30 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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Start doing VTOC validation before using its contents.
The validation is adjusted so as not to break existing setups
that do not set the VTOC version, sanity and partition count entries.
VTOC tables with more than 8 partitions will NOT be used.Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller -
Correct the Solaris x86 number of partitions (slices) is a way that is
backward compatible with the earlier size.This works without a new VTOC structure definition as the timestamp
and v_asciilabel fields in the VTOC are not used by the kernel yet.Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).
Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
(E1,E2)
... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Acked-by: Russell King
Cc: Bryan Wu
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby
Cc: Dave Airlie
Acked-by: Roland Dreier
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman
Cc: Jeff Garzik
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Acked-by: Greg KH
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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Teach LDM about a new field encountered with Windows Vista.
This fixes LDM for people using Vista who have disabled drive letter
assignment from one or more volumes. Doing this introduces a so far
unknown field in the LDM database in the VOL5 VBLK structure which
causes the LDM driver to fail to parse the VBLK structure and hence LDM
fails to parse the disk altogether. This patch teaches the driver about
this field.Thanks got to Ashton Mills for reporting the
problem and working with me on getting it fixed. It is now working for
him.Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov
CC: Richard Russon
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warning: 'adfs_partition' defined but not used
warning: 'riscix_partition' defined but not used
warning: 'linux_partition' defined but not usedSigned-off-by: Denver Gingerich
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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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
Cc: Cornelia Huck
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
10 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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CDL formated DASDs are now detected correctly even if no VOL1 label is
on the disk. This prevents possible loss of data.Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
22 May, 2007
2 commits
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This from a "tested" patch...
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
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This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.
Cc: Richard Russon
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 May, 2007
2 commits
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Remove unused argument in is_pmbr_valid()
Remove unneeded initialization of local variable legacy_mbrSigned-off-by: Olaf Hering
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Don't enable SYSV68 partition table support on all m68k boxes by default,
only on Motorola VME boards.Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Philippe De Muyter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 May, 2007
1 commit
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Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition (slices in motorola
doc).Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 May, 2007
3 commits
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invalidate_bdev() is superfluous when truncate_inode_pages() is also
called. do call invalidate_bh_lrus() though, to avoid stale pointers.Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't
been used in 6 years (so akpm says).find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev |
while read file; do
quilt add $file;
sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file;
doneSigned-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
with a !uptodate page.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2007
1 commit
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We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Mar, 2007
2 commits
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Remove the misleading "Presently only useful on the IA-64 platform" text
from the EFI partition Kconfig.EFI partitions are also used by Apple on their Intel-based machines and
thus you need EFI partition support if you (for example) want to attach
such a machine in target disk mode.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Acked-by: Matt Domsch
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The only error code which comes from the partition checkers is -1, when
they finds an EIO. As per the discussion, ENOMEM values were ignored,
as they might scare the users.So, with the current code, we end up returning -1 and not EIO for the
ioctl() calls. Which doesn't give any clue to the user of what went
wrong.Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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Fix inverted check introduced in 57881dd9df40b76dc7fc6a0d13fd75f337accb32 "Fix
check_partition routines".Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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Here is a patch that removes all redundant kobject_unregister argument checks.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
12 Feb, 2007
3 commits
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara.
[SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_data
[SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices.
[PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute. -
Correct the AIX magic check to let 'echo > /dev/sdb' actually work.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
Cc: Anton Blanchard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117
The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block:
dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be ))
All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the
first block.Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
Cc: Anton Blanchard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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Some partitioning systems create special partitions that
span the entire disk. One example are Sun partitions, and
this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the
extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block
and do other things.Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions,
because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one.
So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which
we do not want. udev and friends can thus search for this
'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the
partition.Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
09 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle -
This patch provides fault-injection capability for disk IO.
Boot option:
fail_make_request=,,,
-- specifies the interval of failures.
-- specifies how often it should fail in percent.
-- specifies the size of free space where disk IO can be issued
safely in bytes.-- specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
Debugfs:
/debug/fail_make_request/interval
/debug/fail_make_request/probability
/debug/fail_make_request/specifies
/debug/fail_make_request/timesExample:
fail_make_request=10,100,0,-1
echo 1 > /sys/blocks/hda/hda1/make-it-failgeneric_make_request() on /dev/hda1 fails once per 10 times.
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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check_partition() stops its probe once it hits an I/O error from the
partition checkers. This would prevent the actual partition checker
getting a chance to verify the partition.So this patch lets check_partition() continue probing untill it hits a
success while recording the I/O error which might have been reported by the
checking routines.Also, it does some cleanup of the partition methods for ibm, atari and
amiga to return -1 upon hitting an I/O error.Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The current rescan_partition implementation ignores the errors that comes from
the lower layer. It reports success for unknown partitions as well as I/O
error cases while reading the partition information.The unknown partition is not (and will not be) considered as an error in the
kernel, since there are legal users of it (e.g, members of a RAID5 MD Device
or a new disk which is not partitioned at all ). Changing this behaviour
would scare the user about a serious problem with their disk and is not
recommended. Thus for both "unknown partitions" to the Linux (eg., DEC
VMS,Novell Netware) and the legal users of NULL partition, would still be
reported as "SUCCESS".The patch attached here, scares the user about something which he does need to
worry about. i.e, returning -EIO on disk I/O errors while reading the
partition information.Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P
Cc: Erik Mouw
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Handle errors thrown in disk_sysfs_symlinks(), and propagate back to
caller.The callers and associated functions don't do a real good job of handling
kobject errors anyway (add_partition, register_disk, rescan_partitions), so
this should do until something better comes along.Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Oct, 2006
2 commits
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Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
30 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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The on-disk data structures from AIX are not known, also the filesystem
layout is not known. There is a msdos partition signature at the end of
the first block, and the kernel recognizes 3 small (and overlapping)
partitions. But they are not usable. Maybe the firmware uses it to find
the bootloader for AIX, but AIX boots also if the first block is cleared.This is the content of the partition table:
# dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be )) | xxd
0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
0000010: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8...
0000020: 00ff ffff 41ff ffff 0211 0000 1900 0000 ....A...........
0000030: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8...Handle the whole disk as empty disk.
This fixes also YaST which compares the output from parted (and formerly
fdisk) with /proc/partitions. fdisk recognizes the AIX label since a long
time, SuSE has a patch for parted to handle the disk label as unknown.dmesg will look like this:
sda: [AIX] unknown partition tableTested on an IBM B50 with AIX V4.3.3.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering
Cc: Albert Cahalan
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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Conversions from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc.
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris
Jffs2-bit-acked-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Aug, 2006
1 commit
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The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count.
When partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes
the partition sizes to be invalid:# cat /proc/paritions | grep sdan
66 112 2146435072 sdan
66 115 9223372036853660736 sdan3
66 120 9223372036853660736 sdan8This patch switches the sector count to an unsigned int to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
01 Aug, 2006
1 commit
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Enable mac partition table support per default also for a powermac config.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Change the partition code in fs/partitions/check.c to initialize a newly
detected partition's policy field with that of the containing block device
(see patch below).My reasoning is that function set_disk_ro() in block/genhd.c modifies the
policy field (read-only indicator) of a disk and all contained partitions.
When a partition is detected after the call to set_disk_ro(), the policy
field of this partition will currently not inherit the disk's policy field.
This behavior poses a problem in cases where a block device can be
'logically de- and reactivated' like e.g. the s390 DASD driver because
partition detection may run after the policy field has been modified.Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter
Acked-by: Al Viro
Makes-sense-to: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
27 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Also fixes up all files that #include it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman