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Steffen Sledz
1065cda8a1 mtd: cfi: add support for AMIC flashes (e.g. A29L160AT)
Signed-off-by: Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 14:27:01 +00:00
Ivan Djelic
437aa565e2 lib: add shared BCH ECC library
This is a new software BCH encoding/decoding library, similar to the shared
Reed-Solomon library.

Binary BCH (Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem) codes are widely used to correct
errors in NAND flash devices requiring more than 1-bit ecc correction; they
are generally better suited for NAND flash than RS codes because NAND bit
errors do not occur in bursts. Latest SLC NAND devices typically require at
least 4-bit ecc protection per 512 bytes block.

This library provides software encoding/decoding, but may also be used with
ASIC/SoC hardware BCH engines to perform error correction. It is being
currently used for this purpose on an OMAP3630 board (4bit/8bit HW BCH). It
has also been used to decode raw dumps of NAND devices with on-die BCH ecc
engines (e.g. Micron 4bit ecc SLC devices).

Latest NAND devices (including SLC) can exhibit high error rates (typically
a dozen or more bitflips per hour during stress tests); in order to
minimize the performance impact of error correction, this library
implements recently developed algorithms for fast polynomial root finding
(see bch.c header for details) instead of the traditional exhaustive Chien
root search; a few performance figures are provided below:

Platform: arm926ejs @ 468 MHz, 32 KiB icache, 16 KiB dcache
BCH ecc : 4-bit per 512 bytes

Encoding average throughput: 250 Mbits/s

Error correction time (compared with Chien search):

        average   worst      average (Chien)  worst (Chien)
----------------------------------------------------------
1 bit    8.5 µs   11 µs         200 µs           383 µs
2 bit    9.7 µs   12.5 µs       477 µs           728 µs
3 bit   18.1 µs   20.6 µs       758 µs          1010 µs
4 bit   19.5 µs   23 µs        1028 µs          1280 µs

In the above figures, "worst" is meant in terms of error pattern, not in
terms of cache miss / page faults effects (not taken into account here).

The library has been extensively tested on the following platforms: x86,
x86_64, arm926ejs, omap3630, qemu-ppc64, qemu-mips.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 14:25:50 +00:00
Roman Tereshonkov
b3dcfd3524 mtd: onenand: add new option to control initial onenand unlocking
A new option ONENAND_SKIP_INITIAL_UNLOCKING is added. This allows
to disable initial onenand unlocking when the driver is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Roman Tereshonkov <roman.tereshonkov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 14:22:47 +00:00
David Griego
dcfb81d61d mtd: NOR flash driver for OMAP-L137/AM17x
OMAP-L137/AM17x has limited number of dedicated EMIFA
address pins, enough to interface directly to an SDRAM.
If a device such as an asynchronous flash needs to be
attached to the EMIFA, then either GPIO pins or a chip
select may be used to control the flash device's upper
address lines.

This patch adds support for the NOR flash on the OMAP-L137/
AM17x user interface daughter board using the latch-addr-flash
MTD mapping driver which allows flashes to be partially
physically addressed. The upper address lines are set by
a board specific code which is a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: David Griego <dgriego@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Savinay Dharmappa <savinay.dharmappa@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 14:22:47 +00:00
Jarkko Lavinen
c7519dbf6f mtd_blkdevs: Add background processing support
Add a new background method into mtd_blktrans_ops, add background support
into mtd_blktrans_thread(), and add mtd_blktrans_cease_background().

If the mtd blktrans dev has the background support, the thread will
call background function when the request queue becomes empty. The background
operation may run as long as needs to until
mtd_blktrans_cease_background() tells to stop.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 14:22:46 +00:00
Thomas Gleixner
d9936bb395 genirq: Add desc->irq_data accessor
We have accessors for all fields in irq_data based on irq_desc, but
not for irq_data itself.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-11 14:15:35 +01:00
Michel Lespinasse
8d7718aa08 futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
futex core code uses all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311025058.GD26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-11 12:23:31 +01:00
Michel Lespinasse
37a9d912b2 futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
by running fault_in_user_writeable().
    
This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
original value through a reference argument.
    
