linux/drivers/block, branch v2.6.26

cciss: read config to obtain max outstanding commands per controller

2008-07-04T17:40:09Z

This patch changes the way we determine the maximum number of outstanding commands for each controller. Most Smart Array controllers can support up to 1024 commands, the notable exceptions are the E200 and E200i. The next generation of controllers which were just added support a mode of operation called Zero Memory Raid (ZMR). In this mode they only support 64 outstanding commands. In Full Function Raid (FFR) mode they support 1024. We have been setting the queue depth by arbitrarily assigning some value for each controller. We needed a better way to set the queue depth to avoid lots of annoying "fifo full" messages. So we made the driver a little smarter. We now read the config table and subtract 4 from the returned value. The -4 is to allow some room for ioctl calls which are not tracked the same way as io commands are tracked. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cciss: fix regression that no device nodes are created if no logical drives are configured.

2008-07-04T17:40:06Z

Fix regression in cciss driver that if no logical drives are configured, no device nodes at all get created. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron Acked-by: Mike Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cciss: add new hardware support

2008-06-13T01:05:40Z

Add support for the next generation of HP Smart Array SAS/SATA controllers. Shipping date is late Fall 2008. Bump the driver version to 3.6.20 to reflect the new hardware support from patch 1 of this set. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add 'rd' alias to new brd ramdisk driver

2008-06-05T21:23:12Z

Alias brd to rd in the hope of helping legacy users. Suggested by Jan. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

virtio_blk: allow read-only disks

2008-05-30T05:09:44Z

Hello Rusty, sometimes it is useful to share a disk (e.g. usr). To avoid file system corruption, the disk should be mounted read-only in that case. This patch adds a new feature flag, that allows the host to specify, if the disk should be considered read-only. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Fix crash in virtio_blk during modprobe ; rmmod ; modprobe

2008-05-30T05:09:41Z

Fix a modprobe virtio_blk ; rmmod virtio_blk ; modprobe virtio_blk crash; this was basically because we weren't doing "del_gendisk()" in the remove path. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (moved del_gendisk up)

brd: don't show ramdisks in /proc/partitions

2008-05-24T16:56:11Z

In 2.6.25, ramdisk devices show up in /proc/partitions, which is a behaviour change from the old rd.c. Add GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO, which was present in rd.c. All kernels prior to 2.6.25 weren't displaying ramdisks in /proc/partitions. Since there are many userspace tools using information from /proc/partitions some of them may now behave incorrectly (I didn't tested any though). For example before 2.6.25 /proc/partitions was empty if no block devices like hard disks and such were detected by kernel. Now all 16 ramdisks are always visible there. Some software may rely on such information (I mean, on empty /proc/partitions). There was quite similar situation back in 2004, and ramdisks were excluded back from displaying. Thats why I called this a regression (maybe a bit unfortunate). See this patch for info: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3-rc2/2.6.3-rc2-mm1/broken-out/nbd-proc-partitions-fix.patch I also think that someone somewhere (long time ago) excluded ramdisks from /proc/partitions for good reasons. It is possible that now such new "feature" is harmless, but I think there are more chances that someone will say "hey, /proc/partitions has changed, now my software doesn't work" then "hey where did my new 2.6.25 feature go". nbd devices are also excluded, maybe for very same (unknown to me) reasons. Signed-off-by: Marcin Krol Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] iSeries: Remove unused mail address

2008-05-23T06:45:04Z

I don't use my IBM email address normally and people can find me in CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

m68k: Return -ENODEV if no device is found

2008-05-18T20:28:50Z

According to the tests in do_initcalls(), the proper error code in case no device is found is -ENODEV, not -ENXIO or -EIO. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: avoid duplicate calls to get_part() in disk stat code

2008-05-07T08:15:46Z

get_part() is fairly expensive, as it O(N) loops over partitions to find the right one. In lots of normal IO paths we end up looking up the partition twice, to make matters even worse. Change the stat add code to accept a passed in partition instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe