During the reorganisation of the imx-i2c devices
(in 64de5ec168) the 3rd imx-i2c device
for the mx35 got lost. This patch adds the missing device.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Add IRAM(Internal RAM) allocation functions using GENERIC_ALLOCATOR.
The allocation size is 4KB multiples to guarantee alignment. The
idea for these functions is for i.MX platforms to use them
to dynamically allocate IRAM usage.
Applies on 2.6.36-rc7
Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <Dinh.Nguyen@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment
descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading
them.
Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead
of home grown unsafe versions.
This is CVE-2010-3698.
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The possible deadlock (on 57710 devices only) will prevent from the
device to generate interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Lists were initialized after the module was registered. Multiple ipvsadm
processes at module load triggered a race condition that resulted in a null
pointer dereference in do_ip_vs_get_ctl(). As a result, __ip_vs_mutex
was left locked preventing all further ipvsadm commands.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo J. Blanco <ejblanco@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
The function start_func_tracer() was incorrectly added in the
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER condition, but is still used even
when function tracing is not enabled.
The calls to register_ftrace_function() and register_ftrace_graph()
become nops (and their arguments are even ignored), thus there is
no reason to hide start_func_tracer() when function tracing is
not enabled.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature
of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption.
The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy
potentially important data.
With this patch, during scanning, when UBI hits a PEB with corrupted VID
header, it checks whether this PEB contains only 0xFF data. If yes, it is
safe to erase this PEB and it is put to the 'erase' list. If not, this may
be important data and it is better to avoid erasing this PEB. Instead,
UBI puts it to the corr list and moves out of the pool of available PEB.
IOW, UBI preserves this PEB.
Such corrupted PEB lessen the amount of available PEBs. So the more of them
we accumulate, the less PEBs are available. The maximum amount of non-power
cut corrupted PEBs is 8.
This patch is a response to UBIFS problem where reporter
(Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>) observes that UBIFS index points
to an unmapped LEB. The theory is that corresponding PEB somehow got
corrupted and UBI wiped it. This patch (actually a series of patches)
tries to make sure such PEBs are preserved - this would make it is easier
to analyze the corruption.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Start using the 'corr' list and add there PEBs which look truly corrupted,
which means they have corrupted VID header and the data which follows the
corrupted header does not contain all 0xFF bytes.
At the moment, this does not change UBI functionality much because these
PEBs will be erase when scanning finishes. But the plan is to teach UBI
preserving them.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Introduce a helper function to print hexdump: 'ubi_dbg_print_hex_dump()'.
It is compiled out if debugging is enabled. Will be used in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch turns static function 'check_pattern()' into a non-static
'ubi_check_pattern()'. This is just a preparation for the chages which
are coming in the next patches.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently UBI maintains 2 lists of PEBs during scanning:
1. 'erase' list - PEBs which have no corruptions but should be erased
2. 'corr' list - PEBs which have some corruptions and should be erased
But we do not really need 2 lists for PEBs which should be erased after
scanning is done - this is redundant. So this patch makes sure all PEBs
which are corrupted are moved to the head of the 'erase' list. We add
them to the head to make sure they are erased first and we get rid of
corruption ASAP.
However, we do not remove the 'corr' list and realted functions, because
the plan is to use this list for other purposes. Namely, we plan to
put eraseblocks with corruption which does not look like it was caused
by unclean power cut. Then we'll preserve thes PEBs in order to avoid
killing potentially valuable user data.
This patch also amends PEBs accounting, because it was closely tight to
the 'erase'/'corr' lists separation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch introduces 'add_corrupted()' function and separates out 'corr' list
manipulation from the common 'add_to_list()' function. This is just a
preparation for further changes - this patch does not change functionality.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This patch improves readability and simplifies scanning code by changing a
long cascade of 'if' statements to a switch statement. This should presumably
be a little faster as well.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Rename local variable 'ec_corr' into 'ec_err' to make the code a little bit
more readable. 'ec_err' is more appropriate because it sounds more like 'error
when EC was read' and it looks more logical because we use it together with
'err'. Just a minor nicification which should improve the rather complex
scanning code.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Currently UBI has one small flaw - when we read EC or VID header, but find only
0xFF bytes, we return UBI_IO_FF and do not report whether we had bit-flips or
not. In case of the VID header, the scanning code adds this PEB to the free list,
even though there were bit-flips.
