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<title>linux.git/drivers/md/dm-linear.c, branch v4.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>dm linear: remove redundant target name from error messages</title>
<updated>2015-10-31T23:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomohiro Kusumi</name>
<email>kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-27T19:38:58+00:00</published>
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Commit 72d94861 back in 2006 should have consistently removed
"dm-linear: " from all error messages.

Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi &lt;kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Commit 72d94861 back in 2006 should have consistently removed
"dm-linear: " from all error messages.

Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi &lt;kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: refactor ioctl handling</title>
<updated>2015-10-31T23:05:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-15T12:10:50+00:00</published>
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This moves the call to blkdev_ioctl and the argument checking to DM core
code, and only leaves a callout to find the block device to operate on
in the targets.  This simplifies the code and allows us to pass through
ioctl-like command using other methods in the next patch.

Also split out a helper around calling the prepare_ioctl method that
will be reused for persistent reservation handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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This moves the call to blkdev_ioctl and the argument checking to DM core
code, and only leaves a callout to find the block device to operate on
in the targets.  This simplifies the code and allows us to pass through
ioctl-like command using other methods in the next patch.

Also split out a helper around calling the prepare_ioctl method that
will be reused for persistent reservation handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-4.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T23:35:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T23:35:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1e1a4e8f439113b7820bc7150569f685e1cc2b43'/>
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Pull device mapper update from Mike Snitzer:

 - a couple small cleanups in dm-cache, dm-verity, persistent-data's
   dm-btree, and DM core.

 - a 4.1-stable fix for dm-cache that fixes the leaking of deferred bio
   prison cells

 - a 4.2-stable fix that adds feature reporting for the dm-stats
   features added in 4.2

 - improve DM-snapshot to not invalidate the on-disk snapshot if
   snapshot device write overflow occurs; but a write overflow triggered
   through the origin device will still invalidate the snapshot.

 - optimize DM-thinp's async discard submission a bit now that late bio
   splitting has been included in block core.

 - switch DM-cache's SMQ policy lock from using a mutex to a spinlock;
   improves performance on very low latency devices (eg. NVMe SSD).

 - document DM RAID 4/5/6's discard support

[ I did not pull the slab changes, which weren't appropriate for this
  tree, and weren't obviously the right thing to do anyway.  At the very
  least they need some discussion and explanation before getting merged.

  Because not pulling the actual tagged commit but doing a partial pull
  instead, this merge commit thus also obviously is missing the git
  signature from the original tag ]

* tag 'dm-4.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache: fix use after freeing migrations
  dm cache: small cleanups related to deferred prison cell cleanup
  dm cache: fix leaking of deferred bio prison cells
  dm raid: document RAID 4/5/6 discard support
  dm stats: report precise_timestamps and histogram in @stats_list output
  dm thin: optimize async discard submission
  dm snapshot: don't invalidate on-disk image on snapshot write overflow
  dm: remove unlikely() before IS_ERR()
  dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()
  dm: test return value for DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED
  dm verity: remove unused mempool
  dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed
  dm btree remove: remove unused function get_nr_entries()
  dm btree: remove unused "dm_block_t root" parameter in btree_split_sibling()
  dm cache policy smq: change the mutex to a spinlock
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Pull device mapper update from Mike Snitzer:

 - a couple small cleanups in dm-cache, dm-verity, persistent-data's
   dm-btree, and DM core.

 - a 4.1-stable fix for dm-cache that fixes the leaking of deferred bio
   prison cells

 - a 4.2-stable fix that adds feature reporting for the dm-stats
   features added in 4.2

 - improve DM-snapshot to not invalidate the on-disk snapshot if
   snapshot device write overflow occurs; but a write overflow triggered
   through the origin device will still invalidate the snapshot.

 - optimize DM-thinp's async discard submission a bit now that late bio
   splitting has been included in block core.

 - switch DM-cache's SMQ policy lock from using a mutex to a spinlock;
   improves performance on very low latency devices (eg. NVMe SSD).

 - document DM RAID 4/5/6's discard support

[ I did not pull the slab changes, which weren't appropriate for this
  tree, and weren't obviously the right thing to do anyway.  At the very
  least they need some discussion and explanation before getting merged.

  Because not pulling the actual tagged commit but doing a partial pull
  instead, this merge commit thus also obviously is missing the git
  signature from the original tag ]

* tag 'dm-4.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache: fix use after freeing migrations
  dm cache: small cleanups related to deferred prison cell cleanup
  dm cache: fix leaking of deferred bio prison cells
  dm raid: document RAID 4/5/6 discard support
  dm stats: report precise_timestamps and histogram in @stats_list output
  dm thin: optimize async discard submission
  dm snapshot: don't invalidate on-disk image on snapshot write overflow
  dm: remove unlikely() before IS_ERR()
  dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()
  dm: test return value for DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED
  dm verity: remove unused mempool
  dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed
  dm btree remove: remove unused function get_nr_entries()
  dm btree: remove unused "dm_block_t root" parameter in btree_split_sibling()
  dm cache policy smq: change the mutex to a spinlock
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T06:48:34+00:00</published>
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()</title>
<updated>2015-08-12T15:32:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-31T13:20:36+00:00</published>
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Some of the device mapper targets override the error code returned by
dm_get_device() and return either -EINVAL or -ENXIO.  There is nothing
gained by this override.  It is better to propagate the returned error
code unchanged to caller.

This work was motivated by hitting an issue where the underlying device
was busy but -EINVAL was being returned.  After this change we get
-EBUSY instead and it is easier to figure out the problem.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Some of the device mapper targets override the error code returned by
dm_get_device() and return either -EINVAL or -ENXIO.  There is nothing
gained by this override.  It is better to propagate the returned error
code unchanged to caller.

This work was motivated by hitting an issue where the underlying device
was busy but -EINVAL was being returned.  After this change we get
-EBUSY instead and it is easier to figure out the problem.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</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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<content type='text'>
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
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: rename request variables to bios</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alasdair G Kergon</name>
<email>agk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</published>
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Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: fix truncated status strings</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</published>
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Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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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Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: remove map_info</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T20:23:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T20:23:41+00:00</published>
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This patch removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets.
map_info is still used for request-based targets.

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 removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets.
map_info is still used for request-based targets.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm linear: add WRITE SAME support</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T20:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T20:23:37+00:00</published>
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The linear target can already support WRITE SAME requests so signal
this by setting num_write_same_requests to 1.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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The linear target can already support WRITE SAME requests so signal
this by setting num_write_same_requests to 1.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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