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Martin K. Petersen 8a78362c4e block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
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 <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen 086fa5ff08 block: Rename blk_queue_max_sectors to blk_queue_max_hw_sectors
The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_<limit name>.
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 <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Akinobu Mita c5ecc484c5 pktcdvd: use BIO list management functions
Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert pktcdvd to
use bio lists instead of its own private bio list implementation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-24 08:30:08 +01:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ca0bf64d99 pktcdvd: removing device does not remove its sysfs dir
This is the counterpart to cba767175b
("pktcdvd: remove broken dev_t export of class devices").  Device is not
registered using dev_t, so it should not be destroyed using device_destroy
which looks up the device by dev_t.  This will fail and adding the device
again will fail with the "duplicate name" error.  This is fixed using
device_unregister instead of device_destroy.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02 18:11:23 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 83d5cde47d const: make block_device_operations const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Kay Sievers e454cea20b Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
GeunSik Lim ea5ffff57d debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
As we all know, We need change default directory for consistency of
debugfs by Greg K-H

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
Jens Axboe 8aa7e847d8 Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion
Commit 1faa16d228 accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-10 20:31:53 +02:00
GeunSik Lim 156f5a7801 debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/"
directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to
./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file.

And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is
existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation,
Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem.

debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah
hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name
of debugfs filesystem.
- debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/

Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem.

* From Steven Rostedt
  - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by     : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by  : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by  : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Kay Sievers b03f38b685 Driver Core: block: add nodename support for block drivers.
This adds support for block drivers to report their requested nodename
to userspace.  It also updates a number of block drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:25 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen ae03bf639a block: Use accessor functions for queue limits
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Kay Sievers cba767175b pktcdvd: remove broken dev_t export of class devices
The pktcdvd created class devices only export some sysfs files,
but have no char dev_t registered in the driver.

At class device creation time they copy the dev_t value of the
block device to the char device, wich will register a new char
device in the driver core and userspace, with a conflicting dev_t
value.

In many cases the class devices dev_t just points to a random
USB device. This fixes the sysfs "duplicate entry" errors.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 10:03:32 -08:00
Al Viro 2cbed8906f [PATCH] fix bogus argument of blkdev_put() in pktcdvd
final close of ->bdev should match the initial open, i.e.
get FMODE_READ | FMODE_NDELAY; FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE has
been a braino.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-04 04:22:59 -05:00
Al Viro 572c489215 [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
* get rid of fake struct file/struct dentry in __blkdev_get()
* merge __blkdev_get() and do_open()
* get rid of flags argument of blkdev_get()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:49:06 -04:00
Al Viro 9a1c354276 [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:48:58 -04:00
Al Viro 5e5e007c25 [PATCH] switch pktdvdcd
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:48:01 -04:00
Al Viro d4430d62fa [PATCH] beginning of methods conversion
To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers;
to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following:
	1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct
prototypes, make (few) callers handle both.  That's this changeset.
	2) for each driver convert to new methods.  *ALL* drivers
are converted in this series.
	3) kill the old (renamed) methods.

Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the
end of this series no trace of old methods remain.  The only reason why
we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver
debugging if anything goes wrong.

New methods:
	open(bdev, mode)
	release(disk, mode)
	ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)		/* Called without BKL */
	compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)
	locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)	/* Called with BKL, legacy */

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:32 -04:00
Al Viro 633a08b812 [PATCH] introduce __blkdev_driver_ioctl()
Analog of blkdev_driver_ioctl() with sane arguments.  For
now uses fake struct file, by the end of the series it won't
and blkdev_driver_ioctl() will become a wrapper around it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:26 -04:00
Al Viro a0eb62a0a4 [PATCH] switch pktcdvd to blkdev_driver_ioctl()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:24 -04:00
Al Viro aeb5d72706 [PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:06 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 1ff9f542e5 device create: block: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:41 -07:00
Denis ChengRq 6feef531f5 block: mark bio_split_pool static
Since all bio_split calls refer the same single bio_split_pool, the bio_split
function can use bio_split_pool directly instead of the mempool_t parameter;

then the mempool_t parameter can be removed from bio_split param list, and
bio_split_pool is only referred in fs/bio.c file, can be marked static.

Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:57:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo f331c0296f block: don't depend on consecutive minor space
* Implement disk_devt() and part_devt() and use them to directly
  access devt instead of computing it from ->major and ->first_minor.

  Note that all references to ->major and ->first_minor outside of
  block layer is used to determine devt of the disk (the part0) and as
  ->major and ->first_minor will continue to represent devt for the
  disk, converting these users aren't strictly necessary.  However,
  convert them for consistency.

* Implement disk_max_parts() to avoid directly deferencing
  genhd->minors.

* Update bdget_disk() such that it doesn't assume consecutive minor
  space.

* Move devt computation from register_disk() to add_disk() and make it
  the only one (all other usages use the initially determined value).

These changes clean up the code and will help disk->part dereference
fix and extended block device numbers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8560c650f3 Revert "pktcdvd: push BKL down into driver"
This reverts commit 5b6155ee70, because
the block device ioctl's really aren't ready for it.

In particular, the "struct file *" and the "struct inode *" arguments do
not necessarily match, which means that the unlocked version of the
ioctl (that only gets a "struct file *") isn't actually able to handle
the cases it needs to handle.

