On a KVM guest, when a CPU is taken offline and brought back online, we hit
the following NULL pointer dereference:

[   45.400843] Unregister pv shared memory for cpu 1
[   45.412331] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[   45.529894] SMP alternatives: lockdep: fixing up alternatives
[   45.533472] smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
[   45.411526] kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 0:7d14601, secondary cpu clock
[   45.571370] KVM setup async PF for cpu 1
[   45.572331] kvm-stealtime: cpu 1, msr 7d0e040
[   45.575031] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
[   45.576017] IP: [<ffffffff81519f98>] cpuidle_disable_device+0x18/0x80
[   45.576017] PGD 5dfb067 PUD 5da8067 PMD 0
[   45.576017] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   45.576017] Modules linked in:
[   45.576017] CPU 0
[   45.576017] Pid: 607, comm: stress_cpu_hotp Not tainted 3.6.0-padata-tp-debug #3 Bochs Bochs
[   45.576017] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81519f98>]  [<ffffffff81519f98>] cpuidle_disable_device+0x18/0x80
[   45.576017] RSP: 0018:ffff880005d93ce8  EFLAGS: 00010286
[   45.576017] RAX: ffff880005d93fd8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006
[   45.576017] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 2222222222222222 RDI: 0000000000000000
[   45.576017] RBP: ffff880005d93cf8 R08: 2222222222222222 R09: 2222222222222222
[   45.576017] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   45.576017] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff81c8cca0 R15: 0000000000000001
[   45.576017] FS:  00007f91936ae700(0000) GS:ffff880007c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   45.576017] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   45.576017] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000005db3000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   45.576017] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   45.576017] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   45.576017] Process stress_cpu_hotp (pid: 607, threadinfo ffff880005d92000, task ffff8800066bbf40)
[   45.576017] Stack:
[   45.576017]  ffff880007a96400 0000000000000000 ffff880005d93d28 ffffffff813ac689
[   45.576017]  ffff880007a96400 ffff880007a96400 0000000000000002 ffffffff81cd8d01
[   45.576017]  ffff880005d93d58 ffffffff813aa498 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffdd
[   45.576017] Call Trace:
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff813ac689>] acpi_processor_hotplug+0x55/0x97
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff813aa498>] acpi_cpu_soft_notify+0x93/0xce
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff816ae47d>] notifier_call_chain+0x5d/0x110
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff8109730e>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff81069050>] __cpu_notify+0x20/0x40
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff81069085>] cpu_notify+0x15/0x20
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff816978f1>] _cpu_up+0xee/0x137
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff81697983>] cpu_up+0x49/0x59
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff8168758d>] store_online+0x9d/0xe0
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff8140a9f8>] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff812322c0>] sysfs_write_file+0xe0/0x150
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff811b389c>] vfs_write+0xac/0x180
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff811b3be2>] sys_write+0x52/0xa0
[   45.576017]  [<ffffffff816b31e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   45.576017] Code: 48 c7 c7 40 e5 ca 81 e8 07 d0 18 00 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 48 89 5d f0 4c 89 65 f8 48 89 fb <f6> 07 02 75 13 48 8b 5d f0 4c 8b 65 f8 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00
[   45.576017] RIP  [<ffffffff81519f98>] cpuidle_disable_device+0x18/0x80
[   45.576017]  RSP <ffff880005d93ce8>
[   45.576017] CR2: 0000000000000000
[   45.656079] ---[ end trace 433d6c9ac0b02cef ]---

Analysis:
Commit 3d339dcb (cpuidle / ACPI : move cpuidle_device field out of the
acpi_processor_power structure()) made the allocation of the dev structure
(struct cpuidle) of a CPU dynamic, whereas previously it was statically
allocated. And this dynamic allocation occurs in acpi_processor_power_init()
if pr->flags.power evaluates to non-zero.

On KVM guests, pr->flags.power evaluates to zero, hence dev is never
allocated. This causes the NULL pointer (dev) dereference in
cpuidle_disable_device() during a subsequent CPU online operation. Fix this
by ensuring that dev is non-NULL before dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.

dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
Signed-off-by: NWei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Add support to export the device description obtained from the ACPI _STR
method, if one exists for a device, to user-space via a sysfs interface.
This new interface provides a standard and platform neutral way for users
to obtain the description text stored in the ACPI _STR method.  If no
_STR method exists for the device, no sysfs 'description' file will be
created.  The 'description' file will be located in the /sys/devices/
directory using the device's path.

/sys/device/<bus>/<bridge path>/<device path>.../firmware_node/description

Example:

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00.07.0/0000:0e:00.0/firmware_node/description

It can also be located using the ACPI device path, for example:

/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0004:00/PNP0A08:00/device:13/device:15/description
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/ACPI0004:00/ACPI0004:01/ACPI0007:02/description

Execute the 'cat' command on the 'description' file to obtain the
description string for that device.

This patch also includes documentation describing how the new sysfs
interface works

Changes from v1-v2 based on comments by Len Brown and Fengguang Wu
* Removed output "No Description" and leaving a NULL attribute if the
_STR method failed to evaluate.

* In acpi_device_remove_files() removed the redundent check of
dev->pnp.str_obj before calling free.  This check triggered a message
from smatch.
Signed-off-by: NLance Ortiz <lance.ortiz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Parsing acpi table entries may fall into an infinite loop on a buggy BIOS
which has entry length=0 in acpi table.

Instead of kernel hang with few failure clue which leads to heavy lifting debug
effort, this patch hardens kernel boot by booting into non NUMA mode. The debug
info left in log buffer helps people identify the issue.
Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

By enlarging the GPE storm threshold back to 20, that laptop's
EC works fine with interrupt mode instead of polling mode.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45151Reported-and-Tested-by: NFrancesco <trentini@dei.unipd.it>
Signed-off-by: NFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

The Linux EC driver includes a mechanism to detect GPE storms,
and switch from interrupt-mode to polling mode.  However, polling
mode sometimes doesn't work, so the workaround is problematic.
Also, different systems seem to need the threshold for detecting
the GPE storm at different levels.

ACPI_EC_STORM_THRESHOLD was initially 20 when it's created, and
was changed to 8 in 2.6.28 commit 06cf7d3c "ACPI: EC: lower interrupt storm
threshold" to fix kernel bug 11892 by forcing the laptop in that bug to
work in polling mode. However in bug 45151, it works fine in interrupt
mode if we lift the threshold back to 20.

This patch makes the threshold a module parameter so that user has a
flexible option to debug/workaround this issue.

The default is unchanged.

This is also a preparation patch to fix specific systems:
	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45151Signed-off-by: NFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Fix build failure in Intel PIIX4 I2C driver.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.6]

Now that i2c-mux-gpio is able to find the GPIO chip by itself, we can
delegate this task. The great thing here is that i2c-mux-gpio can
defer device probing until the gpio chip is available, so we no longer
depend on the module loading order.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

The code instantiating an i2c-mux-gpio platform device doesn't
necessarily know in advance the GPIO pin numbers it wants to use. If
pins are on a GPIO device which gets its base GPIO number assigned
dynamically at run-time, the values can't be hard-coded.

In that case, let the caller tell i2c-mux-gpio the name of the GPIO
chip and the (relative) GPIO pin numbers to use. At probe time, the
i2c-mux-gpio driver will look for the chip and apply the proper offset
to turn relative GPIO pin numbers to absolute GPIO pin numbers.

The same could be (and was so far) done on the caller's end, however
doing it in i2c-mux-gpio has two benefits:
* It avoids duplicating the code on every caller's side (about 30
  lines of code.)
* It allows for deferred probing for the muxed part of the I2C bus
  only. If finding the GPIO chip is the caller's responsibility, then
  deferred probing (if the GPIO chip isn't there yet) will not only
  affect the mux and the I2C bus segments behind it, but also the I2C
  bus trunk.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>

Use the devm_kzalloc managed function to stripdown the error and remove
code.
Signed-off-by: NMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Add support for SMBus multiplexing on Asus Z8 motherboard series. On
these boards, the memory slots are behind a GPIO-controlled I2C
multiplexer. Models with 6 or 12 memory slots have 2 segments behind
the multiplexer, while models with 18 memory slots have 3 such
segments.

On these boards, only the memory slots are behind the multiplexer,
so it is possible to keep the autodetection mechanism.

The code is generic enough so it could work on other boards as long as
the multiplexer is controlled by GPIO pins. For other forms of
multiplexing (for example using an I2C device) additional code will be
needed.

Thanks to Asus for providing a board to develop and test this feature,
as well as all the technical information required.

