<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/drivers/md, branch v4.9-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>kthread: kthread worker API cleanup</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:55:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3989144f863ac576e6efba298d24b0b02a10d4bb'/>
<id>3989144f863ac576e6efba298d24b0b02a10d4bb</id>
<content type='text'>
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.

The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues.  Each
worker has a dedicated kthread.  It runs a generic function that process
queued works.  It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.

This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:

__init_kthread_worker()		-&gt; __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker()		-&gt; kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker()		-&gt; kthread_flush_worker()

Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.

Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:

  + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
    aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
    stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".

  + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros

  + init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
    functions. It looks much better if all the functions
    use the same scheme.

  + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
    be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
    to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
    functions use the same naming scheme.

  + there are several precedents for such init() function
    names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
    jump_label_init_type(),  regmap_init_mmio_clk(),

  + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.

The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues.  Each
worker has a dedicated kthread.  It runs a generic function that process
queued works.  It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.

This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:

__init_kthread_worker()		-&gt; __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker()		-&gt; kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work()		-&gt; kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker()		-&gt; kthread_flush_worker()

Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.

Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:

  + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
    aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
    stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".

  + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros

  + init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
    functions. It looks much better if all the functions
    use the same scheme.

  + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
    be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
    to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
    functions use the same naming scheme.

  + there are several precedents for such init() function
    names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
    jump_label_init_type(),  regmap_init_mmio_clk(),

  + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T00:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-10T00:29:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=12e3d3cdd975fe986cc5c35f60b1467a8ec20b80'/>
<id>12e3d3cdd975fe986cc5c35f60b1467a8ec20b80</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
  Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
  more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
  mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
  box"

* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
  blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
  blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
  nvme: remove the post_scan callout
  nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
  blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
  blk-mq: remove -&gt;map_queue
  blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
  blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
  Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
  more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
  mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
  box"

* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
  blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
  blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
  nvme: remove the post_scan callout
  nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
  blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
  blk-mq: remove -&gt;map_queue
  blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
  blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-4.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T00:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-10T00:16:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=48915c2cbc77eceec2005afb695ac658fede4e0d'/>
<id>48915c2cbc77eceec2005afb695ac658fede4e0d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - various fixes and cleanups for request-based DM core

 - add support for delaying the requeue of requests; used by DM
   multipath when all paths have failed and 'queue_if_no_path' is
   enabled

 - DM cache improvements to speedup the loading metadata and the writing
   of the hint array

 - fix potential for a dm-crypt crash on device teardown

 - remove dm_bufio_cond_resched() and just using cond_resched()

 - change DM multipath to return a reservation conflict error
   immediately; rather than failing the path and retrying (potentially
   indefinitely)

* tag 'dm-4.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (24 commits)
  dm mpath: always return reservation conflict without failing over
  dm bufio: remove dm_bufio_cond_resched()
  dm crypt: fix crash on exit
  dm cache metadata: switch to using the new cursor api for loading metadata
  dm array: introduce cursor api
  dm btree: introduce cursor api
  dm cache policy smq: distribute entries to random levels when switching to smq
  dm cache: speed up writing of the hint array
  dm array: add dm_array_new()
  dm mpath: delay the requeue of blk-mq requests while all paths down
  dm mpath: use dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
  dm rq: introduce dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
  dm rq: reduce arguments passed to map_request() and dm_requeue_original_request()
  dm rq: add DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE to delay requeue of blk-mq requests
  dm: convert wait loops to use autoremove_wake_function()
  dm: use signal_pending_state() in dm_wait_for_completion()
  dm: rename task state function arguments
  dm: add two lockdep_assert_held() statements
  dm rq: simplify dm_old_stop_queue()
  dm mpath: check if path's request_queue is dying in activate_path()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - various fixes and cleanups for request-based DM core

 - add support for delaying the requeue of requests; used by DM
   multipath when all paths have failed and 'queue_if_no_path' is
   enabled

 - DM cache improvements to speedup the loading metadata and the writing
   of the hint array

 - fix potential for a dm-crypt crash on device teardown

 - remove dm_bufio_cond_resched() and just using cond_resched()

 - change DM multipath to return a reservation conflict error
   immediately; rather than failing the path and retrying (potentially
   indefinitely)

