kernel_optimize_test/drivers/block
Linus Torvalds 84621c9b18 Features:
- FIFO event channels. Key advantages: support for over 100,000 events (2^17),
    16 different event priorities, improved fairness in event latency through
    the use of FIFOs.
  - Xen PVH support. "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with paravirtualized
    disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and timers, no emulated devices
    of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS or legacy boot — but instead of
    requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM hardware extensions to virtualize the
    pagetables, as well as system calls and other privileged operations."
    (from "The Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")
 Bug-fixes:
  - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
  - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
  - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
  - Refactors in event channels.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
2014-01-22 22:00:18 -08:00
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aoe aoe: do not BUG if memory pressure prevented debugfs file creation 2013-09-11 15:59:28 -07:00
drbd drbd: avoid to shrink max_bio_size due to peer re-configuration 2013-11-08 09:10:29 -07:00
mtip32xx mtip32xx: dynamically allocate buffer in debugfs functions 2013-11-08 09:10:28 -07:00
paride block_device_operations->release() should return void 2013-05-07 02:16:21 -04:00
rsxx rsxx: Fix possible kernel panic with invalid config. 2013-11-08 09:10:29 -07:00
xen-blkback xen/blkback: fix reference counting 2013-11-08 09:10:27 -07:00
amiflop.c tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
ataflop.c block_device_operations->release() should return void 2013-05-07 02:16:21 -04:00
brd.c block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region 2013-11-08 08:59:39 -07:00
cciss_cmd.h
cciss_scsi.c cciss: switch to ->show_info() 2013-04-09 14:13:19 -04:00
cciss_scsi.h
cciss.c tree-wide: use reinit_completion instead of INIT_COMPLETION 2013-11-15 09:32:21 +09:00
cciss.h
cpqarray.c cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl() 2013-09-24 17:00:26 -07:00
cpqarray.h
cryptoloop.c move linux/loop.h to drivers/block 2013-06-29 12:46:45 +04:00
DAC960.c procfs: new helper - PDE_DATA(inode) 2013-04-09 14:13:32 -04:00
DAC960.h
floppy.c block: make rq->cmd_flags be 64-bit 2013-10-25 11:55:59 +01:00
hd.c
ida_cmd.h
ida_ioctl.h
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-3.13/post-mq-drivers' into for-linus 2013-11-14 08:29:01 -07:00
loop.c loop: fix crash when using unassigned loop device 2013-11-08 09:10:28 -07:00
loop.h move linux/loop.h to drivers/block 2013-06-29 12:46:45 +04:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2013-12-19 15:08:32 +01:00
mg_disk.c mg_disk: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-11-08 09:10:27 -07:00
nbd.c nbd: correct disconnect behavior 2013-07-03 16:08:05 -07:00
null_blk.c block: null_blk: fix queue leak inside removing device 2014-01-12 16:22:42 +07:00
nvme-core.c DMA-API: block: nvme-core: replace dma_set_mask()+dma_set_coherent_mask() with new helper 2013-09-21 21:02:24 +01:00
nvme-scsi.c NVMe: Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc+memset 2013-06-19 13:24:27 -04:00
osdblk.c block: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:56:56 -07:00
pktcdvd.c pktcdvd: debugfs functions return NULL on error 2013-11-08 09:10:31 -07:00
ps3disk.c Drivers: block: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:15 -08:00
ps3vram.c procfs: new helper - PDE_DATA(inode) 2013-04-09 14:13:32 -04:00
rbd_types.h rbd: get rid of RBD_MAX_SEG_NAME_LEN 2012-12-17 08:37:29 -06:00
rbd.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2013-09-19 12:50:37 -05:00
skd_main.c drivers: block: Mark the functions as static in skd_main.c 2013-12-19 08:06:49 -07:00
skd_s1120.h skd: fix formatting in skd_s1120.h 2013-11-08 09:10:30 -07:00
smart1,2.h
sunvdc.c sunvdc: Fix off-by-one in generic_request(). 2013-02-14 11:49:01 -08:00
swim3.c block_device_operations->release() should return void 2013-05-07 02:16:21 -04:00
swim_asm.S
swim.c drivers/block/swim.c: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata() 2013-09-11 15:56:59 -07:00
sx8.c
umem.c Drivers: block: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:15 -08:00
umem.h
virtio_blk.c virtio-blk: virtqueue_kick() must be ordered with other virtqueue operations 2013-11-19 19:00:45 -07:00
xen-blkfront.c xen/pvhvm: If xen_platform_pci=0 is set don't blow up (v4). 2014-01-03 14:54:18 -05:00
xsysace.c xilinx systemace: Fix sparse warnings 2013-07-10 07:47:12 +02:00
z2ram.c block/z2ram: Remove duplicate external declarations 2013-11-26 11:09:10 +01:00