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    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      scsi_dh: Use the correct module name when loading device handler · 1378889c
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      This fixes a bug in recent kernels which results in failure to boot
on systems that have multipath SCSI disks.  I observed this failure
on a POWER8 server where all the disks are multipath SCSI disks.
The symptoms are several messages like this on the console:

[    3.018700] device-mapper: table: 253:0: multipath: error attaching hardware handler
[    3.018828] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

and the system does not find its disks, and therefore fails to boot.

Bisection revealed that the bug was introduced in commit 566079c8,
"dm-mpath, scsi_dh: request scsi_dh modules in scsi_dh, not dm-mpath".
The specific reason for the failure is that where we previously loaded
the "scsi_dh_alua" module, we are now trying to load the "alua" module,
which doesn't exist.

To fix this, we change the request_module call in scsi_dh_lookup()
to prepend "scsi_dh_" to the name, just like the old code in
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c:parse_hw_handler() used to do.

[jejb: also fixes issue spotted by Sasha Levin that formatting
characters could be passed in via sysfs and cause issues with
request_module()]

Fixes: 566079c8Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
      1378889c
  9. 17 Sep, 2015 1 commit
  11. 12 Sep, 2015 5 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.3-rc1 · 6ff33f39
      Linus Torvalds authored
      6ff33f39
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'cris-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesper/cris · 6917b51d
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull CRIS updates from Jesper Nilsson:
 "Mostly removal of old cruft of which we can use a generic version, or
  fixes for code not commonly run in the cris port, but also additions
  to enable some good debug"

* tag 'cris-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesper/cris: (25 commits)
  CRISv10: delete unused lib/dmacopy.c
  CRISv10: delete unused lib/old_checksum.c
  CRIS: fix switch_mm() lockdep splat
  CRISv32: enable LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
  CRIS: add STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  CRISv32: annotate irq enable in idle loop
  CRISv32: add support for irqflags tracing
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic types.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic shmbuf.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic msgbuf.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic socket.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic sembuf.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic sockios.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic auxvec.h
  CRIS: UAPI: use generic headers via Kbuild
  CRIS: UAPI: fix elf.h export
  CRIS: don't make asm/elf.h depend on asm/user.h
  CRIS: UAPI: fix ptrace.h
  CRISv32: Squash compile warnings for axisflashmap
  CRISv32: Add GPIO driver to the default configs
  ...
      6917b51d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean · 10fbd36e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      rq_data_dir() returns either READ or WRITE (0 == READ, 1 == WRITE), not
a boolean value.

Now, admittedly the "!= 0" doesn't really change the value (0 stays as
zero, 1 stays as one), but it's not only redundant, it confuses gcc, and
causes gcc to warn about the construct

    switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {
        case READ:
            ...
        case WRITE:
            ...

that we have in a few drivers.

Now, the gcc warning is silly and stupid (it seems to warn not about the
switch value having a different type from the case statements, but about
_any_ boolean switch value), but in this case the code itself is silly
and stupid too, so let's just change it, and get rid of warnings like
this:

  drivers/block/hd.c: In function ‘hd_request’:
  drivers/block/hd.c:630:11: warning: switch condition has boolean value [-Wswitch-bool]
     switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {

The odd '!= 0' came in when "cmd_flags" got turned into a "u64" in
commit 5953316d ("block: make rq->cmd_flags be 64-bit") and is
presumably because the old code (that just did a logical 'and' with 1)
would then end up making the type of rq_data_dir() be u64 too.

But if we want to retain the old regular integer type, let's just cast
the result to 'int' rather than use that rather odd '!= 0'.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      10fbd36e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'writeback-plugging' · e1df8b0a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Fix up the writeback plugging introduced in commit d353d758
("writeback: plug writeback at a high level") that then caused problems
due to the unplug happening with a spinlock held.

* writeback-plugging:
  writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and writeback_inodes_wb()
  Revert "writeback: plug writeback at a high level"
      e1df8b0a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and writeback_inodes_wb() · 505a666e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      We had to revert the pluggin in writeback_sb_inodes() because the
wb->list_lock is held, but we could easily plug at a higher level before
taking that lock, and unplug after releasing it.  This does that.

Chris will run performance numbers, just to verify that this approach is
comparable to the alternative (we could just drop and re-take the lock
around the blk_finish_plug() rather than these two commits.

I'd have preferred waiting for actual performance numbers before picking
one approach over the other, but I don't want to release rc1 with the
known "sleeping function called from invalid context" issue, so I'll
pick this cleanup version for now.  But if the numbers show that we
really want to plug just at the writeback_sb_inodes() level, and we
should just play ugly games with the spinlock, we'll switch to that.

Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      505a666e
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