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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/s390/block/xpram.c, branch linux-4.16.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2017-11-24T13:28:37+00:00</updated>
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<title>s390: block: add SPDX identifiers to the remaining files</title>
<updated>2017-11-24T13:28:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T17:38:00+00:00</published>
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It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.

Update the drivers/s390/block/ files with the correct SPDX license
identifier based on the license text in the file itself.  The SPDX
identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of
the full boiler plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.

Cc: Stefan Haberland &lt;sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Hoeppner &lt;hoeppner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:10:32+00:00</published>
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blk: remove bio_set arg from blk_queue_split()</title>
<updated>2017-06-18T18:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T04:38:57+00:00</published>
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blk_queue_split() is always called with the last arg being q-&gt;bio_split,
where 'q' is the first arg.

Also blk_queue_split() sometimes uses the passed-in 'bs' and sometimes uses
q-&gt;bio_split.

This is inconsistent and unnecessary.  Remove the last arg and always use
q-&gt;bio_split inside blk_queue_split()

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Credit-to: Javier González &lt;jg@lightnvm.io&gt; (Noticed that lightnvm was missed)
Reviewed-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Tested-by: Javier González &lt;javier@cnexlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Replace &lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt; with &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt; globally</title>
<updated>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</published>
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: change -&gt;make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T17:40:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T17:41:16+00:00</published>
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No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T18:31:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T05:37:18+00:00</published>
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The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page())
checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create
bios that don't need to be split.

But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with
stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of
complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could
eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked
drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are
convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with
both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the
(potentially multiple) devices underneath them.  In the future this will
let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code.

We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various
make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary
size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to
blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and
blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing
affecting segment merging.

Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify
they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are:

 * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c)
 * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c)
 * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c)
 * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c)
 * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c)
 * loop_make_request
 * null_queue_bio
 * bcache's make_request fns

Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left
for future patches.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Paris &lt;jim@jtan.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Kelleher &lt;pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md/md.c' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>block: add a bi_error field to struct bio</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T13:29:37+00:00</published>
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Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390: block: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers</title>
<updated>2014-10-20T14:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa@the-dreams.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T14:21:31+00:00</published>
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A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices</title>
<updated>2014-10-04T16:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-04T16:55:32+00:00</published>
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Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set
QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT.

Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy
contributions.  But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add
sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"):
    - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
      are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
      should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
    - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block
devices.  From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of
caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random"
sources.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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