

2013-11-08T16:10:28Z

Signed-off-by: Akhil Bhansali Signed-off-by: Ramprasad Chinthekindi Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Folded patch, contributions to clean up this driver from: Jens Axboe Dan Carpenter Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe