Enable the uncached allocator to allocate multiple pages of contiguous
uncached memory.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Yeah, in practice they both mean "root", but Alan correctly points out
that anybody who gets to do raw IO space accesses should really be using
CAP_SYS_RAWIO rather than CAP_NET_ADMIN.
Pointed-out-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] new predicate - AUDIT_FILETYPE
[patch 2/2] Use find_task_by_vpid in audit code
[patch 1/2] audit: let userspace fully control TTY input auditing
[PATCH 2/2] audit: fix sparse shadowed variable warnings
[PATCH 1/2] audit: move extern declarations to audit.h
Audit: MAINTAINERS update
Audit: increase the maximum length of the key field
Audit: standardize string audit interfaces
Audit: stop deadlock from signals under load
Audit: save audit_backlog_limit audit messages in case auditd comes back
Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages
Audit: end printk with newline
argh. A hunk got lost from "proc: remove proc_bus"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
pciehp: fix error message about getting hotplug control
pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown v2
pci/irq: restore mask_bits in msi shutdown -v3
doc: replace yet another dev with pdev for consistency in DMA-mapping.txt
PCI: don't expose struct pci_vpd to userspace
doc: fix an incorrect suggestion to pass NULL for PCI like buses
Consistently use pdev as the variable of type struct pci_dev *.
pciehp: Fix command write
shpchp: fix slot name
make pciehp_acpi_get_hp_hw_control_from_firmware()
pciehp: Clean up pcie_init()
pciehp: Mask hotplug interrupt at controller release
pciehp: Remove useless hotplug interrupt enabling
pciehp: Fix wrong slot capability check
pciehp: Fix wrong slot control register access
pciehp: Add missing memory barrier
pciehp: Fix interrupt event handlig
pciehp: fix slot name
Update MAINTAINERS with location of PCI tree
PCI: Add Intel SCH PCI IDs
...
People are confused by the following error message that actually is
not for indicating a error.
Cannot get control of hotplug hardware for pci %s
This patch changes this message to debug message.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
[PATCH 2/2] pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown v2
this change
| commit 23a274c8a5
| Author: Prakash, Sathya <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
| Date: Fri Mar 7 15:53:21 2008 +0530
|
| [SCSI] mpt fusion: Enable MSI by default for SAS controllers
|
| This patch modifies the driver to enable MSI by default for all SAS chips.
|
| Signed-off-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
| Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
|
Causes the kexec of a RHEL 5.1 kernel to fail.
root casue: the rhel 5.1 kernel still uses INTx emulation. and
mptscsih_shutdown doesn't call pci_disable_msi to reenable INTx on kexec path
So call pci_msi_shutdown in the shutdown path to do the same thing to msix
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
[PATCH 1/2] pci/irq: restore mask_bits in msi shutdown -v3
Yinghai found that kexec'ing a RHEL 5.1 kernel with 2.6.25-rc3+ kernels
prevents his NIC from working. He bisected to
| commit 89d694b9db
| Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| Date: Mon Feb 18 18:25:17 2008 +0100
|
| genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq
|
| The default_disable() function was changed in commit:
|
| 76d2160147
| genirq: do not mask interrupts by default
|
For MSI, default_shutdown will call mask_bit for msi device. All mask bits
will left disabled after free_irq. Then in the kexec case, the next kernel
can only use msi_enable bit, so all device's MSI can not be used.
So lets to restore the mask bit to its pci reset defined value (enabled) when
we disable the kernels use of msi to be a little friendlier to kexec'd kernels.
Extend msi_set_mask_bit to msi_set_mask_bits to take mask, so we can fully
restore that to 0x00 instead of 0xfe.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-bigbox-pci:
x86: add pci=check_enable_amd_mmconf and dmi check
x86: work around io allocation overlap of HT links
acpi: get boot_cpu_id as early for k8_scan_nodes
x86_64: don't need set default res if only have one root bus
x86: double check the multi root bus with fam10h mmconf
x86: multi pci root bus with different io resource range, on 64-bit
x86: use bus conf in NB conf fun1 to get bus range on, on 64-bit
x86: get mp_bus_to_node early
x86 pci: remove checking type for mmconfig probe
x86: remove unneeded check in mmconf reject
driver core: try parent numa_node at first before using default
x86: seperate mmconf for fam10h out from setup_64.c
x86: if acpi=off, force setting the mmconf for fam10h
x86_64: check MSR to get MMCONFIG for AMD Family 10h
x86_64: check and enable MMCONFIG for AMD Family 10h
x86_64: set cfg_size for AMD Family 10h in case MMCONFIG
x86: mmconf enable mcfg early
x86: clear pci_mmcfg_virt when mmcfg get rejected
x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources
Fixed up fairly trivial conflicts in arch/x86/pci/{init.c,pci.h} due to
OLPC support manually.
