BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c, branch dev-4.3

block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely

2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00

As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios, it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely. Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Alex Elder Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Acked-by: NeilBrown (for the 'md' bits) Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet [dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park Signed-off-by: Ming Lin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-08-13T18:31:33+00:00

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page()) checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create bios that don't need to be split. But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the (potentially multiple) devices underneath them. In the future this will let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code. We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing affecting segment merging. Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are: * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c) * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c) * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c) * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c) * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c) * loop_make_request * null_queue_bio * bcache's make_request fns Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left for future patches. Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Jim Paris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Andreas Dilger Acked-by: NeilBrown (for the 'md/md.c' bits) Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet [dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park Signed-off-by: Ming Lin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup; unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h makes cyclic include dependency quite likely. This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it. c files which need access to more backing-dev details now include backing-dev.h directly. This takes backing-dev.h off the common include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block and cgroup. v2: fs/fat build failure fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

2014-08-28T16:03:46+00:00

The blk_get_request function may fail in low-memory conditions or during device removal (even if __GFP_WAIT is set). To distinguish between these errors, modify the blk_get_request call stack to return the appropriate ERR_PTR. Verify that all callers check the return status and consider IS_ERR instead of a simple NULL pointer check. For consistency, make a similar change to the blk_mq_alloc_request leg of blk_get_request. It may fail if the queue is dead, or the caller was unwilling to wait. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Acked-by: Jiri Kosina [for pktdvd] Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh [for osd] Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block,scsi: verify return pointer from blk_get_request

2014-08-26T21:20:23+00:00

The blk-core dead queue checks introduce an error scenario to blk_get_request that returns NULL if the request queue has been shutdown. This affects the behavior for __GFP_WAIT callers, who should verify the return value before dereferencing. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Acked-by: Jiri Kosina [for pktdvd] Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add blk_rq_set_block_pc()

2014-06-06T13:57:37+00:00

With the optimizations around not clearing the full request at alloc time, we are leaving some of the needed init for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC up to the user allocating the request. Add a blk_rq_set_block_pc() that sets the command type to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC, and properly initializes the members associated with this type of request. Update callers to use this function instead of manipulating rq->cmd_type directly. Includes fixes from Christoph Hellwig for my half-assed attempt. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

sched, treewide: Replace hardcoded nice values with MIN_NICE/MAX_NICE

2014-04-18T10:07:24+00:00

Replace various -20/+19 hardcoded nice values with MIN_NICE/MAX_NICE. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff13819fd09b7a5dba5ab5ae797f2e7019bdfa17.1394532288.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org [ Consolidated the patches, twiddled the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

pktcdvd: fix error return code

2014-01-03T09:05:34+00:00

Set the return variable to an error code as done elsewhere in the function. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // ( if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\)) { ... return ret; } | ret@p1 = 0 ) ... when != ret = e1 when != &ret *if(...) { ... when != ret = e2 when forall return ret; } // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

block: Introduce new bio_split()

2013-11-24T06:33:57+00:00

The new bio_split() can split arbitrary bios - it's not restricted to single page bios, like the old bio_split() (previously renamed to bio_pair_split()). It also has different semantics - it doesn't allocate a struct bio_pair, leaving it up to the caller to handle completions. Then convert the existing bio_pair_split() users to the new bio_split() - and also nvme, which was open coding bio splitting. (We have to take that BUG_ON() out of bio_integrity_trim() because this bio_split() needs to use it, and there's no reason it has to be used on bios marked as cloned; BIO_CLONED doesn't seem to have clearly documented semantics anyways.) Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Vishal Verma Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Neil Brown