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Fengguang Wu
c743d96b6d readahead: remove the old algorithm
Remove the old readahead algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Fengguang Wu
122a21d11c readahead: on-demand readahead logic
This is a minimal readahead algorithm that aims to replace the current one.
It is more flexible and reliable, while maintaining almost the same behavior
and performance.  Also it is full integrated with adaptive readahead.

It is designed to be called on demand:
	- on a missing page, to do synchronous readahead
	- on a lookahead page, to do asynchronous readahead

In this way it eliminated the awkward workarounds for cache hit/miss,
readahead thrashing, retried read, and unaligned read.  It also adopts the
data structure introduced by adaptive readahead, parameterizes readahead
pipelining with `lookahead_index', and reduces the current/ahead windows to
one single window.

HEURISTICS

The logic deals with four cases:

	- sequential-next
		found a consistent readahead window, so push it forward

	- random
		standalone small read, so read as is

	- sequential-first
		create a new readahead window for a sequential/oversize request

	- lookahead-clueless
		hit a lookahead page not associated with the readahead window,
		so create a new readahead window and ramp it up

In each case, three parameters are determined:

	- readahead index: where the next readahead begins
	- readahead size:  how much to readahead
	- lookahead size:  when to do the next readahead (for pipelining)

BEHAVIORS

The old behaviors are maximally preserved for trivial sequential/random reads.
Notable changes are:

	- It no longer imposes strict sequential checks.
	  It might help some interleaved cases, and clustered random reads.
	  It does introduce risks of a random lookahead hit triggering an
	  unexpected readahead. But in general it is more likely to do good
	  than to do evil.

	- Interleaved reads are supported in a minimal way.
	  Their chances of being detected and proper handled are still low.

	- Readahead thrashings are better handled.
	  The current readahead leads to tiny average I/O sizes, because it
	  never turn back for the thrashed pages.  They have to be fault in
	  by do_generic_mapping_read() one by one.  Whereas the on-demand
	  readahead will redo readahead for them.

OVERHEADS

The new code reduced the overheads of

	- excessively calling the readahead routine on small sized reads
	  (the current readahead code insists on seeing all requests)

	- doing a lot of pointless page-cache lookups for small cached files
	  (the current readahead only turns itself off after 256 cache hits,
	  unfortunately most files are < 1MB, so never see that chance)

That accounts for speedup of
	- 0.3% on 1-page sequential reads on sparse file
	- 1.2% on 1-page cache hot sequential reads
	- 3.2% on 256-page cache hot sequential reads
	- 1.3% on cache hot `tar /lib`

However, it does introduce one extra page-cache lookup per cache miss, which
impacts random reads slightly. That's 1% overheads for 1-page random reads on
sparse file.

PERFORMANCE

The basic benchmark setup is
	- 2.6.20 kernel with on-demand readahead
	- 1MB max readahead size
	- 2.9GHz Intel Core 2 CPU
	- 2GB memory
	- 160G/8M Hitachi SATA II 7200 RPM disk

The benchmarks show that
	- it maintains the same performance for trivial sequential/random reads
	- sysbench/OLTP performance on MySQL gains up to 8%
	- performance on readahead thrashing gains up to 3 times

iozone throughput (KB/s): roughly the same
==========================================
iozone -c -t1 -s 4096m -r 64k

			       2.6.20          on-demand      gain
first run
	  "  Initial write "   61437.27        64521.53      +5.0%
	  "        Rewrite "   47893.02        48335.20      +0.9%
	  "           Read "   62111.84        62141.49      +0.0%
	  "        Re-read "   62242.66        62193.17      -0.1%
	  "   Reverse Read "   50031.46        49989.79      -0.1%
	  "    Stride read "    8657.61         8652.81      -0.1%
	  "    Random read "   13914.28        13898.23      -0.1%
	  " Mixed workload "   19069.27        19033.32      -0.2%
	  "   Random write "   14849.80        14104.38      -5.0%
	  "         Pwrite "   62955.30        65701.57      +4.4%
	  "          Pread "   62209.99        62256.26      +0.1%

second run
	  "  Initial write "   60810.31        66258.69      +9.0%
	  "        Rewrite "   49373.89        57833.66     +17.1%
	  "           Read "   62059.39        62251.28      +0.3%
	  "        Re-read "   62264.32        62256.82      -0.0%
	  "   Reverse Read "   49970.96        50565.72      +1.2%
	  "    Stride read "    8654.81         8638.45      -0.2%
	  "    Random read "   13901.44        13949.91      +0.3%
	  " Mixed workload "   19041.32        19092.04      +0.3%
	  "   Random write "   14019.99        14161.72      +1.0%
	  "         Pwrite "   64121.67        68224.17      +6.4%
	  "          Pread "   62225.08        62274.28      +0.1%

In summary, writes are unstable, reads are pretty close on average:

			  access pattern  2.6.20  on-demand   gain
				   Read  62085.61  62196.38  +0.2%
				Re-read  62253.49  62224.99  -0.0%
			   Reverse Read  50001.21  50277.75  +0.6%
			    Stride read   8656.21   8645.63  -0.1%
			    Random read  13907.86  13924.07  +0.1%
	 		 Mixed workload  19055.29  19062.68  +0.0%
				  Pread  62217.53  62265.27  +0.1%

aio-stress: roughly the same
============================
aio-stress -l -s4096 -r128 -t1 -o1 knoppix511-dvd-cn.iso
aio-stress -l -s4096 -r128 -t1 -o3 knoppix511-dvd-cn.iso

					2.6.20      on-demand  delta
			sequential	 92.57s      92.54s    -0.0%
			random		311.87s     312.15s    +0.1%

sysbench fileio: roughly the same
=================================
sysbench --test=fileio --file-io-mode=async --file-test-mode=rndrw \
	 --file-total-size=4G --file-block-size=64K \
	 --num-threads=001 --max-requests=10000 --max-time=900 run

				threads    2.6.20   on-demand    delta
		first run
				      1   59.1974s    59.2262s  +0.0%
				      2   58.0575s    58.2269s  +0.3%
				      4   48.0545s    47.1164s  -2.0%
				      8   41.0684s    41.2229s  +0.4%
				     16   35.8817s    36.4448s  +1.6%
				     32   32.6614s    32.8240s  +0.5%
				     64   23.7601s    24.1481s  +1.6%
				    128   24.3719s    23.8225s  -2.3%
				    256   23.2366s    22.0488s  -5.1%

		second run
				      1   59.6720s    59.5671s  -0.2%
				      8   41.5158s    41.9541s  +1.1%
				     64   25.0200s    23.9634s  -4.2%
				    256   22.5491s    20.9486s  -7.1%

Note that the numbers are not very stable because of the writes.
The overall performance is close when we sum all seconds up:

                sum all up               495.046s    491.514s   -0.7%

sysbench oltp (trans/sec): up to 8% gain
========================================
sysbench --test=oltp --oltp-table-size=10000000 --oltp-read-only \
	 --mysql-socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
	 --mysql-user=root --mysql-password=readahead \
	 --num-threads=064 --max-requests=10000 --max-time=900 run

	10000-transactions run
				threads    2.6.20   on-demand    gain
				      1     62.81       64.56   +2.8%
				      2     67.97       70.93   +4.4%
				      4     81.81       85.87   +5.0%
				      8     94.60       97.89   +3.5%
				     16     99.07      104.68   +5.7%
				     32     95.93      104.28   +8.7%
				     64     96.48      103.68   +7.5%
	5000-transactions run
				      1     48.21       48.65   +0.9%
				      8     68.60       70.19   +2.3%
				     64     70.57       74.72   +5.9%
	2000-transactions run
				      1     37.57       38.04   +1.3%
				      2     38.43       38.99   +1.5%
				      4     45.39       46.45   +2.3%
				      8     51.64       52.36   +1.4%
				     16     54.39       55.18   +1.5%
				     32     52.13       54.49   +4.5%
				     64     54.13       54.61   +0.9%