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[RAPIDIO] Change RapidIO doorbell source and target ID field to 16-bit
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO connection info print out and re-training for broken connections
[RAPIDIO] Add serial RapidIO controller support, which includes MPC8548, MPC8641
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node probing into MPC86xx_HPCN board id table
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO node into MPC8641HPCN dts file
[RAPIDIO] Auto-probe the RapidIO system size
[RAPIDIO] Add OF-tree support to RapidIO controller driver
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO multi mport support
[RAPIDIO] Move include/asm-ppc/rio.h to asm-powerpc
[RAPIDIO] Add RapidIO option to kernel configuration
[RAPIDIO] Change RIO function mpc85xx_ to fsl_
[POWERPC] Provide walk_memory_resource() for powerpc
[POWERPC] Update lmb data structures for hotplug memory add/remove
[POWERPC] Hotplug memory remove notifications for powerpc
[POWERPC] windfarm: Add PowerMac 12,1 support
[POWERPC] Fix building of pmac32 when CONFIG_NVRAM=m
[POWERPC] Add IRQSTACKS support on ppc32
[POWERPC] Use __always_inline for xchg* and cmpxchg*
[POWERPC] Add fast little-endian switch system call
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] state info wrong after resume
[CPUFREQ] allow use of the powersave governor as the default one
[CPUFREQ] document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
[CPUFREQ] expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
block: add large command support
block: replace sizeof(rq->cmd) with BLK_MAX_CDB
ide: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: use blk_rq_init() to initialize the request
block: rename and export rq_init()
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd with blk_get_request
block: no need to initialize rq->cmd in prepare_flush_fn hook
block/blk-barrier.c:blk_ordered_cur_seq() mustn't be inline
block/elevator.c:elv_rq_merge_ok() mustn't be inline
block: make queue flags non-atomic
block: add dma alignment and padding support to blk_rq_map_kern
unexport blk_max_pfn
ps3disk: Remove superfluous cast
block: make rq_init() do a full memset()
relay: fix splice problem
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no "PNPACPI" driver interface as such. PNPACPI is an internal
backend of PNP, and drivers just use the generic PNP interface.
The drivers should depend on CONFIG_PNP, not CONFIG_PNPACPI.
tpm_nsc.c doesn't use PNP at all, so we can just remove the dependency
completely. It probably *should* use PNP to discover the device, but until it
does, there's no point in depending on PNP.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix following warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x32804): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_nsc() to the function .devexit.text:tpm_nsc_remove()
The function tpm_nsc_remove() are used outside __exit, so remove the __exit
annotation to make sure the function is always avilable.
Note: Trying to compare this module with other users of platform_device gve me
the impression that this driver needs some work to match other users.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wrap PNP probe code in #ifdef CONFIG_PNP. We already do the same for
CONFIG_PCI.
Without this change, we'll have unresolved references to pnp_get_resource()
function when CONFIG_PNP=n. (This is a new interface that's not in mainline
yet.)
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I implemented opstate_init() as a inline function in linux/edac.h.
added calling opstate_init() to:
i82443bxgx_edac.c
i82860_edac.c
i82875p_edac.c
i82975x_edac.c
I wrote a fixed patch of
edac-fix-module-initialization-on-several-modules.patch,
and tested building 2.6.25-rc7 with applying this. It was succeed.
I think the patch is now correct.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Collection of patches, merged into one, from Adrian that do the following:
1) This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- edac_pci_get_log_pe()
- edac_pci_get_log_npe()
- edac_pci_get_panic_on_pe()
- edac_pci_unregister_sysfs_instance_kobj()
- edac_pci_main_kobj_setup()
2) Remove unneeded function edac_device_find()
3) Added #if 0 around function edac_pci_find()
4) make the needlessly global edac_pci_generic_check() static
5) Removed function edac_check_mc_devices()
Doug Thompson modified Adrian's patches, to bettern represent
the direction of EDAC, and make them one patch.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a module parameter "sysbus_parity" to allow forcing system bus parity
error checking on or off. Also add support to automatically disable system
bus parity errors for processors which do not support it.
If the sysbus_parity parameter is specified, sysbus parity detection will be
forced on or off. If it is not specified, the driver will attempt to look at
the CPU identifier string and determine if the CPU supports system bus parity.
A blacklist was used instead of a whitelist so that system bus parity would
be enabled by default and to minimize the chances of breaking things for those
people already using the driver which for some reason have a processor that
does not have a valid CPU identifier string.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some drivers have duplicated unlikely() macros. IS_ERR() already has
unlikely() in itself.
This patch cleans up such pointless code.
Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <hnakagawa@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- emphasize bits in the name
- make zero bits lock-free
- simplify logic
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Switch add_entropy_words to a byte-oriented interface, eliminating numerous
casts and byte/word size rounding issues. This also reduces the overall
bit/byte/word confusion in this code.
We now mix a byte at a time into the word-based pool. This takes four times
as many iterations, but should be negligible compared to hashing overhead.
This also increases our pool churn, which adds some depth against some
theoretical failure modes.
The function name is changed to emphasize pool mixing and deemphasize entropy
(the samples mixed in may not contain any). extract is added to the core
function to make it clear that it extracts from the pool.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The add_ptr variable wasn't used in a sensible way, use only i instead.
i got reused later for a different purpose, use j instead.
While we're here, put tap0 first in the tap list and add a comment.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The urandom output pool (ie the fast path) fits in one cacheline, so
this is pretty unnecessary. Further, the output path has already
fetched the entire pool to hash it before calling in here.
(This was the only user of prefetch_range in the kernel, and it passed
in words rather than bytes!)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Earlier changes greatly reduce the number of times we grab the lock
per output byte, so we shouldn't need this particular hack any more.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
At each extraction, we change (poolbits / 16) + 32 bits in the pool,
or 96 bits in the case of the secondary pools. Thus, a brute-force
backtracking attack on the pool state is less difficult than breaking
the hash. In certain cases, this difficulty may be is reduced to 2^64
iterations.
Instead, hash the entire pool in one go, then feedback the whole hash
(160 bits) in one go. This will make backtracking at least as hard as
inverting the hash.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- split the SHA variables apart into hash and workspace
- rename data to extract
- wipe extract and workspace after hashing
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the no longer used aoedev_isbusy().
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Permit the use of partitions with network block devices (NBD).
A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be able
to manage per network block device. This parameter is "max_part".
For instance, to manage 63 partitions / loop device, we will do:
[on the server side]
# nbd-server 1234 /dev/sdb
[on the client side]
# modprobe nbd max_part=63
# ls -l /dev/nbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:14 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 64 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 640 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 704 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 768 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 832 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 896 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 960 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 128 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 192 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 256 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 320 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 384 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 448 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 512 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 576 2008-03-25 11:11 /dev/nbd9
# nbd-client localhost 1234 /dev/nbd0
Negotiation: ..size = 80418240KB
bs=1024, sz=80418240
-------NOTE, RFC: partition table is not automatically read.
The driver sets bdev->bd_invalidated to 1 to force the read of the partition
table of the device, but this is done only on an open of the device.
So we have to do a "touch /dev/nbdX" or something like that.
It can't be done from the nbd-client or nbd driver because at this
level we can't ask to read the partition table and to serve the request
at the same time (-> deadlock)
If someone has a better idea, I'm open to any suggestion.
-------NOTE, RFC
# fdisk -l /dev/nbd0
Disk /dev/nbd0: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/nbd0p1 * 1 9965 80043831 83 Linux
/dev/nbd0p2 9966 10011 369495 5 Extended
/dev/nbd0p5 9966 10011 369463+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 1 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 2 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 5 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0p5
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt
# ls /mnt
bin dev initrd lost+found opt sbin sys var
boot etc initrd.img media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
cdrom home lib mnt root srv usr
# umount /mnt
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
# ls -l /dev/nbd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 43, 0 2008-03-25 11:16 /dev/nbd0
-------NOTE
On "nbd-client -d", we can do an iocl(BLKRRPART) to update partition table:
as the size of the device is 0, we don't have to serve the partition manager
request (-> no deadlock).
-------NOTE
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch allows Network Block Device to be mounted locally (nbd-client to
nbd-server over 127.0.0.1).
It creates a kthread to avoid the deadlock described in NBD tools
documentation. So, if nbd-client hangs waiting for pages, the kblockd thread
can continue its work and free pages.
I have tested the patch to verify that it avoids the hang that always occurs
when writing to a localhost nbd connection. I have also tested to verify that
no performance degradation results from the additional thread and queue.
Patch originally from Laurent Vivier.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services. CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel. Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
