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2009-06-24osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objectsJeff Garzik
Submitted driver exports a block device of the form /dev/osdblkX, where X is a decimal number. It does that by mounting a stacking block device on top of an osd object. For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device, you can then use this module to present that 2G object as a Linux block device. See inside patch for exact documentation. [Sitting at linux-next helped fix proper Kconfig dependency for this driver, thanks to Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-04-07mflash: initial supportunsik Kim
This driver supports mflash IO mode for linux. Mflash is embedded flash drive and mainly targeted mobile and consumer electronic devices. Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports 2 different operation (ATA, IO) modes. ATA mode doesn't need any new driver and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's one chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have IDE interface. Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode. A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm, write confirm) B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface. C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash. This driver is quitely similar to a standard ATA driver, but because of following reasons it is currently seperated with ATA layer. 1. ATA layer deals standard ATA protocol. ATA layer have many low- level device specific interface, but data transfer keeps ATA rule. But, mflash IO mode doesn't. 2. Even though currently not used in mflash driver code, mflash has some custom command and modes. (nand fusing, firmware patch, etc) If this feature supported in linux kernel, ATA layer more altered. 3. Currently PATA platform device driver doesn't support interrupt. (I'm not sure) But, mflash uses interrupt (polling mode is just for debug). 4. mflash is somewhat under-develop product. Even though some company already using mflash their own product, I think more time is needed for standardization of custom command and mode. That time (maybe October) I will talk to with ATA people. If they accept integration, I will integrate. Signed-off-by: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-26m68k: mac - Add SWIM floppy supportLaurent Vivier
It allows to read data from a floppy, but not to write to, and to eject the floppy (useful on our Mac without eject button). Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2009-03-13ps3/block: Replace mtd/ps3vram by block/ps3vramGeert Uytterhoeven
Convert the PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver from an MTD driver to a plain block device driver. The ps3vram driver exposes unused video RAM on the PS3 as a block device suitable for storage or swap. Fast data transfer is achieved using a local cache in system RAM and DMA transfers via the GPU. The new driver is ca. 50% faster for reading, and ca. 10% for writing. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-16move ide/legacy/hd.c to drivers/block/Adrian Bunk
This patch moves hd.c to drivers/block/ Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-17The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to beingAdrian Bunk
no longer working for some time. A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-08rewrite rdNick Piggin
This is a rewrite of the ramdisk block device driver. The old one is really difficult because it effectively implements a block device which serves data out of its own buffer cache. It relies on the dirty bit being set, to pin its backing store in cache, however there are non trivial paths which can clear the dirty bit (eg. try_to_free_buffers()), which had recently lead to data corruption. And in general it is completely wrong for a block device driver to do this. The new one is more like a regular block device driver. It has no idea about vm/vfs stuff. It's backing store is similar to the buffer cache (a simple radix-tree of pages), but it doesn't know anything about page cache (the pages in the radix tree are not pagecache pages). There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice. However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the device is now reclaimable (because we're not playing crazy games with it), so under memory intensive situations, footprint should effectively be the same -- maybe even a slight advantage to the new driver because it can also reclaim buffer heads. The fact that it now goes through all the regular vm/fs paths makes it much more useful for testing, too. text data bss dec hex filename 2837 849 384 4070 fe6 drivers/block/rd.o 3528 371 12 3911 f47 drivers/block/brd.o Text is larger, but data and bss are smaller, making total size smaller. A few other nice things about it: - Similar structure and layout to the new loop device handlinag. - Dynamic ramdisk creation. - Runtime flexible buffer head size (because it is no longer part of the ramdisk code). - Boot / load time flexible ramdisk size, which could easily be extended to a per-ramdisk runtime changeable size (eg. with an ioctl). - Can use highmem for the backing store. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [byron.bbradley@gmail.com: make rd_size non-static] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23Remove old lguest bus and drivers.Rusty Russell
This gets rid of the lguest bus, drivers and DMA mechanism, to make way for a generic virtio mechanism. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23Block driver using virtio.Rusty Russell
The block driver uses scatter-gather lists with sg[0] being the request information (struct virtio_blk_outhdr) with the type, sector and inbuf id. The next N sg entries are the bio itself, then the last sg is the status byte. Whether the N entries are in or out depends on whether it's a read or a write. We accept the normal (SCSI) ioctls: they get handed through to the other side which can then handle it or reply that it's unsupported. It's not clear that this actually works in general, since I don't know if blk_pc_request() requests have an accurate rq_data_dir(). Although we try to reply -ENOTTY on unsupported commands, ioctl(fd, CDROMEJECT) returns success to userspace. This needs a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-29Make lguest compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n and CONFIG_NET=nRusty Russell
Gabriel C reports lguest doesn't compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n. Fix this by introducing a config var for the block device, which depends on LGUEST && BLOCK. Do the same for the net driver, rather then depending gratuitously on CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21ps3: Disk Storage DriverGeert Uytterhoeven
Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u) - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor doesn't support scatter-gather Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19lguest: the block driverRusty Russell
Lguest block driver A simple block driver for lguest. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18xen: add virtual block device driver.Jeremy Fitzhardinge
The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical block device driver. Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2007-07-17Add support for Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interfaceGrant Likely
Tested on Xilinx Virtex ppc405, Katmai 440SPe, and Microblaze Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: John William <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice more ACSI removal umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16more ACSI removalAdrian Bunk
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI removal. It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by commit c2bcf3b8978c291e1b7f6499475c8403a259d4d6: config ATARI_SLM tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support" - depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n + depends on ATARI Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16[SPARC64]: Add Sun LDOM virtual disk driver.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[PATCH] Remove acsi.cJens Axboe
Originally from Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> It hasn't been working in 2.5 or 2.6 ever, since it's still buffer_head based. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-13[PATCH] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driverAdrian Bunk
The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has: - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and - is still marked as BROKEN. Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24[PATCH] block: floppy98 removal, really.Arthur Othieno
floppy98 went out together with the rest of PC98 subarch. Remove stale Makefile entry that remained. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-04[BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directoryJens Axboe
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/ related block parts to block/ next. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!