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2006-06-26[PATCH] md: Change md/bitmap file handling to use bmap to file blocks-fixNeilBrown
Fix problems with new bmap based access to bitmap files. 1/ When not using a file based bitmap, attach a NULL list of buffers to each page so the common free_buffer routine can cope. 2/ Use submit_bh to read as well as write, rather than vfs_read. This makes read and write more symetric. 3/ sync the file before reading, to ensure that the page cache has no dirty pages that might get written out later. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: change md/bitmap file handling to use bmap to file blocksNeilBrown
If md is asked to store a bitmap in a file, it tries to hold onto the page cache pages for that file, manipulate them directly, and call a cocktail of operations to write the file out. I don't believe this is a supportable approach. This patch changes the approach to use the same approach as swap files. i.e. bmap is used to enumerate all the block address of parts of the file and we write directly to those blocks of the device. swapfile only uses parts of the file that provide a full pages at contiguous addresses. We don't have that luxury so we have to cope with pages that are non-contiguous in storage. To handle this we attach buffers to each page, and store the addresses in those buffers. With this approach the pagecache may contain data which is inconsistent with what is on disk. To alleviate the problems this can cause, md invalidates the pagecache when releasing the file. If the file is to be examined while the array is active (a non-critical but occasionally useful function), O_DIRECT io must be used. And new version of mdadm will have support for this. This approach simplifies a lot of code: - we no longer need to keep a list of pages which we need to wait for, as the b_endio function can keep track of how many outstanding writes there are. This saves a mempool. - -EAGAIN returns from write_page are no longer possible (not sure if they ever were actually). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: tidy up i_writecount handling in md/bitmapNeilBrown
md/bitmap modifies i_writecount of a bitmap file to make sure that no-one else writes to it. The reverting of the change is sometimes done twice, and there is one error path where it is omitted. This patch tidies that up. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: remove dead code from md/bitmapNeilBrown
bitmap_active is never called, and the BITMAP_ACTIVE flag is never users or tested, so discard them both. Also remove some out-of-date 'todo' comments. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: remove unnecessary page reference manipulations from ↵NeilBrown
md/bitmap code md/bitmap gets a collection of pages representing the bitmap when it initialises the bitmap, and puts all the references when discarding the bitmap. It also occasionally takes extra references without any good reason, and sometimes drops them ... though it doesn't always drop them, which can result in a memory leak. This patch removes the unnecessary 'get_page' calls, and the corresponding 'put_page' calls. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: use set_bit etc for bitmap page attributesNeilBrown
In particular, this means that we use 4 bits per page instead of a whole unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: cleaner separation of page attribute handlers in md/bitmapNeilBrown
md/bitmap has some attributes per-page. Handling of these attributes in largely abstracted in set_page_attr and clear_page_attr. However get_page_attr exposes the format used to store them. So prior to changing that format, introduce test_page_attr instead of get_page_attr, and make appropriate usage changes. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: remove bitmap writeback daemonNeilBrown
md/bitmap currently has a separate thread to wait for writes to the bitmap file to complete (as we cannot get a callback on that action). However this isn't needed as bitmap_unplug is called from process context and waits for the writeback thread to do it's work. The same result can be achieved by doing the waiting directly in bitmap_unplug. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md/bitmap: fix online removal of file-backed bitmapsNeilBrown
When "mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --bitmap=none" is used to remove a filebacked bitmap, the bitmap was disconnected from the array, but the file wasn't closed (until the array was stopped). The file also wasn't closed if adding the bitmap file failed. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: split reshape portion of raid5 sync_request into a separate functionNeilBrown
... as raid5 sync_request is WAY too big. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: make md_print_devices() staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global md_print_devices() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: support stripe/offset mode in raid10NeilBrown
The "industry standard" DDF format allows for a stripe/offset layout where data is duplicated on different stripes. e.g. A B C D D A B C E F G H H E F G (columns are drives, rows are stripes, LETTERS are chunks of data). This is similar to raid10's 'far' mode, but not quite the same. So enhance 'far' mode with a 'far/offset' option which follows the layout of DDFs stripe/offset. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: allow a linear array to have drives added while activeNeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: allow checkpoint of recovery with version-1 superblockNeilBrown
For a while we have had checkpointing of resync. The version-1 superblock allows recovery to be checkpointed as well, and this patch implements that. Due to early carelessness we need to add a feature flag to signal that the recovery_offset field is in use, otherwise older kernels would assume that a partially recovered array is in fact fully recovered. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: remove nuisance message at shutdownNeilBrown
At shutdown, we switch all arrays to read-only, which creates a message for every instantiated array, even those which aren't actually active. So remove the message for non-active arrays. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: merge raid5 and raid6 codeNeilBrown
There is a lot of commonality between raid5.c and raid6main.c. This patches merges both into one module called raid456. This saves a lot of code, and paves the way for online raid5->raid6 migrations. There is still duplication, e.g. between handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6. This will probably be cleaned up later. Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: increase the delay before marking metadata clean, and make it ↵NeilBrown
configurable When a md array has been idle (no writes) for 20msecs it is marked as 'clean'. This delay turns out to be too short for some real workloads. So increase it to 200msec (the time to update the metadata should be a tiny fraction of that) and make it sysfs-configurable. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: remove useless ioctl warningNeilBrown
This warning was slightly useful back in 2.2 days, but is more an annoyance now. It makes it awkward to add new ioctls (that we we are likely to do that in the current climate, but it is possible). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: remove arbitrary limit on chunk sizeNeilBrown
The largest chunk size the code can support without substantial surgery is 2^30 bytes, so make that the limit instead of an arbitrary 4Meg. Some day, the 'chunksize' should change to a sector-shift instead of a byte-count. Then no limit would be needed. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: reformat code in raid1_end_write_request to avoid gotoNeilBrown
A recent change made this goto unnecessary, so reformat the code to make it clearer what is happening. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: improve error message consistencyAlasdair G Kergon
Tidy device-mapper error messages to include context information automatically. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: prevent removal if openAlasdair G Kergon
If you misuse the device-mapper interface (or there's a bug in your userspace tools) it's possible to end up with 'unlinked' mapped devices that cannot be removed until you reboot (along with uninterruptible processes). This patch prevents you from removing a device that is still open. It introduces dm_lock_for_deletion() which is called when a device is about to be removed to ensure that nothing has it open and nothing further can open it. It uses a private open_count for this which also lets us remove one of the problematic bdget_disk() calls elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: create error tableDavid Teigland
Add a library function dm_create_error_table() to create a table that rejects any I/O sent to a device with EIO. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: add exportsAlasdair G Kergon
Move definitions of core device-mapper functions for manipulating mapped devices and their tables to <linux/device-mapper.h> advertising their availability for use elsewhere in the kernel. Protect the contents of device-mapper.h with ifdef __KERNEL__. And throw in a few formatting clean-ups and extra comments. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: consolidate creation functionsAlasdair G Kergon
Merge dm_create() and dm_create_with_minor() by introducing the special value DM_ANY_MINOR to request the allocation of the next available minor number. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm table split_args: handle no inputDavid Teigland
Return sense if dm_split_args is called with a NULL input parameter. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm kcopyd: error accumulation fixJonathan Brassow
kcopyd should accumulate errors - otherwise I/O failures may be ignored unintentionally. And invert 'success' (used in a future patch), using a more intuitive !(read_err || write_err). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm mirror log: sync_count fixAlasdair G Kergon
When a mirror is reduced in size, clear the part of the bitmap that is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm mirror log: bitset_size fixAlasdair G Kergon
Fix the 'sizeof' in the region log bitmap size calculation: it's uint32_t, not unsigned long - this breaks on some archs. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm mirror log: refactor contextAlasdair G Kergon
Refactor the code that creates the core and disk log contexts to avoid the repeated allocation of clean_bits introduced by the last patch. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm mirror log: sector size fixKevin Corry
On-disk logs for dm-mirror devices are currently hard-coded to use 512 byte hard-sector-sizes. This patch fixes dm-log so it will work with devices with non-512-byte hard-sector-sizes. To maintain full compatibility, instead of moving the clean-bits bitset to a bitset, and enlarges the disk-header buffer to encompass both the header and the bitset. The I/O routines for the bitset are removed, and the I/O routines for the disk-header now also read/write the bitset. Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm table: get_target: fix last indexMilan Broz
The table is indexed from 0, so an index equal to t->num_targets should be rejected. (There is no code in the current tree that would exercise this bug.) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: mirror sector offset fixNeil Brown
The device-mapper core does not perform any remapping of bios before passing them to the targets. If a particular mapping begins part-way into a device, targets obtain the sector relative to the start of the mapping by subtracting ti->begin. The dm-raid1 target didn't do this everywhere: this patch fixes it, taking care to subtract ti->begin exactly once for each bio. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: fix block device initialisationJeff Mahoney
In alloc_dev(), we register the device with the block layer and then continue to initialize the device. But register_disk() makes the device available to be opened before we have completed initialising it. This patch moves the final bits of the initialization above the disk registration. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: add module ref countingJeff Mahoney
The reference counting on dm-mod is zero if no mapped devices are open. This is incorrect, and can lead to an oops if the module is unloaded while mapped devices exist. This patch claims a reference to the module whenever a device is created, and drops it again when the device is freed. Devices must be removed before dm-mod is unloaded. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: fix mapped device ref countingJeff Mahoney
To avoid races, _minor_lock must be held while changing mapped device reference counts. There are a few paths where a mapped_device pointer is returned before a reference is taken. This patch fixes them. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: add DMF_FREEINGJeff Mahoney
There is a chicken and egg problem between the block layer and dm in which the gendisk associated with a mapping keeps a reference-less pointer to the mapped_device. This patch uses a new flag DMF_FREEING to indicate when the mapped_device is no longer valid. This is checked to prevent any attempt to open the device from succeeding while the device is being destroyed. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: change minor_lock to spinlockJeff Mahoney
While removing a device, another another thread might attempt to resurrect it. This patch replaces the _minor_lock mutex with a spinlock and uses atomic_dec_and_lock() to serialize reference counting in dm_put(). [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: move idr_pre_getJeff Mahoney
idr_pre_get() can sleep while allocating memory. The next patch will change _minor_lock into a spinlock, so this patch moves idr_pre_get() outside the lock in preparation. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm: fix idr minor allocationJeff Mahoney
One part of the system can attempt to use a mapped device before another has finished initialising it or while it is being freed. This patch introduces a place holder value, MINOR_ALLOCED, to mark the minor as allocated but in a state where it can't be used, such as mid-allocation or mid-free. At the end of the initialization, it replaces the place holder with the pointer to the mapped_device, making it available to the rest of the dm subsystem. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] lib: add idr_replaceJeff Mahoney
This patch adds idr_replace() to replace an existing pointer in a single operation. Device-mapper will use this to update the pointer it stored against a given id. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] dm snapshot: unify chunk_sizeAlasdair G Kergon
Persistent snapshots currently store a private copy of the chunk size. Userspace also supplies the chunk size when loading a snapshot. Ensure consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place instead of two. Currently the two sizes will differ if the chunk size supplied by userspace does not match the chunk size an existing snapshot actually uses. Amongst other problems, this causes an incorrect 'percentage full' to be reported. The patch ensures consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place, removing it from struct pstore. Some initialisation is delayed until the correct chunk_size is known. If read_header() discovers that the wrong chunk size was supplied, the 'area' buffer (which the header already got read into) is reinitialised to the correct size. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Make sticon support bindingAntonino A. Daplas
Do not mark sticon_startup() as __init Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Make promcon support bindingAntonino A. Daplas
Do not mark promcon_startup() and promcon_init_unimap() as __init Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Make newport_con support bindingAntonino A. Daplas
- move register ioremap from newport_startup() to newport_console_init() - fonts are freed multiple times, do it only once Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Make mdacon support bindingAntonino A. Daplas
Do not mark mdacon_startup __init. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Update documentationAntonino A. Daplas
Update Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt and Documentatin/console/console.txt to reflect the following changes: 1. sysfs attributes are relocated to /sys/class/vtconsole 2. feature is selectable in Kconfig 3. add sample scripts to fbcon.txt Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Do not create a device file for class device 'fbcon'Antonino A. Daplas
The class device "fbcon" does not need to be a device file. Do not create one by passing a major and minor number of zero to class_device_create()/destroy(). Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Make VT binding a Kconfig optionAntonino A. Daplas
To enable this feature, CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING must be set to 'y'. This feature will default to 'n' to minimize users accidentally corrupting their virtual terminals. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] VT binding: Add sysfs control to the VT layerAntonino A. Daplas
Add sysfs control to the VT layer. A new sysfs class, 'vtconsole', and class devices 'vtcon[n]' are added. Each class device file has the following attributes: /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon[n]/name - read-only attribute showing the name of the current backend /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon[n]/bind - read/write attribute where: 0 - backend is unbound/unbind backend from the VT layer 1 - backend is bound/bind backend to the VT layer In addition, if any of the consoles are in KD_GRAPHICS mode, binding and unbinding will not succeed. KD_GRAPHICS mode usually indicates that the underlying console hardware is used for other purposes other than displaying text (ie X). This feature should prevent binding/unbinding from interfering with a graphics application using the VT. [akpm@osdl.org: warning fixes] Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>