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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: use GFP_KERNEL when initializing exceptions</title>
<updated>2014-01-14T16:18:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T00:13:36+00:00</published>
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The list of initial exceptions is loaded in the target constructor.  We
are allowed to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL at this point.  So,
change alloc_completed_exception to use GFP_KERNEL when being called
from the constructor.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The list of initial exceptions is loaded in the target constructor.  We
are allowed to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL at this point.  So,
change alloc_completed_exception to use GFP_KERNEL when being called
from the constructor.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core</title>
<updated>2013-12-31T16:51:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-31T16:51:02+00:00</published>
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Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.

Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;

Conflicts:
	block/blk-flush.c
	fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c
	fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
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<pre>
Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.

Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;

Conflicts:
	block/blk-flush.c
	fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c
	fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: avoid snapshot space leak on crash</title>
<updated>2013-12-10T21:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-29T23:13:37+00:00</published>
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There is a possible leak of snapshot space in case of crash.

The reason for space leaking is that chunks in the snapshot device are
allocated sequentially, but they are finished (and stored in the metadata)
out of order, depending on the order in which copying finished.

For example, supposed that the metadata contains the following records
SUPERBLOCK
METADATA (blocks 0 ... 250)
DATA 0
DATA 1
DATA 2
...
DATA 250

Now suppose that you allocate 10 new data blocks 251-260. Suppose that
copying of these blocks finish out of order (block 260 finished first
and the block 251 finished last). Now, the snapshot device looks like
this:
SUPERBLOCK
METADATA (blocks 0 ... 250, 260, 259, 258, 257, 256)
DATA 0
DATA 1
DATA 2
...
DATA 250
DATA 251
DATA 252
DATA 253
DATA 254
DATA 255
METADATA (blocks 255, 254, 253, 252, 251)
DATA 256
DATA 257
DATA 258
DATA 259
DATA 260

Now, if the machine crashes after writing the first metadata block but
before writing the second metadata block, the space for areas DATA 250-255
is leaked, it contains no valid data and it will never be used in the
future.

This patch makes dm-snapshot complete exceptions in the same order they
were allocated, thus fixing this bug.

Note: when backporting this patch to the stable kernel, change the version
field in the following way:
* if version in the stable kernel is {1, 11, 1}, change it to {1, 12, 0}
* if version in the stable kernel is {1, 10, 0} or {1, 10, 1}, change it
  to {1, 10, 2}
Userspace reads the version to determine if the bug was fixed, so the
version change is needed.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<pre>
There is a possible leak of snapshot space in case of crash.

The reason for space leaking is that chunks in the snapshot device are
allocated sequentially, but they are finished (and stored in the metadata)
out of order, depending on the order in which copying finished.

For example, supposed that the metadata contains the following records
SUPERBLOCK
METADATA (blocks 0 ... 250)
DATA 0
DATA 1
DATA 2
...
DATA 250

Now suppose that you allocate 10 new data blocks 251-260. Suppose that
copying of these blocks finish out of order (block 260 finished first
and the block 251 finished last). Now, the snapshot device looks like
this:
SUPERBLOCK
METADATA (blocks 0 ... 250, 260, 259, 258, 257, 256)
DATA 0
DATA 1
DATA 2
...
DATA 250
DATA 251
DATA 252
DATA 253
DATA 254
DATA 255
METADATA (blocks 255, 254, 253, 252, 251)
DATA 256
DATA 257
DATA 258
DATA 259
DATA 260

Now, if the machine crashes after writing the first metadata block but
before writing the second metadata block, the space for areas DATA 250-255
is leaked, it contains no valid data and it will never be used in the
future.

This patch makes dm-snapshot complete exceptions in the same order they
were allocated, thus fixing this bug.

Note: when backporting this patch to the stable kernel, change the version
field in the following way:
* if version in the stable kernel is {1, 11, 1}, change it to {1, 12, 0}
* if version in the stable kernel is {1, 10, 0} or {1, 10, 1}, change it
  to {1, 10, 2}
Userspace reads the version to determine if the bug was fixed, so the
version change is needed.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Generic bio chaining</title>
<updated>2013-11-24T06:33:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kmo@daterainc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-24T02:34:15+00:00</published>
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This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.

Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
- in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kmo@daterainc.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.

Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
- in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kmo@daterainc.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Abstract out bvec iterator</title>
<updated>2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kmo@daterainc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-11T22:44:27+00:00</published>
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Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kmo@daterainc.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris &lt;josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Kelleher &lt;pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Cc: Benny Halevy &lt;bhalevy@tonian.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Cc: Prasad Joshi &lt;prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;Ian.Campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Tao &lt;tao.peng@emc.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Adamson &lt;andros@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: fanchaoting &lt;fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jie Liu &lt;jeff.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Sunil Mushran &lt;sunil.mushran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Kumar &lt;pankaj.km@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;6
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<pre>
Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kmo@daterainc.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris &lt;josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Kelleher &lt;pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@goop.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Cc: Benny Halevy &lt;bhalevy@tonian.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@fusionio.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joern Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Cc: Prasad Joshi &lt;prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mfasheh@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Myers &lt;bpm@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Asai Thambi S P &lt;asamymuthupa@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Selvan Mani &lt;smani@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Bradshaw &lt;sbradshaw@micron.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;Ian.Campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchand@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Tao &lt;tao.peng@emc.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Adamson &lt;andros@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: fanchaoting &lt;fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jie Liu &lt;jeff.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Sunil Mushran &lt;sunil.mushran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Kumar &lt;pankaj.km@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Magenheimer &lt;dan.magenheimer@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;6
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<entry>
<title>dm-snapshot: fix performance degradation due to small hash size</title>
<updated>2013-09-20T14:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-18T23:40:42+00:00</published>
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LVM2, since version 2.02.96, creates origin with zero size, then loads
the snapshot driver and then loads the origin.  Consequently, the
snapshot driver sees the origin size zero and sets the hash size to the
lower bound 64.  Such small hash table causes performance degradation.

This patch changes it so that the hash size is determined by the size of
snapshot volume, not minimum of origin and snapshot size.  It doesn't
make sense to set the snapshot size significantly larger than the origin
size, so we do not need to take origin size into account when
calculating the hash size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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LVM2, since version 2.02.96, creates origin with zero size, then loads
the snapshot driver and then loads the origin.  Consequently, the
snapshot driver sees the origin size zero and sets the hash size to the
lower bound 64.  Such small hash table causes performance degradation.

This patch changes it so that the hash size is determined by the size of
snapshot volume, not minimum of origin and snapshot size.  It doesn't
make sense to set the snapshot size significantly larger than the origin
size, so we do not need to take origin size into account when
calculating the hash size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr</title>
<updated>2013-05-10T13:37:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-10T13:37:15+00:00</published>
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Return -ENOMEM instead of success if unable to allocate pending
exception mempool in snapshot_ctr.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Return -ENOMEM instead of success if unable to allocate pending
exception mempool in snapshot_ctr.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm kcopyd: introduce configurable throttling</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:49+00:00</published>
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This patch allows the administrator to reduce the rate at which kcopyd
issues I/O.

Each module that uses kcopyd acquires a throttle parameter that can be
set in /sys/module/*/parameters.

We maintain a history of kcopyd usage by each module in the variables
io_period and total_period in struct dm_kcopyd_throttle. The actual
kcopyd activity is calculated as a percentage of time equal to
"(100 * io_period / total_period)".  This is compared with the user-defined
throttle percentage threshold and if it is exceeded, we sleep.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch allows the administrator to reduce the rate at which kcopyd
issues I/O.

Each module that uses kcopyd acquires a throttle parameter that can be
set in /sys/module/*/parameters.

We maintain a history of kcopyd usage by each module in the variables
io_period and total_period in struct dm_kcopyd_throttle. The actual
kcopyd activity is calculated as a percentage of time equal to
"(100 * io_period / total_period)".  This is compared with the user-defined
throttle percentage threshold and if it is exceeded, we sleep.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: add missing module aliases</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</published>
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Add module aliases so that autoloading works correctly if the user
tries to activate "snapshot-origin" or "snapshot-merge" targets.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889973

Reported-by: Chao Yang &lt;chyang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Add module aliases so that autoloading works correctly if the user
tries to activate "snapshot-origin" or "snapshot-merge" targets.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889973

Reported-by: Chao Yang &lt;chyang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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