This fixes bugzilla

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11401

Reported-and-bisected-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-27 13:42:00 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman f79f060561 device create: block: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:41 -07:00
Christophe Jaillet 7c0c0b5b19 drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: avoid useless memset
Avoid the 'memset(...,0, ...)' before calling 'init_cdrom_command' because
this function already does it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <jaillet.christophe@wanadoo.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-04 09:52:14 +02:00
Alan Cox 5b6155ee70 pktcdvd: push BKL down into driver
Push the lock_kernel down into the driver and switch to unlocked_ioctl

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-04 09:52:13 +02:00
Alasdair G Kergon cc371e66e3 Add bvec_merge_data to handle stacked devices and ->merge_bvec()
When devices are stacked, one device's merge_bvec_fn may need to perform
the mapping and then call one or more functions for its underlying devices.

The following bio fields are used:
  bio->bi_sector
  bio->bi_bdev
  bio->bi_size
  bio->bi_rw  using bio_data_dir()

This patch creates a new struct bvec_merge_data holding a copy of those
fields to avoid having to change them directly in the struct bio when
going down the stack only to have to change them back again on the way
back up.  (And then when the bio gets mapped for real, the whole
exercise gets repeated, but that's a problem for another day...)

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bd5d435a96 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
  block: add large command support
  block: replace sizeof(rq->cmd) with BLK_MAX_CDB
  ide: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
  block: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
  block: rename and export rq_init()
  block: no need to initialize rq->cmd with blk_get_request
  block: no need to initialize rq->cmd in prepare_flush_fn hook
  block/blk-barrier.c:blk_ordered_cur_seq() mustn't be inline
  block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
  block: make queue flags non-atomic
  block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern
  unexport blk_max_pfn
  ps3disk: Remove superfluous cast
  block: make rq_init() do a full memset()
  relay: fix splice problem
2008-04-29 08:18:03 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev c7705f3449 drivers: use non-racy method for proc entries creation (2)
Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 928b4d8c89 proc: remove proc_root_driver
Use creation by full path: "driver/foo".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:18 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 992b5bceee block: no need to initialize rq->cmd with blk_get_request
blk_get_request initializes rq->cmd (rq_init does) so the users don't
need to do that.

The purpose of this patch is to remove sizeof(rq->cmd) and &rq->cmd,
as a preparation for large command support, which changes rq->cmd from
the static array to a pointer. sizeof(rq->cmd) will not make sense and
&rq->cmd won't work.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
Peter Osterlund 05680d86d2 pktcdvd: reduce stack consumption
On my system, pkt_open() consumes 584 bytes because the compiler decides to
inline lots of functions that would not normally be part of long call chains.
The following patch fixes that problem on my system.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 16:35:12 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan eaa0ff15c3 fix ! versus & precedence in various places
Fix various instances of

	if (!expr & mask)

which should probably have been

	if (!(expr & mask))

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:40:59 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman c10997f657 Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 89c4260664 Kobject: change drivers/block/pktcdvd.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:29 -08:00
Tony Jones 6013c12be8 pktcdvd: Convert from class_device to device for block/pktcdvd
struct class_device is going away, this converts the code to use struct
device instead.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:06 -08:00
Dave Young d17a18dd92 pktcdvd: add kobject_put when kobject register fails
In kobject_register, the kobject reference is get in kobject_init, and then
kobject_add.  If kobject_add fail, it will only cleanup the reference got
by itself.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:16 -08:00
Tejun Heo fffe487d59 pktcdvd: fix BUG caused by sysfs module reference semantics change
pkt_setup_dev() expects module reference to be held on invocation.
This used to be true for sysfs callbacks but not anymore.  Test and
grab module reference around pkt_setup_dev() in
class_pktcdvd_store_add().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-11-08 08:00:24 +01:00
Laurent Riffard 7e3da6c4b9 pktcdvd: don't rely on bio_init() preserving bio->bi_destructor
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:05:09 +02:00
Jens Axboe 761a15e7ac pktcdvd: don't rely on bio_init() preserving bio->bi_io_vec
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-16 11:05:08 +02:00
NeilBrown 6712ecf8f6 Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant.  Remove it.

Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size.  So don't do that either.

While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe 165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 3e1ac130d0 kcdrwd: remove unneeded flush_signals() call
kcdrwd() is a kernel thread, all signals are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Tejun Heo 7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Andrew Morton cbc31a475a packet: fix error handling
The packet driver is assuming (reasonably) that the (undocumented)
request.errors is an errno.  But it is in fact some mysterious bitfield.  When
things go wrong we return weird positive numbers to the VFS as pointers and it
goes oops.

Thanks to William Heimbigner for reporting and diagnosis.

(It doesn't oops, but this driver still doesn't work for William)

Cc: William Heimbigner <icxcnika@mar.tar.cc>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 13:50:55 -07:00
Gerhard Dirschl 91e4ee381d [PATCH] pktcdvd: Correctly set cmd_len field in pkt_generic_packet
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810 - a silly
copy-paste bug introduced by the latest change.

Signed-off-by: Gerhard Dirschl <gd@spherenet.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:14 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 2b8693c061 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00