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<title>md/raid5: Compare apples to apples (or sectors to sectors)</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T16:12:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jes Sorensen</name>
<email>Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-16T21:44:24+00:00</published>
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commit e7597e69dec59b65c5525db1626b9d34afdfa678 upstream.

'max_discard_sectors' is in sectors, while 'stripe' is in bytes.

This fixes the problem where DISCARD would get disabled on some larger
RAID5 configurations (6 or more drives in my testing), while it worked
as expected with smaller configurations.

Fixes: 620125f2bf8 ("MD: raid5 trim support")
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e7597e69dec59b65c5525db1626b9d34afdfa678 upstream.

'max_discard_sectors' is in sectors, while 'stripe' is in bytes.

This fixes the problem where DISCARD would get disabled on some larger
RAID5 configurations (6 or more drives in my testing), while it worked
as expected with smaller configurations.

Fixes: 620125f2bf8 ("MD: raid5 trim support")
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: fix locking in handle_stripe_clean_event()</title>
<updated>2015-11-09T20:50:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>klamm@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-30T23:53:50+00:00</published>
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commit b8a9d66d043ffac116100775a469f05f5158c16f upstream.

After commit 566c09c53455 ("raid5: relieve lock contention in get_active_stripe()")
__find_stripe() is called under conf-&gt;hash_locks + hash.
But handle_stripe_clean_event() calls remove_hash() under
conf-&gt;device_lock.

Under some cirscumstances the hash chain can be circuited,
and we get an infinite loop with disabled interrupts and locked hash
lock in __find_stripe(). This leads to hard lockup on multiple CPUs
and following system crash.

I was able to reproduce this behavior on raid6 over 6 ssd disks.
The devices_handle_discard_safely option should be set to enable trim
support. The following script was used:

for i in `seq 1 32`; do
    dd if=/dev/zero of=large$i bs=10M count=100 &amp;
done

neilb: original was against a 3.x kernel.  I forward-ported
  to 4.3-rc.  This verison is suitable for any kernel since
  Commit: 59fc630b8b5f ("RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write")
  (v4.1+).  I'll post a version for earlier kernels to stable.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: 566c09c53455 ("raid5: relieve lock contention in get_active_stripe()")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.13 - 4.2
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b8a9d66d043ffac116100775a469f05f5158c16f upstream.

After commit 566c09c53455 ("raid5: relieve lock contention in get_active_stripe()")
__find_stripe() is called under conf-&gt;hash_locks + hash.
But handle_stripe_clean_event() calls remove_hash() under
conf-&gt;device_lock.

Under some cirscumstances the hash chain can be circuited,
and we get an infinite loop with disabled interrupts and locked hash
lock in __find_stripe(). This leads to hard lockup on multiple CPUs
and following system crash.

I was able to reproduce this behavior on raid6 over 6 ssd disks.
The devices_handle_discard_safely option should be set to enable trim
support. The following script was used:

for i in `seq 1 32`; do
    dd if=/dev/zero of=large$i bs=10M count=100 &amp;
done

neilb: original was against a 3.x kernel.  I forward-ported
  to 4.3-rc.  This verison is suitable for any kernel since
  Commit: 59fc630b8b5f ("RAID5: batch adjacent full stripe write")
  (v4.1+).  I'll post a version for earlier kernels to stable.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: 566c09c53455 ("raid5: relieve lock contention in get_active_stripe()")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.13 - 4.2
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: don't record new size if resize_stripes fails.</title>
<updated>2015-06-06T15:19:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-08T08:19:34+00:00</published>
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commit 6e9eac2dcee5e19f125967dd2be3e36558c42fff upstream.

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf-&gt;pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3752f ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6e9eac2dcee5e19f125967dd2be3e36558c42fff upstream.

If any memory allocation in resize_stripes fails we will return
-ENOMEM, but in some cases we update conf-&gt;pool_size anyway.

This means that if we try again, the allocations will be assumed
to be larger than they are, and badness results.

So only update pool_size if there is no error.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.17 and the patch is suitable for
-stable.

Fixes: ad01c9e3752f ("[PATCH] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid5: Fix livelock when array is both resyncing and degraded.</title>
<updated>2015-03-06T22:43:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-18T00:35:14+00:00</published>
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commit 26ac107378c4742978216be1005b7291b799c7b2 upstream.

Commit a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f:
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.

Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded.
A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data
blocks, and one may be missing.

Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code
spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed.

So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays.

Reported-by: Manibalan P &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Bisected-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 26ac107378c4742978216be1005b7291b799c7b2 upstream.

Commit a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f:
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.

Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded.
A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data
blocks, and one may be missing.

Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code
spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed.

So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays.

Reported-by: Manibalan P &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Bisected-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: fetch_block must fetch all the blocks handle_stripe_dirtying wants.</title>
<updated>2015-01-30T01:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T05:07:58+00:00</published>
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commit 108cef3aa41669610e1836fe638812dd067d72de upstream.

It is critical that fetch_block() and handle_stripe_dirtying()
are consistent in their analysis of what needs to be loaded.
Otherwise raid5 can wait forever for a block that won't be loaded.

