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2017-08-23nullb: add configfs interfaceShaohua Li
Add configfs interface for nullb. configfs interface is more flexible and easy to configure in a per-disk basis. Configuration is something like this: mount -t configfs none /mnt Checking which features the driver supports: cat /mnt/nullb/features The 'features' attribute is for future extension. We probably will add new features into the driver, userspace can check this attribute to find the supported features. Create/remove a device: mkdir/rmdir /mnt/nullb/a Then configure the device by setting attributes under /mnt/nullb/a, most of nullb supported module parameters are converted to attributes: size; /* device size in MB */ completion_nsec; /* time in ns to complete a request */ submit_queues; /* number of submission queues */ home_node; /* home node for the device */ queue_mode; /* block interface */ blocksize; /* block size */ irqmode; /* IRQ completion handler */ hw_queue_depth; /* queue depth */ use_lightnvm; /* register as a LightNVM device */ blocking; /* blocking blk-mq device */ use_per_node_hctx; /* use per-node allocation for hardware context */ Note, creating a device doesn't create a disk immediately. Creating a disk is done in two phases: create a device and then power on the device. Next patch will introduce device power on. Based on original patch from Kyungchan Koh Signed-off-by: Kyungchan Koh <kkc6196@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-05-05Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last couple days, but the whole set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot. Change summary: - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of namespace modes or state. This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error" requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus devices. - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations. This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent memory support. - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event. Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally, fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for -stable. - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM payload debug available by default, and various fixes. Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock": Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com> - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing" Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>" * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits) libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking" libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison() libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush() libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem() block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access() block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access() filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access() Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads" ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations ...
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver() init/main: properly align the multi-line comment init/main: Fix double "the" in comment Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org drivers: Clean up duplicated email address treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall" selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/ HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/ net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo UBI: Fix typos Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment treewide: Fix typos in printk
2017-04-24virtio_blk: Fix English description of VIRTIO_BLK_SCSIJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Fixes: 97b50a654d5d ("virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable") Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-19brd: add dax_operations supportDan Williams
Setup a dax_inode to have the same lifetime as the brd block device and add a ->direct_access() method that is equivalent to brd_direct_access(). Once fs/dax.c has been converted to use dax_operations the old brd_direct_access() will be removed. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-04-19block: remove the osdblk driverChristoph Hellwig
This was just a proof of concept user for the SCSI OSD library, and never had any real users. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-14remove the mg_disk driverChristoph Hellwig
This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver. It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-05remove the obsolete hd driverChristoph Hellwig
This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere in the kernel these days. It's also been marked broken forever. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.orgSeongJae Park
URLs to ftp.kernel.org are still exist though the service is closed [0]. This commit fixes the URLs to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-01-31virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurableChristoph Hellwig
The SCSI passthrough idea was a a bad idea to start with (guess who came up with it?), and has been removed from the virtio 1.O spec, and is not enabled by defauly by any host I know of. Add a separate config option for it so that we don't need to enable it for most setups. That way any bugs related to it (like the one recently fixed for vmapped stacks) do not affect other users, and the size of the virtblk_req structure also shrinks significantly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-31block: make scsi_request and scsi ioctl support optionalChristoph Hellwig