That's interesting results. Some investigations show that
	- MySQL is accessing the db file non-uniformly: some parts are
	  more hot than others
	- It is mostly doing 4-page random reads, and sometimes doing two
	  reads in a row, the latter one triggers a 16-page readahead.
	- The on-demand readahead leaves many lookahead pages (flagged
	  PG_readahead) there. Many of them will be hit, and trigger
	  more readahead pages. Which might save more seeks.
	- Naturally, the readahead windows tend to lie in hot areas,
	  and the lookahead pages in hot areas is more likely to be hit.
	- The more overall read density, the more possible gain.

That also explains the adaptive readahead tricks for clustered random reads.

readahead thrashing: 3 times better
===================================
We boot kernel with "mem=128m single", and start a 100KB/s stream on every
second, until reaching 200 streams.

			      max throughput     min avg I/O size
		2.6.20:            5MB/s               16KB
		on-demand:        15MB/s              140KB

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Fengguang Wu
5ce1110b92 readahead: data structure and routines
Extend struct file_ra_state to support the on-demand readahead logic.  Also
define some helpers for it.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
Fengguang Wu
d77c2d7cc5 readahead: introduce PG_readahead
Introduce a new page flag: PG_readahead.

It acts as a look-ahead mark, which tells the page reader: Hey, it's time to
invoke the read-ahead logic.  For the sake of I/O pipelining, don't wait until
it runs out of cached pages!

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
David Brownell
2ba2d00363 AIO sparse fix (type of ki_flags)
Fix type issue reported by latest 'sparse': kiocb.ki_flags should be
"unsigned long" (not "long"), to match bitop type signature.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
e53252d97e unregister_chrdev() return void
unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value.  This patch makes it
return void like most unregister_* functions.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
Pavel Machek
77afcf78a2 PM: Integrate beeping flag with existing acpi_sleep flags
Move "debug during resume from s2ram" into the variable we already use
for real-mode flags to simplify code. It also closes nasty trap for
the user in acpi_sleep_setup; order of parameters actually mattered there,
acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode doing something different from
acpi_sleep=s3_mode,s3_bios.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
Nigel Cunningham
5a60d6235c PM: Optional beeping during resume from suspend to RAM
Add a feature allowing the user to make the system beep during a resume from
suspend to RAM, on x86_64 and i386.

This is useful for the users with broken resume from RAM, so that they can
verify if the control reaches the kernel after a wake-up event.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:43 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
bd804eba1c PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare
Introduce the pm_power_off_prepare() callback that can be registered by the
interested platforms in analogy with pm_idle() and pm_power_off(), used for
preparing the system to power off (needed by ACPI).

This allows us to drop acpi_sysclass and device_acpi that are only defined in
order to register the ACPI power off preparation callback, which is needed by
pm_power_off() registered in a much different way.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:42 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b10d911749 PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiers
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that
subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that
should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume()
routines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:42 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
0c1eecfb34 Freezer: avoid freezing kernel threads prematurely
Kernel threads should not have TIF_FREEZE set when user space processes are
being frozen, since otherwise some of them might be frozen prematurely.
To prevent this from happening we can (1) make exit_mm() unset TIF_FREEZE
unconditionally just after clearing tsk->mm and (2) make try_to_freeze_tasks()
check if p->mm is different from zero and PF_BORROWED_MM is unset in p->flags
when user space processes are to be frozen.

Namely, when user space processes are being frozen, we only should set
TIF_FREEZE for tasks that have p->mm different from NULL and don't have
PF_BORROWED_MM set in p->flags.  For this reason task_lock() must be used to
prevent try_to_freeze_tasks() from racing with use_mm()/unuse_mm(), in which
p->mm and p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM are changed under task_lock(p).  Also, we
need to prevent the following scenario from happening:

* daemonize() is called by a task spawned from a user space code path
* freezer checks if the task has p->mm set and the result is positive
* task enters exit_mm() and clears its TIF_FREEZE
* freezer sets TIF_FREEZE for the task
* task calls try_to_freeze() and goes to the refrigerator, which is wrong at
  that point

This requires us to acquire task_lock(p) before p->flags.PF_BORROWED_MM and
p->mm are examined and release it after TIF_FREEZE is set for p (or it turns
out that TIF_FREEZE should not be set).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:42 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
a634cc1016 swsusp: introduce restore platform operations
At least on some machines it is necessary to prepare the ACPI firmware for the
restoration of the system memory state from the hibernation image if the
"platform" mode of hibernation has been used.  Namely, in that cases we need
to disable the GPEs before replacing the "boot" kernel with the "frozen"
kernel (cf.  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7887).  After the
restore they will be re-enabled by hibernation_ops->finish(), but if the
restore fails, they have to be re-enabled by the restore code explicitly.

For this purpose we can introduce two additional hibernation operations,
called pre_restore() and restore_cleanup() and call them from the restore code
path.  Still, they should be called if the "platform" mode of hibernation has
been used, so we need to pass the information about the hibernation mode from
the "frozen" kernel to the "boot" kernel in the image header.

Apparently, we can't drop the disabling of GPEs before the restore because of
Bug #7887 .   We also can't do it unconditionally, because the GPEs wouldn't
have been enabled after a successful restore if the suspend had been done in
the 'shutdown' or 'reboot' mode.

In principle we could (and probably should) unconditionally disable the GPEs
before each snapshot creation *and* before the restore, but then we'd have to
unconditionally enable them after the snapshot creation as well as after the
restore (or restore failure)   Still, for this purpose we'd need to modify
acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep() and acpi_leave_sleep_state() and we'd have to
introduce some mechanism synchronizing the disablind/enabling of the GPEs with
the device drivers' .suspend()/.resume() routines and with
disable_/enable_nonboot_cpus().   However, this would have affected the
suspend (ie.  s2ram) code as well as the hibernation, which I'd like to avoid
in this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:42 -07:00
Mel Gorman
bb2d5ce164 Remove alloc_zeroed_user_highpage()
alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() has no in-tree users and it is not exported.
As it is not exported, it can simply be removed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Nick Piggin
83c54070ee mm: fault feedback #2
This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
however that would be for another patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Nick Piggin
d0217ac04c mm: fault feedback #1
Change ->fault prototype.  We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
 FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things.  This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).

This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.

struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.

The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Nick Piggin
54cb8821de mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.

->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
 But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).

Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.

This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.

The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.

After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.

NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Nick Piggin
d00806b183 mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings
Fix the race between invalidate_inode_pages and do_no_page.

Andrea Arcangeli identified a subtle race between invalidation of pages from
pagecache with userspace mappings, and do_no_page.

The issue is that invalidation has to shoot down all mappings to the page,
before it can be discarded from the pagecache.  Between shooting down ptes to
a particular page, and actually dropping the struct page from the pagecache,
do_no_page from any process might fault on that page and establish a new
mapping to the page just before it gets discarded from the pagecache.

The most common case where such invalidation is used is in file truncation.
This case was catered for by doing a sort of open-coded seqlock between the
file's i_size, and its truncate_count.

Truncation will decrease i_size, then increment truncate_count before
unmapping userspace pages; do_no_page will read truncate_count, then find the
page if it is within i_size, and then check truncate_count under the page
table lock and back out and retry if it had subsequently been changed (ptl
will serialise against unmapping, and ensure a potentially updated
truncate_count is actually visible).

Complexity and documentation issues aside, the locking protocol fails in the
case where we would like to invalidate pagecache inside i_size.  do_no_page
can come in anytime and filemap_nopage is not aware of the invalidation in
progress (as it is when it is outside i_size).  The end result is that
dangling (->mapping == NULL) pages that appear to be from a particular file
may be mapped into userspace with nonsense data.  Valid mappings to the same
place will see a different page.

Andrea implemented two working fixes, one using a real seqlock, another using
a page->flags bit.  He also proposed using the page lock in do_no_page, but
that was initially considered too heavyweight.  However, it is not a global or
per-file lock, and the page cacheline is modified in do_no_page to increment
_count and _mapcount anyway, so a further modification should not be a large
performance hit.  Scalability is not an issue.

This patch implements this latter approach.  ->nopage implementations return
with the page locked if it is possible for their underlying file to be
invalidated (in that case, they must set a special vm_flags bit to indicate
so).  do_no_page only unlocks the page after setting up the mapping
completely.  invalidation is excluded because it holds the page lock during
invalidation of each page (and ensures that the page is not mapped while
holding the lock).

This also allows significant simplifications in do_no_page, because we have
the page locked in the right place in the pagecache from the start.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce524c8360 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  eHEA: Fix bonding support
  Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver
  fix wrong argument of tc35815_read_plat_dev_addr()
  ARM/ETHER3: Handle multicast frames.
  SAA9730: Handle multicast frames.
  NI5010: Handle multicast frames.
  NS83820: Handle multicast frames.
  Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar
  Fix Vitesse RGMII-ID support
  Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes
  Fix Vitesse 824x PHY interrupt acking
  [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54
  [PATCH] zd1211rw: Add ID for Planex GW-US54GXS
  [PATCH] Update version ipw2200 stamp to 1.2.2
  [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_isr() comments error on shared IRQ
  [PATCH] Fix ipw2200 set wrong power parameter causing firmware error
  [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix `iwpriv set_power` error
  [PATCH] softmac: Channel is listed twice in scan output
2007-07-18 18:33:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
29e7ee378e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
  sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
  Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
  HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
  dev_vdbg() documentation
  dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
  sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
  sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
  Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
  sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
  PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
  PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
  Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
  debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint
2007-07-18 18:28:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fc15bc817e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/uio-2.6:
  UIO: Hilscher CIF card driver
  UIO: Documentation
  UIO: Add the User IO core code
2007-07-18 18:27:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a8dcf12f9e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  locks: fix vfs_test_lock() comment
  locks: make posix_test_lock() interface more consistent
  nfs: disable leases over NFS
  gfs2: stop giving out non-cluster-coherent leases
  locks: export setlease to filesystems
  locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases
  locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventions
  locks: share more common lease code
  locks: clean up lease_alloc()
  locks: convert an -EINVAL return to a BUG
  leases: minor break_lease() comment clarification
2007-07-18 18:27:00 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
6d34ac199a locks: make posix_test_lock() interface more consistent
Since posix_test_lock(), like fcntl() and ->lock(), indicates absence or
presence of a conflict lock by setting fl_type to, respectively, F_UNLCK
or something other than F_UNLCK, the return value is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18 19:17:19 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
4698afe8e3 locks: export setlease to filesystems
Export setlease so it can used by filesystems to implement their lease
methods.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18 19:17:06 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
f9ffed26d6 locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases
Currently leases are only kept locally, so there's no way for a distributed
filesystem to enforce them against multiple clients.  We're particularly
interested in the case of nfsd exporting a cluster filesystem, in which
case nfsd needs cluster-coherent leases in order to implement delegations
correctly.

Also add some documentation.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18 19:14:47 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
a9933cea7a locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventions
We've been using the convention that vfs_foo is the function that calls
a filesystem-specific foo method if it exists, or falls back on a
generic method if it doesn't; thus vfs_foo is what is called when some
other part of the kernel (normally lockd or nfsd) wants to get a lock,
whereas foo is what filesystems call to use the underlying local
functionality as part of their lock implementation.