Currently when writing to a RAID5 that is resyncing, to a location
beyond the resync offset, handle_stripe_dirtying chooses a
reconstruct-write cycle, but fetch_block() assumes a
read-modify-write, and a lockup can happen.

So treat that case just like RAID6, just as we do in
handle_stripe_dirtying.  RAID6 always does reconstruct-write.

This bug was introduced when the behaviour of handle_stripe_dirtying
was changed in 3.7, so the patch is suitable for any kernel since,
though it will need careful merging for some versions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)
Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f
Reported-by: Henry Cai &lt;henryplusplus@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 108cef3aa41669610e1836fe638812dd067d72de upstream.

It is critical that fetch_block() and handle_stripe_dirtying()
are consistent in their analysis of what needs to be loaded.
Otherwise raid5 can wait forever for a block that won't be loaded.

Currently when writing to a RAID5 that is resyncing, to a location
beyond the resync offset, handle_stripe_dirtying chooses a
reconstruct-write cycle, but fetch_block() assumes a
read-modify-write, and a lockup can happen.

So treat that case just like RAID6, just as we do in
handle_stripe_dirtying.  RAID6 always does reconstruct-write.

This bug was introduced when the behaviour of handle_stripe_dirtying
was changed in 3.7, so the patch is suitable for any kernel since,
though it will need careful merging for some versions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)
Fixes: a7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f
Reported-by: Henry Cai &lt;henryplusplus@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T19:21:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-02T03:45:00+00:00</published>
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commit 8e0e99ba64c7ba46133a7c8a3e3f7de01f23bd93 upstream.

It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data'
is only a hint.  Some devices in some cases don't do what it
says on the label.

The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions
being predictably zero.  If a write to a previously discarded region
performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block
was consistent with the data blocks.  If all were zero, this would
be the case.  If some are and some aren't this would not be the case.
This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when
data needs to be reconstructed from the parity.

As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default
and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays.

As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using
DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause
DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set.

If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they
should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the
raid456 module parameter.
    raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y

As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for
-stable.
DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7

Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 620125f2bf8ff0c4969b79653b54d7bcc9d40637
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8e0e99ba64c7ba46133a7c8a3e3f7de01f23bd93 upstream.

It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data'
is only a hint.  Some devices in some cases don't do what it
says on the label.

The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions
being predictably zero.  If a write to a previously discarded region
performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block
was consistent with the data blocks.  If all were zero, this would
be the case.  If some are and some aren't this would not be the case.
This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when
data needs to be reconstructed from the parity.

As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default
and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays.

As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using
DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause
DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set.

If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they
should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the
raid456 module parameter.
    raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y

As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for
-stable.
DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7

Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 620125f2bf8ff0c4969b79653b54d7bcc9d40637
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid6: avoid data corruption during recovery of double-degraded RAID6</title>
<updated>2014-09-17T16:19:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-12T23:57:07+00:00</published>
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commit 9c4bdf697c39805078392d5ddbbba5ae5680e0dd upstream.

During recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 it is possible for
some blocks not to be recovered properly, leading to corruption.

If a write happens to one block in a stripe that would be written to a
missing device, and at the same time that stripe is recovering data
to the other missing device, then that recovered data may not be written.

This patch skips, in the double-degraded case, an optimisation that is
only safe for single-degraded arrays.

Bug was introduced in 2.6.32 and fix is suitable for any kernel since
then.  In an older kernel with separate handle_stripe5() and
handle_stripe6() functions the patch must change handle_stripe6().

Fixes: 6c0069c0ae9659e3a91b68eaed06a5c6c37f45c8
Cc: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Tested-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090423
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9c4bdf697c39805078392d5ddbbba5ae5680e0dd upstream.

During recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 it is possible for
some blocks not to be recovered properly, leading to corruption.

If a write happens to one block in a stripe that would be written to a
missing device, and at the same time that stripe is recovering data
to the other missing device, then that recovered data may not be written.

This patch skips, in the double-degraded case, an optimisation that is
only safe for single-degraded arrays.

Bug was introduced in 2.6.32 and fix is suitable for any kernel since
then.  In an older kernel with separate handle_stripe5() and
handle_stripe6() functions the patch must change handle_stripe6().

Fixes: 6c0069c0ae9659e3a91b68eaed06a5c6c37f45c8
Cc: Yuri Tikhonov &lt;yur@emcraft.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Tested-by: "Manibalan P" &lt;pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in&gt;
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090423
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T02:46:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-05T22:12:45+00:00</published>
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Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Interestingly, the raid5 code can actually prevent double initialization and
hence can use the following simplified form of callback registration:

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	put_online_cpus();

A hotplug operation that occurs between registering the notifier and calling
get_online_cpus(), won't disrupt anything, because the code takes care to
perform the memory allocations only once.

So reorganize the code in raid5 this way to fix the deadlock with callback
registration.

Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.32+)
Fixes: 36d1c6476be51101778882897b315bd928c8c7b5
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
[Srivatsa: Fixed the unregister_cpu_notifier() deadlock, added the
free_scratch_buffer() helper to condense code further and wrote the changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Interestingly, the raid5 code can actually prevent double initialization and
hence can use the following simplified form of callback registration:

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	put_online_cpus();

A hotplug operation that occurs between registering the notifier and calling
get_online_cpus(), won't disrupt anything, because the code takes care to
perform the memory allocations only once.

So reorganize the code in raid5 this way to fix the deadlock with callback
registration.

Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.32+)
Fixes: 36d1c6476be51101778882897b315bd928c8c7b5
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
[Srivatsa: Fixed the unregister_cpu_notifier() deadlock, added the
free_scratch_buffer() helper to condense code further and wrote the changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:40:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=53d8ab29f8f6d67e37857b68189b38fa3d87dd8e'/>
<id>53d8ab29f8f6d67e37857b68189b38fa3d87dd8e</id>
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Pull block IO driver changes from Jens Axboe:

 - bcache update from Kent Overstreet.

 - two bcache fixes from Nicholas Swenson.

 - cciss pci init error fix from Andrew.

 - underflow fix in the parallel IDE pg_write code from Dan Carpenter.
   I'm sure the 1 (or 0) users of that are now happy.

 - two PCI related fixes for sx8 from Jingoo Han.

 - floppy init fix for first block read from Jiri Kosina.

 - pktcdvd error return miss fix from Julia Lawall.

 - removal of IRQF_SHARED from the SEGA Dreamcast CD-ROM code from
   Michael Opdenacker.

 - comment typo fix for the loop driver from Olaf Hering.

 - potential oops fix for null_blk from Raghavendra K T.

 - two fixes from Sam Bradshaw (Micron) for the mtip32xx driver, fixing
   an OOM problem and a problem with handling security locked conditions

* 'for-3.14/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (47 commits)
  mg_disk: Spelling s/finised/finished/
  null_blk: Null pointer deference problem in alloc_page_buffers
  mtip32xx: Correctly handle security locked condition
  mtip32xx: Make SGL container per-command to eliminate high order dma allocation
  drivers/block/loop.c: fix comment typo in loop_config_discard
  drivers/block/cciss.c:cciss_init_one(): use proper errnos
  drivers/block/paride/pg.c: underflow bug in pg_write()
  drivers/block/sx8.c: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()
  drivers/block/sx8.c: use module_pci_driver()
  floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding to block0 read
  bcache: Fix auxiliary search trees for key size &gt; cacheline size
  bcache: Don't return -EINTR when insert finished
  bcache: Improve bucket_prio() calculation
  bcache: Add bch_bkey_equal_header()
  bcache: update bch_bkey_try_merge
  bcache: Move insert_fixup() to btree_keys_ops
  bcache: Convert sorting to btree_keys
  bcache: Convert debug code to btree_keys
  bcache: Convert btree_iter to struct btree_keys
  bcache: Refactor bset_tree sysfs stats
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block IO driver changes from Jens Axboe:

 - bcache update from Kent Overstreet.

 - two bcache fixes from Nicholas Swenson.

 - cciss pci init error fix from Andrew.

 - underflow fix in the parallel IDE pg_write code from Dan Carpenter.
   I'm sure the 1 (or 0) users of that are now happy.

 - two PCI related fixes for sx8 from Jingoo Han.

 - floppy init fix for first block read from Jiri Kosina.

 - pktcdvd error return miss fix from Julia Lawall.

 - removal of IRQF_SHARED from the SEGA Dreamcast CD-ROM code from
   Michael Opdenacker.

 - comment typo fix for the loop driver from Olaf Hering.

 - potential oops fix for null_blk from Raghavendra K T.

 - two fixes from Sam Bradshaw (Micron) for the mtip32xx driver, fixing
   an OOM problem and a problem with handling security locked conditions

* 'for-3.14/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (47 commits)
  mg_disk: Spelling s/finised/finished/
  null_blk: Null pointer deference problem in alloc_page_buffers
  mtip32xx: Correctly handle security locked condition
  mtip32xx: Make SGL container per-command to eliminate high order dma allocation
  drivers/block/loop.c: fix comment typo in loop_config_discard
  drivers/block/cciss.c:cciss_init_one(): use proper errnos
  drivers/block/paride/pg.c: underflow bug in pg_write()
  drivers/block/sx8.c: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()
  drivers/block/sx8.c: use module_pci_driver()
  floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding to block0 read
  bcache: Fix auxiliary search trees for key size &gt; cacheline size
  bcache: Don't return -EINTR when insert finished
  bcache: Improve bucket_prio() calculation
  bcache: Add bch_bkey_equal_header()
  bcache: update bch_bkey_try_merge
  bcache: Move insert_fixup() to btree_keys_ops
  bcache: Convert sorting to btree_keys
  bcache: Convert debug code to btree_keys
  bcache: Convert btree_iter to struct btree_keys
  bcache: Refactor bset_tree sysfs stats
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f568849edac8611d603e00bd6cbbcfea09395ae6'/>
<id>f568849edac8611d603e00bd6cbbcfea09395ae6</id>
<content type='text'>
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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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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()
  ...
</pre>
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