01 Oct, 2006
40 commits
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Don't just do nothing: it'll cause busywaits all over writeback and page
reclaim.For now, take a fixed-length nap. Will improve when NFS starts waking up
throttled processes.Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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- forward declare struct superblock
- use inlines, not macrosSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This makes CONFIG_USB_STORAGE depend on CONFIG_SCSI rather than selecting it,
as selecting it makes CONFIG_USB_STORAGE override the dependencies of SCSI,
causing it to turn on even if they aren't all met.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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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
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Remove inclusions of linux/buffer_head.h that are no longer necessary due to the
transfer of a number of things out of there.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Remove inclusions of linux/mpage.h that are no longer necessary due to the
transfer of generic_writepages().Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the msdos device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the msdos
driver so that the msdos header file doesn't need to be included.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext3
driver so that the Ext3 header file doesn't need to be included.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the Ext2 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext2
driver so that the Ext2 header file doesn't need to be included.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the
ReiserFS driver so that the ReiserFS header file doesn't need to be included.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move common FS-specific ioctls from linux/ext2_fs.h to linux/fs.h as FS_IOC_*
and FS_IOC32_* and have the users of them use those as a base.Also move the GETFLAGS/SETFLAGS flags to linux/fs.h as FS_*_FL macros, and then
have the other users use them as a base.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the loop
driver so that the loop header file doesn't need to be included.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move __invalidate_device() from fs/inode.c to fs/block_dev.c so that it can
more easily be disabled when the block layer is disabled.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.It is used by NFS to do writeback.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move blockdev_superblock extern declaration from fs/fs-writeback.c to a
headerfile and remove the dependence on it by wrapping it in a macro.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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The AFS filesystem no longer needs to override its sync_page() op.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move the bounce buffer code from mm/highmem.c to mm/bounce.c so that it can be
more easily disabled when the block layer is disabled.!!!NOTE!!! There may be a bug in this code: Should init_emergency_pool() be
contingent on CONFIG_HIGHMEM?Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Stop fallback_migrate_page() from using page_has_buffers() since that might not
be available. Use PagePrivate() instead since that's more general.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Remove the duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() from linux/sched.h.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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Move some functions out of the buffering code that aren't strictly buffering
specific. This is a precursor to being able to disable the block layer.(*) Moved some stuff out of fs/buffer.c:
(*) The file sync and general sync stuff moved to fs/sync.c.
(*) The superblock sync stuff moved to fs/super.c.
(*) do_invalidatepage() moved to mm/truncate.c.
(*) try_to_release_page() moved to mm/filemap.c.
(*) Moved some related declarations between header files:
(*) declarations for do_invalidatepage() and try_to_release_page() moved
to linux/mm.h.(*) __set_page_dirty_buffers() moved to linux/buffer_head.h.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells
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This patch kills a few lines of code in blktrace by making use of
on_each_cpu().Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke
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Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
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We don't need to disable irqs to clear current->io_context, it is protected
by ->alloc_lock. Even IF it was possible to submit I/O from IRQ on behalf of
current this irq_disable() can't help: current_io_context() will re-instantiate
->io_context after irq_enable().We don't need task_lock() or local_irq_disable() to clear ioc->task. This can't
prevent other CPUs from playing with our io_context anyway.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
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It is a leftover from before the softirq completion was migrated
to the block layer.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Give meta data reads preference over regular reads, as the process
often needs to get that out of the way to do the io it was actually
interested in.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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We can use this information for making more intelligent priority
decisions, and it will also be useful for blktrace.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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It can make sense to set read-ahead larger than a single request.
We should not be enforcing such policy on the user. Additionally,
using the BLKRASET ioctl doesn't impose such a restriction. So
additionally we now expose identical behaviour through the two.Issue also reported by Anton
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Don't touch the current queues, just make sure that the wanted queue
is selected next. Simplifies the logic.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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CFQ implements this on its own now, but it's really block layer
knowledge. Tells a device queue to start dispatching requests to
the driver, taking care to unplug if needed. Also fixes the issue
where as/cfq will invoke a stopped queue, which we really don't
want.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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No point in having a place holder list just for empty queues, so remove
it. It's not used for anything other than to keep ->cfq_list busy.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Currently it scales with number of processes in that priority group,
which is potentially not very nice as it's called quite often.
Basically we always need to do tail inserts, except for the case of a
new process. So just mark/detect a queue as such.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Some were kmalloc_node(), some were still kmalloc(). Change them all to
kmalloc_node().Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Kill a few inlines that bring in too much code to more than one location
Shrinks kernel text by about 300 bytes on 32-bit x86.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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It's ok if the read path is a lot more costly, as long as inc/dec is
really cheap. The inc/dec will happen for each created/freed io context,
while the reading only happens when a disk queue exits.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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It's ok if the read path is a lot more costly, as long as inc/dec is
really cheap. The inc/dec will happen for each created/freed io context,
while the reading only happens when a disk queue exits.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
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None of the in-kernel primitives for handling "atomic" counting seem
to be a good fit. We need something that is essentially free for
incrementing/decrementing, while the read side may be more expensive
as we only ever need to do that when a device is removed from the
kernel.Use a per-cpu variable for maintaining a per-cpu ioc count and define
a reading mechanism that just sums up the values.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
