linux-stable.git/drivers/block/brd.c, branch linux-2.6.38.y

brd: handle on-demand devices correctly

2011-06-03T01:34:45+00:00

commit af46566885a373b0a526932484cd8fef8de7b598 upstream.

When finding or allocating a ram disk device, brd_probe() did not take
partition numbers into account so that it can result to a different
device. Consider following example (I set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=4
for simplicity) :

$ sudo modprobe brd max_part=15
$ ls -l /dev/ram*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1,  0 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 16 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 32 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 48 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram3
$ sudo mknod /dev/ram4 b 1 64
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram4 bs=4k count=256
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00215578 s, 486 MB/s
namhyung@leonhard:linux$ ls -l /dev/ram*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1,    0 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1,   16 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1,   32 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1,   48 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram3
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,   64 2011-05-25 15:45 /dev/ram4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1024 2011-05-25 15:44 /dev/ram64

After this patch, /dev/ram4 - instead of /dev/ram64 - was
accessed correctly.

In addition, 'range' passed to blk_register_region() should
include all range of dev_t that RAMDISK_MAJOR can address.
It does not need to be limited by partition numbers unless
'rd_nr' param was specified.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Laurent Vivier 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

brd: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS

2011-06-03T01:34:44+00:00

commit 315980c8688c4b06713c1a5fe9d64cdf8ab57a72 upstream.

The 'max_part' parameter controls the number of maximum partition
a brd device can have. However if a user specifies very large
value it would exceed the limitation of device minor number and
can cause a kernel panic (or, at least, produce invalid device
nodes in some cases).

On my desktop system, following command kills the kernel. On qemu,
it triggers similar oops but the kernel was alive:

$ sudo modprobe brd max_part=100000
 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
 IP: [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2d/0xae
 PGD 7af1067 PUD 7b19067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
 last sysfs file:
 CPU 0
 Modules linked in: brd(+)

 Pid: 44, comm: insmod Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-qemu+ #158 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[]  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2d/0xae
 RSP: 0018:ffff880007b15d78  EFLAGS: 00000286
 RAX: ffff880007b05478 RBX: ffff880007a52760 RCX: ffff880007b15dc8
 RDX: ffff880007a4f900 RSI: ffff880007b15e48 RDI: ffff880007a52760
 RBP: ffff880007b15da8 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff880007b15e48 R11: ffff880007b05478 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff880007b05478 R14: 0000000000400920 R15: 0000000000000063
 FS:  0000000002160880(0063) GS:ffff880007c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 0000000007b1c000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
 Process insmod (pid: 44, threadinfo ffff880007b14000, task ffff880007acb980)
 Stack:
  ffff880007b15dc8 ffff880007b05478 ffff880007b15da8 00000000fffffffe
  ffff880007a52760 ffff880007b05478 ffff880007b15de8 ffffffff81143c0a
  0000000000400920 ffff880007a52760 ffff880007b05478 0000000000000000
 Call Trace:
  [] kobject_add_internal+0xdf/0x1a0
  [] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50
  [] kobject_add+0x64/0x66
  [] blk_register_queue+0x5f/0xb8
  [] add_disk+0xdf/0x289
  [] brd_init+0xdf/0x1aa [brd]
  [] ? 0xffffffffa0003fff
  [] ? 0xffffffffa0003fff
  [] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12e
  [] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1dc
  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 89 e5 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 18 48 85 ff 75 04 0f 0b eb fe 48 8b 47 18 49 c7 c4 70 1e 4d 81 48 85 c0 74 04 4c 8b 60 30
  8b 44 24 58 45 31 ed 0f b6 c4 85 c0 74 0d 48 8b 43 28 48 89
 RIP  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2d/0xae
  RSP 
 CR2: 0000000000000058
 ---[ end trace aebb1175ce1f6739 ]---

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Laurent Vivier 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-10-23T00:07:18+00:00

* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...

block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

2010-10-05T13:01:10+00:00

The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*.*$/include /g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

block: deprecate barrier and replace blk_queue_ordered() with blk_queue_flush()

2010-09-10T10:35:36+00:00

Barrier is deemed too heavy and will soon be replaced by FLUSH/FUA
requests.  Deprecate barrier.  All REQ_HARDBARRIERs are failed with
-EOPNOTSUPP and blk_queue_ordered() is replaced with simpler
blk_queue_flush().

blk_queue_flush() takes combinations of REQ_FLUSH and FUA.  If a
device has write cache and can flush it, it should set REQ_FLUSH.  If
the device can handle FUA writes, it should also set REQ_FUA.

All blk_queue_ordered() users are converted.

* ORDERED_DRAIN is mapped to 0 which is the default value.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH is mapped to REQ_FLUSH.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH_FUA is mapped to REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon 
Cc: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: kill QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_TAG

2010-09-10T10:35:36+00:00

Nobody is making meaningful use of ORDERED_BY_TAG now and queue
draining for barrier requests will be removed soon which will render
the advantage of tag ordering moot.  Kill ORDERED_BY_TAG.  The
following users are affected.

* brd: converted to ORDERED_DRAIN.
* virtio_blk: ORDERED_TAG path was already marked deprecated.  Removed.
* xen-blkfront: ORDERED_TAG case dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl

2010-08-07T16:25:00+00:00

As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely

2010-08-07T16:24:15+00:00

This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

2010-08-07T16:20:39+00:00

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

brd: support discard

2010-06-01T09:09:20+00:00

Support discard requests in brd by zeroing or deleting the underlying backing
pages. This is simply to help with testing and documentation nature of
brd code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe