Commit edfaa7c365
Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices
This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
to the disks.
introduced a global disk_type variable in <linux/genhd.h>, causing the
following compile error on Atari:
drivers/block/ataflop.c:93: error: conflicting types for 'disk_type'
include/linux/genhd.h:21: error: previous declaration of 'disk_type' was here
Rename the local disk_type variable in drivers/block/ataflop.c to
atari_disk_type, to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use upper_32_bits(x) macro to handle shifts that may be >= the width of
the data type.
drivers/block/cciss.c: In function 'do_cciss_request':
drivers/block/cciss.c:2655: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2656: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2657: warning: right shift count >= width of type
drivers/block/cciss.c:2658: warning: right shift count >= width of type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This allows a flag to be set on loop devices so that when they are
closed for the last time, they'll self-destruct.
In general, so that we can automatically allocate loop devices (as with
losetup -f) and have them disappear when we're done with them.
In particular, right now, so that we can stop relying on the hackish
special-case in umount(8) which kills off loop devices which were set up by
'mount -oloop'. That means we can stop putting crap in /etc/mtab which
doesn't belong there, which means it can be a symlink to /proc/mounts, which
means yet another writable file on the root filesystem is eliminated and the
'stateless' folks get happier... and OLPC trac #356 can be closed.
The mount(8) side of that is at
http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119362955431694&w=2
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Mainly, this involves two changes:
1) xilinx->xlnx (recognized standard is to use the stock ticker)
2) In order to have the device tree focus on describing what the
hardware is as exactly as possible, the compatible strings contain the
full IP name and IP version.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Fix compile errors in the xilinxfb, xsysace and uartlite drivers used
by the Xilinx Virtex platform
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (25 commits)
virtio: balloon driver
virtio: Use PCI revision field to indicate virtio PCI ABI version
virtio: PCI device
virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz,vdaa-vdzz,vdaaa-vdzzz
virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers
virtio_blk: provide getgeo
virtio_net: parametrize the napi_weight for virtio receive queue.
virtio: free transmit skbs when notified, not on next xmit.
virtio: flush buffers on open
virtnet: remove double ether_setup
virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules
virtio: Use the sg_phys convenience function.
virtio: Put the virtio under the virtualization menu
virtio: handle interrupts after callbacks turned off
virtio: reset function
virtio: populate network rings in the probe routine, not open
virtio: Tweak virtio_net defines
virtio: Net header needs hdr_len
virtio: remove unused id field from struct virtio_blk_outhdr
virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage
...
Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
> Right. I will fix that with an additional patch.
This patch goes on top of the minor number patch. Please let me know if
you want a merged patch:
Currently virtio_blk creates the disk name combinging "vd" with 'a'++.
This will give strange names after vdz. I have implemented names up to
vdzzz - inspired by the sd.c code. That should be sufficient for now.
There is one driver in the kernel (driver/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c) that
implements names from dasda-dasdzzzz allowing even more disks. Maybe
a janitor can come up with a common implementation usable for all kind
of block device drivers.
I have tested this patch with 100 disks - seems to work.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty,
currently virtio_blk uses one major number per device. While this works
quite well on most systems it is wasteful and will exhaust major numbers
on larger installations.
This patch allocates a major number on init and will use 16 minor numbers
for each disk. That will allow ~64k virtio_blk disks.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty,
I currently try to make my guest boot from an virtio root device
without having an external kernel. Some of the tools that I tried
expect HDIO_GETGEO to work. The most interesting value is likely
the geo.start value to get the offset of a partition. This value
is filled by block/ioctl.c if fops->getgeo is set. This patch also
fills in some standard values for heads, sectors and cylinders.
Makes sense?
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch moves virtio under the virtualization menu and changes virtio
devices to not claim to only be for lguest.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
A reset function solves three problems:
1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
guest driver without rebooting the guest.
2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and
3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.
So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
feature bits is via reset.
We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
remove function.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.
Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
now returns void, rather than a boolean.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill. We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.
The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
These zeroings were taken from usb-storage long time ago. I examined
the submission paths and usb_fill_bulk_urb and found them unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch fixes the following section mismatches:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/block/sunvdc.o(.text+0xf0): Section mismatch in reference from the function print_version() to the variable .devinit.data:version
WARNING: drivers/block/sunvdc.o(.text+0xf8): Section mismatch in reference from the function print_version() to the variable .devinit.data:version
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
In ace_fsm_dostate(), the variable 'i' was used only for passing
sector size of the request to end_that_request_first().
So I removed it and changed the code to pass the size in bytes
directly to __blk_end_request()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (197 commits)
sh: add spi header and r2d platform data V3
sh: update r7780rp interrupt code
sh: remove consistent alloc stuff from the machine vector
sh: use declared coherent memory for dreamcast pci ethernet adapter
sh: declared coherent memory support V2
sh: Add support for SDK7780 board.
sh: constify function pointer tables
sh: Kill off -traditional for linker script.
cdrom: Add support for Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM.
sh: Kill off hs7751rvoip reference from arch/sh/Kconfig.
sh: Drop r7780rp_defconfig, use r7780mp_defconfig as kbuild default.
sh: Kill off dead HS771RVoIP board support.
sh: r7785rp: Fix up DECLARE_INTC_DESC() arg mismatch.
sh: r7785rp: Hook up the rest of the HL7785 FPGA IRQ vectors.
sh: r2d - enable sm501 usb host function
sh: remove voyagergx
sh: r2d - add lcd planel timings to sm501 platform data
sh: Add OHCI and UDC platform devices for SH7720.
sh: intc - remove default interrupt priority tables
sh: Correct pte size mismatch for X2 TLB.
...
This patch converts xsysace to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
xsysace is a little bit different from "normal" drivers.
xsysace driver has a state machine in it.
It calls end_that_request_first() and end_that_request_last()
from different states. (ACE_FSM_STATE_REQ_TRANSFER and
ACE_FSM_STATE_REQ_COMPLETE, respectively.)
However, those states are consecutive and without any interruption
inbetween.
So we can just follow the standard conversion rule (b) mentioned in
the patch subject "[PATCH 01/30] blk_end_request: add new request
completion interface".
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts ub to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts cpqarray to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'ok' arguments are converted to 'error'.
cpqarray is a little bit different from "normal" drivers.
cpqarray directly calls bio_endio() and disk_stat_add()
when completing request. But those can be replaced with
__end_that_request_first().
After the replacement, request completion procedures of
those drivers become like the following:
o end_that_request_first()
o add_disk_randomness()
o end_that_request_last()
This can be converted to __blk_end_request() by following
the rule (b) mentioned in the patch subject
"[PATCH 01/30] blk_end_request: add new request completion interface".
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts cciss to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
cciss is a little bit different from "normal" drivers.
cciss directly calls bio_endio() and disk_stat_add()
when completing request. But those can be replaced with
__end_that_request_first().
After the replacement, request completion procedures of
those drivers become like the following:
o end_that_request_first()
o add_disk_randomness()
o end_that_request_last()
This can be converted to blk_end_request() by following
the rule (a) mentioned in the patch subject
"[PATCH 01/30] blk_end_request: add new request completion interface".
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts xen-blkfront to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts viodasd to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
As a result, the interface of internal function, viodasd_end_request(),
is changed.
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts sx8 to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' and 'is_ok' arguments are converted to 'error'.
As a result, the interfaces of internal functions below are changed.
o carm_end_request_queued
o carm_end_rq
o carm_handle_array_info
o carm_handle_scan_chan
o carm_handle_generic
o carm_handle_rw
The 'is_ok' is set at only one place in carm_handle_resp() below:
int is_ok = (status == RMSG_OK);
And the value is propagated to all functions above, and no modification
in other places.
So the actual conversion of the 'is_ok' is done at only one place above.
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts sunvdc to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
As a result, the interface of internal function, vdc_end_request(),
is changed.
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts nbd to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts floppy to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.
As a result, the interface of internal function, floppy_end_request(),
is changed.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch converts DAC960 to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'UpToDate' arguments are converted to 'Error'.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds support for the GD-Rom drive, SEGA's proprietary
implementation of an IDE CD Rom for the SEGA Dreamcast. This driver
implements Sega's Packet Interface (SPI) - at least partially. It will
also read disks in SEGA's propreitary GD format.
Unlike previous drivers (which were never in mainline) this uses DMA and
not PIO to read disks. It is a new driver, not a refactoring of old
drivers.
Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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>
This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
to the disks.
/sys/class/block
|-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
|-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1
|-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10
|-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5
|-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6
|-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7
|-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8
|-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9
`-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
/sys/block/
|-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
`-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
struct class_device is going away, this converts the code to use struct
device instead.
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mark cciss_pci_init() as __devinit, to fix section mismatch warning.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x601fc9): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'cciss_pci_init' and 'cciss_getgeometry')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
coding style.
linux-2.6.24-rc5-git3> checkpatch.pl-next patches/block-umem-ckpatch.patch
total: 0 errors, 5 warnings, 530 lines checked
All of these are line-length warnings.
Only change in generated object file is due to not initializing a
static global variable to 0.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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>
Fix NULL dereference in umem.c
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AOE forgot to initialise its queue's backing_dev_info, so kernels crash.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9482)
Fix that and consoldate aoeblk_gdalloc()'s error handling.
Thanks be to Jon for reporting and testing.
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jon Nelson" <jnelson@jamponi.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The virtio code never hooked through the ->remove callback. Although
noone supports device removal at the moment, this code is already
needed for module unloading.
This of course also revealed bugs in virtio_blk, virtio_net and lguest
unloading paths.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped
libraries and programs were suddendly zeroed under memory pressure. This
should not happen, as the ramdisk avoids freeing its pages by keeping them
dirty all the time.
It turns out that there is a case, where the VM makes a ramdisk page clean,
without telling the ramdisk driver. On memory pressure shrink_zone runs
and it starts to run shrink_active_list. There is a check for
buffer_heads_over_limit, and if true, pagevec_strip is called.
pagevec_strip calls try_to_release_page. If the mapping has no releasepage
callback, try_to_free_buffers is called. try_to_free_buffers has now a
special logic for some file systems to make a dirty page clean, if all
buffers are clean. Thats what happened in our test case.
The simplest solution is to provide a noop-releasepage callback for the
ramdisk driver. This avoids try_to_free_buffers for ramdisk pages.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds