talos-obmc-linux/block/genhd.c, branch v2.6.26-rc6

Fix invalid access errors in blk_lookup_devt

2008-06-09T17:06:24+00:00

Commit 30f2f0eb4bd2c43d10a8b0d872c6e5ad8f31c9a0 ("block: do_mounts - accept root=") extended blk_lookup_devt() to be able to look up partitions that had not yet been registered, but in the process made the assumption that the '&block_class.devices' list only contains disk devices and that you can do 'dev_to_disk(dev)' on them. That isn't actually true. The block_class device list also contains the partitions we've discovered so far, and you can't just do a 'dev_to_disk()' on those. So make sure to only work on devices that block/genhd.c has registered itself, something we can test by checking the 'dev->type' member. This makes the loop in blk_lookup_devt() match the other such loops in this file. [ We may want to do an alternate version that knows to handle _either_ whole-disk devices or partitions, but for now this is the minimal fix for a series of crashes reported by Mariusz Kozlowski in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/25 and Ingo in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/9/39 ] Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati Acked-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: do_mounts - accept root=

2008-05-14T17:37:57+00:00

Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access, so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting. This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and broke some users machines :( Acked-by: Neil Brown Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs

2008-04-30T15:29:49+00:00

Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object. This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables. In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant users and /sys/block//queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated. With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH [mszeredi@suse.cz] - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI won't be initialized - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Greg KH Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

genhd must_check warning fix

2008-03-12T19:34:37+00:00

Fixes: block/genhd.c:361: warning: ignoring return value of ‘class_register’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block/genhd.c: cleanups

2008-03-04T10:28:31+00:00

This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global struct disk_type static - #if 0 the unused genhd_media_change_notify() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

proper prototype for blk_dev_init()

2008-03-04T10:28:29+00:00

This patch adds a proper prototye for blk_dev_init() in block/blk.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Enhanced partition statistics: procfs

2008-02-08T11:42:00+00:00

Reports enhanced partition statistics in /proc/diskstats. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand

block: constify function pointer tables

2008-01-29T20:55:19+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices

2008-01-25T04:40:36+00:00

This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks to the disks. /sys/class/block |-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda |-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 |-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10 |-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5 |-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6 |-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7 |-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8 |-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9 `-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 /sys/block/ |-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda `-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kset: convert block_subsys to use kset_create

2008-01-25T04:40:23+00:00

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. We also rename block_subsys to block_kset to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman