x86_32 CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G with 5GB RAM hung when booting, after issuing
some "request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000" messages in
trying to exec /sbin/init.

The binprm buf doesn't see the right ".ELF" header because sg_phys()
is providing the wrong physical addresses for high pages: a 32-bit
unsigned long is too small in this case, we need to use dma_addr_t.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Most drivers need to set length and offset as well, so may as well fold
those three lines into one.

Add sg_assign_page() for those two locations that only needed to set
the page, where the offset/length is set outside of the function context.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Suggested by Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Add a Kconfig entry which will toggle some sanity checks on the sg
entry and tables.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Change the page member of the scatterlist structure to be an unsigned
long, and encode more stuff in the lower bits:

- Bits 0 and 1 zero: this is a normal sg entry. Next sg entry is located
  at sg + 1.
- Bit 0 set: this is a chain entry, the next real entry is at ->page_link
  with the two low bits masked off.
- Bit 1 set: this is the final entry in the sg entry. sg_next() will return
  NULL when passed such an entry.

It's thus important that sg table users use the proper accessors to get
and set the page member.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

We can then transition drivers without changing the generated code.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The core of the patch - allow the last sg element in a scatterlist
table to point to the start of a new table. We overload the LSB of
the page pointer to indicate whether this is a valid sg entry, or
merely a link to the next list.

Includes a fix from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
correcting the ifdef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN guarding sg_last().
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

First step to being able to change the scatterlist setup without
having to modify drivers (a lot :-)
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This patch adds a const modifier to the buf argument of sg_set_buf and
sg_init_one.  This lets people call it with pointers that are const.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

sg_init_one is a nice tool for the block layer.  However, users
of struct scatterlist in other subsystems don't usually need the
DMA attributes.  For them it's a waste of time and space to
initialise the whole struct scatterlist structure.

Therefore this patch adds a new function sg_set_buf to initialise
a scatterlist without zeroing the DMA attributes.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!