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>  [tile]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>  [ia64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>  [microblaze]
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-11 12:23:08 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
3cbdd75331 ALSA: Add snd_ctl_activate_id()
Added a new API function snd_ctl_activate_id() for activate / inactivate
the control element dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-03-11 10:49:15 +00:00
Yi Zou
e9bce845c0 net: add proper documentation for previously added net_device_ops for FCoE
Add proper documentation for previously added net_device_ops ops for FCoE.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-03-11 01:17:50 -08:00
Tony Lindgren
94a06b74e7 Merge branch 'for_2.6.39/pm-misc' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-omap-pm into omap-for-linus 2011-03-10 18:54:14 -08:00
David S. Miller
1b7fe59322 ipv4: Kill flowi arg to fib_select_multipath()
Completely unused.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-10 17:03:45 -08:00
David S. Miller
dbdd9a52e3 ipv4: Remove redundant RCU locking in ip_check_mc().
All callers are under rcu_read_lock() protection already.

Rename to ip_check_mc_rcu() to make it even more clear.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-10 16:37:26 -08:00
David S. Miller
33175d84ee Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
2011-03-10 14:26:00 -08:00
Andy Adamson
114f64b5f2 NFSv4: remove duplicate clientid in struct nfs_client
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-10 15:05:00 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
bf294b41ce SUNRPC: Close a race in __rpc_wait_for_completion_task()
Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation
(i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck()
and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we
exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want
any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released.

For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(),
followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be
releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the
callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously.

This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that
rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of
__rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls
rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically.

In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing
waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between
the waiting process and rpciod.
The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by
checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task
reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock,
and immediately free up the rpc_task.

Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an
asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new
helper: rpc_put_task_async().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-10 15:04:52 -05:00
Ian Campbell
f4d0635bf8 xen: events: refactor GSI pirq bindings functions
Following the example set by xen_allocate_pirq_msi and
xen_bind_pirq_msi_to_irq:

xen_allocate_pirq becomes xen_allocate_pirq_gsi and now only allocates
a pirq number and does not bind it.

xen_map_pirq_gsi becomes xen_bind_pirq_gsi_to_irq and binds an
existing pirq.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:48:37 -05:00
Ian Campbell
76465b2daf xen: events: remove unused public functions
I was unable to find any user of these functions in either the
functionality pending for 2.6.39 or the xen/next-2.6.32 branch of
xen.git

An exception to this was xen_gsi_from_irq which did appear to be used
in xen/next-2.6.32's pciback. However in the 2.6.39 version of pciback
xen_pirq_from_irq is, correctly AFAICT, used instead.

Only a minority of functions in events.h use "extern" so drop it from
those places for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:48:35 -05:00
Ian Campbell
653378acdd xen: events: simplify comment
It is never valid assume any particular relationship between a Xen
PIRQ number and and Linux IRQ number so there is no need to hedge when
saying so.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:48:33 -05:00
Ian Campbell
71eef7d1e3 xen: events: remove dom0 specific xen_create_msi_irq
The function name does not distinguish it from xen_allocate_pirq_msi
(which operates on domU and pvhvm domains rather than dom0).

Hoist domain 0 specific functionality up into the only caller leaving
functionality common to all guest types in xen_bind_pirq_msi_to_irq.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:44:45 -05:00
Ian Campbell
ca1d8fe952 xen: events: use xen_bind_pirq_msi_to_irq from xen_create_msi_irq
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:44:44 -05:00
Ian Campbell
bf480d952b xen: events: separate MSI PIRQ allocation from PIRQ binding to IRQ
Split the binding aspect of xen_allocate_pirq_msi out into a new
xen_bind_pirq_to_irq function.