* tag 'dm-4.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (24 commits)
  dm mpath: always return reservation conflict without failing over
  dm bufio: remove dm_bufio_cond_resched()
  dm crypt: fix crash on exit
  dm cache metadata: switch to using the new cursor api for loading metadata
  dm array: introduce cursor api
  dm btree: introduce cursor api
  dm cache policy smq: distribute entries to random levels when switching to smq
  dm cache: speed up writing of the hint array
  dm array: add dm_array_new()
  dm mpath: delay the requeue of blk-mq requests while all paths down
  dm mpath: use dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
  dm rq: introduce dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
  dm rq: reduce arguments passed to map_request() and dm_requeue_original_request()
  dm rq: add DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE to delay requeue of blk-mq requests
  dm: convert wait loops to use autoremove_wake_function()
  dm: use signal_pending_state() in dm_wait_for_completion()
  dm: rename task state function arguments
  dm: add two lockdep_assert_held() statements
  dm rq: simplify dm_old_stop_queue()
  dm mpath: check if path's request_queue is dying in activate_path()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T21:42:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T21:42:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=513a4befae06c4469abfb836e8f71977de58c636'/>
<id>513a4befae06c4469abfb836e8f71977de58c636</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block layer changes in 4.9.

  As mentioned at the last merge window, I've changed things up and now
  do just one branch for core block layer changes, and driver changes.
  This avoids dependencies between the two branches. Outside of this
  main pull request, there are two topical branches coming as well.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of fixes, and a conversion to blk-mq, of nbd. From Josef.

   - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm from Matias, Simon, and Arnd.
     Followup dependency fix from Geert.

   - General fixes from Bart, Baoyou, Guoqing, and Linus W.

   - CFQ async write starvation fix from Glauber.

   - Add supprot for delayed kick of the requeue list, from Mike.

   - Pull out the scalable bitmap code from blk-mq-tag.c and make it
     generally available under the name of sbitmap. Only blk-mq-tag uses
     it for now, but the blk-mq scheduling bits will use it as well.
     From Omar.

   - bdev thaw error progagation from Pierre.

   - Improve the blk polling statistics, and allow the user to clear
     them. From Stephen.

   - Set of minor cleanups from Christoph in block/blk-mq.

   - Set of cleanups and optimizations from me for block/blk-mq.

   - Various nvme/nvmet/nvmeof fixes from the various folks"

* 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  fs/block_dev.c: return the right error in thaw_bdev()
  nvme: Pass pointers, not dma addresses, to nvme_get/set_features()
  nvme/scsi: Remove power management support
  nvmet: Make dsm number of ranges zero based
  nvmet: Use direct IO for writes
  admin-cmd: Added smart-log command support.
  nvme-fabrics: Add host_traddr options field to host infrastructure
  nvme-fabrics: revise host transport option descriptions
  nvme-fabrics: rework nvmf_get_address() for variable options
  nbd: use BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING
  blkcg: Annotate blkg_hint correctly
  cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
  blk-mq: add flag for drivers wanting blocking -&gt;queue_rq()
  blk-mq: remove non-blocking pass in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: get rid of manual run of queue with __blk_mq_run_hw_queue()
  block: export bio_free_pages to other modules
  lightnvm: propagate device_add() error code
  lightnvm: expose device geometry through sysfs
  lightnvm: control life of nvm_dev in driver
  blk-mq: register device instead of disk
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block layer changes in 4.9.

  As mentioned at the last merge window, I've changed things up and now
  do just one branch for core block layer changes, and driver changes.
  This avoids dependencies between the two branches. Outside of this
  main pull request, there are two topical branches coming as well.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of fixes, and a conversion to blk-mq, of nbd. From Josef.

   - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm from Matias, Simon, and Arnd.
     Followup dependency fix from Geert.

   - General fixes from Bart, Baoyou, Guoqing, and Linus W.

   - CFQ async write starvation fix from Glauber.

   - Add supprot for delayed kick of the requeue list, from Mike.

   - Pull out the scalable bitmap code from blk-mq-tag.c and make it
     generally available under the name of sbitmap. Only blk-mq-tag uses
     it for now, but the blk-mq scheduling bits will use it as well.
     From Omar.

   - bdev thaw error progagation from Pierre.

   - Improve the blk polling statistics, and allow the user to clear
     them. From Stephen.

   - Set of minor cleanups from Christoph in block/blk-mq.

   - Set of cleanups and optimizations from me for block/blk-mq.

   - Various nvme/nvmet/nvmeof fixes from the various folks"

* 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  fs/block_dev.c: return the right error in thaw_bdev()
  nvme: Pass pointers, not dma addresses, to nvme_get/set_features()
  nvme/scsi: Remove power management support
  nvmet: Make dsm number of ranges zero based
  nvmet: Use direct IO for writes
  admin-cmd: Added smart-log command support.
  nvme-fabrics: Add host_traddr options field to host infrastructure
  nvme-fabrics: revise host transport option descriptions
  nvme-fabrics: rework nvmf_get_address() for variable options
  nbd: use BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING
  blkcg: Annotate blkg_hint correctly
  cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
  blk-mq: add flag for drivers wanting blocking -&gt;queue_rq()
  blk-mq: remove non-blocking pass in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: get rid of manual run of queue with __blk_mq_run_hw_queue()
  block: export bio_free_pages to other modules
  lightnvm: propagate device_add() error code
  lightnvm: expose device geometry through sysfs
  lightnvm: control life of nvm_dev in driver
  blk-mq: register device instead of disk
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T16:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T16:45:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c23112e0395a89c8a52cd955442240de7fba46aa'/>
<id>c23112e0395a89c8a52cd955442240de7fba46aa</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li:
 "This update includes:

   - new AVX512 instruction based raid6 gen/recovery algorithm

   - a couple of md-cluster related bug fixes

   - fix a potential deadlock

   - set nonrotational bit for raid array with SSD

   - set correct max_hw_sectors for raid5/6, which hopefuly can improve
     performance a little bit

   - other minor fixes"

* tag 'md/4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md:
  md: set rotational bit
  raid6/test/test.c: bug fix: Specify aligned(alignment) attributes to the char arrays
  raid5: handle register_shrinker failure
  raid5: fix to detect failure of register_shrinker
  md: fix a potential deadlock
  md/bitmap: fix wrong cleanup
  raid5: allow arbitrary max_hw_sectors
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized xor_syndrome functions
  lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Add avx512 gen_syndrome and recovery functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized recovery functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized gen_syndrome functions
  md-cluster: make resync lock also could be interruptted
  md-cluster: introduce dlm_lock_sync_interruptible to fix tasks hang
  md-cluster: convert the completion to wait queue
  md-cluster: protect md_find_rdev_nr_rcu with rcu lock
  md-cluster: clean related infos of cluster
  md: changes for MD_STILL_CLOSED flag
  md-cluster: remove some unnecessary dlm_unlock_sync
  md-cluster: use FORCEUNLOCK in lockres_free
  md-cluster: call md_kick_rdev_from_array once ack failed
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li:
 "This update includes:

   - new AVX512 instruction based raid6 gen/recovery algorithm

   - a couple of md-cluster related bug fixes

   - fix a potential deadlock

   - set nonrotational bit for raid array with SSD

   - set correct max_hw_sectors for raid5/6, which hopefuly can improve
     performance a little bit

   - other minor fixes"

* tag 'md/4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md:
  md: set rotational bit
  raid6/test/test.c: bug fix: Specify aligned(alignment) attributes to the char arrays
  raid5: handle register_shrinker failure
  raid5: fix to detect failure of register_shrinker
  md: fix a potential deadlock
  md/bitmap: fix wrong cleanup
  raid5: allow arbitrary max_hw_sectors
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized xor_syndrome functions
  lib/raid6/test/Makefile: Add avx512 gen_syndrome and recovery functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized recovery functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX512 optimized gen_syndrome functions
  md-cluster: make resync lock also could be interruptted
  md-cluster: introduce dlm_lock_sync_interruptible to fix tasks hang
  md-cluster: convert the completion to wait queue
  md-cluster: protect md_find_rdev_nr_rcu with rcu lock
  md-cluster: clean related infos of cluster
  md: changes for MD_STILL_CLOSED flag
  md-cluster: remove some unnecessary dlm_unlock_sync
  md-cluster: use FORCEUNLOCK in lockres_free
  md-cluster: call md_kick_rdev_from_array once ack failed
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-10-04T02:43:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-04T02:43:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=597f03f9d133e9837d00965016170271d4f87dcf'/>
<id>597f03f9d133e9837d00965016170271d4f87dcf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull CPU hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another batch of cpu hotplug core updates and conversions:

   - Provide core infrastructure for multi instance drivers so the
     drivers do not have to keep custom lists.

   - Convert custom lists to the new infrastructure. The block-mq custom
     list conversion comes through the block tree and makes the diffstat
     tip over to more lines removed than added.

   - Handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable calls more gracefully.

   - Remove the obsolete CPU_STARTING/DYING notifier support.

   - Convert another batch of notifier users.

   The relayfs changes which conflicted with the conversion have been
   shipped to me by Andrew.

   The remaining lot is targeted for 4.10 so that we finally can remove
   the rest of the notifiers"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix up conversion to hotplug state machine
  blk/mq: Reserve hotplug states for block multiqueue
  x86/apic/uv: Convert to hotplug state machine
  s390/mm/pfault: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/loongson/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/octeon/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  fault-injection/cpu: Convert to hotplug state machine
  padata: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpufreq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ACPI/processor: Convert to hotplug state machine
  virtio scsi: Convert to hotplug state machine
  oprofile/timer: Convert to hotplug state machine
  block/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  lib/irq_poll: Convert to hotplug state machine
  x86/microcode: Convert to hotplug state machine
  sh/SH-X3 SMP: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ia64/mca: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/OMAP/wakeupgen: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/shmobile: Convert to hotplug state machine
  arm64/FP/SIMD: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull CPU hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another batch of cpu hotplug core updates and conversions:

   - Provide core infrastructure for multi instance drivers so the
     drivers do not have to keep custom lists.

   - Convert custom lists to the new infrastructure. The block-mq custom
     list conversion comes through the block tree and makes the diffstat
     tip over to more lines removed than added.

   - Handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable calls more gracefully.

   - Remove the obsolete CPU_STARTING/DYING notifier support.

   - Convert another batch of notifier users.

   The relayfs changes which conflicted with the conversion have been
   shipped to me by Andrew.

   The remaining lot is targeted for 4.10 so that we finally can remove
   the rest of the notifiers"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix up conversion to hotplug state machine
  blk/mq: Reserve hotplug states for block multiqueue
  x86/apic/uv: Convert to hotplug state machine
  s390/mm/pfault: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/loongson/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/octeon/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  fault-injection/cpu: Convert to hotplug state machine
  padata: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpufreq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ACPI/processor: Convert to hotplug state machine
  virtio scsi: Convert to hotplug state machine
  oprofile/timer: Convert to hotplug state machine
  block/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  lib/irq_poll: Convert to hotplug state machine
  x86/microcode: Convert to hotplug state machine
  sh/SH-X3 SMP: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ia64/mca: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/OMAP/wakeupgen: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/shmobile: Convert to hotplug state machine
  arm64/FP/SIMD: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: set rotational bit</title>
<updated>2016-10-03T17:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-30T16:45:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bb086a89a406b5d877ee616f1490fcc81f8e1b2b'/>
<id>bb086a89a406b5d877ee616f1490fcc81f8e1b2b</id>
<content type='text'>
if all disks in an array are non-rotational, set the array
non-rotational.

This only works for array with all disks populated at startup. Support
for disk hotadd/hotremove could be added later if necessary.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
if all disks in an array are non-rotational, set the array
non-rotational.

This only works for array with all disks populated at startup. Support
for disk hotadd/hotremove could be added later if necessary.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm mpath: always return reservation conflict without failing over</title>
<updated>2016-09-29T14:57:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-15T11:23:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8ff232c1a819c2e98d85974a3bff0b7b8e2970ed'/>
<id>8ff232c1a819c2e98d85974a3bff0b7b8e2970ed</id>
<content type='text'>
If dm-mpath encounters an reservation conflict it should not fail the
path (as communication with the target is not affected) but should
rather retry on another path.  However, in doing so we might be inducing
a ping-pong between paths, with no guarantee of any forward progress.
And arguably a reservation conflict is an unexpected error, so we should
be passing it upwards to allow the application to take appropriate
steps.

This change resolves a show-stopper problem seen with the pNFS SCSI
layout because it is trivial to hit reservation conflict based failover
loops without it.

Doubts were raised about the implications of this change relative to
products like IBM's SVC.  But there is little point withholding a fix
for Linux because a proprietary product may or may not have some issues
in its implementation of how it interfaces with Linux.  In the future,
if there is glaring evidence that this change is certainly problematic
we can revisit it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # tweaked header
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
If dm-mpath encounters an reservation conflict it should not fail the
path (as communication with the target is not affected) but should
rather retry on another path.  However, in doing so we might be inducing
a ping-pong between paths, with no guarantee of any forward progress.
And arguably a reservation conflict is an unexpected error, so we should
be passing it upwards to allow the application to take appropriate
steps.

This change resolves a show-stopper problem seen with the pNFS SCSI
layout because it is trivial to hit reservation conflict based failover
loops without it.

Doubts were raised about the implications of this change relative to
products like IBM's SVC.  But there is little point withholding a fix
for Linux because a proprietary product may or may not have some issues
in its implementation of how it interfaces with Linux.  In the future,
if there is glaring evidence that this change is certainly problematic
we can revisit it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # tweaked header
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm bufio: remove dm_bufio_cond_resched()</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T15:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-13T08:45:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7cd326747f46ffe1c7bff5682e97dfbcb98990ec'/>
<id>7cd326747f46ffe1c7bff5682e97dfbcb98990ec</id>
<content type='text'>
Use cond_resched() like everybody else.