At the moment, the GPIO driver must be loaded before the i2c-i801
driver, but I hope to solve this soon, using deferred probing on
the i2c-mux-gpio side.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

The SMBus controller in the VIA VX900 appears to be compatible with
the VIA VX855, so just add the device ID.

This closes kernel bug #43096.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

i2c_parport_irq is only called internally so it can be static.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

i2c_dw_xfer_msg is only called internally so it can be static. It
original was, before the driver split. No idea why it was changed at
that time.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: NDirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>

Replace printks with pr_<level>s, add pr_fmt()s to replace NAMEs
Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Remove the global dependency of the I2C subsystem on HAS_IOMEM and
move the dependency to the i2c/busses submenu, with an exception for
i2c-stub.

The generic I2C part does not need to have HAS_IOMEM set and thus now
becomes available in UML, so the I2C subsystem can now be used, e.g.
by the i2c-stub driver, for development of I2C device drivers.

[JD: Some adjustments.]

[Heiko Carstens: Keep I2C disabled on S390.]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Convert the struct i2c_msg initialization to C99 format. This makes
maintaining and editing the code simpler. Also helps once other fields
like transferred are added in future.
Signed-off-by: NShubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Converting kzalloc to devm_kzalloc simplifies the code and ensures that the
result, alert, is freed after the irq allocated by the subsequent
devm_request_irq.  This in turn ensures that when an interrupt can be
triggered, the alert structure is still available.

The problem of a free after a devm_request_irq was found using the
following semantic match (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
expression e1,e2,x,a,b,c,d;
identifier free;
position p1,p2;
@@

  devm_request_irq@p1(e1,e2,...,x)
  ... when any
      when != e2 = a
      when != x = b
  if (...) {
    ... when != e2 = c
        when != x = d
    free@p2(...,x,...);
    ...
    return ...;
  }
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Let I2C bus segments behind multiplexers have a class. This allows for
device auto-detection on these segments. As long as parent segments
don't share the same class, it should be fine.

I implemented support in drivers i2c-mux-gpio and i2c-mux-pca954x. I
left i2c-mux-pca9541 and i2c-mux-pinctrl alone for the moment as I
don't know if this feature makes sense for the use cases of these
drivers.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Michael Lawnick <ml.lawnick@gmx.de>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>

Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Because udev use is so widespread, making the old static mapping the
default is too conservative, given the severe limitations it places on
usable AoE addresses.  Storage virtualization and larger shelves have made
the old limitations too confining.

These changes make the dynamic block device minor numbers the default,
removing the limitations on usable AoE addresses.

The static arrangement is still available with aoe_dyndevs=0, and the
aoe-stat tool from the userland aoetools package, the user space
counterpart to the aoe driver, recognizes the case where there is a
mismatch between the minor number in sysfs and the minor number in a
special device file.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In general, specific is better when it comes to messages about AoE usage
problems.  Also, explicit checks for the AoE broadcast addresses are
added.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The old mapping between AoE target shelf and slot addresses and the block
device minor number is retained as a backwards-compatible feature, with a
new "aoe_dyndevs" module parameter available for enabling dynamic block
device minor numbers.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The ATA over Ethernet protocol uses a major (shelf) and minor (slot)
address to identify a particular storage target.  These changes remove an
artificial limitation the aoe driver imposes on the use of AoE addresses.
For example, without these changes, the slot address has a maximum of 15,
but users commonly use slot numbers much greater than that.

The AoE shelf and slot address space is often used sparsely.  Instead of
using a static mapping between AoE addresses and the block device minor
number, the block device minor numbers are now allocated on demand.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The internal version number of the aoe driver appears in a console message
when the driver loads and is usually obtained by the user with the
userland aoe-version tool, part of the aoetools.[1]

Although this patchset includes bugfixes backported from higher-numbered
versions published on the coraid.com website, it is a form of version 49.

1. http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This change removes some unused code and attempts to increase code
consistency.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This change eliminates the danger that the user could rmmod the driver for
a network interface that is being used for AoE by the aoe driver.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In the driver code, "target" and aoetgt refer to a particular remote
interface on the AoE storage target.  The latter is identified by its AoE
major and minor addresses.  Commands that are being sent to an AoE storage
target {major, minor} can be sent or retransmitted to any of the remote
MAC addresses associated with the AoE storage target.

