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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
* Document the possibility to pass relative GPIO pin numbers. * Document what platform device IDs to use, so that they do not collide. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
The code instantiating an i2c-mux-gpio platform device doesn't necessarily know in advance the GPIO pin numbers it wants to use. If pins are on a GPIO device which gets its base GPIO number assigned dynamically at run-time, the values can't be hard-coded. In that case, let the caller tell i2c-mux-gpio the name of the GPIO chip and the (relative) GPIO pin numbers to use. At probe time, the i2c-mux-gpio driver will look for the chip and apply the proper offset to turn relative GPIO pin numbers to absolute GPIO pin numbers. The same could be (and was so far) done on the caller's end, however doing it in i2c-mux-gpio has two benefits: * It avoids duplicating the code on every caller's side (about 30 lines of code.) * It allows for deferred probing for the muxed part of the I2C bus only. If finding the GPIO chip is the caller's responsibility, then deferred probing (if the GPIO chip isn't there yet) will not only affect the mux and the I2C bus segments behind it, but also the I2C bus trunk. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
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由 Maxime Ripard 提交于
Use the devm_kzalloc managed function to stripdown the error and remove code. Signed-off-by: NMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: NPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
Add support for SMBus multiplexing on Asus Z8 motherboard series. On these boards, the memory slots are behind a GPIO-controlled I2C multiplexer. Models with 6 or 12 memory slots have 2 segments behind the multiplexer, while models with 18 memory slots have 3 such segments. On these boards, only the memory slots are behind the multiplexer, so it is possible to keep the autodetection mechanism. The code is generic enough so it could work on other boards as long as the multiplexer is controlled by GPIO pins. For other forms of multiplexing (for example using an I2C device) additional code will be needed. Thanks to Asus for providing a board to develop and test this feature, as well as all the technical information required. At the moment, the GPIO driver must be loaded before the i2c-i801 driver, but I hope to solve this soon, using deferred probing on the i2c-mux-gpio side. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
The SMBus controller in the VIA VX900 appears to be compatible with the VIA VX855, so just add the device ID. This closes kernel bug #43096. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
i2c_parport_irq is only called internally so it can be static. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
i2c_dw_xfer_msg is only called internally so it can be static. It original was, before the driver split. No idea why it was changed at that time. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: NDirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
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由 Jim Cromie 提交于
Replace printks with pr_<level>s, add pr_fmt()s to replace NAMEs Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Peter Huewe 提交于
Remove the global dependency of the I2C subsystem on HAS_IOMEM and move the dependency to the i2c/busses submenu, with an exception for i2c-stub. The generic I2C part does not need to have HAS_IOMEM set and thus now becomes available in UML, so the I2C subsystem can now be used, e.g. by the i2c-stub driver, for development of I2C device drivers. [JD: Some adjustments.] [Heiko Carstens: Keep I2C disabled on S390.] Signed-off-by: NPeter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Shubhrajyoti D 提交于
Convert the struct i2c_msg initialization to C99 format. This makes maintaining and editing the code simpler. Also helps once other fields like transferred are added in future. Signed-off-by: NShubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@ti.com> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Julia Lawall 提交于
Converting kzalloc to devm_kzalloc simplifies the code and ensures that the result, alert, is freed after the irq allocated by the subsequent devm_request_irq. This in turn ensures that when an interrupt can be triggered, the alert structure is still available. The problem of a free after a devm_request_irq was found using the following semantic match (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r exists@ expression e1,e2,x,a,b,c,d; identifier free; position p1,p2; @@ devm_request_irq@p1(e1,e2,...,x) ... when any when != e2 = a when != x = b if (...) { ... when != e2 = c when != x = d free@p2(...,x,...); ... return ...; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
Let I2C bus segments behind multiplexers have a class. This allows for device auto-detection on these segments. As long as parent segments don't share the same class, it should be fine. I implemented support in drivers i2c-mux-gpio and i2c-mux-pca954x. I left i2c-mux-pca9541 and i2c-mux-pinctrl alone for the moment as I don't know if this feature makes sense for the use cases of these drivers. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Michael Lawnick <ml.lawnick@gmx.de> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Some highlights in addition to the usual batch of fixes: - 64TB address space support for 64-bit processes by Aneesh Kumar - Gavin Shan did a major cleanup & re-organization of our EEH support code (IBM fancy PCI error handling & recovery infrastructure) which paves the way for supporting different platform backends, along with some rework of the PCIe code for the PowerNV platform in order to remove home made resource allocations and instead use the generic code (which is possible after some small improvements to it done by Gavin). - Uprobes support by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli - A pile of embedded updates from Freescale folks, including new SoC and board supports, more KVM stuff including preparing for 64-bit BookE KVM support, ePAPR 1.1 updates, etc..." Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/scsi/ipr.c * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (146 commits) powerpc/iommu: Fix multiple issues with IOMMU pools code powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case driver/mtd:IFC NAND:Initialise internal SRAM before any write powerpc/fsl-pci: use 'Header Type' to identify PCIE mode powerpc/eeh: Don't release eeh_mutex in eeh_phb_pe_get powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk powerpc: Set paca->data_offset = 0 for boot cpu powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+ powerpc/fsl-pci: fix warning when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is disabled powerpc/mpc85xx: Update interrupt handling for IFC controller powerpc/85xx: Enable USB support in p1023rds_defconfig powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1 powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag powerpc: Remove unused __get_user64() and __put_user64() powerpc/eeh: Global mutex to protect PE tree powerpc/eeh: Remove EEH PE for normal PCI hotplug ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull networking changes from David Miller: "The most important bit in here is the fix for input route caching from Eric Dumazet, it's a shame we couldn't fully analyze this in time for 3.6 as it's a 3.6 regression introduced by the routing cache removal. Anyways, will send quickly to -stable after you pull this in. Other changes of note: 1) Fix lockdep splats in team and bonding, from Eric Dumazet. 