In xen_hvm_setup_msi_irq when allocating a pirq write the MSI message
to signal the PIRQ as soon as the pirq is obtained. There is no way to
free the pirq back so if the subsequent binding to an IRQ fails we
want to ensure that we will reuse the PIRQ next time rather than leak
it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:44:40 -05:00
Ian Campbell
4b41df7f6e xen: events: return irq from xen_allocate_pirq_msi
consistent with other similar functions.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:44:37 -05:00
Ian Campbell
bb5d079aef xen: events: drop XEN_ALLOC_IRQ flag to xen_allocate_pirq_msi
All callers pass this flag so it is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-03-10 14:44:35 -05:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
8054c3634c Merge branch 'stable/irq.rework' into stable/irq.cleanup
* stable/irq.rework:
  xen/irq: Cleanup up the pirq_to_irq for DomU PV PCI passthrough guests as well.
  xen: Use IRQF_FORCE_RESUME
  xen/timer: Missing IRQF_NO_SUSPEND in timer code broke suspend.
  xen: Fix compile error introduced by "switch to new irq_chip functions"
  xen: Switch to new irq_chip functions
  xen: Remove stale irq_chip.end
  xen: events: do not free legacy IRQs
  xen: events: allocate GSIs and dynamic IRQs from separate IRQ ranges.
  xen: events: add xen_allocate_irq_{dynamic, gsi} and xen_free_irq
  xen:events: move find_unbound_irq inside CONFIG_PCI_MSI
  xen: handled remapped IRQs when enabling a pcifront PCI device.
  genirq: Add IRQF_FORCE_RESUME
2011-03-10 14:41:43 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner
53370d2e8c hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation
We changed some of the state bits and combinations thereof over time,
but never updated the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-10 19:15:58 +01:00
David Sharp
ca9da2dd63 tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291421609-14665-10-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:31 -05:00
David Sharp
ad440ad66f tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291421609-14665-9-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:28 -05:00
David Sharp
b5e3008e48 tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291421609-14665-7-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e6e1e25935 tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.

This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:31:48 -05:00
Alexandre Courbot
3b0fd9d755 fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: add backlight support
Support for backlight devices controlled through board-specific
routines. Backlights can be defined per-channel and follow fbdev
directives to switch off as the LCD blanks or is turned on/off.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2011-03-10 20:20:57 +09:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
c5a9161979 drbd: Remove unused function atodb_endio()
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:48:15 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
cd88d030d4 drbd: Provide hints with the error message when clearing the sync pause flag
When the user clears the sync-pause flag, and sync stays in pause
state, give hints to the user, why it still is in pause state.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:47:58 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
2b8a90b555 drbd: Corrected off-by-one error in DRBD_MINOR_COUNT_MAX
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:45:31 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
c8b325632f drbd: Rename enum drbd_state_ret_codes to enum drbd_state_rv
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:36:18 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
116676ca62 drbd: Rename enum drbd_ret_codes to enum drbd_ret_code
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:36:16 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
2561b9c1f1 drbd: --force option for disconnect
As the network connection can be lost at any time, a --force option
for disconnect is just a matter of completeness.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:35:17 +01:00
Lars Ellenberg
42ff269d10 drbd: add packet_type 27 (return_code_only) to netlink api
In case we ever should add an other packet type,
we must not reuse 27, as that currently used for
"empty" return code only replies.
Document it as such.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:35:15 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
73a01a18b9 drbd: New packet for Ahead/Behind mode: P_OUT_OF_SYNC
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:34:48 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
67531718d8 drbd: Implemented two new connection states Ahead/Behind
In this connection mode, the ahead node no longer replicates
application IO. The behind's disk becomes out dated.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:34:46 +01:00
Philipp Reisner
422028b1ca drbd: New configuration parameters for dealing with network congestion
net {
    on_congestion {block|pull-ahead|disconnect};
    congestion-fill {sectors};
    congestion-extents {al-extents};
}

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2011-03-10 11:34:45 +01:00
Matt Carlson
d4894f3ea7 tg3: Add code to verify RODATA checksum of VPD
This patch adds code to verify the checksum stored in the "RV" info
keyword of the RODATA VPD section.

Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-10 01:56:12 -08:00
Jiro SEKIBA
4d3cf1bc55 nilfs2: move NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC to linux/magic.h
move NILFS_SUPER_MAGIC macro to linux/magic.h from linux/nilfs2_fs.h
in the same manner as other filesystem magic number defined in the file.

Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2011-03-10 17:29:40 +09:00
Jens Axboe
4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe
721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe
73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Jens Axboe
3cca6dc1c8 block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit
Currently we use plugging for that, but as plugging is going away,
we need an alternative mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ab02a95405 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules
2011-03-09 16:45:02 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
684adca4f8 sysctl: the include of rcupdate.h is only needed in the kernel
Fixes this build-check error:

  include/linux/sysctl.h:28: included file 'linux/rcupdate.h' is not exported

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-09 16:43:24 -08:00