The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Now that all drivers that specify a ->driverfs_dev have been converted
to device_add_disk(), the pointer can be removed from struct gendisk.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

In preparation for removing the ->driverfs_dev member of a gendisk, add
an api that takes the parent device as a parameter to add_disk().  For
now this maintains the status quo of WARN()ing on failure, but not
return a error code.
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

UUID library provides uuid_be type and uuid_be_to_bin() function.  This
substitutes open coded variant by generic library calls.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

These actions are completely managed by a block driver or can use the
badblocks api directly.
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

NVDIMM devices, which can behave more like DRAM rather than block
devices, may develop bad cache lines, or 'poison'. A block device
exposed by the pmem driver can then consume poison via a read (or
write), and cause a machine check. On platforms without machine
check recovery features, this would mean a crash.

The block device maintaining a runtime list of all known sectors that
have poison can directly avoid this, and also provide a path forward
to enable proper handling/recovery for DAX faults on such a device.

Use the new badblock management interfaces to add a badblocks list to
gendisks.
Signed-off-by: NVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

A trace like the following proceeds a crash in bio_integrity_process()
when it goes to use an already freed blk_integrity profile.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800d31b10d8
 IP: [<ffff8800d31b10d8>] 0xffff8800d31b10d8
 PGD 2f65067 PUD 21fffd067 PMD 80000000d30001e3
 Oops: 0011 [#1] SMP
 Dumping ftrace buffer:
 ---------------------------------
    ndctl-2222    2.... 44526245us : disk_release: pmem1s
 systemd--2223    4.... 44573945us : bio_integrity_endio: pmem1s
    <...>-409     4.... 44574005us : bio_integrity_process: pmem1s
 ---------------------------------
[..]
  Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8144e0f9>] ? bio_integrity_process+0x159/0x2d0
  [<ffffffff8144e4f6>] bio_integrity_verify_fn+0x36/0x60
  [<ffffffff810bd2dc>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x4e0

Given that a request_queue is pinned while i/o is in flight and that a
gendisk is allowed to have a shorter lifetime, move blk_integrity to
request_queue to satisfy requests arriving after the gendisk has been
torn down.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[martin: fix the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY=n case]
Tested-by: NRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Up until now the_integrity profile has been dynamically allocated and
attached to struct gendisk after the disk has been made active.

This causes problems because NVMe devices need to register the profile
prior to the partition table being read due to a mandatory metadata
buffer requirement. In addition, DM goes through hoops to deal with
preallocating, but not initializing integrity profiles.

Since the integrity profile is small (4 bytes + a pointer), Christoph
suggested moving it to struct gendisk proper. This requires several
changes:

 - Moving the blk_integrity definition to genhd.h.

 - Inlining blk_integrity in struct gendisk.

 - Removing the dynamic allocation code.

 - Adding helper functions which allow gendisk to set up and tear down
   the integrity sysfs dir when a disk is added/deleted.

 - Adding a blk_integrity_revalidate() callback for updating the stable
   pages bdi setting.

 - The calls that depend on whether a device has an integrity profile or
   not now key off of the bi->profile pointer.

 - Simplifying the integrity support routines in DM (Mike Snitzer).
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NSagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

The integrity kobject purely exists to support the integrity
subdirectory in sysfs and doesn't really have anything to do with the
blk_integrity data structure. Move the kobject to struct gendisk where
it belongs.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NSagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Percpu refcount is the perfect match for partition's case,
and the conversion is quite straight.

With the convertion, one pair of atomic inc/dec can be saved
for accounting block I/O, which is run in hot path of block I/O.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

So the helper can be used in both generic partition
case and part0 case.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Commit "85865c1f ima: add policy support for file system uuid"
introduced a CONFIG_BLOCK dependency.  This patch defines a
wrapper called blk_part_pack_uuid(), which returns -EINVAL,
when CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.

security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c:538:4: error: implicit declaration
of function 'part_pack_uuid' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Changelog v2:
- Reference commit number in patch description
Changelog v1:
- rename ima_part_pack_uuid() to blk_part_pack_uuid()
- resolve scripts/checkpatch.pl warnings
Changelog v0:
- fix UUID scripts/Lindent msgs
Reported-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

This will allow other types of UUID to be stored here, aside from true
UUIDs.  This also simplifies code that uses this field, since it's usually
constructed from a, used as a, or compared to other, strings.

Note: A simplistic approach here would be to set uuid_str[36]=0 whenever a
/PARTNROFF option was found to be present.  However, this modifies the
input string, and causes subsequent calls to devt_from_partuuid() not to
see the /PARTNROFF option, which causes different results.  In order to
avoid misleading future maintainers, this parameter is marked const.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Add a new operation code (BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION) to the BLKPG ioctl that
allows altering the size of an existing partition, even if it is currently
in use.

This patch converts hd_struct->nr_sects into sequence counter because
One might extend a partition while IO is happening to it and update of
nr_sects can be non-atomic on 32bit machines with 64bit sector_t. This
can lead to issues like reading inconsistent size of a partition. Sequence
counter have been used so that readers don't have to take bdev mutex lock
as we call sector_in_part() very frequently.