We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio. And at least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with. This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use, say eMMC a bit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-21pktcdvd: mark as unmaintained and deprecatedJens Axboe
This driver is both orphaned, and not really useful anymore. Mark it as such, and remove it in a future kernel after a release or two. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-14cpqarray: remove it from the kernelJens Axboe
We disabled the ability to enable this driver back in October of 2013, we should be able to safely remove it at this point. The initial goal was to remove it in 3.15, so now is the time. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-09nvme: move to a new drivers/nvme/host directoryJay Sternberg
This patch moves the NVMe driver from drivers/block/ to its own new drivers/nvme/host/ directory. This is in preparation of splitting the current monolithic driver up and add support for the upcoming NVMe over Fabrics standard. The drivers/nvme/host/ is chose to leave space for a NVMe target implementation in addition to this host side driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com> [hch: rebased, renamed core.c to pci.c, slight tweaks] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-24libnvdimm, pmem: move pmem to drivers/nvdimm/Dan Williams
Prepare the pmem driver to consume PMEM namespaces emitted by regions of an nvdimm_bus instance. No functional change. Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-04-01drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memoryRoss Zwisler
PMEM is a new driver that presents a reserved range of memory as a block device. This is useful for developing with NV-DIMMs, and can be used with volatile memory as a development platform. This patch contains the initial driver from Ross Zwisler, with various changes: converted it to use a platform_device for discovery, fixed partition support and merged various patches from Boaz Harrosh. Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427872339-6688-3-git-send-email-hch@lst.de [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-16brd: rename XIP to DAXMatthew Wilcox
Since this is relating to FS_XIP, not KERNEL_XIP, it should be called DAX instead of XIP. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-30zram: promote zram from stagingMinchan Kim
Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice. The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and recently our production team released android smart phone with zram which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs. In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example, Lubuntu start to use it. The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could encounter OOM kill. :( Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap storage performance. Quote from Luigi on Google "Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the available RAM. " and he announced. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on the internet start zram as /var/tmp. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23drivers/block/Kconfig: update RAM block device module nameFabian Frederick
RAM block device support module name changed to brd.ko some years ago with an "rd" alias to match previous module implementation. This patch updates its Kconfig definition. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-14Merge branch 'for-3.13/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the block driver pull request for 3.13. As with the core pull request just sent out, this was rebased on top of the core branch again after the immutable series was pulled. This also means that bcache gets to sit the initial pull over. I will send a second driver pull request in the merge window to get those fixes in, once they have been rebased and tested on top of the non-immutable stack. This pull request contains: - Add support for the sTec Kronos pci-e flash card from sTec. Also has various cleanups for this driver, from myself, Bart, Mike Snizter, and Wei Yongjun. - Add surprise removal support for the micron mtip32xx driver from Micron. - Floppy documentation fix from Ben Harris. - debugfs bug fix for pktcdvd from Dan Carpenter. - Fix for the mtip32xx driver stack usage in the debugfs path, dynamically allocating those buffers instead. From David Milburn. - Disable cpqarray in Kconfig. The plan is to remove it on request of HP, but lets disable it for a few revisions just to see if anyone yells. - drbd fixes from Lars Ellenberg and Philipp Reisner. - Elevator switch fix for the s390 block driver from Heiko Carstens. - loop crash fix on IO to unassigned device from Mikulas Patocka. - A series of bug fixes for the IBM rsxx pci-e flash driver from Philip J Kelleher. - cciss probe fix from Stephen Cameron. - Xen block front/back fixes from Roger Pau Monne and Vegard Nossum" * 'for-3.13/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (41 commits) floppy: Correct documentation of driver options when used as a module. pktcdvd: debugfs functions return NULL on error xen-blkfront: restore the non-persistent data path skd: fix formatting in skd_s1120.h skd: reorder construct/destruct code skd: cleanup skd_do_inq_page_da() skd: remove SKD_OMIT_FROM_SRC_DIST ifdefs skd: remove redundant skdev->pdev assignment from skd_pci_probe() skd: use <asm/unaligned.h> skd: remove SCSI subsystem specific includes skd: register block device only if some devices are present skd: fix error messages in skd_init() skd: fix error paths in skd_init() skd: fix unregister_blkdev() placement skd: more removal of bio-based code skd: cleanup the skd_*() function block wrapping skd: rip out bio path skd: fix error return code in skd_pci_probe() s390/dasd: hold request queue sysfs lock when calling elevator_init() cciss: return 0 from driver probe function on success, not 1 ...
2013-11-14Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for 3.13. It contains: - The new blk-mq request interface. This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the best part of the request based interface we currently have (which is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface" which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because it's much faster than the request based one. The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into the stack much earlier. This means that drivers end up having to implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging, timeout handling, requeue, etc. The blk-mq interface provides all these. Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads. This is a huge mess. Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code reduction. Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices. So while the model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well. This code has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready to go. A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled for 3.14 conversion. - Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang. - A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost. - Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter. - Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven. - A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout handling from Jeff Moyer. This is what caused the merge conflict with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that. - A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer. - A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent Overstreet. - A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop crash and memory corruption on blk cg. - Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama. A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch. Initially the immutable bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet. So the decision was made to pull this out and postpone it until 3.14. It was a straight forward rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of problems with it. The rest of the patches applied directly and no further changes were made" * 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits) block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup() block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector() block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change() elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses bdi: test bdi_init failure block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set blk-mq: mq plug list breakage blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock ...
2013-11-08block: disable cpqarray in KconfigJens Axboe
Mike writes: "cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP." If nobody yells, we'll remove it from the kernel tree completely for 3.15. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08Add support for sTec's pci-e flash card KronosAkhil Bhansali
Signed-off-by: Akhil Bhansali <abhansali@stec-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Ramprasad Chinthekindi <rchinthekindi@stec-inc.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Folded patch, contributions to clean up this driver from: Jens Axboe Dan Carpenter Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25null_blk: multi queue aware block test driverJens Axboe
A driver that simply completes IO it receives, it does no transfers. Written to fascilitate testing of the blk-mq code. It supports various module options to use either bio queueing, rq queueing, or mq mode. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-25block: drop dependency on ARCH_SHARKLinus Walleij
With this machine deleted, there is no need to maintain the MFM block driver for its hard disk either. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2013-06-19rsxx: Changing the adapter name to the official name.Philip J Kelleher
Changing the adapter name from FlashSystem-80 to the official name: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-11block: IBM RamSan 70/80 branding changes.Philip J Kelleher
This patch includes changing the hardware branding name from IBM RamSan to IBM FlashSystem. v2 Changes include: o Removing the unnecessary IBM Vendor ID #define v1 Changes include: o Changed all references of RamSan to FlashSystem. o Changed the vendor/device IDs for the product. o Changed driver version number. o Updated the MAINTAINERS file. o Various other little things. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'delete-xt-disk' of ↵Jens Axboe
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux into for-3.9/drivers Paul writes: Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c). As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well over a decade. The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)
2013-02-05block: IBM RamSan 70/80 device driverjosh.h.morris@us.ibm.com
This patch includes the device driver for the IBM RamSan family of PCI SSD flash storage cards. This driver will include support for the RamSan 70 and 80. The driver presents a block device for device I/O. Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-04block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardwarePaul Gortmaker
This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1 interleave, giving performance on the order of 128kB/s. By the introduction of the PC-AT (286) these controllers were already scrapped in favour of 16 bit controllers with some onboard RAM that could support a 1:1 interleave. The git history doesn't show any evidence of runtime fixes that would reflect active usage; instead just the usual tree-wide API type changes/cleanups. Going back to in-source changelogs, the last "runtime" fix that is evident is something I did over a dozen years ago[1] -- and even back then, the hardware was long since unavailable, so that ancient fix was also not runtime tested. The time is long overdue for this to get flushed, so lets get rid of it before anyone wastes more time doing builds and sparse checks etc. on long since dead code. [1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.2/0027.html Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-10-30cciss: select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATUREAkinobu Mita
The patch cciss-use-check_signature.patch in -mm tree introduced a build error: drivers/built-in.o: In function `CISS_signature_present': drivers/block/cciss.c:4270: undefined reference to `check_signature' Add missing CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to fix this issue. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-10-23drivers/block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it. CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> CC: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> CC: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-05block: remove the deprecated ub driverCong Wang
It was scheduled to be removed in 3.6. Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-16usb/ub: deprecate & schedule for removal the "Low Performance USB Block" driverSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Deprecate this driver. All devices which can be handled by this driver can also be handled by the usb-storage driver. Acked-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-01-18Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvmeLinus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvme: (105 commits) NVMe: Set number of queues correctly NVMe: Version 0.8 NVMe: Set queue flags correctly NVMe: Simplify nvme_unmap_user_pages NVMe: Mark the end of the sg list NVMe: Fix DMA mapping for admin commands NVMe: Rename IO_TIMEOUT to NVME_IO_TIMEOUT NVMe: Merge the nvme_bio and nvme_prp data structures NVMe: Change nvme_completion_fn to take a dev NVMe: Change get_nvmeq to take a dev instead of a namespace NVMe: Simplify completion handling NVMe: Update Identify Controller data structure NVMe: Implement doorbell stride capability NVMe: Version 0.7 NVMe: Don't probe namespace 0 Fix calculation of number of pages in a PRP List NVMe: Create nvme_identify and nvme_get_features functions NVMe: Fix memory leak in nvme_dev_add() NVMe: Fix calls to dma_unmap_sg NVMe: Correct sg list setup in nvme_map_user_pages ...
