03 Dec, 2009
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The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
04 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid. Provide
the topology information through bdev ioctls.Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
12 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
23 May, 2009
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Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
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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
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
16 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still
traces the whole sda.To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize
bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that
partition.Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events.
The original patch and discussion can be found here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2Signed-off-by: Shawn Du
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Jens Axboe
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
29 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
04 Dec, 2008
2 commits
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Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the
magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW. It would be even better to do this directly
in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files,
not just block special files.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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Commit 33c2dca4957bd0da3e1af7b96d0758d97e708ef6 (trim file propagation
in block/compat_ioctl.c) removed the handling of some ioctls from
compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl. That caused them to be rejected as unknown
by the compat layer.Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
24 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Variable 'ret' is no longer used. Don't declare it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Oct, 2008
5 commits
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Now we can switch blkdev_ioctl() block_device/mode
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Most of that stuff doesn't need BKL at all; expand in the (only) caller,
merge the switch into one there and leave BKL only around the stuff that
might actually need it.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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... and remove the handling of cases when it falls back to native
without changing arguments.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers;
to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following:
1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct
prototypes, make (few) callers handle both. That's this changeset.
2) for each driver convert to new methods. *ALL* drivers
are converted in this series.
3) kill the old (renamed) methods.Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the
end of this series no trace of old methods remain. The only reason why
we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver
debugging if anything goes wrong.New methods:
open(bdev, mode)
release(disk, mode)
ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called without BKL */
compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)
locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called with BKL, legacy */Signed-off-by: Al Viro
09 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as
unwanted before they format it, for example.The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length
in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to
be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that.Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
13 May, 2008
1 commit
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bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Cc: Stephen Tweedie
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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hdparm explicitely marks HDIO_[UNREGISTER,SCAN]_HWIF ioctls as DANGEROUS
and given the number of bugs we can assume that there are no real users:* DMA has no chance of working because DMA resources are released by
ide_unregister() and they are never allocated again.* Since ide_init_hwif_ports() is used for ->io_ports[] setup the ioctls
don't work for almost all hosts with "non-standard" (== non ISA-like)
layout of IDE taskfile registers (there is a lot of such host drivers).* ide_port_init_devices() is not called when probing IDE devices so:
- drive->autotune is never set and IDE host/devices are not programmed
for the correct PIO/DMA transfer modes (=> possible data corruption)
- host specific I/O 32-bit and IRQ unmasking settings are not applied
(=> possible data corruption)
- host specific ->port_init_devs method is not called (=> no luck with
ht6560b, qd65xx and opti621 host drivers)* ->rw_disk method is not preserved (=> no HPT3xxN chipsets support).
* ->serialized flag is not preserved (=> possible data corruption when
using icside, aec62xx (ATP850UF chipset), cmd640, cs5530, hpt366
(HPT3xxN chipsets), rz1000, sc1200, dtc2278 and ht6560b host drivers).* ->ack_intr method is not preserved (=> needed by ide-cris, buddha,
gayle and macide host drivers).* ->sata_scr[] and sata_misc[] is cleared by ide_unregister() and it
isn't initialized again (SiI3112 support needs them).* To issue an ioctl() there need to be at least one IDE device present
in the system.* ->cable_detect method is not preserved + it is not called when probing
IDE devices so cable detection is broken (however since DMA support is
also broken it doesn't really matter ;-).* Some objects which may have already been freed in ide_unregister()
are restored by ide_hwif_restore() (i.e. ->hwgroup).* ide_register_hw() may unregister unrelated IDE ports if free ide_hwifs[]
slot cannot be found.* When IDE host drivers are modular unregistered port may be re-used by
different host driver that owned it first causing subtle bugs.Since we now have a proper warm-plug support remove these ioctls,
then remove no longer needed:
- ide_register_hw() and ide_hwif_restore() functions
- 'init_default' and 'restore' arguments of ide_unregister()
- zeroeing of hwif->{dma,extra}_* fields in ide_unregister()As an added bonus IDE core code size shrinks by ~3kB (x86-32).
v2:
* fix ide_unregister() arguments in cleanup_module() (Andrew Morton).v3:
* fix ide_unregister() arguments in palm_bk3710.c.Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
28 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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Since the SCSI layer uses the request queues from the block layer, blktrace can
also be used to trace the requests to all SCSI devices (like SCSI tape drives),
not only disks. The only missing part is the ioctl interface to start and stop
tracing.This patch adds the SETUP, START, STOP and TEARDOWN ioctls from blktrace to the
sg device files. With this change, blktrace can be used for SCSI devices like
for disks, e.g.: blktrace -d /dev/sg1 -o - | blkparse -i -Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
29 Oct, 2007
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The conversion of handlers to compat_blkdev_ioctl accidentally
disabled handling of most ioctl numbers on block devices because
of a typo. Fix the one line to enable it all again.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Oct, 2007
7 commits
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The floppy ioctls are used by multiple drivers, so they should be
handled in a shared location. Also, add minor cleanups.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
These are shared by all cd-rom drivers and should have common
handlers. Do slight cosmetic cleanups in the process.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
BLKPG is common to all block devices, so it should be handled
by common code.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
These are common to multiple block drivers, so they should
be handled by the block layer.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
blk_trace_setup is broken on x86_64 compat systems,
this makes the code work correctly on all 64 bit architectures
in compat mode.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
Handle those blockdev ioctl calls that are compatible
directly from the compat_blkdev_ioctl() function, instead
of having to go through the compat_ioctl hash lookup.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
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Make compat_blkdev_ioctl and blkdev_ioctl reflect the respective
native versions. This is somewhat more efficient and makes it easier
to keep the two in sync.Also get rid of the bogus handling for broken_blkgetsize and the
duplicate entry for BLKRASET.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
