Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCK
  When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls

block/ll_rw_blk.c

@@ -3116,7 +3116,7 @@ static inline int should_fail_request(struct bio *bio)
  * bi_sector for remaps as it sees fit.  So the values of these fields
  * should NOT be depended on after the call to generic_make_request.
  */
-void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
+static inline void __generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	request_queue_t *q;
 	sector_t maxsector;
@@ -3215,6 +3215,57 @@ void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
 	} while (ret);
 }
 
+/*
+ * We only want one ->make_request_fn to be active at a time,
+ * else stack usage with stacked devices could be a problem.
+ * So use current->bio_{list,tail} to keep a list of requests
+ * submited by a make_request_fn function.
+ * current->bio_tail is also used as a flag to say if
+ * generic_make_request is currently active in this task or not.
+ * If it is NULL, then no make_request is active.  If it is non-NULL,
+ * then a make_request is active, and new requests should be added
+ * at the tail
+ */
+void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	if (current->bio_tail) {
+		/* make_request is active */
+		*(current->bio_tail) = bio;
+		bio->bi_next = NULL;
+		current->bio_tail = &bio->bi_next;
+		return;
+	}
+	/* following loop may be a bit non-obvious, and so deserves some
+	 * explanation.
+	 * Before entering the loop, bio->bi_next is NULL (as all callers
+	 * ensure that) so we have a list with a single bio.
+	 * We pretend that we have just taken it off a longer list, so
+	 * we assign bio_list to the next (which is NULL) and bio_tail
+	 * to &bio_list, thus initialising the bio_list of new bios to be
+	 * added.  __generic_make_request may indeed add some more bios
+	 * through a recursive call to generic_make_request.  If it
+	 * did, we find a non-NULL value in bio_list and re-enter the loop
+	 * from the top.  In this case we really did just take the bio
+	 * of the top of the list (no pretending) and so fixup bio_list and
+	 * bio_tail or bi_next, and call into __generic_make_request again.
+	 *
+	 * The loop was structured like this to make only one call to
+	 * __generic_make_request (which is important as it is large and
+	 * inlined) and to keep the structure simple.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(bio->bi_next);
+	do {
+		current->bio_list = bio->bi_next;
+		if (bio->bi_next == NULL)
+			current->bio_tail = &current->bio_list;
+		else
+			bio->bi_next = NULL;
+		__generic_make_request(bio);
+		bio = current->bio_list;
+	} while (bio);
+	current->bio_tail = NULL; /* deactivate */
+}
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_make_request);
 
 /**

include/linux/genhd.h

@@ -434,6 +434,10 @@ static inline struct block_device *bdget_disk(struct gendisk *disk, int index)
 
 #endif
 
-#endif
+#else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
+
+static inline void printk_all_partitions(void) { }
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
 
 #endif

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct sched_param {
 
 struct exec_domain;
 struct futex_pi_state;
+struct bio;
 
 /*
  * List of flags we want to share for kernel threads,
@@ -1016,6 +1017,9 @@ struct task_struct {
 /* journalling filesystem info */
 	void *journal_info;
 
+/* stacked block device info */
+	struct bio *bio_list, **bio_tail;
+
 /* VM state */
 	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state;