So rename setlease to vfs_setlease (which will call a
filesystem-specific setlease after a later patch) and __setlease to
setlease.

Also, vfs_setlease need only be GPL-exported as long as it's only needed
by lockd and nfsd.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-18 19:14:12 -04:00
Hans J. Koch
beafc54c4e UIO: Add the User IO core code
This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in
userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself.
It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to
process interrupts and control memory accesses.

See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this
interface.

From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:57:15 -07:00
David Brownell
aebdc3b450 dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
This defines a dev_vdbg() call, which is enabled with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG.
When enabled, dev_vdbg() acts just like dev_dbg().  When disabled, it is a
NOP ...  just like dev_dbg() without -DDEBUG.  The specific code was moved
out of a USB patch, but lots of drivers have similar support.

That is, code can now be written to use an additional level of debug
output, selected at compile time.  Many driver authors have found this
idiom to be very useful.  A typical usage model is for "normal" debug
messages to focus on fault paths and not be very "chatty", so that those
messages can be left on during normal operation without much of a
performance or syslog load.  On the other hand "verbose" messages would be
noisy enough that they wouldn't normally be enabled; they might even affect
timings enough to change system or driver behavior.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
Alan Stern
3f8df781fc PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core.  The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Kay Sievers
60a96a5956 Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be
triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent.


Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Andy Fleming
7132ab7f6e Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar
The TSEC/eTSEC can detect the interface to the PHY automatically,
but it isn't able to detect whether the RGMII connection needs internal
delay.  So we need to detect that change in the device tree, propagate
it to the platform data, and then check it if we're in RGMII.  This fixes
a bug on the 8641D HPCN board where the Vitesse PHY doesn't use the delay
for RGMII.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
2007-07-18 18:29:37 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5bae7ac9fe Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
  [AVR32] Initialize phy_mask for both macb devices
  [AVR32] Fix atomic_add_unless() and atomic_sub_unless()
  [AVR32] Correct misspelled CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD variable.
  [AVR32] Fix build error in parse_tag_rdimg()
  [AVR32] Don't wire up macb0 unless SW6 is in default position
  [AVR32] Wire up SSC platform device 0 as TX on ATSTK1000 board
  [AVR32] Add Atmel SSC driver platform device to AT32AP architecture
  [AVR32] Remove optimization of unaligned word loads
  [AVR32] Make STK1000 mux settings configurable
  [AVR32] CPU frequency scaling for AT32AP
  [AVR32] Split SM device into PM, RTC, WDT and EIC
  [AVR32] faster avr32 unaligned access
2007-07-18 12:57:52 -07:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
3da86ee4f1 [AVR32] Fix atomic_add_unless() and atomic_sub_unless()
These functions depend on "result" being initalized to 0, but "result"
is not included as an input constraint to the inline assembly block
following its initialization, only as an output constraint. Thus gcc
thinks it doesn't need to initialize it, so result ends up undefined
if the "unless" condition is true.

This fixes an oops in sunrpc where the faulty atomics caused
rpciod_up() to not start the workqueue as it should.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18 20:47:04 +02:00
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
9cf6cf58d0 [AVR32] Add Atmel SSC driver platform device to AT32AP architecture
This patch adds register definitions, clocks and IRQs to the platform devices.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18 20:45:52 +02:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
e122eaf694 [AVR32] Remove optimization of unaligned word loads
If we let unaligned word loads bypass the generic unaligned handling,
gcc may combine it with a swap.b instruction and turn it into a ldwsp
instruction, which does not work with unaligned addresses.

Revert the optimization to prevent the RNDIS driver from crashing.
Hopefully we'll figure something out later (it may be better to do the
optimization in gcc.)

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18 20:45:51 +02:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
7a5b805907 [AVR32] Split SM device into PM, RTC, WDT and EIC
Split the SM platform device into separate platform devices for PM,
RTC, WDT and EIC. This is more correct according to the documentation
and allows us to simplify the code a little.

