sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'splice-2.6.23' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
pipe: add documentation and comments
pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm()
Remove remnants of sendfile()
xip sendfile removal
splice: completely document external interface with kerneldoc
sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops
shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
relay: use splice_to_pipe() instead of open-coding the pipe loop
pipe: allow passing around of ops private pointer
splice: divorce the splice structure/function definitions from the pipe header
splice: relay support
sendfile: convert nfsd to splice_direct_to_actor()
sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read()
loop: convert to using splice_direct_to_actor() instead of sendfile()
splice: add void cookie to the actor data
sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile()
sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()
sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
vmsplice: add vmsplice-to-user support
splice: abstract out actor data
so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once
instead of having to disable each option separately.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The name 'pin' was badly chosen, it doesn't pin a pipe buffer
in the most commonly used sense in the kernel. So change the
name to 'confirm', after debating this issue with Hugh
Dickins a bit.
A good return from ->confirm() means that the buffer is really
there, and that the contents are good.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We need to move even more stuff into the header so that folks can use
the splice_to_pipe() implementation instead of open-coding a lot of
pipe knowledge (see relay implementation), so move to our own header
file finally.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This gets rid of the dependency on ->sendfile() for receiving data
and converts loop to ->splice_read() instead.
Also includes an IV offset fix from Hugh Dickins.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
- I have unearthed very old bugs in stale drivers that still
used request->cmd as a READ|WRITE int
- This patch is maybe a proof that these drivers have not been
used for a long time. Should they be removed completely?
Drivers that currently do not work for sure:
drivers/acorn/block/fd1772.c | 2 +-
drivers/acorn/block/mfmhd.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c | 2 +-
drivers/cdrom/cm206.c | 2 +-
drivers/cdrom/gscd.c | 2 +-
drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c | 2 +-
drivers/cdrom/optcd.c | 2 +-
drivers/cdrom/sjcd.c | 2 +-
Drivers with cosmetic fixes only:
b/drivers/block/amiflop.c
b/drivers/block/nbd.c
b/drivers/ide/legacy/hd.c
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds support for the Smart Array P700m SAS controller. This new
controller will ship Fall 2007.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Originally from Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
It hasn't been working in 2.5 or 2.6 ever, since it's still buffer_head
based.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The kernel on-demand loop device instantiation breaks several user space
tools as the tools are not ready to cope with the "on-demand feature". Fix
it by instantiate default 8 loop devices and also reinstate max_loop module
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix an Oops in the cciss driver caused by system shutdown while a filesystem
on a cciss device is still active. The cciss_remove_one function only
properly removes the device if the device has been cleanly released by its
users, which is not the case when the pci_driver.shutdown method is called.
This patch adds a new cciss_shutdown function to better match the pattern
used by various SCSI drivers: deactivate device interrupts and flush caches.
It also alters the cciss_remove_one function to match and readds the
__devexit annotation that was removed when cciss_remove_one was serving as
the pci_driver.shutdown method.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
... doh
Jeremy Fitzhardinge noted that the recent loop.c cleanups worked, but
cause lockdep to complain.
Ouch. OK, the deadlock is real and yes, I'm an idiot. Speaking of which,
we probably want to s/lock/pin/ in drivers/base/map.c to avoid such
brainos again. And yes, this stuff needs clear documentation. Will try
to put one together once I get some sleep...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Disband drivers/s390/Kconfig, use the common Kconfig files. The s390
specific config options from drivers/s390/Kconfig are moved to the
respective common Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
fix file specification in comments
drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
misc doc and kconfig typos
Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
Fix occurrences of "the the "
Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
Fix "deprecated" typoes.
...
Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
It's very common for file systems to need to zero part or all of a page,
the simplist way is just to use kmap_atomic() and memset(). There's
actually a library function in include/linux/highmem.h that does exactly
that, but it's confusingly named memclear_highpage_flush(), which is
descriptive of *how* it does the work rather than what the *purpose* is.
So this patchset renames the function to zero_user_page(), and calls it
from the various places that currently open code it.
This first patch introduces the new function call, and converts all the
core kernel callsites, both the open-coded ones and the old
memclear_highpage_flush() ones. Following this patch is a series of
conversions for each file system individually, per AKPM, and finally a
patch deprecating the old call. The diffstat below shows the entire
patchset.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things]
Signed-off-by: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h, because of the use of
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN and SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Set rq->errors more correctly in cciss driver. Previously we had set it
synonymously with the meaning of the last parameter of end_that_last_request
and complete_buffers (the "uptodate" parameter) and had gotten away with it
for all this time because nobody ever looked at rq->errors.
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND looks at rq->errors, so now it matters that it be
right.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For all of you that think cciss should be a scsi driver here is the patch that
you have been waiting for all these years. This patch actually adds the SG_IO
ioctl to cciss. The primary purpose is for clustering and high-availibilty.
But now anyone can exploit this ioctl in any manner they wish.
Note, SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND doesn't work with this patch due to rq->errors
being set incorrectly. Subsequent patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove artificial maximum 256 loop device that can be created due to a
legacy device number limit. Searching through lkml archive, there are
several instances where users complained about the artificial limit that
the loop driver impose. There is no reason to have such limit.
This patch rid the limit entirely and make loop device and associated block
queue instantiation on demand. With on-demand instantiation, it also gives
the benefit of not wasting memory if these devices are not in use (compare
to current implementation that always create 8 loop devices), a net
improvement in both areas. This version is both tested with creation of
large number of loop devices and is compatible with existing losetup/mount
user land tools.
There are a number of people who worked on this and provided valuable
suggestions, in no particular order, by:
Jens Axboe
Jan Engelhardt
Christoph Hellwig
Thomas M
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
