- 07 Oct, 2012 4 commits
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Peter Senna Tschudin authored
The function dmfe_init_one() return 0 for success and negative value for most of its internal tests failures. There are three exceptions that are error cases going to err_out_*:. Fore this three cases the function abort its success execution path, but returns non negative value, making it dificult for a caller function to notice the error. This patch fixes the error cases that do not return negative values. This was found by Coccinelle, but the code change was made by hand. This patch is not robot generated. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> ( if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\)) { ... return ret; } | ret@p1 = 0 ) ... when != ret = e1 when != &ret *if(...) { ... when != ret = e2 when forall return ret; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain. Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations. With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit 87151b86 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom) introduced this regression for recycled skbs. Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling. Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway, to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gao feng authored
set netlink_dump_control.module to avoid panic. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gao feng authored
I get a panic when I use ss -a and rmmod inet_diag at the same time. It's because netlink_dump uses inet_diag_dump which belongs to module inet_diag. I search the codes and find many modules have the same problem. We need to add a reference to the module which the cb->dump belongs to. Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan,Eric,Steffen and Pablo. Change From v3: change netlink_dump_start to inline,suggestion from Pablo and Eric. Change From v2: delete netlink_dump_done,and call module_put in netlink_dump and netlink_sock_destruct. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 06 Oct, 2012 3 commits
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git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headersLinus Torvalds authored
Pull UAPI disintegration fixes from David Howells: "There are three main parts: (1) I found I needed some more fixups in the wake of testing Arm64 (some asm/unistd.h files had weird guards that caused problems - mostly in arches for which I don't have a compiler) and some __KERNEL__ splitting needed to take place in Arm64. (2) I found that c6x was missing some __KERNEL__ guards in its asm/signal.h. Mark Salter pointed me at a tree with a patch to remove that file entirely and use the asm-generic variant instead. (3) Lastly, m68k turned out to have a header installation problem due to it lacking a kvm_para.h file. The conditional installation bits for linux/kvm_para.h, linux/kvm.h and linux/a.out.h weren't very well specified - and didn't work if an arch didn't have the asm/ version of that file, but there *was* an asm-generic/ version. It seems the "ifneq $((wildcard ...),)" for each of those three headers in include/kernel/Kbuild is invoked twice during header installation, and the second time it matches on the just installed asm-generic/kvm_para.h file and thus incorrectly installs linux/kvm_para.h as well. Most arches actually have an asm/kvm_para.h, so this wasn't detectable in those." * 'uapi-prep' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers: UAPI: Fix conditional header installation handling (notably kvm_para.h on m68k) c6x: remove c6x signal.h UAPI: Split compound conditionals containing __KERNEL__ in Arm64 UAPI: Fix the guards on various asm/unistd.h files c6x: make dsk6455 the default config
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "New and noteworthy: * More SLAB allocator unification patches from Christoph Lameter and others. This paves the way for slab memcg patches that hopefully will land in v3.8. * SLAB tracing improvements from Ezequiel Garcia. * Kernel tainting upon SLAB corruption from Dave Jones. * Miscellanous SLAB allocator bug fixes and improvements from various people." * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (43 commits) slab: Fix build failure in __kmem_cache_create() slub: init_kmem_cache_cpus() and put_cpu_partial() can be static mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration Revert "mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration" mm, slob: fix build breakage in __kmalloc_node_track_caller mm/slab: Fix kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace() declaration mm/slab: Fix typo _RET_IP -> _RET_IP_ mm, slub: Rename slab_alloc() -> slab_alloc_node() to match SLAB mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc() mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype mm, slab: Replace 'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller() mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size() mm, slob: Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 mm, sl[au]b: Taint kernel when we detect a corrupted slab slab: Only define slab_error for DEBUG slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock slub: Zero initial memory segment for kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move sysfs_slab_add to common" mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache refcounting to common code ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen Pull ADM Xen support from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: Features: * Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions). PV console, block and network frontend/backends are working. Bug-fixes: * Fix compile linux-next fallout. * Fix PVHVM bootup crashing. The Xen-unstable hypervisor (so will be 4.3 in a ~6 months), supports ARMv7 platforms. The goal in implementing this architecture is to exploit the hardware as much as possible. That means use as little as possible of PV operations (so no PV MMU) - and use existing PV drivers for I/Os (network, block, console, etc). This is similar to how PVHVM guests operate in X86 platform nowadays - except that on ARM there is no need for QEMU. The end result is that we share a lot of the generic Xen drivers and infrastructure. Details on how to compile/boot/etc are available at this Wiki: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions and this blog has links to a technical discussion/presentations on the overall architecture: http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/21/xensummit-sessions-new-pvh-virtualisation-mode-for-arm-cortex-a15arm-servers-and-x86/ * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (21 commits) xen/xen_initial_domain: check that xen_start_info is initialized xen: mark xen_init_IRQ __init xen/Makefile: fix dom-y build arm: introduce a DTS for Xen unprivileged virtual machines MAINTAINERS: add myself as Xen ARM maintainer xen/arm: compile netback xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM xen/arm: get privilege status xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi, pcpu and cpu_hotplug on ARM xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping docs: Xen ARM DT bindings xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions xen/arm: sync_bitops xen/arm: page.h definitions xen/arm: hypercalls ...
