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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-19 10:47:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-19 10:47:07 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs." block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags block: improve rq_affinity placement blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH xen/blkback: Make description more obvious. cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse bsg-lib: add module.h include cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index ...
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diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 717d6e4e18d3..6f07ec1c2f58 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -256,6 +256,21 @@ config BLK_DEV_LOOP
Most users will answer N here.
+config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
+ int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
+ depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
+ default 8
+ help
+ Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
+ at init time.
+
+ This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
+ line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
+
+ The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
+ is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
+ dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
+
config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
select CRYPTO
@@ -471,7 +486,7 @@ config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
in another domain which drives the actual block device.
config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
- tristate "Block-device backend driver"
+ tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
depends on XEN_BACKEND
help
The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its