Now all the access to hd_struct->nr_sects should happen using sequence
counter read/update helper functions part_nr_sects_read/part_nr_sects_write.
There is one exception though, set_capacity()/get_capacity(). I think
theoritically race should exist there too but this patch does not
modify set_capacity()/get_capacity() due to sheer number of call sites
and I am afraid that change might break something. I have left that as a
TODO item. We can handle it later if need be. This patch does not introduce
any new races as such w.r.t set_capacity()/get_capacity().

v2: Add CONFIG_LBDAF test to UP preempt case as suggested by Phillip.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NPhillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

This function is not really specific to the genhd layer and there are various
re-implementations or open-coded variants of it all throughout the kernel. To
avoid further duplications move the function to a more generic place.

While moving also convert it from a macro to a inline function.

Potential users of this function can be detected and converted using the
following coccinelle patch:

// <smpl>
@@
expression k;
@@
-container_of(k, struct device, kobj)
+kobj_to_dev(kobj)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NLars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

6d1d8050 "block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct"
added part_unpack_uuid() which assumes that the passed in buffer has
enough space for sprintfing "%pU" - 37 characters including '\0'.

Unfortunately, b5af921e "init: add support for root devices
specified by partition UUID" supplied 33 bytes buffer to the function
leading to the following panic with stackprotector enabled.

  Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack corrupted in: ffffffff81b14c7e

  [<ffffffff815e226b>] panic+0xba/0x1c6
  [<ffffffff81b14c7e>] ? printk_all_partitions+0x259/0x26xb
  [<ffffffff810566bb>] __stack_chk_fail+0x1b/0x20
  [<ffffffff81b15c7e>] printk_all_paritions+0x259/0x26xb
  [<ffffffff81aedfe0>] mount_block_root+0x1bc/0x27f
  [<ffffffff81aee0fa>] mount_root+0x57/0x5b
  [<ffffffff81aee23b>] prepare_namespace+0x13d/0x176
  [<ffffffff8107eec0>] ? release_tgcred.isra.4+0x330/0x30
  [<ffffffff81aedd60>] kernel_init+0x155/0x15a
  [<ffffffff81087b97>] ? schedule_tail+0x27/0xb0
  [<ffffffff815f4d24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
  [<ffffffff81aedc0b>] ? start_kernel+0x3c5/0x3c5
  [<ffffffff815f4d20>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13

Increase the buffer size, remove the dangerous part_unpack_uuid() and
use snprintf() directly from printk_all_partitions().
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NSzymon Gruszczynski <sz.gruszczynski@googlemail.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b8), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               <scsi_device torn down>
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          <oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.
Reported-by: NHuajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

both callers of device_get_devnode() are only interested in lower 16bits
and nobody tries to return anything wider than 16bit anyway.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

This reverts commit a72c5e5e.

The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be
used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet.
This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to
follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot
of problems.

It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the
actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used
universally or enforced.  Everything internal including device lookup
and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two
devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its
alias.

This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block
layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been
upstreamed.  Revert it.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

This patch allows the user to set an "alias" of the disk via sysfs interface.

This patch only adds a new attribute "alias" in gendisk structure.
To show the alias instead of the device name in kernel messages,
we need to revise printk messages and use alias_name() in them.

Example:
(current) printk("disk name is %s\n", disk->disk_name);
(new)     printk("disk name is %s\n", alias_name(disk));

Users can use alphabets, numbers, '-' and '_' in "alias" attribute. A disk can
have an "alias" which length is up to 255 bytes. This attribute is write-once.
Suggested-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Suggested-by: NJon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NNao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>

There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently, only open(2) is defined as the 'clearing' point.  It has
two roles - first, it's an acknowledgement from userland indicating
that the event has been received and kernel can clear pending states
and proceed to generate more events.  Secondly, it's passed on to
device drivers as a hint indicating that a synchronization point has
been reached and it might want to take a deeper look at the device.

The latter currently is only used by sr which uses two different
mechanisms - GET_EVENT_MEDIA_STATUS_NOTIFICATION and TEST_UNIT_READY
to discover events, where the former is lighter weight and safe to be
used repeatedly but may not provide full coverage.  Among other
things, GET_EVENT can't detect media removal while TUR can.

This patch makes close(2) - blkdev_put() - indicate clearing hint for
MEDIA_CHANGE to drivers.  disk_check_events() is renamed to
disk_flush_events() and updated to take @mask for events to flush
which is or'd to ev->clearing and will be passed to the driver on the
next ->check_events() invocation.

This change makes sr generate MEDIA_CHANGE when media is ejected from
userland - e.g. with eject(1).

Note: Given the current usage, it seems @clearing hint is needlessly
complex.  disk_clear_events() can simply clear all events and the hint
can be boolean @flush.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It was not a good idea to start dereferencing disk->queue from
the fs sysfs strategy for displaying discard alignment. We ran
into first a NULL pointer deref, and after fixing that we sometimes
see unvalid disk->queue pointer values.

Since discard is the only one of the bunch actually looking into
the queue, just revert the change.

This reverts commit 23ceb5b7.

Conflicts:
	fs/partitions/check.c

Currently, hd_struct.discard_alignment is only used when we
show /sys/block/sdx/sdx/discard_alignment. So remove it and
calculate when it is asked to show.
Signed-off-by: NTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Disk event code automatically blocks events on excl write.  This is
primarily to avoid issuing polling commands while burning is in
progress.  This behavior doesn't fit other types of devices with
removeable media where polling commands don't have adverse side
effects and door locking usually doesn't exist.

This patch introduces new genhd flag which controls the auto-blocking
behavior and uses it to enable auto-blocking only on optical devices.

Note for stable: 2.6.38 and later only

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

After the stack plugging introduction, these are called lockless.
Ensure that the counters are updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.

This reverts commit e4a683c8.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.

$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
   8       0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
   8       1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
                                                ~~~~~~~~~~
   8       2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
   8       3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
   8       4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   8       5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137

Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.

The detailed root cause is as follows.

Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.

1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
   is 0 and sda2's one is 1.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
   step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
   from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
   hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
   sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |         -1
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.

Also add a refcount to struct hd_struct to keep the partition in
memory as long as users exist. We use kref_test_and_get() to ensure
we don't add a reference to a partition which is going away.
Signed-off-by: NJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently, media presence polling for removeable block devices is done
from userland.  There are several issues with this.

* Polling is done by periodically opening the device.  For SCSI
  devices, the command sequence generated by such action involves a
  few different commands including TEST_UNIT_READY.  This behavior,
  while perfectly legal, is different from Windows which only issues
  single command, GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION.  Unfortunately, some
  ATAPI devices lock up after being periodically queried such command
  sequences.

* There is no reliable and unintrusive way for a userland program to
  tell whether the target device is safe for media presence polling.
  For example, polling for media presence during an on-going burning
  session can make it fail.  The polling program can avoid this by
  opening the device with O_EXCL but then it risks making a valid
  exclusive user of the device fail w/ -EBUSY.

* Userland polling is unnecessarily heavy and in-kernel implementation
  is lighter and better coordinated (workqueue, timer slack).

This patch implements framework for in-kernel disk event handling,
which includes media presence polling.

* bdops->check_events() is added, which supercedes ->media_changed().
  It should check whether there's any pending event and return if so.
  Currently, two events are defined - DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE and
  DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST.  ->check_events() is guaranteed not to be
  called parallelly.

* gendisk->events and ->async_events are added.  These should be
  initialized by block driver before passing the device to add_disk().
  The former contains the mask of all supported events and the latter
  the mask of all events which the device can report without polling.
  /sys/block/*/events[_async] export these to userland.

* Kernel parameter block.events_dfl_poll_msecs controls the system
  polling interval (default is 0 which means disable) and
  /sys/block/*/events_poll_msecs control polling intervals for
  individual devices (default is -1 meaning use system setting).  Note
  that if a device can report all supported events asynchronously and
  its polling interval isn't explicitly set, the device won't be
  polled regardless of the system polling interval.

* If a device is opened exclusively with write access, event checking
  is automatically disabled until all write exclusive accesses are
  released.

* There are event 'clearing' events.  For example, both of currently
  defined events are cleared after the device has been successfully
  opened.  This information is passed to ->check_events() callback
  using @clearing argument as a hint.

* Event checking is always performed from system_nrt_wq and timer
  slack is set to 25% for polling.

* Nothing changes for drivers which implement ->media_changed() but
  not ->check_events().  Going forward, all drivers will be converted
  to ->check_events() and ->media_change() will be dropped.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There's no reason for register_disk() and del_gendisk() to be in
fs/partitions/check.c.  Move both to genhd.c.  While at it, collapse
unlink_gendisk(), which was artificially in a separate function due to
genhd.c / check.c split, into del_gendisk().
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There's no user of the facility.  Kill it.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This reverts commit 7681bfee.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/genhd.h

It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator
devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean
version without rushing things.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.

$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
   8       0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
   8       1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
                                                ~~~~~~~~~~
   8       2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
   8       3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
   8       4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   8       5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137

Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.

The detailed root cause is as follows.

Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.

1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
   is 0 and sda2's one is 1.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
   step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
   from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
   hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
   sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |         -1
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.

When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.
Signed-off-by: NYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a1
(2.6.36-rc3).

Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?

This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.

This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.
Signed-off-by: NWill Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

This flag is not used, so best discarded.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
--
Hi Jens,
 I came across this recently - these are the only two occurances
 of "GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS" in the kernel, so it cannot be needed.
NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This fixes the sparse warning:
fs/ext4/super.c:2390:40: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one
fs/ext4/super.c:2368:22: originally declared here

Using 'i' in a macro is dubious practice.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>