linux.git/drivers, branch v3.5-rc1

Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm

2012-06-03T00:39:40+00:00

Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
 "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
  and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
  access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."

* tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
  dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
  dm thin: use slab mempools
  dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
  dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
  dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath

dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata

2012-06-02T23:30:01+00:00

This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_.  This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.

Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time.  The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.

Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:

    thin_dump -m  

Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools

Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:

     i) Incremental backups.

     By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
     changed over time.  Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
     the data doesn't change while we back it up.

     A short proof of concept script can be found here:

     https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb

     ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.

     iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.

     iv) Asyncronous replication.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm thin: use slab mempools

2012-06-02T23:30:00+00:00

Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on
kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of
thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init

2012-06-02T23:29:58+00:00

After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that
need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to
the device.  Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN.

With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl
too.  The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened.

Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd
(that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten
milliseconds.

Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due
to a path failure.  Such retries should be handled intelligently by the
code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI
commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write
commands).  For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that
if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously
marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which
might fail too.  It can be determined if the failure happens on the
device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all
SCSI drivers set these flags correctly.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg

2012-06-02T23:29:45+00:00

If I/O needs retrying and only bypassed priority groups are available,
set the pg_init_delay_retry flag to wait before retrying.

If, for example, the reason for the bypass is that the controller is
getting reset or there is a firmware upgrade happening, retrying right
away would cause a flood of log messages and retries for what could be a
few seconds or even several minutes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath

2012-06-02T23:29:43+00:00

Move multipath structure's 'lock' and 'queue_size' members to eliminate
two 4-byte holes.  Also use a bit within a single unsigned int for each
existing flag (saves 8-bytes).  This allows future flags to be added
without each consuming an unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2012-06-02T23:22:51+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Make syn floods consume significantly less resources by

    a) Not pre-COW'ing routing metrics for SYN/ACKs
    b) Mirroring the device queue mapping of the SYN for the SYN/ACK
       reply.

    Both from Eric Dumazet.

 2) Fix calculation errors in Byte Queue Limiting, from Hiroaki SHIMODA.

 3) Validate the length requested when building a paged SKB for a
    socket, so we don't overrun the page vector accidently.  From Jason
    Wang.

 4) When netlabel is disabled, we abort all IP option processing when we
    see a CIPSO option.  This isn't the right thing to do, we should
    simply skip over it and continue processing the remaining options
    (if any).  Fix from Paul Moore.

 5) SRIOV fixes for the mellanox driver from Jack orgenstein and Marcel
    Apfelbaum.

 6) 8139cp enables the receiver before the ring address is properly
    programmed, which potentially lets the device crap over random
    memory.  Fix from Jason Wang.

 7) e1000/e1000e fixes for i217 RST handling, and an improper buffer
    address reference in jumbo RX frame processing from Bruce Allan and
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, respectively.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering
  mcs7830: Implement link state detection
  e1000e: fix Rapid Start Technology support for i217
  e1000: look into the page instead of skb->data for e1000_tbi_adjust_stats()
  r8169: call netif_napi_del at errpaths and at driver unload
  tcp: reflect SYN queue_mapping into SYNACK packets
  tcp: do not create inetpeer on SYNACK message
  8139cp/8139too: terminate the eeprom access with the right opmode
  8139cp: set ring address before enabling receiver
  cipso: handle CIPSO options correctly when NetLabel is disabled
  net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb()
  bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.
  bql: Avoid unneeded limit decrement.
  bql: Fix POSDIFF() to integer overflow aware.
  net/mlx4_core: Fix obscure mlx4_cmd_box parameter in QUERY_DEV_CAP
  net/mlx4_core: Check port out-of-range before using in mlx4_slave_cap
  net/mlx4_core: Fixes for VF / Guest startup flow
  net/mlx4_en: Fix improper use of "port" parameter in mlx4_en_event
  net/mlx4_core: Fix number of EQs used in ICM initialisation
  net/mlx4_core: Fix the slave_id out-of-range test in mlx4_eq_int

tty: Revert the tty locking series, it needs more work

2012-06-02T22:21:43+00:00

This reverts the tty layer change to use per-tty locking, because it's
not correct yet, and fixing it will require some more deep surgery.

The main revert is d29f3ef39be4 ("tty_lock: Localise the lock"), but
there are several smaller commits that built upon it, they also get
reverted here. The list of reverted commits is:

  fde86d310886 - tty: add lockdep annotations
  8f6576ad476b - tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace
  d3ca8b64b97e - pty: Fix lock inversion
  b1d679afd766 - tty: drop the pty lock during hangup
  abcefe5fc357 - tty/amiserial: Add missing argument for tty_unlock()
  fd11b42e3598 - cris: fix missing tty arg in wait_event_interruptible_tty call
  d29f3ef39be4 - tty_lock: Localise the lock

The revert had a trivial conflict in the 68360serial.c staging driver
that got removed in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering

2012-06-02T21:09:08+00:00

skb_defer_rx_timestamp was called with a freshly allocated skb but must
be called with rskb instead.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gatzka 
Cc: stable 
Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mcs7830: Implement link state detection

2012-06-02T21:09:08+00:00

Add .status callback that detects link state changes.
Tested with MCS7832CV-AA chip (9710:7830, identified as rev.C by the driver).
Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28532

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller