kernel/linux.git/drivers/block/brd.c, branch v2.6.32

const: make block_device_operations const

2009-09-22T14:17:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter

2009-06-10T21:07:15+00:00

The "ramdisk" parameter was removed from the defunct rd.c file quite some time ago, in favour of the more specific "ramdisk_size" parameter so, for consistency, the same should be done here. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

brd: fix cacheflushing

2009-04-15T10:10:13+00:00

brd is missing a flush_dcache_page. On 2nd thoughts, perhaps it is the pagecache's responsibility to flush user virtual aliases (the driver of course should flush kernel virtual mappings)... but anyway, there already exists cache flushing for one direction of transfer, so we should add the other. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

brd: support barriers

2009-04-15T10:10:13+00:00

brd is always ordered (not that it matters, as it is defined not to survive when the system goes down). So tell the block layer it is ordered, which might be of help with testing filesystems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] switch brd

2008-10-21T11:47:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] beginning of methods conversion

2008-10-21T11:47:32+00:00

To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers; to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following: 1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct prototypes, make (few) callers handle both. That's this changeset. 2) for each driver convert to new methods. *ALL* drivers are converted in this series. 3) kill the old (renamed) methods. Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the end of this series no trace of old methods remain. The only reason why we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver debugging if anything goes wrong. New methods: open(bdev, mode) release(disk, mode) ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called without BKL */ compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called with BKL, legacy */ Signed-off-by: Al Viro

brd: fix name argument of unregister_blkdev()

2008-08-20T22:40:30+00:00

The name of brd block device is "ramdisk", it's not "brd". (The block device is registered by register_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk") So it should be unregistered by unregister_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk") Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add 'rd' alias to new brd ramdisk driver

2008-06-05T21:23:12+00:00

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

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

2008-05-24T16:56:11+00:00

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

brd: modify ramdisk device to be able to manage partitions

2008-04-30T15:29:53+00:00

This patch adds partition management for Block RAM Device (BRD). This patch is done to keep in sync BRD and loop device drivers. This patch adds a parameter to the module, max_part, to specify the maximum number of partitions per RAM device. Example: # modprobe brd max_part=63 # ls -l /dev/ram* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 64 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 640 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 704 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 768 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram12 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 832 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 896 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 960 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 128 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 192 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 256 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 320 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 384 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 448 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 512 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 576 2008-04-03 13:39 /dev/ram9 # fdisk /dev/ram0 Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): o Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-2, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-2, default 2): 2 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. # ls -l /dev/ram0* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2008-04-03 13:40 /dev/ram0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1 2008-04-03 13:40 /dev/ram0p1 # mkfs /dev/ram0p1 mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 4016 inodes, 16032 blocks 801 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=16515072 2 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2008 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 26 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. # mount /dev/ram0p1 /mnt df /mnt Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0p1 15521 138 14582 1% /mnt # ls -l /mnt total 12 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2008-04-03 13:41 lost+found # umount /mnt # rmmod brd Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier Acked-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds