Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.
This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.
(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.
(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.
(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.
(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.
(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fix lot of BE <-> LE bugs which prevent it from working on SPARC.
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove new configuration API from i2o_config
The API-patch is still available from the I2O website (which is mentioned in
the kernel config now). It is removed because it creates a new binary
sysfs-attribute, which doesn't have the limitiation of 4k. Expect for the
Adaptec controllers, which has a limitation in the hardware this attribute
doesn't make sense anywhere else. Until the sysfs API provides an attribute
which doesn't buffer (like firmware) and let access to at least 64k blocks i
provide a separate patch...
(akpm: basically, this API was introduced post-2.6.12 and Markus wants to pull
it out before 2.6.13).
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Lindent run and replaced printk() through the corresponding osm_*() function
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Changes:
- Provide SG_IO access to BLOCK and EXECUTIVE class on Adaptec
controllers
- Use PRIVATE messages in SCSI-OSM because on some controllers normal
SCSI class commands like READ or READ CAPACITY cause errors
- Use new DMA and SG list creation function
- Added workaround to limit sectors per request for Adaptec 2400A
controllers
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Changes:
- Added Bus-OSM which could be used by user space programs to reset a
channel on the controller
- Make ioctl's in Config-OSM obsolete in prefer for sysfs attributes and
move those to its own file
- Added sysfs attribute for firmware read and write access for I2O
controllers
- Added special handling of firmware read and write access for Adaptec
controllers
- Added vendor id and product id as sysfs-attribute to Executive classes
- Added automatic notification of LCT change handling to Exec-OSM
- Added flushing function to Block-OSM for later barrier implementation
- Use PRIVATE messages for Block access on Adaptec controllers, which are
faster then BLOCK class access
- Cleaned up support for Promise controller
- New messages are now detected using the IRQ status register as
suggested by the I2O spec
- Added i2o_dma_high() and i2o_dma_low() functions
- Added facility for SG tablesize calculation when using 32-bit and
64-bit DMA addresses
- Added i2o_dma_map_single() and i2o_dma_map_sg() which could build the
SG list for 32-bit as well as 64-bit DMA addresses
Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
David Howells
Markus Lidel
Linus Torvalds