linux.git/Documentation/ABI, branch v2.6.26

fuse: fix bdi naming conflict

2008-05-24T16:56:07+00:00

Fuse allocates a separate bdi for each filesystem, and registers them
in sysfs with "MAJOR:MINOR" of sb->s_dev (st_dev).  This works fine for
anon devices normally used by fuse, but can conflict with an already
registered BDI for "fuseblk" filesystems, where sb->s_dev represents a
real block device.  In particularl this happens if a non-partitioned
device is being mounted.

Fix by registering with a different name for "fuseblk" filesystems.

Thanks to Ioan Ionita for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Reported-by: Ioan Ionita 
Tested-by: Ioan Ionita 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: bdi: move statistics to debugfs

2008-04-30T15:29:50+00:00

Move BDI statistics to debugfs:

   /sys/kernel/debug/bdi//stats

Use postcore_initcall() to initialize the sysfs class and debugfs,
because debugfs is initialized in core_initcall().

Update descriptions in ABI documentation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit

2008-04-30T15:29:50+00:00

Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the maximum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in max_ratio_store().
 - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules
 - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit

2008-04-30T15:29:50+00:00

Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.

min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device.  This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS.  (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)

max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device.  This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache.  Eg.  an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.

Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs

2008-04-30T15:29:49+00:00

Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block//queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Acked-by: Greg KH 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6

2008-04-23T08:57:25+00:00

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6

2008-04-21T22:58:35+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits)
  PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER
  PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
  PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
  PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered
  PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno()
  PCI: clean up resource alignment management
  PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check
  PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk
  PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs
  PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
  PCI: simplify quirk debug output
  PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak
  PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  ...

PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs

2008-04-21T04:47:07+00:00

Vital Product Data (VPD) may be exposed by PCI devices in several
ways.  It is generally unsafe to read this information through the
existing interfaces to user-land because of stateful interfaces.

This adds:
- abstract operations for VPD access (struct pci_vpd_ops)
- VPD state information in struct pci_dev (struct pci_vpd)
- an implementation of the VPD access method specified in PCI 2.2
  (in access.c)
- a 'vpd' binary file in sysfs directories for PCI devices with VPD
  operations defined

It adds a probe for PCI 2.2 VPD in pci_scan_device() and release of
VPD state in pci_release_dev().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support

2008-04-20T02:10:28+00:00

Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with
text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT)
structure.

What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table?  It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to
extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they
can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target.  Currently the iSCSI
information is hard-coded in the initrd.  The /sysfs entries are read-only
one-name-and-value fields.

The usual set of data exposed is:

# for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do  echo -n "$a: ";  cat $a; done
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0

For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek 
Cc: Mike Christie 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb

2008-04-18T15:56:10+00:00

/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.

Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh