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<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>
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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
  ...
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<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>
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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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<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()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2014-01-25T01:41:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-25T01:41:50+00:00</published>
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "All bug fixes, two tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: close recently introduced race in stripe_head management.
  md/raid5: fix long-standing problem with bitmap handling on write failure.
  md: check command validity early in md_ioctl().
  md: ensure metadata is writen after raid level change.
  md/raid10: avoid fullsync when not necessary.
  md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
  md: Change handling of save_raid_disk and metadata update during recovery.
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "All bug fixes, two tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: close recently introduced race in stripe_head management.
  md/raid5: fix long-standing problem with bitmap handling on write failure.
  md: check command validity early in md_ioctl().
  md: ensure metadata is writen after raid level change.
  md/raid10: avoid fullsync when not necessary.
  md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
  md: Change handling of save_raid_disk and metadata update during recovery.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T04:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T04:17:48+00:00</published>
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Pull device-mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
 "A lot of attention was paid to improving the thin-provisioning
  target's handling of metadata operation failures and running out of
  space.  A new 'error_if_no_space' feature was added to allow users to
  error IOs rather than queue them when either the data or metadata
  space is exhausted.

  Additional fixes/features include:
   - a few fixes to properly support thin metadata device resizing
   - a solution for reliably waiting for a DM device's embedded kobject
     to be released before destroying the device
   - old dm-snapshot is updated to use the dm-bufio interface to take
     advantage of readahead capabilities that improve snapshot
     activation
   - new dm-cache target tunables to control how quickly data is
     promoted to the cache (fast) device
   - improved write efficiency of cluster mirror target by combining
     userspace flush and mark requests"

* tag 'dm-3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (35 commits)
  dm log userspace: allow mark requests to piggyback on flush requests
  dm space map metadata: fix bug in resizing of thin metadata
  dm cache: add policy name to status output
  dm thin: fix pool feature parsing
  dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
  dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch
  dm snapshot: use dm-bufio
  dm snapshot: prepare for switch to using dm-bufio
  dm snapshot: use GFP_KERNEL when initializing exceptions
  dm cache: add block sizes and total cache blocks to status output
  dm btree: add dm_btree_find_lowest_key
  dm space map metadata: fix extending the space map
  dm space map common: make sure new space is used during extend
  dm: wait until embedded kobject is released before destroying a device
  dm: remove pointless kobject comparison in dm_get_from_kobject
  dm snapshot: call destroy_work_on_stack() to pair with INIT_WORK_ONSTACK()
  dm cache policy mq: introduce three promotion threshold tunables
  dm cache policy mq: use list_del_init instead of list_del + INIT_LIST_HEAD
  dm thin: fix set_pool_mode exposed pool operation races
  dm thin: eliminate the no_free_space flag
  ...
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<pre>
Pull device-mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
 "A lot of attention was paid to improving the thin-provisioning
  target's handling of metadata operation failures and running out of
  space.  A new 'error_if_no_space' feature was added to allow users to
  error IOs rather than queue them when either the data or metadata
  space is exhausted.

  Additional fixes/features include:
   - a few fixes to properly support thin metadata device resizing
   - a solution for reliably waiting for a DM device's embedded kobject
     to be released before destroying the device
   - old dm-snapshot is updated to use the dm-bufio interface to take
     advantage of readahead capabilities that improve snapshot
     activation
   - new dm-cache target tunables to control how quickly data is
     promoted to the cache (fast) device
   - improved write efficiency of cluster mirror target by combining
     userspace flush and mark requests"

* tag 'dm-3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (35 commits)
  dm log userspace: allow mark requests to piggyback on flush requests
  dm space map metadata: fix bug in resizing of thin metadata
  dm cache: add policy name to status output
  dm thin: fix pool feature parsing
  dm sysfs: fix a module unload race
  dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch
  dm snapshot: use dm-bufio
  dm snapshot: prepare for switch to using dm-bufio
  dm snapshot: use GFP_KERNEL when initializing exceptions
  dm cache: add block sizes and total cache blocks to status output
  dm btree: add dm_btree_find_lowest_key
  dm space map metadata: fix extending the space map
  dm space map common: make sure new space is used during extend
  dm: wait until embedded kobject is released before destroying a device
  dm: remove pointless kobject comparison in dm_get_from_kobject
  dm snapshot: call destroy_work_on_stack() to pair with INIT_WORK_ONSTACK()
  dm cache policy mq: introduce three promotion threshold tunables
  dm cache policy mq: use list_del_init instead of list_del + INIT_LIST_HEAD
  dm thin: fix set_pool_mode exposed pool operation races
  dm thin: eliminate the no_free_space flag
  ...
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<entry>
<title>dm log userspace: allow mark requests to piggyback on flush requests</title>
<updated>2014-01-22T04:46:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dongmao Zhang</name>
<email>dmzhang@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T21:44:37+00:00</published>
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In the cluster evironment, cluster write has poor performance because
userspace_flush() has to contact a userspace program (cmirrord) for
clear/mark/flush requests.  But both mark and flush requests require
cmirrord to communicate the message to all the cluster nodes for each
flush call.  This behaviour is really slow.

To address this we now merge mark and flush requests together to reduce
the kernel-userspace-kernel time.  We allow a new directive,
"integrated_flush" that can be used to instruct the kernel log code to
combine flush and mark requests when directed by userspace.  If not
directed by userspace (due to an older version of the userspace code
perhaps), the kernel will function as it did previously - preserving
backwards compatibility.  Additionally, flush requests are performed
lazily when only clear requests exist.

Signed-off-by: Dongmao Zhang &lt;dmzhang@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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In the cluster evironment, cluster write has poor performance because
userspace_flush() has to contact a userspace program (cmirrord) for
clear/mark/flush requests.  But both mark and flush requests require
cmirrord to communicate the message to all the cluster nodes for each
flush call.  This behaviour is really slow.

To address this we now merge mark and flush requests together to reduce
the kernel-userspace-kernel time.  We allow a new directive,
"integrated_flush" that can be used to instruct the kernel log code to
combine flush and mark requests when directed by userspace.  If not
directed by userspace (due to an older version of the userspace code
perhaps), the kernel will function as it did previously - preserving
backwards compatibility.  Additionally, flush requests are performed
lazily when only clear requests exist.

Signed-off-by: Dongmao Zhang &lt;dmzhang@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2014-01-22T01:51:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-22T01:51:34+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming
  kernfs conversion.

   - cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is
     moved to memcg.

   - pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file.

     Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior.  cgroup
     documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it
     has been for quite some time.

   - All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file.  This is
     to prepare for kernfs conversion.  In addition, all operations are
     restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations.

   - Other cleanups and low-pri fixes"

* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits)
  cgroup: trivial style updates
  cgroup: remove stray references to css_id
  doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
  cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
  cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys()
  cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys()
  cgroup: implement for_each_css()
  cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css()
  cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create()
  cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create()
  cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex
  cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex
  cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling
  cgroup: replace cftype-&gt;read_seq_string() with cftype-&gt;seq_show()
  cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files
  cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file
  cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used
  cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string()
  cgroup: remove cftype-&gt;read(), -&gt;read_map() and -&gt;write()
  hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype-&gt;read()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming
  kernfs conversion.

   - cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is
     moved to memcg.

   - pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file.

     Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior.  cgroup
     documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it
     has been for quite some time.

   - All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file.  This is
     to prepare for kernfs conversion.  In addition, all operations are
     restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations.

   - Other cleanups and low-pri fixes"

* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits)
  cgroup: trivial style updates
  cgroup: remove stray references to css_id
  doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
  cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
  cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys()
  cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys()
  cgroup: implement for_each_css()
  cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css()
  cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create()
  cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create()
  cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex
  cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex
  cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling
  cgroup: replace cftype-&gt;read_seq_string() with cftype-&gt;seq_show()
  cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files
  cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file
  cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used
  cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string()
  cgroup: remove cftype-&gt;read(), -&gt;read_map() and -&gt;write()
  hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype-&gt;read()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/raid5: close recently introduced race in stripe_head management.</title>
<updated>2014-01-22T00:45:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-22T00:45:03+00:00</published>
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As release_stripe and __release_stripe decrement -&gt;count and then
manipulate -&gt;lru both under -&gt;device_lock, it is important that
get_active_stripe() increments -&gt;count and clears -&gt;lru also under
-&gt;device_lock.

However we currently list_del_init -&gt;lru under the lock, but increment
the -&gt;count outside the lock.  This can lead to races and list
corruption.

So move the atomic_inc(&amp;sh-&gt;count) up inside the -&gt;device_lock
protected region.

Note that we still increment -&gt;count without device lock in the case
where get_free_stripe() was called, and in fact don't take
-&gt;device_lock at all in that path.
This is safe because if the stripe_head can be found by
get_free_stripe, then the hash lock assures us the no-one else could
possibly be calling release_stripe() at the same time.

Fixes: 566c09c53455d7c4f1130928ef8071da1a24ea65
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.13)
Reported-and-tested-by: Ian Kumlien &lt;ian.kumlien@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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As release_stripe and __release_stripe decrement -&gt;count and then
manipulate -&gt;lru both under -&gt;device_lock, it is important that
get_active_stripe() increments -&gt;count and clears -&gt;lru also under
-&gt;device_lock.

However we currently list_del_init -&gt;lru under the lock, but increment
the -&gt;count outside the lock.  This can lead to races and list
corruption.

So move the atomic_inc(&amp;sh-&gt;count) up inside the -&gt;device_lock
protected region.

Note that we still increment -&gt;count without device lock in the case
where get_free_stripe() was called, and in fact don't take
-&gt;device_lock at all in that path.
This is safe because if the stripe_head can be found by
get_free_stripe, then the hash lock assures us the no-one else could
possibly be calling release_stripe() at the same time.

Fixes: 566c09c53455d7c4f1130928ef8071da1a24ea65
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.13)
Reported-and-tested-by: Ian Kumlien &lt;ian.kumlien@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm space map metadata: fix bug in resizing of thin metadata</title>
<updated>2014-01-21T17:15:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-21T11:07:32+00:00</published>
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This bug was introduced in commit 7e664b3dec431e ("dm space map metadata:
fix extending the space map").

When extending a dm-thin metadata volume we:

- Switch the space map into a simple bootstrap mode, which allocates
  all space linearly from the newly added space.
- Add new bitmap entries for the new space
- Increment the reference counts for those newly allocated bitmap
  entries
- Commit changes to disk
- Switch back out of bootstrap mode.

But, the disk commit may allocate space itself, if so this fact will be
lost when switching out of bootstrap mode.

The bug exhibited itself as an error when the bitmap_root, with an
erroneous ref count of 0, was subsequently decremented as part of a
later disk commit.  This would cause the disk commit to fail, and thinp
to enter read_only mode.  The metadata was not damaged (thin_check
passed).

The fix is to put the increments + commit into a loop, running until
the commit has not allocated extra space.  In practise this loop only
runs twice.

With this fix the following device mapper testsuite test passes:
 dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n thin_remove_works_after_resize

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # depends on commit 7e664b3dec431e
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This bug was introduced in commit 7e664b3dec431e ("dm space map metadata:
fix extending the space map").

When extending a dm-thin metadata volume we:

- Switch the space map into a simple bootstrap mode, which allocates
  all space linearly from the newly added space.
- Add new bitmap entries for the new space
- Increment the reference counts for those newly allocated bitmap
  entries
- Commit changes to disk
- Switch back out of bootstrap mode.

But, the disk commit may allocate space itself, if so this fact will be
lost when switching out of bootstrap mode.

The bug exhibited itself as an error when the bitmap_root, with an
erroneous ref count of 0, was subsequently decremented as part of a
later disk commit.  This would cause the disk commit to fail, and thinp
to enter read_only mode.  The metadata was not damaged (thin_check
passed).

The fix is to put the increments + commit into a loop, running until
the commit has not allocated extra space.  In practise this loop only
runs twice.

With this fix the following device mapper testsuite test passes:
 dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n thin_remove_works_after_resize

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # depends on commit 7e664b3dec431e
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm cache: add policy name to status output</title>
<updated>2014-01-16T18:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-16T02:06:55+00:00</published>
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The cache's policy may have been established using the "default" alias,
which is currently the "mq" policy but the default policy may change in
the future.  It is useful to know exactly which policy is being used.

Add a 'real' member to the dm_cache_policy_type structure and have the
"default" dm_cache_policy_type point to the real "mq"
dm_cache_policy_type.  Update dm_cache_policy_get_name() to check if
real is set, if so report the name of the real policy (not the alias).

Requested-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The cache's policy may have been established using the "default" alias,
which is currently the "mq" policy but the default policy may change in
the future.  It is useful to know exactly which policy is being used.

Add a 'real' member to the dm_cache_policy_type structure and have the
"default" dm_cache_policy_type point to the real "mq"
dm_cache_policy_type.  Update dm_cache_policy_get_name() to check if
real is set, if so report the name of the real policy (not the alias).

Requested-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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