For some special-purpose systems where udev isn't present, static
allocation of minor numbers is desirable. This update distinguishes
different failure scenarios, to help the user understand what went
wrong.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need to call the request handler function in the I/O
completion routine. The user impact of not doing it is a more "nice" aoe
driver that is less susceptible to causing soft lockups.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A misplaced comment was attached to the nout member of the aoetgt. This
change corrects the comment.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The aoe driver will never be waiting for more than aoe_maxout AoE
commands from a given remote network port on an AoE target. Increasing
the cap increases performance. Users can tighten the setting to reduce
the amount of memory used for handling AoE traffic or the network
bandwidth used for AoE.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Before the aoe driver was an I/O request handler, it was a
make_request-style block driver. Even so, there was a problem where
sysfs expected a request queue to exist, so one was provided in commit
7135a71b19 ("aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs").
During the transition to the request-handler style, a patch was merged
that was based on a driver without the noop queue, and the noop queue
remained in place after the patch was merged, even though a new
functional queue was introduced by the patch, allocated through
blk_init_queue.
The user impact is a memory leak proportional to the number of AoE
targets discovered. This patch removes the memory leak and cleans up
vestiges of the old do-nothing queue from the aoeblk_gdalloc function.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit f3b8e07af774 ("aoe: commands in retransmit queue use new
destination on failure") omits the copying of the coarse-grained time
when an AoE command was sent during the failover from one destination
MAC address on the AoE target to another.
The coarse-grained timing is only used when the system time changes or
an unlikely length of time has passed since the sending of the AoE
command. Users will not be impacted unless their system clock is very
inaccurate or something unusual (e.g., 10 GbE link reset) happens during
the period when the aoe driver is handling the failure of a port on the
AoE target. Being effected will mean that an AoE target could be
considered "down" too eagerly.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When one remote MAC address isn't working as a destination for AoE
commands, the frames used to track information associated with the AoE
commands are moved to a new aoetgt (defined by the tuple of {AoE major,
AoE minor, target MAC address}).
This patch makes sure that the frames on the queue for retransmits that
need to be done are updated to use the new destination, so that
retransmits will be sent through a working network path.
Without this change, packets on the retransmit queue will be needlessly
retransmitted to the unresponsive destination MAC, possibly causing
premature target failure before there's time for the retransmit timer to
run again, decide to retransmit again, and finally update the destination
to a working MAC address on the AoE target.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These changes improve the accuracy of the decision about whether it's time
to retransmit an AoE command by using the microsecond-resolution
gettimeofday instead of jiffies.
Because the system time can jump suddenly, the decision reverts to using
jiffies if the high-resolution time difference is relatively large.
Otherwise the AoE targets could be considered failed inappropriately.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With this bugfix in place the calculation of the criterion for "lateness"
is performed under lock. Without the lock, there is a chance that one of
the non-atomic operations performed on the round trip time statistics
could be incomplete, such that an incorrect lateness criterion would be
calculated.
Without this change, the effect of the bug would be rare unecessary but
benign retransmissions.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The /dev/etherd/err character device provides low-level information about
normal but sometimes interesting AoE command retransmits and "unexpected
responses", i.e., responses for packets that have already been
retransmitted.
This change adds MAC addresses to the messages about unexpected responses,
so that when they occur, it's more easy to determine the network paths to
which they belong.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The aoe driver already had some congestion handling, but it was limited in
its ability to cope with the kind of congestion that can arise on more
complex networks such as those involving paths through multiple ethernet
switches.
Some of the lessons from TCP's history of development can be applied to
improving the congestion control and avoidance on AoE storage networks.
These changes use familar concepts from Van Jacobson's "Congestion
Avoidance and Control" paper from '88, without adding significant
overhead.
This patch depends on an upcoming patch that covers the failover case when
AoE commands being retransmitted are transferred from one retransmit queue
to another. Another upcoming patch increases the timing accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the aoe driver follow expected behavior when the user uses ioctl to
get the ATA device identify information, allowing access to model, serial
number, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The userland aoetools package includes an "aoe-stat" command that can
display a "payload size" column when the aoe driver exports this
information. Users can quickly see what amount of user data is
transferred inside each AoE command on the network, network headers
excluded.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The GPFS filesystem is an example of an aoe user that requires the aoe
driver to support I/O request sizes larger than the default. Most users
will not need large I/O request sizes, because they would need to be split
up into multiple AoE commands anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Users sometimes want to cause the aoe driver to forget a particular
previously discovered device when it is no longer online. The aoetools
provide an "aoe-flush" command that users run to perform this
administrative task. The changes below provide the support needed in the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ATA over Ethernet config query response contains a "buffer count"
field reflecting the AoE target's capacity to buffer incoming AoE
commands.
By taking the current value of this field into accound, we increase
performance throughput or avoid network congestion, when the value
has increased or decreased, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropped transmits are not common, but when they do occur, increasing
the transmit queue length often helps.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hi Jens,
Another tiny patch.
Removed __packed before the struct smart_attr and added __packed at end of
the structure to fix padding issue.
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Calling the request handler directly on a plugged queue defeats
the performance improvements provided by the plugging mechanism.
Use the __blk_run_queue function instead of calling the request
handler directly, so that we don't interfere with the block
layer's ability to plug the queue.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The dereference to port should be moved below the NULL test.
dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If we're building a 32-bit kernel and CONFIG_LBADF isn't set,
sector_t is 32-bits wide. The shifts by 32 and 40 are thus
larger than we support.
Cast the sector offset to a u64 to avoid these warnings.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Previous commit use value 3 for erasemode mask.
Changing the mask to correct value to 2
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Earlier lba address was assigned directly to lba_low and lba_low_ex,
which would result in a different number (bytes reversed) in
big-endian systems. Now assigning lba address byte-by-byte to fis.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The mtip driver lifted this code from elsewhere and then added a special
handling check for SEC_ERASE_UNIT. If the caller tries to do a security
erase but passes no output data for the command then outbuf is not
allocated and the driver duly explodes.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
xfstests has always had random failures of tests due to loop devices
failing to be torn down and hence leaving filesytems that cannot be
unmounted. This causes test runs to immediately stop.
Over the past 6 or 7 years we've added hacks like explicit unmount
-d commands for loop mounts, losetup -d after unmount -d fails, etc,
but still the problems persist. Recently, the frequency of loop
related failures increased again to the point that xfstests 259 will
reliably fail with a stray loop device that was not torn down.
That is despite the fact the test is above as simple as it gets -
loop 5 or 6 times running mkfs.xfs with different paramters:
lofile=$(losetup -f)
losetup $lofile "$testfile"
"$MKFS_XFS_PROG" -b size=512 $lofile >/dev/null || echo "mkfs failed!"
sync
losetup -d $lofile
And losteup -d $lofile is failing with EBUSY on 1-3 of these loops
every time the test is run.
Turns out that blkid is running simultaneously with losetup -d, and
so it sees an elevated reference count and returns EBUSY. But why
is blkid running? It's obvious, isn't it? udev has decided to try
and find out what is on the block device as a result of a creation
notification. And it is racing with mkfs, so might still be scanning
the device when mkfs finishes and we try to tear it down.
So, make losetup -d force autoremove behaviour. That is, when the
last reference goes away, tear down the device. xfstests wants it
*gone*, not causing random teardown failures when we know that all
the operations the tests have specifically run on the device have
completed and are no longer referencing the loop device.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Added appropriate timeout value for secure erase based on identify device data
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Changing the type of bdev parameters to be unsigned int :1, rather than bool.
This is more consistent with the types of other features in the block drivers.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The patch cciss-use-check_signature.patch in -mm tree introduced
a build error:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `CISS_signature_present':
drivers/block/cciss.c:4270: undefined reference to `check_signature'
Add missing CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to fix this issue.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The memory return by kzalloc() or kmem_cache_zalloc() has already be set
to zero, so remove useless memset(0).
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This is a small cleanup, that also may turn error handling of
unitialized disks more readable. We don't need a separate variable to
track allocated disks, remove dr and reuse drive variable instead.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The same checks to see if a drive can be or is registered are
repeated through the code, factor out the checks in a common function
and replace the repeated checks with it.
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
On floppy initialization, if something failed inside the loop we call
add_disk, there was no cleanup of previous iterations in the error
handling.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If blk_init_queue fails, we do not call put_disk on the current dr
(dr is decremented first in the error handling loop).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Since commit 070ad7e ("floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread
wq"), we end up calling alloc_ordered_workqueue multiple times inside
the loop, which shouldn't be intended. Besides the leak, other side
effect in the current code is if blk_init_queue fails, we would end up
calling unregister_blkdev even if we didn't call yet register_blkdev.
Just moved the allocation of floppy_wq before the loop, and adjusted the
code accordingly.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:260:5: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_addif' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:284:6: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_delif' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, remove it.
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
CC: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
"Core block IO bits for 3.7. Not a huge round this time, it contains:
- First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
and freeing.
- WRITE_SAME support from Martin.
- Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
the block size of a device.
- Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).
- A few other minor fixups."
Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton. It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").
So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.
* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
block: makes bio_split support bio without data
scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
scatterlist: add sg_nents
fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
block: ioctl to zero block ranges
block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
block: Clean up special command handling logic
block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
block: reject invalid queue attribute values
block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
...
Pull ceph updates from Sage Weil:
"The bulk of this pull is a series from Alex that refactors and cleans
up the RBD code to lay the groundwork for supporting the new image
format and evolving feature set. There are also some cleanups in
libceph, and for ceph there's fixed validation of file striping
layouts and a bugfix in the code handling a shrinking MDS cluster."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (71 commits)
ceph: avoid 32-bit page index overflow
ceph: return EIO on invalid layout on GET_DATALOC ioctl
rbd: BUG on invalid layout
ceph: propagate layout error on osd request creation
libceph: check for invalid mapping
ceph: convert to use le32_add_cpu()
ceph: Fix oops when handling mdsmap that decreases max_mds
rbd: update remaining header fields for v2
rbd: get snapshot name for a v2 image
rbd: get the snapshot context for a v2 image
rbd: get image features for a v2 image
rbd: get the object prefix for a v2 rbd image
rbd: add code to get the size of a v2 rbd image
rbd: lay out header probe infrastructure
rbd: encapsulate code that gets snapshot info
rbd: add an rbd features field
rbd: don't use index in __rbd_add_snap_dev()
rbd: kill create_snap sysfs entry
rbd: define rbd_dev_image_id()
rbd: define some new format constants
...
Pull virtio changes from Rusty Russell:
"New workflow: same git trees pulled by linux-next get sent straight to
Linus. Git is awkward at shuffling patches compared with quilt or mq,
but that doesn't happen often once things get into my -next branch."
* 'virtio-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (24 commits)
lguest: fix occasional crash in example launcher.
virtio-blk: Disable callback in virtblk_done()
virtio_mmio: Don't attempt to create empty virtqueues
virtio_mmio: fix off by one error allocating queue
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c: fix error return code
virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
virtio: remove CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING
virtio: add help to CONFIG_VIRTIO option.
virtio: support reserved vqs
virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue
virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue
virtio_balloon: not EXPERIMENTAL any more.
virtio-balloon: dependency fix
virtio-blk: fix NULL checking in virtblk_alloc_req()
virtio-blk: Add REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA support to bio path
virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk
virtio: console: fix error handling in init() function
tools: Fix pthread flag for Makefile of trace-agent used by virtio-trace
tools: Add guest trace agent as a user tool
virtio/console: Allocate scatterlist according to the current pipe size
...
* Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests
on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions).
PV console, block and network frontend/backends are working.
Bug-fixes:
* Fix compile linux-next fallout.
* Fix PVHVM bootup crashing.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
Pull ADM Xen support from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
Features:
* Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests
on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions). PV
console, block and network frontend/backends are working.
Bug-fixes:
* Fix compile linux-next fallout.
* Fix PVHVM bootup crashing.
The Xen-unstable hypervisor (so will be 4.3 in a ~6 months), supports
ARMv7 platforms.
The goal in implementing this architecture is to exploit the hardware
as much as possible. That means use as little as possible of PV
operations (so no PV MMU) - and use existing PV drivers for I/Os
(network, block, console, etc). This is similar to how PVHVM guests
operate in X86 platform nowadays - except that on ARM there is no need
for QEMU. The end result is that we share a lot of the generic Xen
drivers and infrastructure.
Details on how to compile/boot/etc are available at this Wiki:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions
and this blog has links to a technical discussion/presentations on the
overall architecture:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/21/xensummit-sessions-new-pvh-virtualisation-mode-for-arm-cortex-a15arm-servers-and-x86/
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (21 commits)
xen/xen_initial_domain: check that xen_start_info is initialized
xen: mark xen_init_IRQ __init
xen/Makefile: fix dom-y build
arm: introduce a DTS for Xen unprivileged virtual machines
MAINTAINERS: add myself as Xen ARM maintainer
xen/arm: compile netback
xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback
xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree
xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM
xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM
xen/arm: get privilege status
xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM
xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi, pcpu and cpu_hotplug on ARM
xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long
xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping
docs: Xen ARM DT bindings
xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions
xen/arm: sync_bitops
xen/arm: page.h definitions
xen/arm: hypercalls
...
Because udev use is so widespread, making the old static mapping the
default is too conservative, given the severe limitations it places on
usable AoE addresses. Storage virtualization and larger shelves have made
the old limitations too confining.
These changes make the dynamic block device minor numbers the default,
removing the limitations on usable AoE addresses.
The static arrangement is still available with aoe_dyndevs=0, and the
aoe-stat tool from the userland aoetools package, the user space
counterpart to the aoe driver, recognizes the case where there is a
mismatch between the minor number in sysfs and the minor number in a
special device file.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
