linux.git/block/genhd.c, branch v2.6.33

block: Fix discard alignment calculation and printing

2010-01-11T13:29:19+00:00

Discard alignment reporting for partitions was incorrect.  Update to
match the algorithm used elsewhere.

The alignment can be negative (misaligned).  Fix format string
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Expose discard granularity

2009-11-10T10:50:21+00:00

While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2

2009-10-06T18:16:55+00:00

Commit a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275 added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.

But  Corrado Zoccolo  reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.

So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab9899e9d6acb09d5465def618704255963b

The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
        if (now == part->stamp)
                return;

-       if (part->in_flight) {
+       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan 

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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"

2009-10-04T19:04:38+00:00

This reverts commit a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275.

Corrado Zoccolo  reports:

"with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
"iostat -kx 2":
Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00

Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
higher than normal.

I bisected it down to:
[a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275] Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests
and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
on 2.6.32-rc1."

So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38+00:00

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver model: constify attribute groups

2009-09-15T16:50:47+00:00

Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests

2009-09-14T06:24:52+00:00

Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.

This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Send uevents for write_protect changes

2009-09-11T12:33:31+00:00

Whenever a block device changes it's read-only attribute
notify the userspace about it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Driver Core: block: add nodename support for block drivers.

2009-06-16T04:30:25+00:00

This adds support for block drivers to report their requested nodename
to userspace.  It also updates a number of block drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions

2009-05-22T21:22:55+00:00

To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

  physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
  without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.

  The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
  the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
  size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
  (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).

  The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
  the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.

  The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
  of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
  Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
  so filesystems start on proper boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe