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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-04-09T18:50:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-04-09T18:50:29Z</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...
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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11Z</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<title>paride: fix off-by-one test</title>
<updated>2010-03-12T09:03:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Roel Kluin</name>
<email>roel.kluin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-11T22:09:47Z</published>
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With `while (j++ &lt; PX_SPIN)' j reaches PX_SPIN + 1 after the loop.  This
is probably unlikely to produce a problem.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T12:58:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T05:20:39Z</published>
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Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: Rename blk_queue_max_sectors to blk_queue_max_hw_sectors</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T12:58:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T05:20:38Z</published>
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The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_&lt;limit name&gt;.
blk_queue_max_sectors predates this practice, leading to some confusion.
Rename the function to appropriately reflect that its intended use is to
set max_hw_sectors.

Also introduce a temporary wrapper for backwards compability.  This can
be removed after the merge window is closed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>const: make block_device_operations const</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:01:13Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>block: use printk_once</title>
<updated>2009-09-11T12:34:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcin Slusarz</name>
<email>marcin.slusarz@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-24T08:56:38Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz &lt;marcin.slusarz@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:52:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-08T02:54:16Z</published>
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Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>paride: dequeue in-flight request</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:52:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-08T02:54:06Z</published>
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pd/pf/pcd have track in-flight request by pd/pf/pcd_req.  They can be
converted to dequeueing model by updating fetching and completion
paths.  Convert them.

Note that removal of elv_next_request() call from pf_next_buf()
doesn't make any functional difference.  The path is traveled only
during partial completion of a request and elv_next_request() call
must return the same request anyway.

[ Impact: dequeue in-flight request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:39Z</published>
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With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq-&gt;sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() &lt; 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Moore &lt;Eric.Moore@lsi.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dario Ballabio &lt;ballabio_dario@emc.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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