kernel/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c, branch linux-6.2.y

powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver

2018-01-28T06:00:36Z

The QS21/22 IBM Cell blades had a southbridge chip called Axon. This could have DDR DIMMs attached to it, though they were not directly usable as RAM, instead they could be used as some sort of buffer, if applications were written specifically to use the block device provided by the driver. Although the driver supposedly had direct access support, it was apparently never tested (see commit 91117a20245b ("axonram: Fix bug in direct_access")). These machines have not been available for over 5 years, and were never widely in use. It seems highly unlikely anyone is using this driver. In general we're happy to leave old drivers in the tree, but because DAX is involved this driver is caught up in the ongoing work in that area, but none of the DAX folks are able to test it. So remove the driver, if any one *is* using it, we'll be happy to put it back. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Use octal numbers for file permissions

2018-01-21T18:48:33Z

Symbolic macros are unintuitive and hard to read, whereas octal constants are much easier to interpret. Replace macros for the basic permission flags (user/group/other read/write/execute) with numeric constants instead, across the whole powerpc tree. Introducing a significant number of changes across the tree for no runtime benefit isn't exactly desirable, but so long as these macros are still used in the tree people will keep sending patches that add them. Not only are they hard to parse at a glance, there are multiple ways of coming to the same value (as you can see with 0444 and 0644 in this patch) which hurts readability. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey Reviewed-by: Cyril Bur Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/axonram: Drop unnecessary variable initialisation

2017-10-22T10:08:31Z

The local variable "rc" will eventually be set only to an error code. Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-09-07T18:59:42Z

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after the churn of the last few series. This contains: - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov. - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960. - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects. - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart. - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo. - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle. - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan. - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and device remova. From David Jeffery. - A few nbd fixes from Josef. - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua. - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it to actually hold data, among other things. - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang. - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big machines. - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code. - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch fall through case complaints" * 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits) kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array() drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper" drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence. drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code. drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2 drbd: mark symbols static where possible drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null) drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug ...

axonram: Return directly after a failed kzalloc() in axon_ram_probe()

2017-09-01T06:42:56Z

* Return directly after a call of the function "kzalloc" failed at the beginning. * Delete a repeated check for the local variable "bank" which became unnecessary with this refactoring. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

axonram: Improve a size determination in axon_ram_probe()

2017-09-01T06:42:56Z

Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

axonram: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in axon_ram_probe()

2017-09-01T06:42:55Z

Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index

2017-08-23T18:49:55Z

This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code). For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists once per block device. But given that the block layer also does partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is used for said remapping in generic_make_request. Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all over the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

powerpc: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name

2017-08-23T12:27:04Z

Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing of the full path string for each node. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Anatolij Gustschin Cc: Scott Wood Cc: Kumar Gala Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

dax: remove default copy_from_iter fallback

2017-06-27T23:44:27Z

Require all dax-drivers to register a ->copy_from_iter() operation so that it is clear which dax_operations are optional and which must be implemented for filesystem-dax to operate. Cc: Gerald Schaefer Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dan Williams