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* Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsingTimo Warns2011-03-141-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating OSF partitions contains a bug that leaks data from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain corrupted OSF partitions. In more detail: for (i = 0 ; i < le16_to_cpu(label->d_npartitions); i++, partition++) { iterates from 0 to d_npartitions - 1, where d_npartitions is read from the partition table without validation and partition is a pointer to an array of at most 8 d_partitions. Add the proper and obvious validation. Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org [ Changed the patch trivially to not repeat the whole le16_to_cpu() thing, and to use an explicit constant for the magic value '8' ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ldm: corrupted partition table can cause kernel oopsTimo Warns2011-02-251-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in fs/partitions/ldm.c) contains a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted LDM partitions. A kernel subsystem seems to crash, because, after the oops, the kernel no longer recognizes newly connected storage devices. The patch changes ldm_parse_vmdb() to Validate the value of vblk_size. Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Acked-by: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tablesTimo Warns2011-02-171-8/+9
| | | | | | | | Validate number of blocks in map and remove redundant variable. Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/event-handling' into for-2.6.38/coreJens Axboe2011-01-131-89/+0
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| * block: move register_disk() and del_gendisk() to block/genhd.cTejun Heo2010-12-161-89/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | block: add internal hd part table referencesJens Axboe2011-01-071-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic reference counting. This reverts commit e4a683c8. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | block: fix accounting bug on cross partition mergesJerome Marchand2011-01-051-1/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /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: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* Merge branch 'cleanup-bd_claim' of ↵Jens Axboe2010-11-271-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into for-2.6.38/core
| * block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive accessTejun Heo2010-11-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Over time, block layer has accumulated a set of APIs dealing with bdev open, close, claim and release. * blkdev_get/put() are the primary open and close functions. * bd_claim/release() deal with exclusive open. * open/close_bdev_exclusive() are combination of open and claim and the other way around, respectively. * bd_link/unlink_disk_holder() to create and remove holder/slave symlinks. * open_by_devnum() wraps bdget() + blkdev_get(). The interface is a bit confusing and the decoupling of open and claim makes it impossible to properly guarantee exclusive access as in-kernel open + claim sequence can disturb the existing exclusive open even before the block layer knows the current open if for another exclusive access. Reorganize the interface such that, * blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management. @holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses. * blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are removed automatically. * bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer necessary and either made static or removed. * bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder() is no longer necessary and removed. * open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev() and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only() test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get(). * open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to blkdev_get(). Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put() and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases. open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup - rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop special features. Well, let's leave them for another day. Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the same. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'v2.6.37-rc2' into for-2.6.38/coreJens Axboe2010-11-165-15/+59
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| * Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2010-10-251-12/+0
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges"
| | * Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges"Jens Axboe2010-10-241-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 7681bfeeccff5efa9eb29bf09249a3c400b15327. Conflicts: include/linux/genhd.h It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean version without rushing things. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-10-242-2/+2
| |\ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) Update broken web addresses in arch directory. Update broken web addresses in the kernel. Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments Fix typo configue => configure in comments Fix typo: configuation => configuration Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed] Fix various typos of valid in comments ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
| | * Update broken web addresses in the kernel.Justin P. Mattock2010-10-182-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds2010-10-221-10/+9
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (31 commits) driver core: Display error codes when class suspend fails Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct Driver core: Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks Driver core: Move find_memory_block routine hpilo: Despecificate driver from iLO generation driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted. driver core: Introduce find_memory_block_hinted which utilizes kset_find_obj_hinted. kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted. driver core: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled driver-core: base: change to new flag variable sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented. FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUG uio: Statically allocate uio_class and use class .dev_attrs. uio: Support 2^MINOR_BITS minors uio: Cleanup irq handling. uio: Don't clear driver data uio: Fix lack of locking in init_uio_class SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devices ...
| | * | SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layoutAndi Kleen2010-10-221-10/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | block: fix accounting bug on cross partition mergesYasuaki Ishimatsu2010-10-191-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /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: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | | genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to hd_structsWill Drewry2010-09-151-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change extends the partition_meta_info structure to support EFI GPT-specific metadata and ensures that data is copied in on partition scanning. Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | | block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_structWill Drewry2010-09-152-3/+23
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: 2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c (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: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | | block: export 'ro' sysfs attribute for partitionsKay Sievers2010-11-111-0/+9
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We already export 'ro' for the disk. This adds the same attribute for partitions. Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | [S390] partitions: fix build error in ibm partition detection codeHeiko Carstens2010-08-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9c867fbe "partitions: fix sometimes unreadable partition strings" coverted one line within the ibm partition code incorrectly. Fix this to get rid of a build error. fs/partitions/ibm.c: In function 'ibm_partition': [...] fs/partitions/ibm.c:185: error: too many arguments to function 'strlcat' Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | partitions: fix sometimes unreadable partition stringsAlexey Dobriyan2010-08-1116-72/+136
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix this garbage happening quite often: ==> sda: scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM TOSHIBA ==> sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray ^^^ Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 ==> sda5 sda6 sda7 > Make "sda: sda1 ..." lines actually lines. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-08-061-1/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU" mce: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check() net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU vfs: add fs.h to define struct file lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function rcu: add __rcu API for later sparse checking rcu: add an rcu_dereference_index_check() tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects mm: remove all rcu head initializations fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations
| * fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializationsPaul E. McKenney2010-06-141-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can keep track of objects on stack. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
* | [S390] dasd: use correct label location for diag fba disksPeter Oberparleiter2010-07-191-2/+12
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Partition boundary calculation fails for DASD FBA disks under the following conditions: - disk is formatted with CMS FORMAT with a blocksize of more than 512 bytes - all of the disk is reserved to a single CMS file using CMS RESERVE - the disk is accessed using the DIAG mode of the DASD driver Under these circumstances, the partition detection code tries to read the CMS label block containing partition-relevant information from logical block offset 1, while it is in fact located at physical block offset 1. Fix this problem by using the correct CMS label block location depending on the device type as determined by the DASD SENSE ID information. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* fs: ldm: don't use own implementation of hex_to_bin()Andy Shevchenko2010-05-251-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | Remove own implementation of hex_to_bin(). Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com> Cc: "Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@flatcap.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-05-213-3/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits) fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode * simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ... Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
| * fs/partitions: use ADDPART_FLAG_RAID instead of magic numberCesar Eduardo Barros2010-05-213-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ADDPART_FLAG_RAID was introduced in commit d18d768, and most places were converted to use it instead of a hardcoded value. However, some places seem to have been missed. Change all of them to the symbolic names via the following semantic patch: @@ struct parsed_partitions *state; expression E; @@ ( - state->parts[E].flags = 1 + state->parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_RAID | - state->parts[E].flags |= 1 + state->parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_RAID | - state->parts[E].flags = 2 + state->parts[E].flags = ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK | - state->parts[E].flags |= 2 + state->parts[E].flags |= ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK ) Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | block: improve automatic native capacity unlockingTejun Heo2010-05-212-14/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, native capacity unlocking is initiated only when a recognized partition extends beyond the end of the disk. However, there are several other unhandled cases where truncated capacity can lead to misdetection of partitions. * Partition table is fully beyond EOD. * Partition table is partially beyond EOD (daisy chained ones). * Recognized partition starts beyond EOD. This patch updates generic partition check code such that all the above three cases are handled too. For the first two, @state tracks whether low level partition check code tried to read beyond EOD during partition scan and triggers native capacity unlocking accordingly. The third is now handled similarly to the original unlocking case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check codeTejun Heo2010-05-2130-239/+225
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the following changes to partition check code. * Add ->bdev to struct parsed_partitions. * Introduce read_part_sector() which is a simple wrapper around read_dev_sector() which takes struct parsed_partitions *state instead of @bdev. * For functions which used to take @state and @bdev, drop @bdev. For functions which used to take @bdev, replace it with @state. * While updating, drop superflous checks on NULL state/bdev in ldm.c. This cleans up the API a bit and enables better handling of IO errors during partition check as the generic partition check code now has much better visibility into what went wrong in the low level code paths. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to ->unlock_native_capacity()Tejun Heo2010-05-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | bdops->set_capacity() is unnecessarily generic. All that's required is a simple one way notification to lower level driver telling it to try to unlock native capacity. There's no reason to pass in target capacity or return the new capacity. The former is always the inherent native capacity and the latter can be handled via the usual device resize / revalidation path. In fact, the current API is always used that way. Replace ->set_capacity() with ->unlock_native_capacity() which take only @disk and doesn't return anything. IDE which is the only current user of the API is converted accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: restart partition scan after resizing a deviceTejun Heo2010-05-211-10/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Device resize via ->set_capacity() can reveal new partitions (e.g. in chained partition table formats such as dos extended parts). Restart partition scan from the beginning after resizing a device. This change also makes libata always revalidate the disk after resize which makes lower layer native capacity unlocking implementation simpler and more robust as resize can be handled in the usual path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-302-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* fs/partition/msdos: fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sectorOGAWA Hirofumi2010-03-241-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Smaller size than a minimum blocksize can't be used, after all it's handled like 0 size. For extended partition itself, this makes sure to use bigger size than one logical sector size at least. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disksDaniel Taylor2010-03-241-34/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to use disks larger than 2TiB on Windows XP, it is necessary to use 4096-byte logical sectors in an MBR. Although the kernel storage and functions called from msdos.c used "sector_t" internally, msdos.c still used u32 variables, which results in the ability to handle XP-compatible large disks. This patch changes the internal variables to "sector_t". Daniel said: "In the near future, WD will be releasing products that need this patch". [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: tweaks and fix] Signed-off-by: Daniel Taylor <daniel.taylor@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: Stop using byte offsetsMartin K. Petersen2010-01-111-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | All callers of the stacking functions use 512-byte sector units rather than byte offsets. Simplify the code so the stacking functions take sectors when specifying data offsets. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* partitions: read whole sector with EFI GPT headerKarel Zak2009-11-232-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The size of EFI GPT header is not static, but whole sector is allocated for the header. The HeaderSize field must be greater than 92 (= sizeof(struct gpt_header) and must be less than or equal to the logical block size. It means we have to read whole sector with the header, because the header crc32 checksum is calculated according to HeaderSize. For more details see UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009): - 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 93 - Table 13. GUID Partition Table Header, page 96 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* partitions: use sector size for EFI GPTKarel Zak2009-11-231-8/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, kernel uses strictly 512-byte sectors for EFI GPT parsing. That's wrong. UEFI standard (version 2.3, May 2009, 5.3.1 GUID Format overview, page 95) defines that LBA is always based on the logical block size. It means bdev_logical_block_size() (aka BLKSSZGET) for Linux. This patch removes static sector size from EFI GPT parser. The problem is reproducible with the latest GNU Parted: # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=50 sector_size=4096 # ./parted /dev/sdb print Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 52.4MB Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 24.6kB 3002kB 2978kB primary 2 3002kB 6001kB 2998kB primary 3 6001kB 9003kB 3002kB primary # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb # dmesg | tail -1 sdb: unknown partition table <---- !!! with this patch: # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb # dmesg | tail -1 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Expose discard granularityMartin K. Petersen2009-11-101-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | 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: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2Nikanth Karthikesan2009-10-061-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275 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 0f78ab9899e9d6acb09d5465def618704255963b 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: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"Jens Axboe2009-10-041-11/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275. 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: [a9327cac440be4d8333bba975cbbf76045096275] 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: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* const: make block_device_operations constAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-221-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* driver model: constify attribute groupsDavid Brownell2009-09-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Let attribute group vectors be declared "const". We'd like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only sections... this is a start. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requestsNikanth Karthikesan2009-09-141-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write. This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the currently available stat files would break the existing tools. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* partitions: fix broken uevent_suppress conversionHeiko Carstens2009-07-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git commit f67f129e "Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject" contains this chunk for fs/partitions/check.c: /* suppress uevent if the disk supresses it */ - if (!ddev->uevent_suppress) + if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(pdev)) kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); However that should have been - if (!ddev->uevent_suppress) + if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(ddev)) Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-121-10/+32
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits) ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two() ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode() ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2) sl82c105: add printk() logging facility ide-tape: fix proc warning ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile() ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update() icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq() ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2) ...
| * partitions: add ->set_capacity block device methodBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-06-071-11/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Add ->set_capacity block device method and use it in rescan_partitions() to attempt enabling native capacity of the device upon detecting the partition which exceeds device capacity. * Add GENHD_FL_NATIVE_CAPACITY flag to try limit attempts of enabling native capacity during partition scan. Together with the consecutive patch implementing ->set_capacity method in ide-gd device driver this allows automatic disabling of Host Protected Area (HPA) if any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
| * partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacityBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-06-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current warning message says only about the kernel's action taken without mentioning the underlying reason behind it. Noticed-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitionsMartin K. Petersen2009-05-221-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen2009-05-222-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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