[PATCH] uml: locking fixes in the ubd driver

Some small locking and formatting fixes in the ubd driver.

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

[PATCH] uml: locking fixes in the ubd driver

Some small locking and formatting fixes in the ubd driver.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.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: add per-device queues and locks to ubd driver

Replace global queue and lock with per-device queues and locks. Mostly a
straightforward replacement of ubd_io_lock with dev->

[PATCH] uml: add per-device queues and locks to ubd driver

Replace global queue and lock with per-device queues and locks. Mostly a
straightforward replacement of ubd_io_lock with dev->lock and ubd_queue with
dev->queue.

Complications -
There was no way to get a request struct (and queue) from the
structure sent to the io_thread, so a pointer to the request was
added. This is needed in ubd_handler in order to kick do_ubd_request
to process another request.
Queue initialization is moved from ubd_init to ubd_add.

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

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[PATCH] uml: mconsole locking

Locking fixes. Locking was totally lacking for the mconsole_devices, which
got a spin lock, and the unplugged pages data, which got a mutex.

The l

[PATCH] uml: mconsole locking

Locking fixes. Locking was totally lacking for the mconsole_devices, which
got a spin lock, and the unplugged pages data, which got a mutex.

The locking of the mconsole console output code was confused. Now, the
console_lock (renamed to client_lock) protects the clients list.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.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: return hotplug errors to host

I noticed that errors happening while hotplugging devices from the host were
never returned back to the mconsole client. In some cases, succes

[PATCH] uml: return hotplug errors to host

I noticed that errors happening while hotplugging devices from the host were
never returned back to the mconsole client. In some cases, success was
returned instead of even an information-free error.

This patch cleans that up by having the low-level configuration code pass back
an error string along with an error code. At the top level, which knows
whether it is early boot time or responding to an mconsole request, the string
is printk'd or returned to the mconsole client.

There are also whitespace and trivial code cleanups in the surrounding code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.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 ubd driver: various little changes

Fix a small memory leak in ubd_config, and clearify the confusion which lead
to it.

Then, some little changes not affecting operat

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: various little changes

Fix a small memory leak in ubd_config, and clearify the confusion which lead
to it.

Then, some little changes not affecting operations -
* move init functions together,
* add a comment about a potential problem in case of some evolution in the block layer,
* mark all initcalls as static __init functions
* mark an used once little function as inline
* document that mconsole methods are all called in process context (was
triggered when checking ubd mconsole methods).

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: do not store error codes as ->fd

To simplify error handling, make sure fd is saved into ubd_dev->fd only when
we are sure it is an fd and not an error code.

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: do not store error codes as ->fd

To simplify error handling, make sure fd is saved into ubd_dev->fd only when
we are sure it is an fd and not an error code.

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: use bitfields where possible

Use bitfields for boolean fields in ubd data structure.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: use bitfields where possible

Use bitfields for boolean fields in ubd data structure.

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: reformat ubd_config

Pure whitespace and style fixes split out from subsequent patch. Some changes
(err -> ret) don't make sense now, only later, but I split them

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: reformat ubd_config

Pure whitespace and style fixes split out from subsequent patch. Some changes
(err -> ret) don't make sense now, only later, but I split them out anyway
since they cluttered the patch.

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: convert do_ubd to a boolean variable

do_ubd is actually just a boolean variable - the way it is used currently is a
leftover from the old 2.4 block layer, but it

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: convert do_ubd to a boolean variable

do_ubd is actually just a boolean variable - the way it is used currently is a
leftover from the old 2.4 block layer, but it is still used; its use is
suspicious, but removing it would be too intrusive for now and needs more
thinking.

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup

Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.

When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e. another thr

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup

Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.

When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e. another thread on the host,
which does the actual requests and is the only one blocked on I/O on the host)
has done some work, we call again the request function ourselves
(do_ubd_request).

We now do that with ubd_io_lock held - that's useful to protect against
concurrent calls to elv_next_request and so on.

XXX: Maybe we shouldn't call at all the request function. Input needed on
this. Are we supposed to plug and unplug the queue? That code "indirectly"
does that by setting a flag, called do_ubd, which makes the request function
return (it's a residual of 2.4 block layer interface).

Meanwhile, however, merge this patch, which improves things.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: change ubd_lock to be a mutex

This lock protects ubd setup and teardown, so is only used in process context;
beyond that, during such setup memory allocations mus

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: change ubd_lock to be a mutex

This lock protects ubd setup and teardown, so is only used in process context;
beyond that, during such setup memory allocations must be performed and some
generic functions which can sleep must be called (such as add_disk()). So the
only correct solution is to make it a mutex instead of a spin_lock. No other
change is done - this lock must be acquired in different places but it's done
afterwards.

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: give better names to some functions.

To rethink locking, I needed to understand well what each function does.
While doing this I renamed some:

* ubd_clos

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: give better names to some functions.

To rethink locking, I needed to understand well what each function does.
While doing this I renamed some:

* ubd_close -> ubd_close_dev (since it pairs with ubd_open_dev)

* ubd_new_disk -> ubd_disk_register (it handles registration with the block
layer - one hopes this makes clearer the difference with ubd_add())

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: var renames

Rename the ubd_dev array to ubd_devs and then call any "struct ubd" ubd_dev
instead of dev, which doesn't make clear what we're treating (and no, it's

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: var renames

Rename the ubd_dev array to ubd_devs and then call any "struct ubd" ubd_dev
instead of dev, which doesn't make clear what we're treating (and no, it's not
hungarian notation - not any more than calling all vm_area_struct vma or all
inodes inode).

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: document some struct fields

Add documentation about some fields in struct ubd, whose meaning is
non-obvious due to struct names (should change names altogether, I

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: document some struct fields

Add documentation about some fields in struct ubd, whose meaning is
non-obvious due to struct names (should change names altogether, I agree).

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

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[PATCH] uml ubd driver: allow using up to 16 UBD devices

With 256 minors and 16 minors used per each UBD device, we can allow the use
of up to 16 UBD devices per UML.

Also chnag

[PATCH] uml ubd driver: allow using up to 16 UBD devices

With 256 minors and 16 minors used per each UBD device, we can allow the use
of up to 16 UBD devices per UML.

Also chnage parse_unit and leave to the caller (which already do it) the check
for excess numbers, since this is just supposed to do raw parsing.

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

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[PATCH] uml pt_regs fixes

Real fix for UML pt_regs stuff. Note set_irq_regs() logics in there...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml pt_regs fixes

Real fix for UML pt_regs stuff. Note set_irq_regs() logics in there...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

[PATCH] Remove ->rq_status from struct request

After Christophs SCSI change, the only usage left is RQ_ACTIVE
and RQ_INACTIVE. The block layer sets RQ_INACTIVE right before freeing
t

[PATCH] Remove ->rq_status from struct request

After Christophs SCSI change, the only usage left is RQ_ACTIVE
and RQ_INACTIVE. The block layer sets RQ_INACTIVE right before freeing
the request, so any check for RQ_INACTIVE in a driver is a bug and
indicates use-after-free.

So kill/clean the remaining users, straight forward.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

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[PATCH] uml: close file descriptor leaks

Close two file descriptor leaks, one in the ubd driver and one to
/proc/mounts. The ubd driver bug also leaked some vmalloc space. The
/pro

[PATCH] uml: close file descriptor leaks

Close two file descriptor leaks, one in the ubd driver and one to
/proc/mounts. The ubd driver bug also leaked some vmalloc space. The
/proc/mounts leak was a descriptor that was just never closed.

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

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[PATCH] uml: remove unused variable

The dedevfsification of UML left an unused variable behind.

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

[PATCH] uml: remove unused variable

The dedevfsification of UML left an unused variable behind.

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

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[PATCH] irq-flags: UM: Use the new IRQF_ constants

Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Mo

[PATCH] irq-flags: UM: Use the new IRQF_ constants

Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
[PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the fe

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
[PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
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[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

And remove the now unneeded number field.
Also fixes all drivers that set these fields.

Signed-off-by

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

And remove the now unneeded number field.
Also fixes all drivers that set these fields.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree

Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree

Removes the devfs_mk_symlink() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.

[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree

Removes the devfs_mk_symlink() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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