That is, frames are naturally associated with not an aoetgt (AoE major,
AoE minor, remote MAC address) but an aoedev (AoE major, AoE minor).
Making the code reflect that reality simplifies the driver, especially
when the path to a remote MAC address becomes unusable.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A guard is inserted to prevent AoE minor addresses (slot addresses) higher
than 15 to be used, as they are not yet supported by the driver.

There is a change coming that will allow the aoe driver to overcome this
limit by using system device minor numbers dynamically, but until then,
this guard prevents unexpected targets from being used by the driver when
AoE targets with high minor numbers are on the AoE network.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The discovery process begins with an optional AoE config query command and
an AoE config query response.  Normally when an aoe device is already
open, the config query response does not trigger an ATA identify device
command to be sent out, since the response contains storage capacity
information that, if changed, could surprise the user of the device.

The userland "aoe-revalidate" tool uses a character device to trigger an
AoE config query for a particular AoE storage target and an ATA device
identify command, even when the device is open.

This change causes the config query to go out first, reflecting the normal
discovery sequence.  The responses could come back in any order, so this
change is fairly cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The aoe_deadsecs module parameter allows the user to specify a hard limit
on the number of seconds an AoE command can be retransmitted before the
AoE block device is considered to have failed.

Using aoe_deadsecs to determine the time we try using a different remote
interface helps to ensure that the hard limit is not reached before we've
tried to recover by sending to a different remote port.

As a data storage target, the AoE target is unambiguously identified by
its {major, minor} AoE address tuple, and an AoE target can have multiple
MAC addresses.  However, note that "target" in the driver code and
comments means a {major, minor, MAC address} tuple, as in "somewhere to
send packets".
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Users with several network interfaces dedicated to AoE generally do not
configure them to support different-sized AoE data payloads on purpose.

For a given AoE target, there will be a set of local network interfaces
that can reach it.  Using only the payload that will fit in the
smallest-sized MTU of all those local interfaces greatly simplifies the
driver, especially in failure scenarios.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most
simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is
to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued
transmissions.
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

To allow users to choose an elevator algorithm for their particular
workloads, change from a make_request-style driver to an
I/O-request-queue-handler-style driver.

We have to do a couple of things that might be surprising.  We manipulate
the page _count directly on the assumption that we still have no guarantee
that users of the block layer are prohibited from submitting bios
containing pages with zero reference counts.[1] If such a prohibition now
exists, I can get rid of the _count manipulation.

Just as before this patch, we still keep track of the sk_buffs that the
network layer still hasn't finished yet and cap the resources we use with
a "pool" of skbs.[2]

Now that the block layer maintains the disk stats, the aoe driver's
diskstats function can go away.

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/1/374
2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/241Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios
and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an
"aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O.

The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of
preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and
degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure.

Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a
process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in
the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming
unusable.

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit]
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

tAdd adds the ability to work with large packets composed of a number of
segments, using the scatter gather feature of the block layer (biovecs)
and the network layer (skb frag array).  The motivation is the performance
gained by using a packet data payload greater than a page size and by
using the network card's scatter gather feature.

Users of the out-of-tree aoe driver already had these changes, but since
early 2011, they have complained of increased memory utilization and
higher CPU utilization during heavy writes.[1] The commit below appears
related, as it disables scatter gather on non-IP protocols inside the
harmonize_features function, even when the NIC supports sg.

  commit f01a5236
  Author: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
  Date:   Sun Jan 9 06:23:31 2011 +0000

      net offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features().

With that regression in place, transmits always linearize sg AoE packets,
but in-kernel users did not have this patch.  Before 2.6.38, though, these
changes were working to allow sg to increase performance.

1. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg15184.htmlSigned-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add discard support to nbd.  If the nbd-server supports discard, it will
send NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM to the client.  The client will then set the flag
in the kernel via NBD_SET_FLAGS, which tells the kernel to enable discards
for the device (QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD).

If discard support is enabled, then when the nbd client system receives a
discard request, this will be passed along to the nbd-server.  When the
discard request is received by the nbd-server, it will perform:

	fallocate(.. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ..)

To punch a hole in the backend storage, which is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a set-flags ioctl, allowing various option flags to be set on an nbd
device.  This allows the nbd-client to set the device flags (to enable
read-only mode, or enable discard support, etc.).

Flags are typically specified by the nbd-server.  During the negotiation
phase of the nbd connection, the server sends its flags to the client.
The client then uses NBD_SET_FLAGS to inform the kernel of the options.

Also included is a one-line fix to debug output for the set-timeout ioctl.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>