2) IPV6 adds link local route even when there is no link local address, from Nicolas Dichtel. 3) Fix ixgbe PTP implementation, from Jacob Keller. 4) Fix excessive stack usage in cxgb4 driver, from Vipul Pandya. 5) MAC length computed improperly in VLAN demux, from Antonio Quartulli." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (26 commits) ipv6: release reference of ip6_null_entry's dst entry in __ip6_del_rt Remove noisy printks from llcp_sock_connect tipc: prevent dropped connections due to rcvbuf overflow silence some noisy printks in irda team: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat bonding: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat sctp: check src addr when processing SACK to update transport state sctp: fix a typo in prototype of __sctp_rcv_lookup() ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info can: mpc5xxx_can: fix section type conflict can: peak_pcmcia: fix error return code can: peak_pci: fix error return code cxgb4: Fix build error due to missing linux/vmalloc.h include. bnx2x: fix ring size for 10G functions cxgb4: Dynamically allocate memory in t4_memory_rw() and get_vpd_params() ixgbe: add support for X540-AT1 ixgbe: fix poll loop for FDIRCTRL.INIT_DONE bit ixgbe: fix PTP ethtool timestamping function ixgbe: (PTP) Fix PPS interrupt code ixgbe: Fix PTP X540 SDP alignment code for PPS signal ...
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: "The MM tree is rather stuck while I wait to find out what the heck is happening with sched/numa. Probably I'll need to route around all the code which was added to -next, sigh. So this is "everything else", or at least most of it - other small bits are still awaiting resolutions of various kinds." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits) lib/decompress.c add __init to decompress_method and data kernel/resource.c: fix stack overflow in __reserve_region_with_split() omfs: convert to use beXX_add_cpu() taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error aoe: update aoe-internal version number to 50 aoe: update documentation to better reflect aoe-plus-udev usage aoe: remove unused code aoe: make dynamic block minor numbers the default aoe: update and specify AoE address guards and error messages aoe: retain static block device numbers for backwards compatibility aoe: support more AoE addresses with dynamic block device minor numbers aoe: update documentation with new URL and VM settings reference aoe: update copyright year in touched files aoe: update internal version number to 49 aoe: remove unused code and add cosmetic improvements aoe: increase net_device reference count while using it aoe: associate frames with the AoE storage target aoe: disallow unsupported AoE minor addresses aoe: do revalidation steps in order aoe: failover remote interface based on aoe_deadsecs parameter ...
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由 Hein Tibosch 提交于
Fix the warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14cfd8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable compressed_formats to the function .init.text:gunzip() The function compressed_formats() references the function __init gunzip(). etc.. Within decompress.c, compressed_formats[] needs 'a __initdata annotation', because some of it's data members refer to functions which will be unloaded after init. Consequently, its user decompress_method() will get the __init prefix. Signed-off-by: NHein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 T Makphaibulchoke 提交于
Using a recursive call add a non-conflicting region in __reserve_region_with_split() could result in a stack overflow in the case that the recursive calls are too deep. Convert the recursive calls to an iterative loop to avoid the problem. Tested on a machine containing 135 regions. The kernel no longer panicked with stack overflow. Also tested with code arbitrarily adding regions with no conflict, embedding two consecutive conflicts and embedding two non-consecutive conflicts. Signed-off-by: NT Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Reviewed-by: NRam Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Wei Yongjun 提交于
Convert cpu_to_beXX(beXX_to_cpu(E1) + E2) to use beXX_add_cpu(). dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch. (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch) Signed-off-by: NWei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Acked-by: NBob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Juhl 提交于
If prepare_reply() succeeds we have allocated memory for 'rep_skb'. If nla_reserve() then subsequently fails and returns NULL we fail to release the memory we allocated, thus causing a leak. Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Because udev use is so widespread, making the old static mapping the default is too conservative, given the severe limitations it places on usable AoE addresses. Storage virtualization and larger shelves have made the old limitations too confining. These changes make the dynamic block device minor numbers the default, removing the limitations on usable AoE addresses. The static arrangement is still available with aoe_dyndevs=0, and the aoe-stat tool from the userland aoetools package, the user space counterpart to the aoe driver, recognizes the case where there is a mismatch between the minor number in sysfs and the minor number in a special device file. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
In general, specific is better when it comes to messages about AoE usage problems. Also, explicit checks for the AoE broadcast addresses are added. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The old mapping between AoE target shelf and slot addresses and the block device minor number is retained as a backwards-compatible feature, with a new "aoe_dyndevs" module parameter available for enabling dynamic block device minor numbers. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The ATA over Ethernet protocol uses a major (shelf) and minor (slot) address to identify a particular storage target. These changes remove an artificial limitation the aoe driver imposes on the use of AoE addresses. For example, without these changes, the slot address has a maximum of 15, but users commonly use slot numbers much greater than that. The AoE shelf and slot address space is often used sparsely. Instead of using a static mapping between AoE addresses and the block device minor number, the block device minor numbers are now allocated on demand. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The old area has a new URL. Also, now that the driver can perform better, it is worth mentioning the VM settings that help aoe to sink dirty pages out early, avoiding unecessary memory pressure when much I/O is going on. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The internal version number of the aoe driver appears in a console message when the driver loads and is usually obtained by the user with the userland aoe-version tool, part of the aoetools.[1] Although this patchset includes bugfixes backported from higher-numbered versions published on the coraid.com website, it is a form of version 49. 1. http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
This change removes some unused code and attempts to increase code consistency. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
This change eliminates the danger that the user could rmmod the driver for a network interface that is being used for AoE by the aoe driver. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
In the driver code, "target" and aoetgt refer to a particular remote interface on the AoE storage target. The latter is identified by its AoE major and minor addresses. Commands that are being sent to an AoE storage target {major, minor} can be sent or retransmitted to any of the remote MAC addresses associated with the AoE storage target. That is, frames are naturally associated with not an aoetgt (AoE major, AoE minor, remote MAC address) but an aoedev (AoE major, AoE minor). Making the code reflect that reality simplifies the driver, especially when the path to a remote MAC address becomes unusable. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
A guard is inserted to prevent AoE minor addresses (slot addresses) higher than 15 to be used, as they are not yet supported by the driver. There is a change coming that will allow the aoe driver to overcome this limit by using system device minor numbers dynamically, but until then, this guard prevents unexpected targets from being used by the driver when AoE targets with high minor numbers are on the AoE network. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The discovery process begins with an optional AoE config query command and an AoE config query response. Normally when an aoe device is already open, the config query response does not trigger an ATA identify device command to be sent out, since the response contains storage capacity information that, if changed, could surprise the user of the device. The userland "aoe-revalidate" tool uses a character device to trigger an AoE config query for a particular AoE storage target and an ATA device identify command, even when the device is open. This change causes the config query to go out first, reflecting the normal discovery sequence. The responses could come back in any order, so this change is fairly cosmetic. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The aoe_deadsecs module parameter allows the user to specify a hard limit on the number of seconds an AoE command can be retransmitted before the AoE block device is considered to have failed. Using aoe_deadsecs to determine the time we try using a different remote interface helps to ensure that the hard limit is not reached before we've tried to recover by sending to a different remote port. As a data storage target, the AoE target is unambiguously identified by its {major, minor} AoE address tuple, and an AoE target can have multiple MAC addresses. However, note that "target" in the driver code and comments means a {major, minor, MAC address} tuple, as in "somewhere to send packets". Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Users with several network interfaces dedicated to AoE generally do not configure them to support different-sized AoE data payloads on purpose. For a given AoE target, there will be a set of local network interfaces that can reach it. Using only the payload that will fit in the smallest-sized MTU of all those local interfaces greatly simplifies the driver, especially in failure scenarios. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued transmissions. Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
To allow users to choose an elevator algorithm for their particular workloads, change from a make_request-style driver to an I/O-request-queue-handler-style driver. We have to do a couple of things that might be surprising. We manipulate the page _count directly on the assumption that we still have no guarantee that users of the block layer are prohibited from submitting bios containing pages with zero reference counts.[1] If such a prohibition now exists, I can get rid of the _count manipulation. Just as before this patch, we still keep track of the sk_buffs that the network layer still hasn't finished yet and cap the resources we use with a "pool" of skbs.[2] Now that the block layer maintains the disk stats, the aoe driver's diskstats function can go away. 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/1/374 2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/241Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an "aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O. The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure. Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming unusable. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit] Signed-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ed Cashin 提交于
tAdd adds the ability to work with large packets composed of a number of segments, using the scatter gather feature of the block layer (biovecs) and the network layer (skb frag array). The motivation is the performance gained by using a packet data payload greater than a page size and by using the network card's scatter gather feature. Users of the out-of-tree aoe driver already had these changes, but since early 2011, they have complained of increased memory utilization and higher CPU utilization during heavy writes.[1] The commit below appears related, as it disables scatter gather on non-IP protocols inside the harmonize_features function, even when the NIC supports sg. commit f01a5236 Author: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Date: Sun Jan 9 06:23:31 2011 +0000 net offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features(). With that regression in place, transmits always linearize sg AoE packets, but in-kernel users did not have this patch. Before 2.6.38, though, these changes were working to allow sg to increase performance. 1. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg15184.htmlSigned-off-by: NEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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