There's currently a diagnostic printk in relay_switch_subbuf() meant as
a warning if you accidentally try to log an event larger than the
sub-buffer size.
The problem is if this happens while logging from somewhere it's not
safe to be doing printks, such as in the scheduler, you can end up with
a deadlock. This patch removes the warning from relay_switch_subbuf()
and instead prints some diagnostic info when the channel is closed.
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out the problem and
suggesting a fix.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ensure we call unmap_mapping_range() and sync dirty pages to disk before
doing an NFS direct write.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I reported a problem and gave hints to the solution, but nobody seemed
to react. So I prepared a patch against 2.6.14.4.
Tested on 2.6.14.4 with "ip monitor addr" and with the program
attached, while adding and removing IPv6 address. Both programs didn't
receive any messages. Tested 2.6.14.4 + this patch, and both programs
received add and remove messages.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Slavov <kristian.slavov@nomadiclab.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
ACKed-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This (and the three subsequent patches) is working well on OMAP H4 with
2.6.15-rc4 kernel and passes the LTP fs test.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sparc64, i386 and x86_64 have support for a special data section dedicated
to rarely updated data that is frequently read. The section was created to
avoid false sharing of those rarely read data with frequently written kernel
data.
This patch creates such a data section for ia64 and will group rarely written
data into this section.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM
area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new
vm_insert_page() case.
Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP.
Pointed out by Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This merge is pretty extensive. The conflict is over the new
req->retries parameter, so I had to change the prototype to
scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd() and the usage in sd, sr and st.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- export __blk_put_request and blk_execute_rq_nowait
needed for async REQ_BLOCK_PC requests
- seperate max_hw_sectors and max_sectors for block/scsi_ioctl.c and
SG_IO bio.c helpers per Jens's last comments. Since block/scsi_ioctl.c SG_IO was
already testing against max_sectors and SCSI-ml was setting max_sectors and
max_hw_sectors to the same value this does not change any scsi SG_IO behavior. It only
prepares ll_rw_blk.c, scsi_ioctl.c and bio.c for when SCSI-ml begins to set
a valid max_hw_sectors for all LLDs. Today if a LLD does not set it
SCSI-ml sets it to a safe default and some LLDs set it to a artificial low
value to overcome memory and feedback issues.
Note: Since we now cap max_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS, which is 1024,
drivers that used to call blk_queue_max_sectors with a large value of
max_sectors will now see the fs requests capped to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
For tape we need to control the retries. This patch adds a retries
counter on the request for REQ_BLOCK_PC commands originating from
scsi_execute* to use. REQ_BLOCK_PC commands comming from the block
layer SG_IO path continue to use the retires set in the ULD init_command.
(scsi_execute* does not set the gendisk so we do not execute
the init_command in that path).
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Add scsi helpers to create really-large-requests and convert
scsi-ml to scsi_execute_async().
Per Jens's previous comments, I placed this function in scsi_lib.c.
I made it follow all the queue's limits - I think I did at least :), so
I removed the warning on the function header.
I think the scsi_execute_* functions should eventually take a request_queue
and be placed some place where the dm-multipath hw_handler can use them
if that failover code is going to stay in the kernel. That conversion
patch will be sent in another mail though.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Some motherboards (such as the Asus P5V800-MX) ship a
PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_82C586_1 IDE controller alongside a VT8251 southbridge.
This southbridge is currently unrecognised in the via82cxxx IDE driver,
preventing those users from getting DMA access to disks.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
