18 Dec, 2012
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Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The
branch contains:- A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
situation on individual pulls can be improved.- A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.
- Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a
generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
also using it.- A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.
- Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
to be used as an identifier."* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
drbd: Remove obsolete check
drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
xen-blkfront: free allocated page
xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
cciss: use check_signature()
cciss: cleanup bitops usage
drbd: use copy_highpage
drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
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06 Dec, 2012
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The Kconfig currently enables MSDOS partitions by default because they
are assumed to be essential, but it's necessary to enable "advanced
partition selection" in order to get GPT support. IMO GPT partitions
are becoming common enought to deserve the same treatment MSDOS
partitions get.(Side note: I got bit by a disk that had MSDOS and GPT partition
tables, but for some reason the MSDOS table was different from the
GPT one. I was stupid enought to disable "advanced partition
selection" in my .config, which disabled GPT partitioning and made
my btrfs pool unbootable because it couldn't find the partitions)Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Nov, 2012
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The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature. When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID. Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Will Drewry
Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This will allow other types of UUID to be stored here, aside from true
UUIDs. This also simplifies code that uses this field, since it's usually
constructed from a, used as a, or compared to other, strings.Note: A simplistic approach here would be to set uuid_str[36]=0 whenever a
/PARTNROFF option was found to be present. However, this modifies the
input string, and causes subsequent calls to devt_from_partuuid() not to
see the /PARTNROFF option, which causes different results. In order to
avoid misleading future maintainers, this parameter is marked const.Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Will Drewry
Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
26 Sep, 2012
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In some usage scenarios it is desireable to work with disk images or
virtualized DASD devices. One problem that prevents such applications
is the partition detection in ibm.c. Currently it works only for
devices that support the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl, in other words, it only
works for devices that belong to the DASD device driver.The information gained from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl is only for a small
set of legacy cases abolutely necessary. All current VOL1, LNX1 and
CMS1 type of disk labels can be interpreted correctly without this
information, as long as the generic HDIO_GETGEO ioctl works and
provides a correct disk geometry.This patch makes the ibm.c partition detection as independent as
possible from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl. Only the following two cases are
still restricted to real DASDs:
- An FBA DASD, or LDL formatted ECKD DASD without any disk label.
- An old style LNX1 label (without large volume support) on a disk
with inconsistent device geometry.Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
16 May, 2012
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To avoid confusion while formatting a DASD device change the level of
the "Expected VOL1 label not found" message from warning to info.Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
24 Feb, 2012
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From: Ben Hutchings
Extended VBLKs (those larger than the preset VBLK size) are divided
into fragments, each with its own VBLK header. Our LDM implementation
generally assumes that each VBLK is contiguous in memory, so these
fragments must be assembled before further processing.Currently the reassembly seems to be done quite wrongly - no VBLK
header is copied into the contiguous buffer, and the length of the
header is subtracted twice from each fragment. Also the total
length of the reassembled VBLK is calculated incorrectly.Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov
04 Jan, 2012
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