Imagine the following situation: we start writing VID header to a PEB and have a
power cut, so the PEB becomes unstable. When we scan and read the PEB, we get
a bit-flip. Currently, UBI would just ignore this and treat the PEB as free. This
patch changes UBI behavior and now UBI will schedule this PEB for erasure.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'UBI_IO_PEB_EMPTY' and 'UBI_IO_PEB_FREE' are essentially the same
and mean that there are only 0xFF bytes instead of headers. Simplify
UBI a little by turning them into a single 'UBI_IO_FF' error code.
Also, stop maintaining commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()' which are
almost identical to commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_ec_hdr()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Rename UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_READ into UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_EBADMSG which is presumably more
self-documenting and readable. Indeed, the '_READ' suffix does not tell much and
even confuses, while '_EBADMSG' tells about uncorrectable ECC error, because we
use -EBADMSG all over the place to represent ECC errors.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cleanup the Kconfig for UBI by using menuconfig to enable/disable the entire
driver. Remove the dependency checks for MTD_UBI and MTD_UBI_DEBUG by
wrapping the options in if/endif blocks and remove any redundant checks.
Remove all default n since that is the Kconfig default. Change menu "Additional
UBI debugging messages" into a comment to remove one menu level.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This code has been broken forever, but in several different and
creative ways.
So far as I can work out, the R6040 MAC filter has 4 exact-match
entries, the first of which the driver uses for its assigned unicast
address, plus a 64-entry hash-based filter for multicast addresses
(maybe unicast as well?).
The original version of this code would write the first 4 multicast
addresses as exact-match entries from offset 1 (bug #1: there is no
entry 4 so this could write to some PHY registers). It would fill the
remainder of the exact-match entries with the broadcast address (bug #2:
this would overwrite the last used entry). If more than 4 multicast
addresses were configured, it would set up the hash table, write some
random crap to the MAC control register (bug #3) and finally walk off
the end of the list when filling the exact-match entries (bug #4).
All of this seems to be pointless, since it sets the promiscuous bit
when the interface is made promiscuous or if >4 multicast addresses
are enabled, and never clears it (bug #5, masking bug #2).
The recent(ish) changes to the multicast list fixed bug #4, but
completely removed the limit on iteration over the exact-match entries
(bug #6).
Bug #4 was reported as
<https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15355> and more recently
as <http://bugs.debian.org/600155>. Florian Fainelli attempted to fix
these in commit 3bcf8229a8, but that
actually dealt with bugs #1-3, bug #4 having been fixed in mainline at
that point.
That commit fixes the most important current bug #6.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35 only]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Changed <module>-objs to <module>-y in Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Make hifn_795x::hifn_remove() call cancel_delayed_work_sync() instead
of calling cancel_delayed_work() followed by flush_scheduled_work().
This is to prepare for the deprecation and removal of
flush_scheduled_work().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Remove a couple of pointless header file includes.
Fixes a compile bug caused by header file include dependencies with
"irq: Add tracepoint to softirq_raise" within linux-next.
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ cherry-picked from the s390 tree to fix "2bf2160: irq: Add tracepoint to softirq_raise" ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ugly #include dependencies. We need to have local_softirq_pending()
defined before it gets used in <linux/interrupt.h>. But <asm/hardirq.h>
provides the definition *after* this #include chain:
<linux/irq.h>
<asm/irq.h>
<asm/hw_irq.h>
<linux/interrupt.h>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[ cherry-picked from the ia64 tree to fix "2bf2160: irq: Add tracepoint to softirq_raise" ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Convert inetdev_by_index() to not increment in_dev refcount.
Callers hold RCU or RTNL, and should not decrement in_dev refcount.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We hold RTNL in ip_mc_find_dev(), no need to touch device refcount.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
futex_wait() is leaking key references due to futex_wait_setup()
acquiring an additional reference via the queue_lock() routine. The
nested key ref-counting has been masking bugs and complicating code
analysis. queue_lock() is only called with a previously ref-counted
key, so remove the additional ref-counting from the queue_(un)lock()
functions.
Also futex_wait_requeue_pi() drops one key reference too many in
unqueue_me_pi(). Remove the key reference handling from
unqueue_me_pi(). This was paired with a queue_lock() in
futex_lock_pi(), so the count remains unchanged.
Document remaining nested key ref-counting sites.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Matthieu Fertré<matthieu.fertre@kerlabs.com>
Reported-by: Louis Rilling<louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <4CBB17A8.70401@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
If you are genuinely using one of these legacy MCA drivers
then you are tragically on hardware where you really don't
have the extra CPU cycles to be wasting on this.
In addition, it makes two less cases for people to inadvertently
blindly copy flags from without explicitly thinking whether it
makes sense -- see the addition to feature-removal.txt as per
commit 9d9b8fb0e5.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The dabusb device driver is sufficiently serialized using
its own mutex, no need for the big kernel lock here
in addition.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
The sunrpc cache_ioctl function does not need the big kernel lock
because it uses its own queue_lock already.
rpc_pipe_ioctl apparently should be using i_lock like the other
operations on the pipe file descriptor do.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
According to commit 5e3d20a68f
(init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations
should be removed also.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
According to Jens, this code does not need the BKL at all,
it is sufficiently serialized by bd_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The big kernel lock is going away, so make sure
that if it is disabled by Kconfig, we do not
try to validate it, which would result in
compile errors.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The dvb core only uses the big kernel lock in the open
and ioctl functions, which means it can be replaced with
a dvb specific mutex. Fortunately, all the ioctl functions
go through dvb_usercopy, so we can move the serialization
in there.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
The bt8xx driver only uses the big kernel lock in its dst_ca_ioctl
function and never to serialize against other code, so we can
trivially replace it with a private mutex.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This driver already has a global mutex, so let's just
use that in the open function instead of the BKL.
It may not even be needed there, but this patch should
have the smallest impact.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
RAW_SETBIND and RAW_GETBIND 32bit versions are fscked in interesting ways.
1) fs/compat_ioctl.c has COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND) followed by
HANDLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND, raw_ioctl). The latter is ignored.
2) on amd64 (and itanic) the damn thing is broken - we have int + u64 + u64
and layouts on i386 and amd64 are _not_ the same. raw_ioctl() would
work there, but it's never called due to (1). As it is, i386 /sbin/raw
definitely doesn't work on amd64 boxen.
3) switching to raw_ioctl() as is would *not* work on e.g. sparc64 and ppc64,
which would be rather sad, seeing that normal userland there is 32bit.
The thing is, slapping __packed on the struct in question does not DTRT -
it eliminates *all* padding. The real solution is to use compat_u64.
4) of course, all that stuff has no business being outside of raw.c in the
first place - there should be ->compat_ioctl() for /dev/rawctl instead of
messing with compat_ioctl.c.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[arnd@arndb.de: port to 2.6.36]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Three uml device drivers still use the big kernel lock,
but all of them can be safely converted to using
a per-driver mutex instead. Most likely this is not
even necessary, so after further review these can
and should be removed as well.
The exec system call no longer requires the BKL either,
so remove it from there, too.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Commit a25909a4 (lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based
test function) added in_workqueue_context() but there hasn't been any
in-kernel user and the lockdep annotation in workqueue is scheduled to
change. Remove the unused function.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The documentation for schedule_on_each_cpu() states that it calls a
function on each online CPU from keventd. This can easily be
interpreted as an asyncronous call because the description does not
mention that flush_work is called. Clarify that it is synchronous.
tj: rephrased a bit
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
lru_add_drain_all() uses schedule_on_each_cpu() which is synchronous.