Also turn the EIC driver into a real platform driver.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
2007-07-18 20:45:51 +02:00
David Brownell
c6083cd61b [AVR32] faster avr32 unaligned access
Use a more conventional implementation for unaligned access, and include
an AT32AP-specific optimization:  the CPU will handle unaligned words.

The result is always faster and smaller for 8, 16, and 32 bit values.
For 64 bit quantities, it's presumably larger.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-07-18 20:45:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a267c0a887 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (126 commits)
  V4L/DVB (5847): Clean up schedule_timeout calls in cpia2 and ivtv code
  V4L/DVB (5846): Clean up setting state and scheduling timeouts
  V4L/DVB (5844): ivtv: add high volume debugging flag
  V4L/DVB (5843): ivtv: fix missing signal_pending check.
  V4L/DVB (5842): ivtv: Add locking to ensure stream setup is atomic.
  V4L/DVB (5841): tveeprom: add support for Philips FQ1216LME MK3 tuner.
  V4L/DVB (5840): fix dst and cx24123: tune() callback changed signess for delay
  V4L/DVB (5838): dvb-core: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22)
  V4L/DVB (5837): stv0299: Fix signedness warning (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22)
  V4L/DVB (5836): dvb-ttpci: re-initialize aspect ratio and pan scan after arm crash
  V4L/DVB (5835): saa7146/dvb-ttpci: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22)
  V4L/DVB (5834): dvb-core: fix signedness warnings and const stripping
  V4L/DVB (5832): ir-common: optimize bit extract function
  V4L/DVB (5831): stradis: use ARRAY_SIZE
  V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb update
  V4L/DVB (5828): Kconfig: Added GemTek USB radio and removed experimental dependency.
  V4L/DVB (5826): Usbvision: video mux cleanup
  V4L/DVB (5825): Alter the tuner type for the WinTV USB UK PAL model.
  V4L/DVB (5824): Usbvision: Hauppauge WinTV USB SECAM_L fix
  V4L/DVB (5821): Saa7134: add remote control support for LifeView FlyDVB-S LR300
  ...
2007-07-18 11:25:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d756d10e24 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: extent macros cleanup
  Fix compilation with EXT_DEBUG, also fix leXX_to_cpu conversions.
  ext4: remove extra IS_RDONLY() check
  ext4: Use is_power_of_2()
  Use zero_user_page() in ext4 where possible
  ext4: Remove 65000 subdirectory limit
  ext4: Expand extra_inodes space per the s_{want,min}_extra_isize fields 
  ext4: Add nanosecond timestamps
  jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs
  jbd2: Fix CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG ifdef to be CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
  ext4: Set the journal JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT on large devices
  ext4: Make extents code sanely handle on-disk corruption
  ext4: copy i_flags to inode flags on write
  ext4: Enable extents by default
  Change on-disk format to support 2^15 uninitialized extents
  write support for preallocated blocks
  fallocate support in ext4
  sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc
2007-07-18 10:32:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cdf4a6482d Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6
* 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6: (28 commits)
  UBI: fix compile warning
  UBI: fix error handling in erase worker
  UBI: fix comments
  UBI: remove unneeded error checks
  UBI: cleanup usage of try_module_get
  UBI: fix overflow bug
  UBI: bugfix in max_sqnum calculation
  UBI: bugfix in sqnum calculation
  UBI: fix signed-unsigned multiplication
  UBI: fix bug in atomic_leb_change()
  UBI: fix message
  UBI: fix debugging stuff
  UBI: bugfix in error path
  UBI: use is_power_of_2()
  UBI: fix freeing ubi->vtbl while unloading
  UBI: fix MAINTAINERS
  UBI: bugfix in ubi_leb_change()
  UBI: kill homegrown endian macros
  UBI: cleanup ioctl handling
  UBI: error path bugfix
  ...
2007-07-18 10:27:24 -07:00
Oliver Endriss
804b445894 V4L/DVB (5835): saa7146/dvb-ttpci: Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22)
Fix signedness warnings (gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.22).

