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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq: switch -&gt;queue_rq return value to blk_status_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:05+00:00</published>
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Use the same values for use for request completion errors as the return
value from -&gt;queue_rq.  BLK_STS_RESOURCE is special cased to cause
a requeue, and all the others are completed as-is.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Use the same values for use for request completion errors as the return
value from -&gt;queue_rq.  BLK_STS_RESOURCE is special cased to cause
a requeue, and all the others are completed as-is.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: introduce new block status code type</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:04+00:00</published>
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Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: update -&gt;init_request and -&gt;exit_request prototypes</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T13:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T16:19:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d6296d39e90c9075bc2fc15f1e86dac44930d4b5'/>
<id>d6296d39e90c9075bc2fc15f1e86dac44930d4b5</id>
<content type='text'>
Remove the request_idx parameter, which can't be used safely now that we
support I/O schedulers with blk-mq.  Except for a superflous check in
mtip32xx it was unused anyway.

Also pass the tag_set instead of just the driver data - this allows drivers
to avoid some code duplication in a follow on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Remove the request_idx parameter, which can't be used safely now that we
support I/O schedulers with blk-mq.  Except for a superflous check in
mtip32xx it was unused anyway.

Also pass the tag_set instead of just the driver data - this allows drivers
to avoid some code duplication in a follow on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: constify struct blk_mq_ops</title>
<updated>2017-03-31T14:28:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-30T20:39:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f363b089be0a39fe4282c688118a51d21f952bc7'/>
<id>f363b089be0a39fe4282c688118a51d21f952bc7</id>
<content type='text'>
Constify all instances of blk_mq_ops, as they are never modified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Constify all instances of blk_mq_ops, as they are never modified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T21:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T15:57:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aebf526b53aea164508730427597d45f3e06b376'/>
<id>aebf526b53aea164508730427597d45f3e06b376</id>
<content type='text'>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations.  The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.

Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations.  The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.

Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: remove -&gt;map_queue</title>
<updated>2016-09-15T14:42:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T14:18:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7d7e0f90b70f6c5367c2d1c9a7e87dd228bd0816'/>
<id>7d7e0f90b70f6c5367c2d1c9a7e87dd228bd0816</id>
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All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it.  If we
ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back,
although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup
code.

This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it.  If we
ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back,
although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup
code.

This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=02201e3f1b46aed7c6348f406b7b40de80ba6de3'/>
<id>02201e3f1b46aed7c6348f406b7b40de80ba6de3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: block: Dynamically allocate minor numbers</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T09:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Ehrenberg</name>
<email>dehrenberg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-17T17:37:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch makes ubiblock devices have minor numbers beginning from
0, allocated dynamically independently of the ubi device/volume
number. This property becomes useful because, on 32-bit architectures
with LFS turned off in a userspace program, device minor numbers
over 8 bits cause stat to return -EOVERFLOW. If the device number is
high (&gt;1) due to multiple MTD partitions, such an overflow will occur.
While enabling LFS is clearly a nicer solution, it's often difficult
to turn on in practice globally as many widely distributed packages
don't work with LFS on.

Other storage systems have their own workarounds, with SCSI making
multiple device majors and MMC having a config option for the number
of partitions per device. A completely dynamic minor numbering is
simpler than these. It is unlikely that anyone is depending on a
static minor number since the major is dynamic anyway. In addition,
ubiblock is still relatively new, so now is the time to make such
changes.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<pre>
This patch makes ubiblock devices have minor numbers beginning from
0, allocated dynamically independently of the ubi device/volume
number. This property becomes useful because, on 32-bit architectures
with LFS turned off in a userspace program, device minor numbers
over 8 bits cause stat to return -EOVERFLOW. If the device number is
high (&gt;1) due to multiple MTD partitions, such an overflow will occur.
While enabling LFS is clearly a nicer solution, it's often difficult
to turn on in practice globally as many widely distributed packages
don't work with LFS on.

Other storage systems have their own workarounds, with SCSI making
multiple device majors and MMC having a config option for the number
of partitions per device. A completely dynamic minor numbering is
simpler than these. It is unlikely that anyone is depending on a
static minor number since the major is dynamic anyway. In addition,
ubiblock is still relatively new, so now is the time to make such
changes.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses</title>
<updated>2015-05-28T02:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T01:39:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9c27847dda9cfae7c273cde62becf364f9fa9ea3'/>
<id>9c27847dda9cfae7c273cde62becf364f9fa9ea3</id>
<content type='text'>
Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UBI: block: Add missing cache flushes</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T20:52:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Cernekee</name>
<email>cernekee@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-22T12:30:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=98fb1ffd8154890d7051750e61ff5548c3ee2ab2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Block drivers are responsible for calling flush_dcache_page() on each
BIO request. This operation keeps the I$ coherent with the D$ on
architectures that don't have hardware coherency support. Without this
flush, random crashes are seen when executing user programs from an ext4
filesystem backed by a ubiblock device.

This patch is based on the change implemented in commit 2d4dc890b5c8
("block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a
request's pages").

Fixes: 9d54c8a33eec ("UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Block drivers are responsible for calling flush_dcache_page() on each
BIO request. This operation keeps the I$ coherent with the D$ on
architectures that don't have hardware coherency support. Without this
flush, random crashes are seen when executing user programs from an ext4
filesystem backed by a ubiblock device.

This patch is based on the change implemented in commit 2d4dc890b5c8
("block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a
request's pages").

Fixes: 9d54c8a33eec ("UBI: R/O block driver on top of UBI volumes")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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