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Ayaz Abdulla
69fe3fd7b1 [PATCH] forcedeth config: module parameters
This patch adds (and modifies) module parameter support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
9589c77a0d [PATCH] forcedeth config: diagnostics
This patch adds support for diagnostic tests through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
7a1854b797 [PATCH] forcedeth config: move functions
This patch moves a few functions (no logic change) so that the next
patch has these functions defined.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
52da35789c [PATCH] forcedeth config: statistics
This patch exposes hardware statistic counters through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:16 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
5ed2616f62 [PATCH] forcedeth config: csum
This patch allows for configurable rx and tx checksum offloads through
ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
c42d9df932 [PATCH] forcedeth config: wol
This patch fixes configuration bugs when modifying wol settings.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
f9430a015a [PATCH] forcedeth config: phy
This patch fixes configuration bugs when modifying phy settings.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
b6d0773fa7 [PATCH] forcedeth config: flow control
This patch allows for configurable flow control through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
eafa59f6bc [PATCH] forcedeth config: ring sizes
This patch allows for configurable ring size through ethtool support.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Ayaz Abdulla
6a78814f6c [PATCH] forcedeth config: tso cleanup
There are a series of patches for configuration support in forcedeth and
one patch for device ids.

This patch is a cleanup of the a previous TSO patch.

Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-11 09:25:15 -04:00
Krzysztof Helt
650fb83822 [SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up
scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated
migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:03:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
9145bcf635 [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 22:02:17 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8d7feac3c7 [SCSI] remove RQ_SCSI_* flags
The RQ_SCSI_* flags are a vestiage of a long past history.  The EH code
still sets them but we never make use of that information.  The other
users is pluto.c which never had a chance to work but needs to be kept
compiling to keep Davem happy, so copy over the definition there.

We could probably get rid of RQ_ACTIVE/RQ_INACTIVE aswell with some
work, there's only two more or less bogus looking uses in ubd and scsi.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:25:21 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
beb4048750 [SCSI] remove scsi_request infrastructure
With Achim patch the last user (gdth) is switched away from scsi_request
so we an kill it now.  Also disables some code in i2o_scsi that was
broken since the sg driver stopped using scsi_requests.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:24:40 -05:00
Michael Reed
1951d099df [SCSI] mptfusion: change driver revision to 3.03.10
Bump driver version number to reflect addition of various
fibre channel patches.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:02:21 -05:00
Michael Reed
d6be06c84d [SCSI] mptfc: abort of board reset leaves port dead requiring reboot
The driver uses msleep_interruptible() in the code path responsible
for resetting the card's ports via the lsiutil command.  If a
<ctrl-c> is received during the reset it can leave a port in such
a state that the only way to regain its use is to reboot the system.
Changing from msleep_interruptible() to msleep() corrects the problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:01:52 -05:00
Michael Reed
419835e285 [SCSI] mptfc: fix fibre channel infinite request/response loop
While doing board reset testing I was able to put the system in
an infinite request/response loop between the scsi layer and
mptscsih_qcmd() by aborting the reset.  This patch installs
a "SETUP RESET" handler which calls fc_remote_port_delete()
for all registered rports.  This blocks the target which
prevents the loop.  Additionally, should the reset fail to
complete, the transport will now terminate i/o to the target.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 16:00:03 -05:00
Michael Reed
ca2f938efe [SCSI] mptfc: set fibre channel fw target missing timers to one second
The fibre channel firmware provides a timer which is similar in purpose
to the fibre channel transport's device loss timer.  The effect of this
timer is to extend the total time that a target will be missing beyond
the value associated with the transport's timer.  This patch changes
the firmware timer to a default of one second which significantly reduces
the lag between when a target goes missing and the notification of the
fibre channel transport.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 15:59:19 -05:00
Michael Reed
80d3ac77a8 [SCSI] mptfusion: move fc event/reset handling to mptfc
Move fibre channel event and reset handling to mptfc.  This will
result in fewer changes over time that need to be applied to
either mptbase.c or mptscsih.c.

Signed-off-by: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 15:58:37 -05:00
James Bottomley
f0cd91a68a Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-06-10 13:47:26 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1f4d4a7e8f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
  [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
  [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
  [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
2006-06-10 11:03:51 -07:00
Milton Miller
938473b246 [PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issues
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>

The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the
console to be selected.  It turns out that the add_preferred_console was
being called after the hvc_console driver was registered.  It only works
when it is called before the console driver is registered.

Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection
during console_initcall processing.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Markus Lidel
57a62fed87 [PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working again
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>

- Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM

- Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and
  accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices

- Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify()

- removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused
  the controller structure get freed to early

- Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc()

- Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get()

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561

Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a913f50706 [PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaround
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Work around the oops reported in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478.

Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and
reporting.

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
David Howells
670bd95e04 [PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier document
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out
with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan
Stern.

The following changes were made:

 (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory
     barriers was wrong.

 (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is
     a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier.  This isn't entirely
     true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both.

 (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the
     loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the
     opposite order to the stores around the write barrier.

 (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to
     the stores.

 (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences"
     section to make them clearer.  Added a couple of diagrams to make it more
     clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier.

 (*) Added a section on memory speculation.

 (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory
     barriers.  They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on.  This may be
     worthy of further documentation later.

 (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a
     full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10 11:02:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d90d2c385d Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support
  powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
2006-06-10 10:59:39 -07:00
James Bottomley
60eef25701 [SCSI] spi transport: don't allow dt to be set on SE or HVD buses
This is really just a belt and braces test.  The standards require
disks to respond DT not capable on a non-LVD bus ... however, not all
disks follow the standards ...

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:51:23 -05:00
James Bottomley
b2d8bfe185 [SCSI] aic7xxx: expose the bus setting to sysfs
Read the transciever register and display in the host transport
properties.  I'm still not entirely sure what this does for multiple
transciever adapters (like some 160 ones) however, I suspect it
displays the transciever state of the switchable bus segment.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:49:07 -05:00
Arthur Othieno
b9f051eb6c [SCSI] scsi: remove Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt
cpqfc driver flushed out with: [SCSI] remove broken driver cpqfc (commit
ca61f10ab2) but somehow
Documentation/scsi/cpqfc.txt managed to survive the blast.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:46:01 -05:00
Tobias Klauser
6391a11375 [SCSI] drivers/scsi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of the macro.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:45:30 -05:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
9dc399de08 [SCSI] Remove last page_address from dc395x.c
Dynamically map scattergather buffer instead of using page_address().

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:38:24 -05:00
HighPoint Linux Team
ede1e6f8b4 [SCSI] hptiop: HighPoint RocketRAID 3xxx controller driver
HighPoint RocketRAID 3220/3320 series 8 channel PCI-X SATA RAID Host
Adapters.

Fixes from original submission:

Merge Andrew Morton's patches:
- Provide locking for global list
- Fix debug printks
- uninline function with multiple callsites
- coding style fixups
- remove unneeded casts of void*
- kfree(NULL) is legal
- Don't "succeed" if register_chrdev() failed - otherwise we'll later
  unregister a not-registered chrdev.
- Don't return from hptiop_do_ioctl() with the spinlock held.
- uninline __hpt_do_ioctl()

Update for Arjan van de Ven's comments:
- put all asm/ includes after the linux/ ones
- replace mdelay with msleep
- add pci posting flush
- do not set pci command reqister in map_pci_bar
- do not try merging sg elements in hptiop_buildsgl()
- remove unused outstandingcommands member from hba structure
- remove unimplemented hptiop_abort() handler
- remove typedef u32 hpt_id_t

Other updates:
- fix endianess

Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:36:13 -05:00
Leubner, Achim
cbd5f69b98 [SCSI] remove the scsi_request interface from the gdth driver
Initial pass at converting the gdth driver away from the scsi_request
interface so that the request interface can be removed post 2.6.18
without breaking gdth.  Based on changes from Christoph Hellwig
<hch@lst.de>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:24:40 -05:00
Russell King
56f1319e87 [ARM] Fix Integrator and Versatile interrupt initialisation
Both Integrator and Versatile were using set_irq_handler() and
enable_irq(), and working around the initialisation of the
chained interrupt, instead of the more correct
set_irq_chained_handler() function.  Fix Integrator and
Versatile to use the right function, and remove these work-arounds.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-10 12:42:12 +01:00
David S. Miller
46b304934d [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots
can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access
hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot
cpu.

PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just
fine.

Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI
controller node and record all present device IDs into
a small hash table.

Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access
attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10 01:06:25 -07:00
Tom "spot" Callaway
c29ca9d181 [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.
Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 17:01:48 -07:00
David Woodhouse
f9068876f5 [MTD NAND] Fix s3c2410 NAND driver so it at least _looks_ like it compiles
Fix the control bit handling so it even looks like it might work, too.
Bad tglx. No biscuit.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-10 00:53:16 +01:00
David S. Miller
f49639e643 [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead:

1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM
   for config information.  If that is off we will get
   timeouts.

2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no
   firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead
   just report it the first time we notice this condition.

3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device
   is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT.

Update driver version and release date.

With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
5224e6cc3a [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
This makes the debugging information more usable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09 12:03:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f24ff6bf8c [MTD] Prepare physmap for 64-bit-resources
Fallout from the incoming 64-bit-resource stuff:

drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c: In function 'physmap_flash_probe':
drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c:94: warning: format '%.8lx' expects type 'long
unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c:94: warning: format '%.8lx' expects type 'long
unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'resource_size_t'

Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-09 15:12:34 +01:00
David Woodhouse
4ed0156f77 [JFFS2] Fix more breakage caused by janitorial meddling.
jffs2_zlib_exit() and free_workspaces() shouldn't be marked __exit because
they get called in the error case from the init functions.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-09 15:06:42 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
133dda1e4f [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a
pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware
will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is
needed.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 13:06:00 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
33b7497794 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support
The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware
ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it
fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when
trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to
the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 13:05:51 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
7c85d1f9d3 powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible
for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels.  This
also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems
by inspection.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09 13:02:59 +10:00
Andrew Morton
81c2466915 [AGPGART] alpha-agp warning fix
drivers/char/agp/alpha-agp.c:138: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
drivers/char/agp/alpha-agp.c:139: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-08 22:41:17 -04:00
Andrew Morton
b07cd5181f [AGPGART] uninorth-agp warning fixes
drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c: In function `agp_uninorth_suspend':
drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c:332: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c: In function `agp_uninorth_resume':
drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c:354: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-08 22:41:16 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
128e6ced24 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data
  e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe"
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: add DMA rx poll workaround to DMA4
2006-06-08 15:16:35 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
bafe00cc92 [PATCH] s390: fix in-user atomic futex operation.
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

__futex_atomic_op needs to do an atomic operation in the user address space,
not the kernel address space.  Add the missing sacf 256/sacf 0 to switch to
the secondary mode before doing the compare-and-swap.  In addition add
another fixup for catch specification exceptions if the compare-and-swap
address is not aligned.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:15:30 -07:00
Jens Axboe
71601e2b33 [PATCH] debugfs inode leak
Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In
debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry
already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case.

These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow
such coding in CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:14:24 -07:00
Jens Axboe
bc1c116974 [PATCH] elevator switching race
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the
next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be
invoked with bad or NULL data.

To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer.
Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be
run without the lock held.  This isn't easily fixable, without also
changing the mempool API.  So split the initialization into two parts,
and alloc-init operation and an attach operation.  Then we can
preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach
inside the lock after we detach the old one.

This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching
with a very busy io load.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:14:23 -07:00