1. 10 Aug, 2002 24 commits
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] Re: downgrade_write · 090d3e77
      David Howells authored
      The prototype name is wrong, not the name called by the actual
      implementation.  Noticed by David Miller.
      090d3e77
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      [PATCH] missing export of elv_queue_empty() · f610191b
      Jens Axboe authored
      Forgot to export it to modules :/
      f610191b
    • Paul Menage's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix misspelling of "sector" in ide.c · b84e52f8
      Paul Menage authored
      b84e52f8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge Al's partition handling cleanups · 3c128e58
      Linus Torvalds authored
      3c128e58
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] fix check_disk_change() deadlocks · 951f4be9
      Alexander Viro authored
      Small, but tricky: fix for check_disk_change() deadlocks.
      What we do is
      	a) opening block device shifted from check_partition() to
      	   grok_partitions(); check_partitions() takes opened
      	   struct block_device.
      	b) all callers of check_disk_change() fall in two groups -
      	   ones that are called only from some ->open() and ones
      	   that are _never_ called from ->open().  There is no
      	   middle ground.  We split the thing in two functions -
      	   check_disk_change() for the first class and full_check_....
      	   for the second.  The former (ones inside ->open()) doesn't
      	   touch partition tables but marks the bdev as "had been
      	   invalidated".  In the end of do_open() we check if
      	   bdev is marked and call wipe_partitions()/check_partition()
      	   if it is - at that point bdev is fully set up and ready.
      	c) ->bd_part_sem kludge is gone - we use ->bd_sem instead.
      	   That is, do_open() on a partition grabs ->bd_sem on entire
      	   disk and picks partition data while under it; do_open() on
      	   entire disk rereads partition if needed before dropping
      	   ->bd_sem (right before dropping it); BLKRRPART does
      	   trylock on ->bd_sem and then checks ->bd_part_count -
      	   same logics as before, except that we use ->bd_sem instead
      	   of ->bd_part_sem.
      
      That kills recursive open(), gives us the same exclusion rules as
      we had and makes sure that actual IO (including rereading partition
      tables) is done only when we are ready to do it.
      
      It actually sounds a lot nastier than it is.  do_open() is a one sick
      puppy right now, but we have everything in one place and _out_ of drivers
      (and 20-odd equally sick puppies are gone from them, along with about
      the same number of races).
      
      Now we are almost ready to clean it up for good - all that remains to
      do before that is to get the rest of drivers (cciss, DAC960, i2o and
      a couple of ancients - xd and acsi) using per-disk gendisks.  Then
      most of that crap will disappear.
      
      BTW, the only generic ioctl remaining in the drivers is HDIO_GETGEO -
      a lot of foo_ioctl() starts with if (cmd != HDIO_GETGEO) return -EINVAL; ;-)
      951f4be9
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] ps2esdi.c per-disk gendisks · 9804df6c
      Alexander Viro authored
      ps2esdi.c switched to per-disk gendisks
      9804df6c
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] cpqarray.c per-disk gendisks · ea309121
      Alexander Viro authored
      cpqarray.c switched to per-disk gendisks
      ea309121
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] partition table flush/read cleanup · 816ab591
      Alexander Viro authored
      Big One.  Flushing/rereading partition tables is taken from
      ->revalidate() for partitioned devices; now it's done in the
      caller (check_disk_change()).  BLKRRPART handling also moved
      out of drivers - they are still allowed to override it (DAC960
      and i2o are the only remaining ones), but common case is handled
      in fs/block_dev.c.
      
      Note: we are still only shifting stuff - bd_sem deadlocks in
      check_disk_change() are still there.  However, now we have all
      relevant code outside of drivers and that will allow to fix the
      thing (see next patches).
      816ab591
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] ide subdrivers attach() cleanup · fc4dfb65
      Alexander Viro authored
      ->attach() for ide subdrivers explicitly calls register_disk()
      instead of ata_revalidate() now; revalidate_drives() is gone -
      it's not needed anymore (we _know_ that we'll read partition
      table as soon as driver claims the drive; no need to mess with
      bogus rereading).
      fc4dfb65
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] clean up major_name · 7e06e792
      Alexander Viro authored
      ->major_name for per-disk gendisks set to full name - i.e.
      IDE gendisks have "hda", "hdb", etc. instead of "hd".
      As the result, we kill a lot of crap in check.c::disk_name().
      In particular, now we can afford ->minor_shift set to 0
      for ide-cd (disk_name() was the only obstacle)
      7e06e792
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] make check_disk_change() use struct block_device · 814bd2ba
      Alexander Viro authored
      check_disk_change() converted to passing struct block_device.
      
      Old variant is still needed for a couple of places; wrapper
      is provided (__check_disk_change(kdev)).  do_open() logics
      with setting ->bd_op sanitized - now we do that before calling
      ->open().
      814bd2ba
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] fix /proc/partitions braino · 5c2f6403
      Alexander Viro authored
      fix for embarrassing braino in /proc/partitions - size in kilobytes
      is _half_ the size in secotrs, not twice that size...
      5c2f6403
    • Alexander Viro's avatar
      [PATCH] seq_read() fix · 4f4b6a13
      Alexander Viro authored
      Present both in 2.4 and 2.5 ;-/
      4f4b6a13
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      [PATCH] misc pagecache cleanups / tweaks · 8b1763fb
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      - inline grab_cache_page() in pagemap.h, it's just a simple wrapper
        around find_or_create_page()
      - rename (__)remove_inode_page to (__)remove_from_page_cache and
        move them from mm.h and swap.h to pagemap.h because they reverse
        add_to_page_cache and that's where they belong.
      8b1763fb
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: rwsem update [10/10] · 28e17277
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      - __down_[read,write]_trylock, __downgrade_write implemented;
      - __builtin_expect replaced with unlikely().
      28e17277
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: misc fixes [9/10] · 93be99e7
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      Set of small fixes:
      - pcibios_init() must be int;
      - fls() - ctlz on ev67, generic on others. This was required for
        something several kernel releases back, now it seems to be unused.
        Anyway, it shouldn't hurt, so included here.
      - missing #includes, missing #if RTC_IRQ in drivers/char/rtc.c;
      - define USER_HZ;
      From Jeff Wiedemeier:
      - rename alpha-specific config section 'General setup' to 'System setup'
        to avoid confusion with generic 'General setup';
      - fix the 'bootpfile' build.
      93be99e7
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: osf getrusage, readv, writev [8/10] · 74b4e814
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      - osf_getrusage() updated for new utime/stime fields of the task_struct;
      - compatibility wrappers for OSF/1 v4 readv/writev syscalls:
        forward port from 2.4.19.
      74b4e814
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: percpu update [7/10] · 18fc1ad1
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      Generic per-cpu areas; wrappers for SMP boot process.
      18fc1ad1
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: interrupt/preempt update [6/10] · 7226c990
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      This one is large mostly because of massive code deletion.
      - cli, sti an so on go away;
      - irq_smp.c goes to /dev/null; the only leftover (synchronize_irq)
        moved to irq.c;
      - hardirq count field in the preemption counter extended to 12 bits -
        one more than required for wildfire.
      7226c990
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: cia-1 fix [5/10] · 1fb62ea2
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      From Jay Estabrook:
      CIA rev 1 can't use DAC and windows 1,2 for SG.
      1fb62ea2
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: regdef.h [4/10] · a63ab460
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      Historically, assembly routines included libc header <alpha/regdef.h>
      for OSF/1 register names. With the new kernel build system
      it doesn't work anymore. Make our own copy in <include/asm>.
      a63ab460
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: CPU logical mapping [3/10] · 4d6642d3
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      Hardware cpu_id to logical cpu mapping is gone.
      Converted to cpu_online() etc.
      4d6642d3
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: IPI update [2/10] · cdc03222
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      - send_ipi_message() fix from Jeff Wiedemeier:
        The 2.5.30 IPI algorithm (with the to_whom == set test) incorrectly sends
        IPI messages to CPU 0 in a SMP system running with one processor. In this
        case to_whom is often 0 (cpu_present_mask & ~1UL << smp_processor_id()) which
        ends up triggering the to_whom == set case.
      - migration IPI removed;
      cdc03222
    • Ivan Kokshaysky's avatar
      [PATCH] alpha: pte/pfn/page/tlb macros update [1/10] · 24165732
      Ivan Kokshaysky authored
      This starts a large set of alpha patches accumulated since 2.5.18 or
      even earlier. All of this was reasonably well tested.
      Thanks to Jeff Wiedemeier for SMP testing and fixes.
      
      - sync up with (2.5.18?) pte/pfn/page/tlb etc. macros;
      - asm-generic/tlb.h: loading unsigned long constant to unsigned int
        tlb->nr causes compiler warnings on 64 bit platforms.
      24165732
  2. 09 Aug, 2002 2 commits
  3. 08 Aug, 2002 1 commit
  4. 06 Aug, 2002 1 commit
  5. 07 Aug, 2002 2 commits
    • Anton Altaparmakov's avatar
      NTFS: 2.0.24 - Cleanups. · 16b39f5f
      Anton Altaparmakov authored
      - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
        inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
      - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
        calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
      - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
        NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
      - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
      - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
        Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
        to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
        source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
        somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
      16b39f5f
    • Anton Altaparmakov's avatar
  6. 06 Aug, 2002 7 commits
  7. 05 Aug, 2002 3 commits