2011-11-05block: Add driver for Micron RealSSD pcie flash cardsSam Bradshaw
This adds mtip32xx, a driver supporting Microns line of pci-express flash storage cards. Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-11-04NVMe: New driverMatthew Wilcox
This driver is for devices that follow the NVM Express standard Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
2011-08-09Merge branch 'stable/for-jens' of ↵Jens Axboe
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus
2011-08-09xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
With the frontend having Xen but the backend not, it just looks odd: <*> Xen virtual block device support <*> Block-device backend driver Fix it to have the 'Xen' in front of it. Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-07-31loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop ↵Kay Sievers
devices Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services, even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0 loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic /dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free devices. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-12xen/blkback: Flesh out the description in the Kconfig.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
with more details. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-04-18xen/blkback: Move it from drivers/xen to drivers/blockKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
.. and modify the Makefile and Kconfig files appropriately. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-05xen: separate out frontend xenbusIan Campbell
Impact: refactor Make a distinct frontend xenbus, in preparation for adding a backend xenbus. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> [corresponds to 2fd433a4188f in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git with adjustments to reflect changes in the code which is moved] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2010-10-20rbd: introduce rados block device (rbd), based on libcephYehuda Sadeh
The rados block device (rbd), based on osdblk, creates a block device that is backed by objects stored in the Ceph distributed object storage cluster. Each device consists of a single metadata object and data striped over many data objects. The rbd driver supports read-only snapshots. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2010-05-11paride: fix menu indentationRandy Dunlap
Make the PARIDE menu be displayed correctly, with proper/expected indentation, by moving the GDROM kconfig symbol, which was splitting the PARIDE kconfig symbol from its dependent symbols. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01The DRBD driverPhilipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
2009-06-24osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objectsJeff Garzik
Submitted driver exports a block device of the form /dev/osdblkX, where X is a decimal number. It does that by mounting a stacking block device on top of an osd object. For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device, you can then use this module to present that 2G object as a Linux block device. See inside patch for exact documentation. [Sitting at linux-next helped fix proper Kconfig dependency for this driver, thanks to Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
2009-06-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (55 commits) microblaze: Don't use access_ok for unaligned microblaze: remove unused flat_stack_align() definition microblaze: Fix problem with early_printk in startup microblaze_mmu_v2: Makefiles microblaze_mmu_v2: Kconfig update microblaze_mmu_v2: stat.h MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Elf update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update dma.h for MMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Update cacheflush.h microblaze_mmu_v2: Update signal returning address microblaze_mmu_v2: Traps MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Enable fork syscall for MMU and add fork as vfork for noMMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Update linker script for MMU microblaze_mmu_v2: Add MMU related exceptions handling microblaze_mmu_v2: uaccess MMU update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update exception handling - MMU exception microblaze_mmu_v2: entry.S, entry.h microblaze_mmu_v2: Add CURRENT_TASK for entry.S microblaze_mmu_v2: MMU asm offset update microblaze_mmu_v2: Update tlb.h and tlbflush.h ...
2009-06-12trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module namesPavel Machek
.ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>