Mikulas explained why dm_bufio_cond_resched() was introduced to begin
with (hopefully cond_resched can be improved accordingly) here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-September/msg00112.html

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # added last comment in header
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Use cond_resched() like everybody else.

Mikulas explained why dm_bufio_cond_resched() was introduced to begin
with (hopefully cond_resched can be improved accordingly) here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-September/msg00112.html

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # added last comment in header
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: fix crash on exit</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T15:15:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabinv@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-21T14:22:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f659b10087daaf4ce0087c3f6aec16746be9628f'/>
<id>f659b10087daaf4ce0087c3f6aec16746be9628f</id>
<content type='text'>
As the documentation for kthread_stop() says, "if threadfn() may call
do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure task_struct can't go away".
dm-crypt does not ensure this and therefore crashes when crypt_dtr()
calls kthread_stop().  The crash is trivially reproducible by adding a
delay before the call to kthread_stop() and just opening and closing a
dm-crypt device.

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 0 PID: 533 Comm: cryptsetup Not tainted 4.8.0-rc7+ #7
 task: ffff88003bd0df40 task.stack: ffff8800375b4000
 RIP: 0010: kthread_stop+0x52/0x300
 Call Trace:
  crypt_dtr+0x77/0x120
  dm_table_destroy+0x6f/0x120
  __dm_destroy+0x130/0x250
  dm_destroy+0x13/0x20
  dev_remove+0xe6/0x120
  ? dev_suspend+0x250/0x250
  ctl_ioctl+0x1fc/0x530
  ? __lock_acquire+0x24f/0x1b10
  dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20
  do_vfs_ioctl+0x91/0x6a0
  ? ____fput+0xe/0x10
  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xbd
  ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x151/0x1e0
  SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x70
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd

This problem was introduced by bcbd94ff481e ("dm crypt: fix a possible
hang due to race condition on exit").

Looking at the description of that patch (excerpted below), it seems
like the problem it addresses can be solved by just using
set_current_state instead of __set_current_state, since we obviously
need the memory barrier.

| dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit
|
| A kernel thread executes __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE),
| __add_wait_queue, spin_unlock_irq and then tests kthread_should_stop().
| It is possible that the processor reorders memory accesses so that
| kthread_should_stop() is executed before __set_current_state().  If
| such reordering happens, there is a possible race on thread
| termination: [...]

So this patch just reverts the aforementioned patch and changes the
__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) to set_current_state(...).  This
fixes the crash and should also fix the potential hang.

Fixes: bcbd94ff481e ("dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit")
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As the documentation for kthread_stop() says, "if threadfn() may call
do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure task_struct can't go away".
dm-crypt does not ensure this and therefore crashes when crypt_dtr()
calls kthread_stop().  The crash is trivially reproducible by adding a
delay before the call to kthread_stop() and just opening and closing a
dm-crypt device.

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 0 PID: 533 Comm: cryptsetup Not tainted 4.8.0-rc7+ #7
 task: ffff88003bd0df40 task.stack: ffff8800375b4000
 RIP: 0010: kthread_stop+0x52/0x300
 Call Trace:
  crypt_dtr+0x77/0x120
  dm_table_destroy+0x6f/0x120
  __dm_destroy+0x130/0x250
  dm_destroy+0x13/0x20
  dev_remove+0xe6/0x120
  ? dev_suspend+0x250/0x250
  ctl_ioctl+0x1fc/0x530
  ? __lock_acquire+0x24f/0x1b10
  dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20
  do_vfs_ioctl+0x91/0x6a0
  ? ____fput+0xe/0x10
  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xbd
  ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x151/0x1e0
  SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x70
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd

This problem was introduced by bcbd94ff481e ("dm crypt: fix a possible
hang due to race condition on exit").

Looking at the description of that patch (excerpted below), it seems
like the problem it addresses can be solved by just using
set_current_state instead of __set_current_state, since we obviously
need the memory barrier.

| dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit
|
| A kernel thread executes __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE),
| __add_wait_queue, spin_unlock_irq and then tests kthread_should_stop().
| It is possible that the processor reorders memory accesses so that
| kthread_should_stop() is executed before __set_current_state().  If
| such reordering happens, there is a possible race on thread
| termination: [...]

So this patch just reverts the aforementioned patch and changes the
__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) to set_current_state(...).  This
fixes the crash and should also fix the potential hang.

Fixes: bcbd94ff481e ("dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit")
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
