17 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • Move the mid-layer's ->queuecommand() invocation from being locked
    with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the
    critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway.

    The patch below presents a simple SCSI host lock push-down as an
    equivalent transformation. No locking or other behavior should change
    with this patch. All existing bugs and locking orders are preserved.

    Additionally, add one parameter to queuecommand,
    struct Scsi_Host *
    and remove one parameter from queuecommand,
    void (*done)(struct scsi_cmnd *)

    Scsi_Host* is a convenient pointer that most host drivers need anyway,
    and 'done' is redundant to struct scsi_cmnd->scsi_done.

    Minimal code disturbance was attempted with this change. Most drivers
    needed only two one-line modifications for their host lock push-down.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
    Acked-by: James Bottomley
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Garzik
     

11 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • This driver is the only user of dma_is_consistent(). We plan to remove this
    API.

    The driver uses the API in the following way:

    BUG_ON(!dma_is_consistent(hostdata->dev, pScript) && L1_CACHE_BYTES < dma_get_cache_alignment());

    The above code tries to see if L1_CACHE_BYTES is greater than
    dma_get_cache_alignment() on sysmtes that can not allocate coherent memory
    (some old systems can't).

    James Bottomley exmplained that this is necesary because the driver packs the
    set of mailboxes into a single coherent area and separates the different
    usages by a L1 cache stride. So it's fatal if the dma

    He also pointed out that we can kill this checking because we don't hit this
    BUG_ON on all architectures that actually use the driver.

    (akpm: stolen from the scsi tree because
    dma-mapping-remove-dma_is_consistent-api.patch needs it)

    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    FUJITA Tomonori
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

10 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits)
    tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments
    reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled"
    doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt.
    inotify: remove superfluous return code check
    hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment
    doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism
    mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig
    doc: Fix IRQ chip docs
    tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
    drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes
    fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
    sysctl: add missing comments
    fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos
    sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE.
    sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error
    tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter"
    tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset"
    fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi()
    spidev: fix double "of of" in comment
    comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

05 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch modifies scsi_host_template->change_queue_depth so that
    it takes an argument indicating why it is being called. This will be
    used so that if a LLD needs to do some extra processing when
    handling queue fulls or later ramp ups, it can do so.

    This is a simple port of the drivers setting a change_queue_depth
    callback. In the patch I just have these LLDs adjust the queue depth
    if the user was requesting it.

    Signed-off-by: Mike Christie

    [Vasu.Dev: v2
    Also converted pmcraid_change_queue_depth and then verified
    all modules compile using "make allmodconfig" for any new build
    warnings on X86_64.

    Updated original description after combing two original
    patches from Mike to make this patch git bisectable.]
    Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev
    [jejb: fixed up 53c700]
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Mike Christie
     

04 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
    , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
    , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
    , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

    Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    André Goddard Rosa
     

02 May, 2008

1 commit

  • - struct scsi_cmnd had a 16 bytes command buffer of its own.
    This is an unnecessary duplication and copy of request's
    cmd. It is probably left overs from the time that scsi_cmnd
    could function without a request attached. So clean that up.

    - Once above is done, few places, apart from scsi-ml, needed
    adjustments due to changing the data type of scsi_cmnd->cmnd.

    - Lots of drivers still use MAX_COMMAND_SIZE. So I have left
    that #define but equate it to BLK_MAX_CDB. The way I see it
    and is reflected in the patch below is.
    MAX_COMMAND_SIZE - means: The longest fixed-length (*) SCSI CDB
    as per the SCSI standard and is not related
    to the implementation.
    BLK_MAX_CDB. - The allocated space at the request level

    - I have audit all ISA drivers and made sure none use ->cmnd in a DMA
    Operation. Same audit was done by Andi Kleen.

    (*)fixed-length here means commands that their size can be determined
    by their opcode and the CDB does not carry a length specifier, (unlike
    the VARIABLE_LENGTH_CMD(0x7f) command). This is actually not exactly
    true and the SCSI standard also defines extended commands and
    vendor specific commands that can be bigger than 16 bytes. The kernel
    will support these using the same infrastructure used for VARLEN CDB's.
    So in effect MAX_COMMAND_SIZE means the maximum size command
    scsi-ml supports without specifying a cmd_len by ULD's

    Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Boaz Harrosh
     

24 Jan, 2008

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27 May, 2007

1 commit


15 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
    recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
    There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
    anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
    macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
    course of cleaning it up.

    To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
    removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

    Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
    arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
    allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
    configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
    introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
    by unnecessarily included header files).

    Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tim Schmielau
     

14 Jan, 2007

1 commit

  • This is a patch, which allows not only disabling bursting but to specify
    different burst lenghts. This feature is needed to get the 53c700 driver
    working for the onboard SCSI controller of SNI RM machines, which only
    work reliably with a 4 word burst length.

    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Thomas Bogendoerfer
     

08 Dec, 2006

2 commits

  • Pass struct dev pointer to dma_cache_sync()

    dma_cache_sync() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct device
    pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist of a
    mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change dma_cache_sync
    to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix all its callers
    to pass it.

    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Greg KH
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ralf Baechle
     
  • dma_is_consistent() is ill-designed in that it does not have a struct
    device pointer argument which makes proper support for systems that consist
    of a mix of coherent and non-coherent DMA devices hard. Change
    dma_is_consistent to take a struct device pointer as first argument and fix
    the sole caller to pass it.

    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Greg KH
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ralf Baechle
     

03 Dec, 2006

1 commit


05 Oct, 2006

1 commit

  • Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
    of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
    Linux kernel.

    The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
    space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
    from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
    (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

    Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
    something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is
    maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
    handling.

    Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
    through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character
    device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
    interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character
    device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
    layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

    I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the
    main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
    I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
    with minimal configurations.

    This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
    Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

    struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

    And put the old one back at the end:

    set_irq_regs(old_regs);

    Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

    In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

    - update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
    - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
    + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
    + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

    I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
    except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

    Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

    (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in
    the input_dev struct.

    (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does
    something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
    pointer or not.

    (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
    irq_handler_t.

    Signed-Off-By: David Howells
    (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

    David Howells
     

01 Oct, 2006

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26 Jun, 2006

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  • On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:00:34PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
    > commit 67d59dfdeb21df2c16dcd478b66177e91178ecd0
    > tree ae85703651d81740f4a6cd398f9dd4d6aabe6a2f
    > parent 6db874fbdbedba5e15e76cc03b42f52ea70338c0
    > author James Bottomley Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:31:19 -0500
    > committer James Bottomley Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:34:01 -0500
    >
    > [SCSI] 53c700: remove reliance on deprecated cmnd fields
    > ...
    >
    > + SDp->hostdata = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, sizeof(struct NCR_700_sense));
    > +
    > + if (!SDp->hostdata)
    > + return -ENOMEM;

    "I'll take reversed arguments for $100 please Alex".

    Signed-off-by: Dave Jones
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Dave Jones
     

20 Jun, 2006

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  • This driver has had it's own different infrastructure for doing this for
    ages, but it's time it used the common one.

    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

     
  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds