By replacing a kthread with a workqueue, the code is now a bit clearer.
There's also a slight reduction of code size (numbers apply for x86):
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
3248 36 0 3284 cd4 drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
3150 36 0 3186 c72 drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.o
Due to lack of real hardware, tests have been performed on an emulated
environment with mtdswap and mtdblock over nandsim devices.
Some real testing should be done, before merging this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Because it is useless to call it if the device is opened in R/O mode, and also
harmful: on CFI NOR flash it may block for long time waiting for erase
operations to complete is another partition with a R/W file-system on this
chip.
Artem Bityutskiy: write commit message, amend the patch to match the latest
tree (we use mtd_sync(), not mtd->sync() nowadays).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6: (9356 commits)
[media] rc: update for bitop name changes
fs: simplify iget & friends
fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
fs: factor inode disposal
fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
lib, arch: add filter argument to show_mem and fix private implementations
SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it
slub: Fix debugobjects with lockless fastpath
autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd()
autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock
autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk
autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal
autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct()
autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access
vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu()
...
NOTE!
This merge commit was created to fix compilation error. The block
tree was merged upstream and removed the 'elv_queue_empty()'
function which the new 'mtdswap' driver is using. So a simple
merge of the mtd tree with upstream does not compile. And the
mtd tree has already be published, so re-basing it is not an option.
To fix this unfortunate situation, I had to merge upstream into the
mtd-2.6.git tree without committing, put the fixup patch on top of
this, and then commit this. The result is that we do not have commits
which do not compile.
In other words, this merge commit "merges" 3 things: the MTD tree, the
upstream tree, and the fixup patch.
Add a new background method into mtd_blktrans_ops, add background support
into mtd_blktrans_thread(), and add mtd_blktrans_cease_background().
If the mtd blktrans dev has the background support, the thread will
call background function when the request queue becomes empty. The background
operation may run as long as needs to until
mtd_blktrans_cease_background() tells to stop.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This patch adds an ability to export sysfs attributes below
the block disk device.
This can be used to pass the udev an information about the FTL
and could include the vendor, serial, version, etc...
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* Add locking where it was missing.
* Don't do a get_mtd_device in blktrans_open because it would lead to a
deadlock; instead do that in add_mtd_blktrans_dev.
* Only free the mtd_blktrans_dev structure when the last user exits.
* Flush request queue on device removal.
* Track users, and call tr->release in del_mtd_blktrans_dev
Due to that ->open and release aren't called more that once.
Now it is safe to call del_mtd_blktrans_dev while the device is still in use.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This is the biggest change. To make hotplug possible, and this layer
clean, the mtd_blktrans_dev now contains everything for a single mtd
block translation device. Also removed some very old leftovers.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Once upon a time, the MTD repository was using CVS.
This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS
keywords from the MTD code.
This also includes code that printed them to the user.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Currently, mtd_blkdevs enforces a block size of 512, even if the drivers
can seemingly request a different size. This patch fixes mtd_blkdevs so
block sizes other than 512 work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Ezequiel Garcia