uml: const and other tidying

This patch also does some improvements for uml code. Improvements include
dropping unnecessary cast, killing some unnecessary code and still some
consti

uml: const and other tidying

This patch also does some improvements for uml code. Improvements include
dropping unnecessary cast, killing some unnecessary code and still some
constifying for pointers etc..

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: document new ubd flag

The ubd help message didn't document the 'c' flag.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundatio

uml: document new ubd flag

The ubd help message didn't document the 'c' flag.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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blk_end_request: changing um (take 4)

This patch converts um to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.

As a result, the interface

blk_end_request: changing um (take 4)

This patch converts um to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.

As a result, the interface of internal function, ubd_end_request(),
is changed.

Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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leak in do_ubd_request

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:

leak in do_ubd_request

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: fix incompatible types warning in previous SG fix

Fix an incompatible-pointer warning.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@l

uml: fix incompatible types warning in previous SG fix

Fix an incompatible-pointer warning.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: fix a building error

Fix this uml building error:
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: In function 'do_ubd_request':
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c:1118: error: implic

arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: fix a building error

Fix this uml building error:
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: In function 'do_ubd_request':
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c:1118: error: implicit declaration of function
'sg_page'
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c:1118: warning: passing argument 6 of
'prepare_request' makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[1]: *** [arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/um/drivers] Error 2

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Add sg_init_table() call as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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[SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

uml: remove unneeded void * cast

vmalloc() returns a void pointer, so casting to (void *) is pretty pointless.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by:

uml: remove unneeded void * cast

vmalloc() returns a void pointer, so casting to (void *) is pretty pointless.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: fix previous request size limit fix

The previous patch which limited the number of sectors in a single request
to a COWed device was correct in concept, but the limit was implemente

uml: fix previous request size limit fix

The previous patch which limited the number of sectors in a single request
to a COWed device was correct in concept, but the limit was implemented in
the wrong place.

By putting it in ubd_add, it covered the cases where the COWing was
specified on the command line. However, when the command line only has the
COW file specified, the fact that it's a COW file isn't known until it's
opened, so the limit is missed in these cases.

This patch moves the sector limit from ubd_add to ubd_open_dev.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef

Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the

[BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef

Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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uml: limit request size on COWed devices

COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one request
due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the io_thread

uml: limit request size on COWed devices

COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one request
due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the io_thread_req.

Enforce that by telling the block layer not to put too many sectors in
requests to COWed devices.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: fix request->sector update

It is theoretically possible for a request to finish and be freed between
writing it to the I/O thread and updating the sector count. In this case, the

uml: fix request->sector update

It is theoretically possible for a request to finish and be freed between
writing it to the I/O thread and updating the sector count. In this case, the
update will dereference a freed pointer.

To avoid this, I delay the update until processing the next sg segment, when
the request pointer is known to be good.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: get declaration of simple_strtoul

Include linux/kernel.h wherever simple_strtoul is used. This kills a
compile warning in stderr_console.c and potential ones in the other files.

uml: get declaration of simple_strtoul

Include linux/kernel.h wherever simple_strtoul is used. This kills a
compile warning in stderr_console.c and potential ones in the other files.

This also fixes a bunch of style violations in exitcode.c.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file

Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete
the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix a

uml: rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file

Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete
the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: formatting fixes around os_{read_write}_file callers

Formatting fixes ahead of renaming os_{read_write}_file_k to
os_{read_write}_file and fixing all the callers.

Signed-of

uml: formatting fixes around os_{read_write}_file callers

Formatting fixes ahead of renaming os_{read_write}_file_k to
os_{read_write}_file and fixing all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: change remaining callers of os_{read_write}_file

Convert all remaining os_{read_write}_file users to use the simple
{read,write} wrappers, os_{read_write}_file_k.

Signed-of

uml: change remaining callers of os_{read_write}_file

Convert all remaining os_{read_write}_file users to use the simple
{read,write} wrappers, os_{read_write}_file_k.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: fixup allocation in the ubd driver

Sanitise gfp flags; it actually is an atomic context, so drop the
GFP_KERNEL part.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

uml: fixup allocation in the ubd driver

Sanitise gfp flags; it actually is an atomic context, so drop the
GFP_KERNEL part.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: send pointers instead of structures to I/O thread

Instead of writing entire structures between UML and the I/O thread, we send
pointers. This cuts down on the amount of data being

uml: send pointers instead of structures to I/O thread

Instead of writing entire structures between UML and the I/O thread, we send
pointers. This cuts down on the amount of data being copied and possibly
allows more requests to be pending between the two.

This requires that the requests be kmalloced and freed instead of living on
the stack.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: batch I/O requests

Send as many I/O requests to the I/O thread as possible, even though it will
still only handle one at a time. This provides an opportunity to reduce
latency

uml: batch I/O requests

Send as many I/O requests to the I/O thread as possible, even though it will
still only handle one at a time. This provides an opportunity to reduce
latency by starting one request before the previous one has been finished in
the driver.

Request handling is somewhat modernized by requesting sg pieces of a request
and handling them separately, finishing off the entire request after all the
pieces are done.

When a request queue stalls, normally because its pipe to the I/O thread is
full, it is put on the restart list. This list is processed by starting up
the queues on it whenever there is some indication that progress might be
possible again. Currently, this happens in the driver interrupt routine.
Some requests have been finished, so there is likely to be room in the pipe
again.

This almost doubles throughput when copying data between devices, but made no
noticable difference on anything else I tried.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: start fixing os_read_file and os_write_file

This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code. This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into r

uml: start fixing os_read_file and os_write_file

This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code. This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on
the host. If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will
return -EFAULT.

To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the
system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of
a byte to each page. This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt
mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace
addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel.

In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it
is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the
kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical
address, which would be valid. Here, it appears that this code, on every host
read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page. This doesn't seem
to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact. This
patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel
build.

This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log
in. Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on
this somehow.

However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using
kernel addresses to using plain read() and write(). This patch introduces
os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts
all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them. These
include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or
kmalloc-ed. Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a
mass conversion back to the original interface.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: drivers get release methods

Define release methods for the ubd and net drivers. They contain as much of
the remove methods as make sense. All error checking must have already been

uml: drivers get release methods

Define release methods for the ubd and net drivers. They contain as much of
the remove methods as make sense. All error checking must have already been
done as well as anything else that might be holding a reference on the device
kobject.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: remove user_util.h

user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade'

uml: remove user_util.h

user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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uml: handle block device hotplug errors

If a disk fails to open, i.e. its host file doesn't exist, it won't be
removable because the hot-unplug code checks the existence of its gendisk.

uml: handle block device hotplug errors

If a disk fails to open, i.e. its host file doesn't exist, it won't be
removable because the hot-unplug code checks the existence of its gendisk.
This won't exist because it is only allocated for successfully opened disks.
Thus, a typo on the command line can result in a unusable and unfixable disk.

This is fixed by freeing the gendisk if it's there, but not letting that
affect the removal.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] uml: fix I/O hang when multiple devices are in use

Commit 62f96cb01e8de7a5daee472e540f726db2801499 introduced per-devices
queues and locks, which was fine as far as it went, but

[PATCH] uml: fix I/O hang when multiple devices are in use

Commit 62f96cb01e8de7a5daee472e540f726db2801499 introduced per-devices
queues and locks, which was fine as far as it went, but left in place a
global which controlled access to submitting requests to the host. This
should have been made per-device as well, since it causes I/O hangs when
multiple block devices are in use.

This patch fixes that by replacing the global with an activity flag in the
device structure in order to tell whether the queue is currently being run.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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