linux/drivers/block, branch v4.4-rc3

mtip32xx: use formatting capability of kthread_create_on_node

2015-11-20T15:46:50Z

kthread_create_on_node takes format+args, so there's no need to do the pretty-printing in advance. Moreover, "mtip_svc_thd_99" (including its '\0') only just fits in 16 bytes, so if index could ever go above 99 we'd have a stack buffer overflow. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: do not del gendisk with lightnvm

2015-11-19T22:15:56Z

The gendisk structure has not been initialized when using lightnvm. Make sure to not delete it upon exit. Also make sure that we use the appropriate disk_name at unregistration. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: use device addressing mode

2015-11-19T22:15:54Z

The linear addressing mode was removed in 7386af2. Make null_blk instead expose the ppa format geometry and support the generic addressing mode. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: use ppa_cache pool

2015-11-19T22:15:53Z

Instead of using a page pool, we can save memory by only allocating room for 64 entries for the ppa command. Introduce a ppa_cache to allocate only the required memory for the ppa list. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

null_blk: register as a LightNVM device

2015-11-16T22:22:28Z

Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to evaluate the performance of the LightNVM subsystem. In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Fix by Jens Axboe to remove unneeded slab cache and the following memory leak. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client

2015-11-13T17:24:40Z

Pull Ceph updates from Sage Weil: "There are several patches from Ilya fixing RBD allocation lifecycle issues, a series adding a nocephx_sign_messages option (and associated bug fixes/cleanups), several patches from Zheng improving the (directory) fsync behavior, a big improvement in IO for direct-io requests when striping is enabled from Caifeng, and several other small fixes and cleanups" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: libceph: clear msg->con in ceph_msg_release() only libceph: add nocephx_sign_messages option libceph: stop duplicating client fields in messenger libceph: drop authorizer check from cephx msg signing routines libceph: msg signing callouts don't need con argument libceph: evaluate osd_req_op_data() arguments only once ceph: make fsync() wait unsafe requests that created/modified inode ceph: add request to i_unsafe_dirops when getting unsafe reply libceph: introduce ceph_x_authorizer_cleanup() ceph: don't invalidate page cache when inode is no longer used rbd: remove duplicate calls to rbd_dev_mapping_clear() rbd: set device_type::release instead of device::release rbd: don't free rbd_dev outside of the release callback rbd: return -ENOMEM instead of pool id if rbd_dev_create() fails libceph: use local variable cursor instead of &msg->cursor libceph: remove con argument in handle_reply() ceph: combine as many iovec as possile into one OSD request ceph: fix message length computation ceph: fix a comment typo rbd: drop null test before destroy functions

brd: Refuse improperly aligned discard requests

2015-11-11T16:36:56Z

Currently when improperly aligned discard request is submitted, we just silently discard more / less data which results in filesystem corruption in some cases. Refuse such misaligned requests. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-11-11T01:23:49Z

Pull block IO poll support from Jens Axboe: "Various groups have been doing experimentation around IO polling for (really) fast devices. The code has been reviewed and has been sitting on the side for a few releases, but this is now good enough for coordinated benchmarking and further experimentation. Currently O_DIRECT sync read/write are supported. A framework is in the works that allows scalable stats tracking so we can auto-tune this. And we'll add libaio support as well soon. Fow now, it's an opt-in feature for test purposes" * 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: direct-io: be sure to assign dio->bio_bdev for both paths directio: add block polling support NVMe: add blk polling support block: add block polling support blk-mq: return tag/queue combo in the make_request_fn handlers block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-07T22:32:45Z

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - most of the rest of MM - procfs - lib/ updates - printk updates - bitops infrastructure tweaks - checkpatch updates - nilfs2 update - signals - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc, dma-debug, dma-mapping, ... * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (102 commits) ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32() panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg* dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode kexec: use file name as the output message prefix fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer seq_file: reuse string_escape_str() fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump() coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread() coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT) signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal() signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals() nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2015-11-07T21:05:44Z

Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "Trivial stuff from trivial tree that can be trivially summed up as: - treewide drop of spurious unlikely() before IS_ERR() from Viresh Kumar - cosmetic fixes (that don't really affect basic functionality of the driver) for pktcdvd and bcache, from Julia Lawall and Petr Mladek - various comment / printk fixes and updates all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: bcache: Really show state of work pending bit hwmon: applesmc: fix comment typos Kconfig: remove comment about scsi_wait_scan module class_find_device: fix reference to argument "match" debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) mm: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) drivers: net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) drivers: misc: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) UBI: Update comments to reflect UBI_METAONLY flag pktcdvd: drop null test before destroy functions