linux/Documentation/blockdev, branch v4.20

Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-10-24T17:01:11Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections" * tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...

drivers/block: Remove DAC960 driver

2018-10-17T15:42:30Z

The DAC960 driver has been obsoleted by the myrb/myrs drivers, so it can be dropped. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Finish renaming REQ_DISCARD into REQ_OP_DISCARD

2018-10-03T22:12:28Z

Some time ago REQ_DISCARD was renamed into REQ_OP_DISCARD. Some comments and documentation files were not updated however. Update these comments and documentation files. See also commit 4e1b2d52a80d ("block, fs, drivers: remove REQ_OP compat defs and related code"). Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: Philipp Reisner Cc: Lars Ellenberg Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

2018-09-09T21:08:58Z

This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out. A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

zram: introduce zram memory tracking

2018-06-08T00:34:34Z

zRam as swap is useful for small memory device. However, swap means those pages on zram are mostly cold pages due to VM's LRU algorithm. Especially, once init data for application are touched for launching, they tend to be not accessed any more and finally swapped out. zRAM can store such cold pages as compressed form but it's pointless to keep in memory. Better idea is app developers free them directly rather than remaining them on heap. This patch tell us last access time of each block of zram via "cat /sys/kernel/debug/zram/zram0/block_state". The output is as follows, 300 75.033841 .wh 301 63.806904 s.. 302 63.806919 ..h First column is zram's block index and 3rh one represents symbol (s: same page w: written page to backing store h: huge page) of the block state. Second column represents usec time unit of the block was last accessed. So above example means the 300th block is accessed at 75.033851 second and it was huge so it was written to the backing store. Admin can leverage this information to catch cold|incompressible pages of process with *pagemap* once part of heaps are swapped out. I used the feature a few years ago to find memory hoggers in userspace to notify them what memory they have wasted without touch for a long time. With it, they could reduce unnecessary memory space. However, at that time, I hacked up zram for the feature but now I need the feature again so I decided it would be better to upstream rather than keeping it alone. I hope I submit the userspace tool to use the feature soon. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 printk warning] [minchan@kernel.org: use ktime_get_boottime() instead of sched_clock()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180420063525.GA253739@rodete-desktop-imager.corp.google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation tweak] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 printk warning] [minchan@kernel.org: fix compile warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180508104849.GA8209@rodete-desktop-imager.corp.google.com [rdunlap@infradead.org: fix printk formats] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3652ccb1-96ef-0b0b-05d1-f661d7733dcc@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416090946.63057-5-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zram: mark incompressible page as ZRAM_HUGE

2018-06-08T00:34:34Z

Mark incompressible pages so that we could investigate who is the owner of the incompressible pages once the page is swapped out via using upcoming zram memory tracker feature. With it, we could prevent such pages to be swapped out by using mlock. Otherwise we might remove them. This patch exposes new stat for huge pages via mm_stat. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416090946.63057-3-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

2017-09-08T04:11:05Z

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, zfcp and a host of minor updates. The major driver change here is the elimination of the block based cciss driver in favour of the SCSI based hpsa driver (which now drives all the legacy cases cciss used to be required for). Plus a reset handler clean up and the redo of the SAS SMP handler to use bsg lib" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (279 commits) scsi: scsi-mq: Always unprepare before requeuing a request scsi: Show .retries and .jiffies_at_alloc in debugfs scsi: Improve requeuing behavior scsi: Call scsi_initialize_rq() for filesystem requests scsi: qla2xxx: Reset the logo flag, after target re-login. scsi: qla2xxx: Fix slow mem alloc behind lock scsi: qla2xxx: Clear fc4f_nvme flag scsi: qla2xxx: add missing includes for qla_isr scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code scsi: aacraid: report -ENOMEM to upper layer from aac_convert_sgraw2() scsi: aacraid: get rid of one level of indentation scsi: aacraid: fix indentation errors scsi: storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy scsi: scsi_transport_sas: switch to bsg-lib for SMP passthrough scsi: smartpqi: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: hpsa: remove the smp_handler stub scsi: bsg-lib: pass the release callback through bsg_setup_queue scsi: Rework handling of scsi_device.vpd_pg8[03] scsi: Rework the code for caching Vital Product Data (VPD) scsi: rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected() ...

zram: add config and doc file for writeback feature

2017-09-07T00:27:25Z

This patch adds document and kconfig for using of writeback feature. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498459987-24562-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Juneho Choi Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scsi: cciss: Drop obsolete driver

2017-08-25T02:28:57Z

The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and make hpsa an alias to cciss. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Acked-by: Don Brace Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

remove the mg_disk driver

2017-04-14T20:00:49Z

This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver. It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe