kernel/linux.git/block/genhd.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

block: include empty disks in /proc/diskstats

2009-05-02T17:57:17+00:00

commit 71982a409f12c50d011325a4471aa20666bb908d upstream. /proc/diskstats used to show stats for all disks whether they're zero-sized or not and their non-zero partitions. Commit 074a7aca7afa6f230104e8e65eba3420263714a5 accidentally changed the behavior such that it doesn't print out zero sized disks. This patch implements DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY_PART0 flag to partition iterator and uses it in diskstats_show() such that empty part0 is shown in /proc/diskstats. Reported and bisectd by Dianel Collins. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Daniel Collins Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: set disk->node_id before it's being used

2008-12-03T11:41:20+00:00

disk->node_id will be refered in allocating in disk_expand_part_tbl, so we should set it before disk->node_id is refered. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash

2008-11-18T14:08:56+00:00

We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another HPC NX6325 notebook. All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9. With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail. I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517 As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs. 1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return value 0. Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes, 0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related. I work out a patch for nash to fix it. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858 2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting: (1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop) (2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line "8 sd"; (3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK) type for the device and add it to its own list; (4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem labels; scsi register "8 sd" always. When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK) type. To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for kernel. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837 Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new block device in proc/devices. With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for dozens of times without failure. Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c

2008-10-23T13:57:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Jens Axboe

proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c

2008-10-23T11:07:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix current kernel-doc warnings

2008-10-17T06:46:57+00:00

Fix block kernel-doc warnings: Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//fs/block_dev.c:1272): No description found for parameter 'path' Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'cpu' Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'part' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.27-git4//block/genhd.c:544): No description found for parameter 'partno' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix kernel-doc for blk_alloc_devt()

2008-10-17T06:46:56+00:00

No argument 'gfp_mask' for blk_alloc_devt(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeouts

2008-10-09T06:56:17+00:00

Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix duplicate headers for /proc/partitions

2008-10-09T06:56:12+00:00

seqf can be started multiple times for a read and the header should be printed only for the initial one. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't test for partition size in bdget_disk() and blk_lookup_devt()

2008-10-09T06:56:11+00:00

bdget_disk() and blk_lookup_devt() never cared whether the specified partition (or disk) is zero sized or not. I got confused while converting those not to depend on consecutive minor numbers in commit 5a6411b1178baf534aa9138052864dfa89d3eada and later when dev0 was added it broke callers which expected to get valid return for zero sized disk devices. So, they never needed nr_sects checks in the first place. Kill them. This problem was spotted and debugged by Bartlmoiej Zolnierkiewicz. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe