There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following
commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree.

commit 1af60fbd
Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400

    block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag

Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets
the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect
more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that
queue's think time is less and it is not seeky).

So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers.

Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and
following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33
branch.

Test
====
1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously.

[global]
directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/
runtime=10

[seqwrite]
rw=write
size=4G
direct=1

[seqread]
rw=read
size=2G
numjobs=2

2.6.32-rc7
==========
direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s
readers	     : aggrb=101MB/s

for-2.6.33 branch
=================
direct write: aggrb=19KB/s
readers	      aggrb=137MB/s

This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we
don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after
submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required.

That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio
path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share.

After the fix
=============
for-2.6.33 + fix
----------------
direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s
reads: aggrb=103MB/s

Thanks
Vivek
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: NIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.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>

Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

So remove both the comment and the inline requirement, going back to the
inline hint.
Signed-off-by: NAlberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Platform drivers registered via platform_driver_probe() can be bound
to devices only once, upon registration, because discard their probe()
routines to save memory. Unbinding the driver through sysfs 'unbind'
leaves the device stranded and confuses users so let's not create
bind and unbind attributes for such drivers.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The IBM Saturn serial card has only one port. Without that fixup,
the kernel thinks it has two, which confuses userland setup and
admin tools as well.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pci-ids.h layout]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Reed <mreed10@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add support for ADDI-DATA GmbH PCI-Express communication cards:

APCIe-7300
APCIe-7420
APCIe-7500
APCIe-7800

Warning: 8250_pci.c depends on pci_ids.h. 8250_pci.c
Signed-off-by: NKrauth Julien <Krauth.Julien@addi-data.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

strstrip() can return a modified value of its input argument, when
removing elading whitesapce.  So it is surely bug for this function's
return value to be ignored.  The caller is probably going to use the
incorrect original pointer.

So mark it __must_check to prevent this frm happening (as it has before).
Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled, cpufreq_get() needs a stub.  Used by kvm
(although it looks like a bit of the kvm code could be omitted when
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is disabled).

arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `kvm_arch_init':
(.text+0x10de7): undefined reference to `cpufreq_get'

(Needed in linux-next's KVM tree, but it's correct in 2.6.32).
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tested-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's nothing block related about them, the backing device
is used by things like NFS etc as well. This gets rid of the
need to protect such calls by CONFIG_BLOCK.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

e180a6b7 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.

Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs.  But that's not all:

1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
   uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
   it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.

The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory.  This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak.  In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Hi,

The WRITE_ODIRECT flag is only used in one place, and that code path
happens to also call blk_run_address_space.  The introduction of this
flag, then, could result in the device being unplugged twice for every
I/O.

Further, with the batching changes in the next patch, we don't want an
O_DIRECT write to imply a queue unplug.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

async cfq_queue's are already shared between processes within the same
priority, and forthcoming patches will change the mapping of cic to sync
cfq_queue from 1:1 to 1:N.  So, calculate the seekiness of a process
based on the cfq_queue instead of the cfq_io_context.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This reverts "Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a".

Turns out that virtio_pci, lguest and s/390 all have an 8 bit limit
on virtio config space, so noone could ever use this.

This is coming back later in a cleaner form.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Rusty,

commit 3ca4f5ca
    virtio: add virtio IDs file
moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is
a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example
if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to
include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h
does not include virtio_ids.h.
This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C
files into the header files, making the header files compatible with
the old ones.

In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace.

CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

This patch renames the code name SB900 into Hudson-2
Signed-off-by: NShane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

For the short term, map synchronize_rcu_expedited() to
synchronize_rcu() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and to
synchronize_sched_expedited() for TREE_RCU.

Longer term, there needs to be a real expedited grace period for
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, but candidate patches to date are considerably
more complex and intrusive.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com
LKML-Reference: <12555405592331-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It basically turns a delayed work into an immediate work, and then waits
for it to finish, thus allowing you to force (and wait for) an immediate
flush of a delayed work.

We'll want to use this in the tty layer to clean up tty_flush_to_ldisc().
Acked-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Fixed to use 'del_timer_sync()' as noted by Oleg ]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It basically turns a delayed work into an immediate work, and then waits
for it to finish.

Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly
hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small
cache machines.

So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache
domains.
Reported-by: N"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

User applications frequently hit problems when they try to use
the kernel headers directly, rather than the exported headers.

This adds an explicit warning for this case, and points to
a URL holding an explanation of why this is wrong and what
to do about it.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

This patch (as1295) fixes a recently-added bug in the USB serial core.
If certain kinds of errors occur during probing, the core may call a
serial driver's release method without previously calling the attach
method.  This causes some drivers (io_ti in particular) to perform an
invalid memory access.

The patch adds a new flag to keep track of whether or not attach has
been called.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: NJean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@sysnux.pf>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

nanodoc was missing an ndo_-prefix.
Signed-off-by: NWolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When the module is about the unload we release its call records.
The ftrace_release function was given wrong values representing
the module core boundaries, thus not releasing its call records.

Plus making ftrace_release function module specific.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254934835-363-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

This quirk will disable fast back to back transfer on the secondary bus
segment of the TI Bridge.
Signed-off-by: NGabe Black <gabe.black@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Looks like a typo, FUTEX_WAKE_BITS should be FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091007001358.GE16073@kryten>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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>

Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
allocations.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <200910061138.n96BcqkJ004709@int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Now we have the capabilities of the sending process available,
use them to enforce CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The original driver was written with the KEY() macro defined as (col,
row) instead of (row, col) as defined by the matrix keypad
infrastructure. So the keymap was defined accordingly. Since the
driver that was merged upstream uses the matrix keypad infrastructure,
modify the keymap accordingly.

While we are at it, fix the comments in twl4030.h and define
PERSISTENT_KEY as (r,c) instead of (c, r)

Tested on a RX51 (N900) device.
Signed-off-by: NAmit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com>
Acked-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

Add ->gtf_filter to ata_device and set it to ata_acpi_gtf_filter when
initializing ata_link.  This is to allow quirks which apply different
gtf filters.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

Currently libata-acpi can only filter DIPM among SATA feature enables
via _GTF.  This patch adds the capability to filter out FPDMA non-zero
offset, in-order guarantee and auto-activation.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

We're about to add more SATA_* and ATA_ACPI_FILTER_* constants.
Reformat them in preparation.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>