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<title>linux/block/ioctl.c, branch v3.6</title>
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<updated>2012-09-18T09:56:29Z</updated>
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<title>blk: add an upper sanity check on partition adding</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T09:56:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2012-09-17T10:47:13Z</published>
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65536 should be ludicrous anyway but without it we overflow the
memory computation doing the allocation and badness occurs.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: add partition resize function to blkpg ioctl</title>
<updated>2012-08-01T10:24:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-08-01T10:24:18Z</published>
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Add a new operation code (BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION) to the BLKPG ioctl that
allows altering the size of an existing partition, even if it is currently
in use.

This patch converts hd_struct-&gt;nr_sects into sequence counter because
One might extend a partition while IO is happening to it and update of
nr_sects can be non-atomic on 32bit machines with 64bit sector_t. This
can lead to issues like reading inconsistent size of a partition. Sequence
counter have been used so that readers don't have to take bdev mutex lock
as we call sector_in_part() very frequently.

Now all the access to hd_struct-&gt;nr_sects should happen using sequence
counter read/update helper functions part_nr_sects_read/part_nr_sects_write.
There is one exception though, set_capacity()/get_capacity(). I think
theoritically race should exist there too but this patch does not
modify set_capacity()/get_capacity() due to sheer number of call sites
and I am afraid that change might break something. I have left that as a
TODO item. We can handle it later if need be. This patch does not introduce
any new races as such w.r.t set_capacity()/get_capacity().

v2: Add CONFIG_LBDAF test to UP preempt case as suggested by Phillip.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi &lt;psusi@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2012-01-15T20:24:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-15T20:24:45Z</published>
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* 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (37 commits)
  Revert "block: recursive merge requests"
  block: Stop using macro stubs for the bio data integrity calls
  blockdev: convert some macros to static inlines
  fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages()
  block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
  block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function
  block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context()
  block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context
  block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported
  block: recursive merge requests
  block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge
  block, cfq: move icq creation and rq-&gt;elv.icq association to block core
  block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface cleanup
  block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
  block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move cfqd-&gt;icq_list to request_queue and add request-&gt;elv.icq
  block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts
  block: remove elevator_queue-&gt;ops
  block: reorder elevator switch sequence
  ...

Fix up conflicts in:
 - block/blk-cgroup.c
	Switch from can_attach_task to can_attach
 - block/cfq-iosched.c
	conflict with now removed cic index changes (we now use q-&gt;id instead)
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<title>block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl</title>
<updated>2012-01-11T15:29:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-11T15:29:31Z</published>
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Introduce an ioctl which permits applications to query whether a block
device is rotational.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-01-08T20:19:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-01-08T20:19:57Z</published>
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch -&gt;show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch -&gt;show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch -&gt;show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch -&gt;show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer -&gt;dentry-&gt;d_sb to -&gt;mnt-&gt;mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace -&gt;root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
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<title>vfs: fix up ENOIOCTLCMD error handling</title>
<updated>2012-01-05T23:40:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-05T23:40:12Z</published>
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We're doing some odd things there, which already messes up various users
(see the net/socket.c code that this removes), and it was going to add
yet more crud to the block layer because of the incorrect error code
translation.

ENOIOCTLCMD is not an error return that should be returned to user mode
from the "ioctl()" system call, but it should *not* be translated as
EINVAL ("Invalid argument").  It should be translated as ENOTTY
("Inappropriate ioctl for device").

That EINVAL confusion has apparently so permeated some code that the
block layer actually checks for it, which is sad.  We continue to do so
for now, but add a big comment about how wrong that is, and we should
remove it entirely eventually.  In the meantime, this tries to keep the
changes localized to just the EINVAL -&gt; ENOTTY fix, and removing code
that makes it harder to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>fs: move code out of buffer.c</title>
<updated>2012-01-04T03:54:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2011-09-16T06:31:11Z</published>
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Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c.  Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it.  Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.

Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving.  The small comment replacing it says enough.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:44:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:44:47Z</published>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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<title>block: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:31:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T20:00:52Z</published>
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These files were getting &lt;linux/module.h&gt; via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason.  Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>block: add GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN</title>
<updated>2011-08-23T18:01:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-23T18:01:04Z</published>
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There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
lo devices and pseudo SATA devices which advertise to be a disk but
get upset on partition scan (some port multiplier control devices show
such behavior).

This patch adds GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN which suppresses partition scan
regardless of the number of possible partitions.  disk_partitionable()
is renamed to disk_part_scan_enabled() as suppressing partition scan
doesn't imply the device can't be partitioned using
BLKPG_ADD/DEL_PARTITION calls from userland.  show_partition() now
directly tests disk_max_parts() to maintain backward-compatibility.

-v2: Updated to make it clear that only partition scan is suppressed
     not partitioning itself as suggested by Kay Sievers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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