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- 05 Oct, 2012 33 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Some highlights in addition to the usual batch of fixes: - 64TB address space support for 64-bit processes by Aneesh Kumar - Gavin Shan did a major cleanup & re-organization of our EEH support code (IBM fancy PCI error handling & recovery infrastructure) which paves the way for supporting different platform backends, along with some rework of the PCIe code for the PowerNV platform in order to remove home made resource allocations and instead use the generic code (which is possible after some small improvements to it done by Gavin). - Uprobes support by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli - A pile of embedded updates from Freescale folks, including new SoC and board supports, more KVM stuff including preparing for 64-bit BookE KVM support, ePAPR 1.1 updates, etc..." Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/scsi/ipr.c * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (146 commits) powerpc/iommu: Fix multiple issues with IOMMU pools code powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case driver/mtd:IFC NAND:Initialise internal SRAM before any write powerpc/fsl-pci: use 'Header Type' to identify PCIE mode powerpc/eeh: Don't release eeh_mutex in eeh_phb_pe_get powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk powerpc: Set paca->data_offset = 0 for boot cpu powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+ powerpc/fsl-pci: fix warning when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is disabled powerpc/mpc85xx: Update interrupt handling for IFC controller powerpc/85xx: Enable USB support in p1023rds_defconfig powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1 powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag powerpc: Remove unused __get_user64() and __put_user64() powerpc/eeh: Global mutex to protect PE tree powerpc/eeh: Remove EEH PE for normal PCI hotplug ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking changes from David Miller: "The most important bit in here is the fix for input route caching from Eric Dumazet, it's a shame we couldn't fully analyze this in time for 3.6 as it's a 3.6 regression introduced by the routing cache removal. Anyways, will send quickly to -stable after you pull this in. Other changes of note: 1) Fix lockdep splats in team and bonding, from Eric Dumazet. 2) IPV6 adds link local route even when there is no link local address, from Nicolas Dichtel. 3) Fix ixgbe PTP implementation, from Jacob Keller. 4) Fix excessive stack usage in cxgb4 driver, from Vipul Pandya. 5) MAC length computed improperly in VLAN demux, from Antonio Quartulli." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (26 commits) ipv6: release reference of ip6_null_entry's dst entry in __ip6_del_rt Remove noisy printks from llcp_sock_connect tipc: prevent dropped connections due to rcvbuf overflow silence some noisy printks in irda team: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat bonding: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat sctp: check src addr when processing SACK to update transport state sctp: fix a typo in prototype of __sctp_rcv_lookup() ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info can: mpc5xxx_can: fix section type conflict can: peak_pcmcia: fix error return code can: peak_pci: fix error return code cxgb4: Fix build error due to missing linux/vmalloc.h include. bnx2x: fix ring size for 10G functions cxgb4: Dynamically allocate memory in t4_memory_rw() and get_vpd_params() ixgbe: add support for X540-AT1 ixgbe: fix poll loop for FDIRCTRL.INIT_DONE bit ixgbe: fix PTP ethtool timestamping function ixgbe: (PTP) Fix PPS interrupt code ixgbe: Fix PTP X540 SDP alignment code for PPS signal ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: "The MM tree is rather stuck while I wait to find out what the heck is happening with sched/numa. Probably I'll need to route around all the code which was added to -next, sigh. So this is "everything else", or at least most of it - other small bits are still awaiting resolutions of various kinds." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits) lib/decompress.c add __init to decompress_method and data kernel/resource.c: fix stack overflow in __reserve_region_with_split() omfs: convert to use beXX_add_cpu() taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error aoe: update aoe-internal version number to 50 aoe: update documentation to better reflect aoe-plus-udev usage aoe: remove unused code aoe: make dynamic block minor numbers the default aoe: update and specify AoE address guards and error messages aoe: retain static block device numbers for backwards compatibility aoe: support more AoE addresses with dynamic block device minor numbers aoe: update documentation with new URL and VM settings reference aoe: update copyright year in touched files aoe: update internal version number to 49 aoe: remove unused code and add cosmetic improvements aoe: increase net_device reference count while using it aoe: associate frames with the AoE storage target aoe: disallow unsupported AoE minor addresses aoe: do revalidation steps in order aoe: failover remote interface based on aoe_deadsecs parameter ...
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Hein Tibosch authored
Fix the warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14cfd8): Section mismatch in reference from the variable compressed_formats to the function .init.text:gunzip() The function compressed_formats() references the function __init gunzip(). etc.. Within decompress.c, compressed_formats[] needs 'a __initdata annotation', because some of it's data members refer to functions which will be unloaded after init. Consequently, its user decompress_method() will get the __init prefix. Signed-off-by: Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@yahoo.es> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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T Makphaibulchoke authored
Using a recursive call add a non-conflicting region in __reserve_region_with_split() could result in a stack overflow in the case that the recursive calls are too deep. Convert the recursive calls to an iterative loop to avoid the problem. Tested on a machine containing 135 regions. The kernel no longer panicked with stack overflow. Also tested with code arbitrarily adding regions with no conflict, embedding two consecutive conflicts and embedding two non-consecutive conflicts. Signed-off-by: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wei Yongjun authored
Convert cpu_to_beXX(beXX_to_cpu(E1) + E2) to use beXX_add_cpu(). dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch. (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jesper Juhl authored
If prepare_reply() succeeds we have allocated memory for 'rep_skb'. If nla_reserve() then subsequently fails and returns NULL we fail to release the memory we allocated, thus causing a leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Because udev use is so widespread, making the old static mapping the default is too conservative, given the severe limitations it places on usable AoE addresses. Storage virtualization and larger shelves have made the old limitations too confining. These changes make the dynamic block device minor numbers the default, removing the limitations on usable AoE addresses. The static arrangement is still available with aoe_dyndevs=0, and the aoe-stat tool from the userland aoetools package, the user space counterpart to the aoe driver, recognizes the case where there is a mismatch between the minor number in sysfs and the minor number in a special device file. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
In general, specific is better when it comes to messages about AoE usage problems. Also, explicit checks for the AoE broadcast addresses are added. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The old mapping between AoE target shelf and slot addresses and the block device minor number is retained as a backwards-compatible feature, with a new "aoe_dyndevs" module parameter available for enabling dynamic block device minor numbers. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The ATA over Ethernet protocol uses a major (shelf) and minor (slot) address to identify a particular storage target. These changes remove an artificial limitation the aoe driver imposes on the use of AoE addresses. For example, without these changes, the slot address has a maximum of 15, but users commonly use slot numbers much greater than that. The AoE shelf and slot address space is often used sparsely. Instead of using a static mapping between AoE addresses and the block device minor number, the block device minor numbers are now allocated on demand. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The old area has a new URL. Also, now that the driver can perform better, it is worth mentioning the VM settings that help aoe to sink dirty pages out early, avoiding unecessary memory pressure when much I/O is going on. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The internal version number of the aoe driver appears in a console message when the driver loads and is usually obtained by the user with the userland aoe-version tool, part of the aoetools.[1] Although this patchset includes bugfixes backported from higher-numbered versions published on the coraid.com website, it is a form of version 49. 1. http://aoetools.sourceforge.net/Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
This change removes some unused code and attempts to increase code consistency. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
This change eliminates the danger that the user could rmmod the driver for a network interface that is being used for AoE by the aoe driver. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
In the driver code, "target" and aoetgt refer to a particular remote interface on the AoE storage target. The latter is identified by its AoE major and minor addresses. Commands that are being sent to an AoE storage target {major, minor} can be sent or retransmitted to any of the remote MAC addresses associated with the AoE storage target. That is, frames are naturally associated with not an aoetgt (AoE major, AoE minor, remote MAC address) but an aoedev (AoE major, AoE minor). Making the code reflect that reality simplifies the driver, especially when the path to a remote MAC address becomes unusable. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
A guard is inserted to prevent AoE minor addresses (slot addresses) higher than 15 to be used, as they are not yet supported by the driver. There is a change coming that will allow the aoe driver to overcome this limit by using system device minor numbers dynamically, but until then, this guard prevents unexpected targets from being used by the driver when AoE targets with high minor numbers are on the AoE network. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The discovery process begins with an optional AoE config query command and an AoE config query response. Normally when an aoe device is already open, the config query response does not trigger an ATA identify device command to be sent out, since the response contains storage capacity information that, if changed, could surprise the user of the device. The userland "aoe-revalidate" tool uses a character device to trigger an AoE config query for a particular AoE storage target and an ATA device identify command, even when the device is open. This change causes the config query to go out first, reflecting the normal discovery sequence. The responses could come back in any order, so this change is fairly cosmetic. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The aoe_deadsecs module parameter allows the user to specify a hard limit on the number of seconds an AoE command can be retransmitted before the AoE block device is considered to have failed. Using aoe_deadsecs to determine the time we try using a different remote interface helps to ensure that the hard limit is not reached before we've tried to recover by sending to a different remote port. As a data storage target, the AoE target is unambiguously identified by its {major, minor} AoE address tuple, and an AoE target can have multiple MAC addresses. However, note that "target" in the driver code and comments means a {major, minor, MAC address} tuple, as in "somewhere to send packets". Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Users with several network interfaces dedicated to AoE generally do not configure them to support different-sized AoE data payloads on purpose. For a given AoE target, there will be a set of local network interfaces that can reach it. Using only the payload that will fit in the smallest-sized MTU of all those local interfaces greatly simplifies the driver, especially in failure scenarios. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued transmissions. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
To allow users to choose an elevator algorithm for their particular workloads, change from a make_request-style driver to an I/O-request-queue-handler-style driver. We have to do a couple of things that might be surprising. We manipulate the page _count directly on the assumption that we still have no guarantee that users of the block layer are prohibited from submitting bios containing pages with zero reference counts.[1] If such a prohibition now exists, I can get rid of the _count manipulation. Just as before this patch, we still keep track of the sk_buffs that the network layer still hasn't finished yet and cap the resources we use with a "pool" of skbs.[2] Now that the block layer maintains the disk stats, the aoe driver's diskstats function can go away. 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/1/374 2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/6/241Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an "aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O. The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure. Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming unusable. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit] Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ed Cashin authored
tAdd adds the ability to work with large packets composed of a number of segments, using the scatter gather feature of the block layer (biovecs) and the network layer (skb frag array). The motivation is the performance gained by using a packet data payload greater than a page size and by using the network card's scatter gather feature. Users of the out-of-tree aoe driver already had these changes, but since early 2011, they have complained of increased memory utilization and higher CPU utilization during heavy writes.[1] The commit below appears related, as it disables scatter gather on non-IP protocols inside the harmonize_features function, even when the NIC supports sg. commit f01a5236 Author: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Date: Sun Jan 9 06:23:31 2011 +0000 net offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features(). With that regression in place, transmits always linearize sg AoE packets, but in-kernel users did not have this patch. Before 2.6.38, though, these changes were working to allow sg to increase performance. 1. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg15184.htmlSigned-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements authored
Add discard support to nbd. If the nbd-server supports discard, it will send NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM to the client. The client will then set the flag in the kernel via NBD_SET_FLAGS, which tells the kernel to enable discards for the device (QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD). If discard support is enabled, then when the nbd client system receives a discard request, this will be passed along to the nbd-server. When the discard request is received by the nbd-server, it will perform: fallocate(.. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ..) To punch a hole in the backend storage, which is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements authored
Add a set-flags ioctl, allowing various option flags to be set on an nbd device. This allows the nbd-client to set the device flags (to enable read-only mode, or enable discard support, etc.). Flags are typically specified by the nbd-server. During the negotiation phase of the nbd connection, the server sends its flags to the client. The client then uses NBD_SET_FLAGS to inform the kernel of the options. Also included is a one-line fix to debug output for the set-timeout ioctl. Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexandre Bounine authored
Replace the single global destination ID counter with per-net allocation mechanism to allow independent destID management for each available RapidIO network. Using bitmap based mechanism instead of counters allows destination ID release and reuse in systems that support hot-swap. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexandre Bounine authored
Make RIONET driver multi-net safe/capable by introducing per-net lists of RapidIO network peers. Rework registration of network adapters to support all available RIO master port devices. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexandre Bounine authored
Modify mport initialization routine to run the RapidIO discovery process asynchronously. This allows to have an arbitrary order of enumerating and discovering ports in systems with multiple RapidIO controllers without creating a deadlock situation if enumerator port is registered after a discovering one. Making netID matching to mportID ensures consistent net ID assignment in multiport RapidIO systems with asynchronous discovery process (global counter implementation is affected by race between threads). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code layput] Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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