<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/block/swim3.c, branch linux-3.1.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table</title>
<updated>2011-08-03T13:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Axel Lin</name>
<email>axel.lin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-03T13:02:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f41c53a569c4cf0556893ec9cfcf697d069799e1'/>
<id>f41c53a569c4cf0556893ec9cfcf697d069799e1</id>
<content type='text'>
of_device_id structures need a NULL terminating entry, add it.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin &lt;axel.lin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<pre>
of_device_id structures need a NULL terminating entry, add it.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin &lt;axel.lin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers</title>
<updated>2011-04-21T19:33:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-21T19:32:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9fd097b14918875bd6f125ed699d7bbbba5893ee'/>
<id>9fd097b14918875bd6f125ed699d7bbbba5893ee</id>
<content type='text'>
In-kernel disk event polling doesn't matter for legacy/fringe drivers
and may lead to infinite event loop if -&gt;check_events() implementation
generates events on level condition instead of edge.

Now that block layer supports suppressing exporting unlisted events,
simply leaving disk-&gt;events cleared allows these drivers to keep the
internal revalidation behavior intact while avoiding weird
interactions with userland event handler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<pre>
In-kernel disk event polling doesn't matter for legacy/fringe drivers
and may lead to infinite event loop if -&gt;check_events() implementation
generates events on level condition instead of edge.

Now that block layer supports suppressing exporting unlisted events,
simply leaving disk-&gt;events cleared allows these drivers to keep the
internal revalidation behavior intact while avoiding weird
interactions with userland event handler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>swim[3]: Convert to bdops-&gt;check_events()</title>
<updated>2011-03-09T18:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-09T18:54:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4bbde77787270e17418dd32c7eb32e42ad16cfc7'/>
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<content type='text'>
Convert from -&gt;media_changed() to -&gt;check_events().

Both swim and swim3 buffer media changed state and clear it on
revalidation.  They will behave correctly with kernel event polling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Convert from -&gt;media_changed() to -&gt;check_events().

Both swim and swim3 buffer media changed state and clear it on
revalidation.  They will behave correctly with kernel event polling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex</title>
<updated>2010-10-05T13:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-02T12:28:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2a48fc0ab24241755dc93bfd4f01d68efab47f5a'/>
<id>2a48fc0ab24241755dc93bfd4f01d68efab47f5a</id>
<content type='text'>
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.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/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\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<pre>
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.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/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\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: push down BKL into .open and .release</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T16:25:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-07T16:25:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6e9624b8caec290d28b4c6d9ec75749df6372b87'/>
<id>6e9624b8caec290d28b4c6d9ec75749df6372b87</id>
<content type='text'>
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev-&gt;bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
-&gt;open and -&gt;release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<pre>
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev-&gt;bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
-&gt;open and -&gt;release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T16:25:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-08T08:18:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8a6cfeb6deca3a8fefd639d898b0d163c0b5d368'/>
<id>8a6cfeb6deca3a8fefd639d898b0d163c0b5d368</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
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 &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/macio: Fix probing of macio devices by using the right of match table</title>
<updated>2010-06-02T07:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-02T07:09:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c2cdf6aba0dfcfb54be646ab630c1bccd180e890'/>
<id>c2cdf6aba0dfcfb54be646ab630c1bccd180e890</id>
<content type='text'>
Grant patches added an of mach table to struct device_driver. However,
while he changed the macio device code to use that, he left the match
table pointer in struct macio_driver and didn't update drivers to use
the "new" one, thus breaking the probing.

This completes the change by moving all drivers to setup the "new"
one, removing all traces of the old one, and while at it (since it
changes the exact same locations), I also remove two other duplicates
from struct driver which are the name and owner fields.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Grant patches added an of mach table to struct device_driver. However,
while he changed the macio device code to use that, he left the match
table pointer in struct macio_driver and didn't update drivers to use
the "new" one, thus breaking the probing.

This completes the change by moving all drivers to setup the "new"
one, removing all traces of the old one, and while at it (since it
changes the exact same locations), I also remove two other duplicates
from struct driver which are the name and owner fields.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Always use 'struct device.of_node' to get device node pointer.</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T22:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Likely</name>
<email>grant.likely@secretlab.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-13T23:12:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=61c7a080a5a061c976988fd4b844dfb468dda255'/>
<id>61c7a080a5a061c976988fd4b844dfb468dda255</id>
<content type='text'>
The following structure elements duplicate the information in
'struct device.of_node' and so are being eliminated.  This patch
makes all readers of these elements use device.of_node instead.

(struct of_device *)-&gt;node
(struct dev_archdata *)-&gt;prom_node (sparc)
(struct dev_archdata *)-&gt;of_node (powerpc &amp; microblaze)

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The following structure elements duplicate the information in
'struct device.of_node' and so are being eliminated.  This patch
makes all readers of these elements use device.of_node instead.

(struct of_device *)-&gt;node
(struct dev_archdata *)-&gt;prom_node (sparc)
(struct dev_archdata *)-&gt;of_node (powerpc &amp; microblaze)

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/macio: Rework hotplug media bay support</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T06:09:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-01T14:36:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d58b0c39e32f1b410af4d070f9d1a1416057c166'/>
<id>d58b0c39e32f1b410af4d070f9d1a1416057c166</id>
<content type='text'>
The hotplug mediabay has tendrils deep into drivers/ide code
which makes a libata port reather difficult. In addition it's
ugly and could be done better.

This reworks the interface between the mediabay and the rest
of the world so that:

   - Any macio_driver can now have a mediabay_event callback
which will be called when that driver sits on a mediabay and
it's been either plugged or unplugged. The device type is
passed as an argument. We can now move all the IDE cruft
into the IDE driver itself

   - A check_media_bay() function can be used to take a peek
at the type of device currently in the bay if any, a cleaner
variant of the previous function with the same name.

   - A pair of lock/unlock functions are exposed to allow the
IDE driver to block the hotplug callbacks during the initial
setup and probing of the bay in order to avoid nasty race
conditions.

   - The mediabay code no longer needs to spin on the status
register of the IDE interface when it detects an IDE device,
this is done just fine by the IDE code itself

Overall, less code, simpler, and allows for another driver
than our old drivers/ide based one.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The hotplug mediabay has tendrils deep into drivers/ide code
which makes a libata port reather difficult. In addition it's
ugly and could be done better.

This reworks the interface between the mediabay and the rest
of the world so that:

   - Any macio_driver can now have a mediabay_event callback
which will be called when that driver sits on a mediabay and
it's been either plugged or unplugged. The device type is
passed as an argument. We can now move all the IDE cruft
into the IDE driver itself

   - A check_media_bay() function can be used to take a peek
at the type of device currently in the bay if any, a cleaner
variant of the previous function with the same name.

   - A pair of lock/unlock functions are exposed to allow the
IDE driver to block the hotplug callbacks during the initial
setup and probing of the bay in order to avoid nasty race
conditions.

   - The mediabay code no longer needs to spin on the status
register of the IDE interface when it detects an IDE device,
this is done just fine by the IDE code itself

Overall, less code, simpler, and allows for another driver
than our old drivers/ide based one.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:51:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T14:51:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=342ff1a1b558ebbdb8cbd55ab6a63eca8b2473ca'/>
<id>342ff1a1b558ebbdb8cbd55ab6a63eca8b2473ca</id>
<content type='text'>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -&gt; "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -&gt; "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
</pre>
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