linux-stable.git/drivers/block/Kconfig, branch linux-3.13.y

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

2013-11-14T03:13:05+00:00

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

2013-11-14T03:08:14+00:00

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

2013-11-08T16:10:28+00:00

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

2013-11-08T16:10:28+00:00

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

null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver

2013-10-25T10:56:00+00:00

A driver that simply completes IO it receives, it does no
transfers. Written to fascilitate testing of the blk-mq code.
It supports various module options to use either bio queueing,
rq queueing, or mq mode.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: drop dependency on ARCH_SHARK

2013-09-25T13:25:17+00:00

With this machine deleted, there is no need to maintain the
MFM block driver for its hard disk either.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij

rsxx: Changing the adapter name to the official name.

2013-06-19T11:52:09+00:00

Changing the adapter name from FlashSystem-80 to the official
name: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height.

Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: IBM RamSan 70/80 branding changes.

2013-03-11T18:53:55+00:00

This patch includes changing the hardware branding name from
IBM RamSan to IBM FlashSystem.

v2 Changes include:
o Removing the unnecessary IBM Vendor ID #define

v1 Changes include:
o Changed all references of RamSan to FlashSystem.
o Changed the vendor/device IDs for the product.
o Changed driver version number.
o Updated the MAINTAINERS file.
o Various other little things.

Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'delete-xt-disk' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux into for-3.9/drivers

2013-02-14T15:29:34+00:00

Paul writes:

Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT
hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c).

As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen
years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s
maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well
over a decade.

The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since
then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone
who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)

block: IBM RamSan 70/80 device driver

2013-02-05T13:16:05+00:00

This patch includes the device driver for the IBM RamSan
family of PCI SSD flash storage cards. This driver will
include support for the RamSan 70 and 80. The driver
presents a block device for device I/O.

Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe