linux.git/Documentation/block, branch v3.14-rc2

Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

2013-12-31T16:51:02+00:00

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 

Conflicts:
	block/blk-flush.c
	fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c
	fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

null_blk: set use_per_node_hctx param to false

2013-12-21T16:30:33+00:00

The defaults for the module is to instantiate itself with blk-mq and a
submit queue for each CPU node in the system.

To save resources, initialize instead with a single submit queue.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: corrections to documentation

2013-12-21T16:30:33+00:00

Randy Dunlap reported a couple of grammar errors and unfortunate usages of
socket/node/core.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: documentation

2013-12-19T15:09:41+00:00

Add description of module and its parameters.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Immutable bio vecs

2013-11-24T06:33:49+00:00

This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary
number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done
indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec.

Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec
directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient
bio splitting.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00

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 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Benny Halevy 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Joern Engel 
Cc: Prasad Joshi 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Ben Myers 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Guo Chao 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Stefano Stabellini 
Cc: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Peng Tao 
Cc: Andy Adamson 
Cc: fanchaoting 
Cc: Jie Liu 
Cc: Sunil Mushran 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: Namjae Jeon 
Cc: Pankaj Kumar 
Cc: Dan Magenheimer 
Cc: Mel Gorman 6

block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing

2013-09-30T21:31:02+00:00

Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER.  However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.

Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.

In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
 - help text was not really at all helpful.
 - index file for Documentation was not updated
 - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 - clarify wording in source comments

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Cai Zhiyong 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: support embedded device command line partition

2013-09-11T22:56:57+00:00

Read block device partition table from command line.  The partition used
for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device.  It is no MBR, save
storage space.  Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of
data on the block device.  Users can easily change the partition.

This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c"
About the partition verbose reference
"Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt"

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text]
[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()]
Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong 
Cc: Karel Zak 
Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" 
Cc: Marius Groeger 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Brian Norris 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: Fix typo in doucmentations

2013-07-25T10:34:15+00:00

Correct typo (double words) in documentations.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

doc: fix misspellings with 'codespell' tool

2013-05-28T10:02:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina