23 Dec, 2010

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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
     

02 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • "gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
    "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
    "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
    "relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

    Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Uwe Kleine-König
     

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
     

09 Feb, 2010

1 commit

  • In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
    'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
    'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack
    Cc: Joe Perches
    Cc: Junio C Hamano
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Daniel Mack
     

07 Apr, 2009

1 commit


06 Jan, 2009

1 commit


30 Dec, 2008

1 commit


16 Jul, 2008

4 commits


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
     

20 Mar, 2008

1 commit

  • This patch is only compile tested.

    It seems that bitmap lookup routine for allocation_map in
    a100u2w driver is simply wrong.

    It cannot lookup more than first 32 bits. If all first 32 bits
    are set, it just returns 33-th orc_scb even though the 33-th bit
    is not set.

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Tested-by: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Akinobu Mita
     

31 Jan, 2008

1 commit

  • With the sg table code, every SCSI driver is now either chain capable
    or broken (or has sg_tablesize set so chaining is never activated), so
    there's no need to have a check in the host template.

    Also tidy up the code by moving the scatterlist size defines into the
    SCSI includes and permit the last entry of the scatterlist pools not
    to be a power of two.
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    James Bottomley
     

16 Oct, 2007

1 commit


18 Jun, 2007

1 commit

  • I was investigating strange driver behaviour and thought that readable
    code and proper visible types might help explain why it didn't work right
    the moment a second SCB was outstanding to the controller. I was right

    - Cleanup, linuxise, demacro
    - Remove the BSD dual licence on the new work
    - Switch the if ALPHA to if __LP64__. (struct size is then right
    elsewhere) and then to CONFIG_64BIT as per Christoph's request
    - Fix the recursive locking on a reset. This is the only actual real code
    change (I hope ;)).

    I'm not clear what the right way to handle the BIOS param stuff is on n
    on x86-32/64. Using phys_to_virt and stuff is ugly and probably doesn't
    make sense elsewhere

    Still has a couple of odd things - and there seems to be a commonly shared
    EEPROM handling error several drivers have. Roughly speaking several SCSI
    drivers go

    try and read EEPROM
    It failed..
    Write any changes between the default and the data we read

    Which is great as for some paths we've no idea what was in
    before, so each boot won't write it all back, won't checksum but will
    repeat the bug

    Also it can still sleep for a second with IRQ off, and there is some
    dubious looking error path locking marked FIXME in case anyone feels
    inspired to work on it. Not a newly introduced bug, and at least its now
    marked.

    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Alan Cox
     

27 May, 2007

1 commit


18 Feb, 2007

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
     

27 Sep, 2006

1 commit


03 Jul, 2006

1 commit


29 Mar, 2006

1 commit


29 Oct, 2005

1 commit

  • Wrap a highly common idiom. Makes the code easier to read, helps pave
    the way for sdev->{id,channel} removal, and adds a token that can easily
    by grepped-for in the future.

    There are a couple sdev_id() and scmd_printk() updates thrown in as well.

    Rejections fixed up and
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Jeff Garzik
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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