Signed-off-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:44 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
485cf925d8 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: xt_connlimit needs to depend on nf_conntrack
  [NETFILTER]: ipt_iprange.h must #include <linux/types.h>
  [IrDA]: Fix IrDA build failure
  [ATM]: nicstar needs virt_to_bus
  [NET]: move __dev_addr_discard adjacent to dev_addr_discard for readability
  [NET]: merge dev_unicast_discard and dev_mc_discard into one
  [NET]: move dev_mc_discard from dev_mcast.c to dev.c
  [NETLINK]: negative groups in netlink_setsockopt
  [PPPOL2TP]: Reset meta-data in xmit function
  [PPPOL2TP]: Fix use-after-free
  [PKT_SCHED]: Some typo fixes in net/sched/Kconfig
  [XFRM]: Fix crash introduced by struct dst_entry reordering
  [TCP]: remove unused argument to cong_avoid op
  [ATM]: [idt77252] Rename CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_SEND_IDLE to not resemble a Kconfig variable
  [ATM]: [drivers] ioremap balanced with iounmap
  [ATM]: [lanai] sram_test_word() must be __devinit
  [ATM]: [nicstar] Replace C code with call to ARRAY_SIZE() macro.
  [ATM]: Eliminate dead config variable CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS.
  [ATM]: Replacing kmalloc/memset combination with kzalloc.
  [NET]: gen_estimator deadlock fix
  ...
2007-07-18 10:24:36 -07:00
Michael Krufky
8218b0b2ca V4L/DVB (5793): Tuner: remove hardware-specific info from public header
Move internal structures and debug macros to drivers/media/video/tuner-driver.h

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:23 -03:00
Michael Krufky
7a91a80a0d V4L/DVB (5753): Tuner: create struct tuner_operations
Move tuner callback function pointers out of struct tuner, into
struct tuner_operations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:02 -03:00
Michael Krufky
be2b85a135 V4L/DVB (5741): Tuner: add release callback
Individual tuner drivers are now allocating memory themselves for
their own private data structures.  This changeset adds a release
callback to the tuner operations, so that newer drivers that may
require more complex data structures may release this private data
themselves.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:54 -03:00
Michael Krufky
b208319993 V4L/DVB (5719): Tuner: Move device-specific private data out of tuner struct
Create private data struct for device specific private data.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:48 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
31bdc5dc76 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Set vio->desc_buf to NULL after freeing.
  [SPARC]: Mark sparc and sparc64 as not having virt_to_bus
  [SPARC64]: Fix reset handling in VNET driver.
  [SPARC64]: Handle reset events in vio_link_state_change().
  [SPARC64]: Handle LDC resets properly in domain-services driver.
  [SPARC64]: Massively simplify VIO device layer and support hot add/remove.
  [SPARC64]: Simplify VNET probing.
  [SPARC64]: Simplify VDC device probing.
  [SPARC64]: Add basic infrastructure for MD add/remove notification.
2007-07-18 10:23:37 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8573a9e6a8 V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tuner
This driver were made based on tea5761 specs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:11 -03:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
60223a326f xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memory
An experimental patch for Xen allows guests to place their vcpu_info
structs anywhere.  We try to use this to place the vcpu_info into the
PDA, which allows direct access.

If this works, then switch to using direct access operations for
irq_enable, disable, save_fl and restore_fl.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9f27ee5950 xen: add virtual block device driver.
The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
block device driver.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
4bac07c993 xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver
This communicates with the machine control software via a registry
residing in a controlling virtual machine. This allows dynamic
creation, destruction and modification of virtual device
configurations (network devices, block devices and CPUS, to name some
examples).

[ Greg, would you mind giving this a review?  Thanks -J ]

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00