There is no reason to call flush_scheduled_work() after
lru_add_drain_all(). Drop the spurious calls.
This is to prepare for the deprecation and removal of
flush_scheduled_work().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
IPv6 encapsulation uses a bad source address for the tunnel.
i.e. VIP will be used as local-addr and encap. dst addr.
Decapsulation will not accept this.
Example
LVS (eth1 2003::2:0:1/96, VIP 2003::2:0:100)
(eth0 2003::1:0:1/96)
RS (ethX 2003::1:0:5/96)
tcpdump
2003::2:0:100 > 2003::1:0:5: IP6 (hlim 63, next-header TCP (6) payload length: 40) 2003::3:0:10.50991 > 2003::2:0:100.http: Flags [S], cksum 0x7312 (correct), seq 3006460279, win 5760, options [mss 1440,sackOK,TS val 1904932 ecr 0,nop,wscale 3], length 0
In Linux IPv6 impl. you can't have a tunnel with an any cast address
receiving packets (I have not tried to interpret RFC 2473)
To have receive capabilities the tunnel must have:
- Local address set as multicast addr or an unicast addr
- Remote address set as an unicast addr.
- Loop back addres or Link local address are not allowed.
This causes us to setup a tunnel in the Real Server with the
LVS as the remote address, here you can't use the VIP address since it's
used inside the tunnel.
Solution
Use outgoing interface IPv6 address (match against the destination).
i.e. use ip6_route_output() to look up the route cache and
then use ipv6_dev_get_saddr(...) to set the source address of the
encapsulated packet.
Additionally, cache the results in new destination
fields: dst_cookie and dst_saddr and properly check the
returned dst from ip6_route_output. We now add xfrm_lookup
call only for the tunneling method where the source address
is a local one.
Signed-off-by:Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This patch allows to listen to events that inform about
expectations destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
cciss: fix PCI IDs for new controllers
This patch fixes the botched up PCI IDs of new controllers. Please consider
this patch for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
On a system that support intr-rempping when booting with "intremap=off"
[ 177.895501] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f8
[ 177.913316] IP: [<ffffffff8145fc18>] free_irte+0x47/0xc0
...
[ 178.173326] Call Trace:
[ 178.173574] [<ffffffff810515b4>] destroy_irq+0x3a/0x75
[ 178.192934] [<ffffffff81051834>] arch_teardown_msi_irq+0xe/0x10
[ 178.193418] [<ffffffff81458dc3>] arch_teardown_msi_irqs+0x56/0x7f
[ 178.213021] [<ffffffff81458e79>] free_msi_irqs+0x8d/0xeb
Call free_irte only when interrupt remapping is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CBCB274.7010108@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Commit c3f00c70 ("perf: Separate find_get_context() from event
initialization") changed the generic perf_event code to call
perf_event_alloc, which calls the arch-specific event_init code,
before looking up the context for the new event. Unfortunately,
power_pmu_event_init uses event->ctx->task to see whether the
new event is a per-task event or a system-wide event, and thus
crashes since event->ctx is NULL at the point where
power_pmu_event_init gets called.
(The reason it needs to know whether it is a per-task event is
because there are some hardware events on Power systems which
only count when the processor is not idle, and there are some
fixed-function counters which count such events. For example,
the "run cycles" event counts cycles when the processor is not
idle. If the user asks to count cycles, we can use "run cycles"
if this is a per-task event, since the processor is running when
the task is running, by definition. We can't use "run cycles"
if the user asks for "cycles" on a system-wide counter.)
Fortunately the information we need is in the
event->attach_state field, so we just use that instead.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101019055535.GA10398@drongo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.
$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
8 0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
8 1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
~~~~~~~~~~
8 2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
8 3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
8 4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137
Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.
The detailed root cause is as follows.
Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.
1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
is 0 and sda2's one is 1.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | -1
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.
When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
