2010-11-10 13:42:33

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 09:07:26PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Thanks Christoph, applied for 2.6.37 (but with a few days of brewing).

So, what's the plan? I'd really hate to see 2.6.37 getting released
with those stale barrier bits left in.


2010-11-10 13:59:35

by Jens Axboe

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER

On 2010-11-10 14:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 09:07:26PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Thanks Christoph, applied for 2.6.37 (but with a few days of brewing).
>
> So, what's the plan? I'd really hate to see 2.6.37 getting released
> with those stale barrier bits left in.

It's queued up, I'll be pushing this out this week:

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus

Christoph Hellwig (1):
block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER

Daniel J Blueman (1):
ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference

Jens Axboe (7):
Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.drbd.org/linux-2.6-drbd into for-2.6.37/drivers
block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/drivers' into for-linus

Lars Ellenberg (6):
drbd: consolidate explicit drbd_md_sync into drbd_create_new_uuid
drbd: tag a few error messages with "assert failed"
drbd: fix potential deadlock on detach
drbd: fix potential data divergence after multiple failures
drbd: fix a misleading printk
drbd: rate limit an error message

Mike Snitzer (1):
block: read i_size with i_size_read()

Philipp Reisner (4):
drbd: Silenced an assert
drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs

Sergey Senozhatsky (1):
ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)

Stephen M. Cameron (5):
cciss: fix board status waiting code
cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa

Vasiliy Kulikov (1):
block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland

block/blk-core.c | 11 +--
block/blk-map.c | 2 +
block/compat_ioctl.c | 4 +-
block/elevator.c | 4 +-
block/ioctl.c | 7 +-
block/scsi_ioctl.c | 34 ++++--
drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 3 -
drivers/block/cciss.c | 131 ++++++++++------------
drivers/block/cciss.h | 4 +
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c | 42 ++++---
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 52 ++++-----
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 148 ++++++++++++++-----------
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 25 +++-
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_proc.c | 1 -
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 217 ++++++------------------------------
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 38 +++----
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c | 23 +----
drivers/block/loop.c | 6 -
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 2 -
drivers/md/md.c | 20 ++--
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 18 +--
drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 5 +-
fs/bio.c | 23 ++++-
fs/ioprio.c | 18 +++-
include/linux/bio.h | 4 -
include/linux/blk_types.h | 6 +-
include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 +-
include/linux/drbd.h | 2 +-
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 -
29 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 497 deletions(-)

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Jens Axboe