1. 21 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 01 7月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2) · 85ef06d1
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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>
      85ef06d1
  3. 13 6月, 2011 1 次提交
  4. 10 6月, 2011 3 次提交
  5. 27 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented · 75e3f3ee
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      9fd097b1 (block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe
      drivers) removed DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from legacy/fringe block
      drivers which have inadequate ->check_events().  Combined with earlier
      change 7c88a168 (block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to
      userland), this enables using ->check_events() for internal processing
      while avoiding enabling in-kernel block event polling which can lead
      to infinite event loop.
      
      Unfortunately, this made many drivers including floppy without any bit
      set in disk->events and ->async_events in which case disk_add_events()
      simply skipped allocation of disk->ev, which disables whole event
      handling.  As ->check_events() is still used during open processing
      for revalidation, this can lead to open failure.
      
      This patch always allocates disk->ev if ->check_events is implemented.
      In the long term, it would make sense to simply include the event
      structure inline into genhd as it's now used by virtually all block
      devices.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: NOndrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
      Reported-by: NAlex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      75e3f3ee
  6. 22 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland · 7c88a168
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE is used for both userland visible event and
      internal event for revalidation of removeable devices.  Some legacy
      drivers don't implement proper event detection and continuously
      generate events under certain circumstances.  For example, ide-cd
      generates media changed continuously if there's no media in the drive,
      which can lead to infinite loop of events jumping back and forth
      between the driver and userland event handler.
      
      This patch updates disk event infrastructure such that it never
      propagates events not listed in disk->events to userland.  Those
      events are processed the same for internal purposes but uevent
      generation is suppressed.
      
      This also ensures that userland only gets events which are advertised
      in the @events sysfs node lowering risk of confusion.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      7c88a168
  7. 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 10 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: Don't implicitly trigger event check on disk_unblock_events() · facc31dd
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Currently, disk_unblock_events() implicitly kick event check if the
      block count reaches zero.  This behavior is not described in the
      comment and hinders with future changes.  Make the unblocker
      explicitly check events by calling disk_check_events() as necessary.
      
      This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      facc31dd
  9. 03 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  10. 24 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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      Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size. · 93b270f7
      NeilBrown 提交于
      There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
      In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
      data will hold becomes irrelevant.
      In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
      so data we hold may be irrelevant.
      
      In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
      so they will be read back from the device if needed.
      
      In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
      as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data.  In the
      second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
      as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
      the containing devices.
      
      flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
      __invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.
      
      invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
      to fs corruption.
      
      invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
      about that at present.
      
      So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
      __invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
      killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
      skip dirty inodes.
      
      flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
      check_disk_size_change.
      
      dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
      rathher than using check_disk_size_change.
      
      md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.
      
      This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef1 which causes
      check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
      kernel since 2.6.27.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Acked-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      93b270f7
  11. 07 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  12. 05 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges · 09e099d4
      Jerome Marchand 提交于
      /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>
      09e099d4
  13. 17 12月, 2010 5 次提交
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      fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned) · e61eb2e9
      Yang Zhang 提交于
      The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.
      Signed-off-by: NYang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      e61eb2e9
    • Y
      block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p) · b9f985b6
      Yang Zhang 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NYang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      b9f985b6
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      implement in-kernel gendisk events handling · 77ea887e
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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>
      77ea887e
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      block: move register_disk() and del_gendisk() to block/genhd.c · d2bf1b67
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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>
      d2bf1b67
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      block: kill genhd_media_change_notify() · dddd9dc3
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      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>
      dddd9dc3
  14. 25 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  15. 23 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout · e52eec13
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
      making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
      directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
      
      This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
      that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
      the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
      on the command line.
      
      The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
      the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
      config files.
      
      Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
      CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
      care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
      look nicer.
      
      v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
      handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
      and that seems to work.
      
      Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      e52eec13
  16. 19 10月, 2010 1 次提交
    • Y
      block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges · 7681bfee
      Yasuaki Ishimatsu 提交于
      /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>
      7681bfee
  17. 17 9月, 2010 1 次提交
  18. 15 9月, 2010 2 次提交
    • W
      init: add support for root devices specified by partition UUID · b5af921e
      Will Drewry 提交于
      This is the third patch in a series which adds support for
      storing partition metadata, optionally, off of the hd_struct.
      
      One major use for that data is being able to resolve partition
      by other identities than just the index on a block device.  Device
      enumeration varies by platform and there's a benefit to being able
      to use something like EFI GPT's GUIDs to determine the correct
      block device and partition to mount as the root.
      
      This change adds that support to root= by adding support for
      the following syntax:
      
        root=PARTUUID=hex-uuid
      Signed-off-by: NWill Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      b5af921e
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      block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct · 6d1d8050
      Will Drewry 提交于
      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>
      6d1d8050
  19. 22 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  20. 15 4月, 2010 1 次提交
  21. 11 1月, 2010 1 次提交
  22. 10 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  23. 07 10月, 2009 1 次提交
    • N
      block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2 · 316d315b
      Nikanth Karthikesan 提交于
      Commit a9327cac added seperate read
      and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
      of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.
      
      But  Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
      output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
      utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
      100%, and service time is higher than normal.
      
      So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab98
      
      The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
              if (now == part->stamp)
                      return;
      
      -       if (part->in_flight) {
      +       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                      __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                      part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                      __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));
      
      With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.
      Signed-off-by: NNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
      
      --
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      316d315b
  24. 05 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests" · 0f78ab98
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      This reverts commit a9327cac.
      
      Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reports:
      
      "with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
      "iostat -kx 2":
      Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)
      
      avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
                10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38
      
      Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
      avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
      sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
      43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
      sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
      65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87
      
      avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
                 2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53
      
      Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
      avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
      sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
      0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
      sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
      0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
      
      avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
                 6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33
      
      Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
      avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
      sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
      0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
      sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
      0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
      
      avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
                 4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40
      
      Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
      avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
      sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
      0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
      sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
      18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00
      
      Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
      interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
      higher than normal.
      
      I bisected it down to:
      [a9327cac] Seperate read and write
      statistics of in_flight requests
      and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
      on 2.6.32-rc1."
      
      So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      0f78ab98
  25. 20 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  26. 16 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  27. 14 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  28. 11 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  29. 16 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  30. 23 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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      block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions · c72758f3
      Martin K. Petersen 提交于
      To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
      need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
      I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.
      
        logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.
      
        physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
        without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.
      
        The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
        the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
        size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
        (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).
      
        The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
        the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.
      
        The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
        of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
        Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
        so filesystems start on proper boundaries.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      c72758f3
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      block: fix booting from partitioned md array · 41b8c853
      Neil Brown 提交于
      Hi Tejun,
      
       it looks like your commit:
      
         block: don't depend on consecutive minor space
         f331c029
      
       broke a particular case for booting from partitioned md/raid devices.
       That is the second time this has been broken recently.  The previous
       time was fixed by
      
         block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
         30f2f0eb
      
       Because the data isn't available when an md device is first created
       (we add disks and set it up after creation), the initial partition
       scan finds nothing.  It is not until the device is opened that
       another partition scan happens and finds something.
      
       So at the point where the kernel parameter "root=/dev/md_d0p1" is
       being parsed, md_d0 exists, but md_d0p1 does not.
       However if we let blk_lookup_devt return the correct device number
       even though the device doesn't exist, then the attempt to mount it
       will successfully find the partition.
      
       I have tried in the past to find a way to get the partition table to
       be read as soon as the array is assembled but that proved impossible
       (at the time).  I don't remember the details, and could possibly
       revisit it.  However it would be really nice if blk_lookup_devt
       could be adjusted to again accept non existant partitions.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      41b8c853