kernel/linux.git/Documentation/block/writeback_cache_control.rst, branch v6.18.21

block: fix spelling and grammar for in writeback_cache_control.rst

2024-06-20T12:53:14+00:00

Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619154623.450048-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: move cache control settings out of queue->flags

2024-06-19T13:58:28+00:00

Move the cache control settings into the queue_limits so that the flags can be set atomically with the device queue frozen. Add new features and flags field for the driver set flags, and internal (usually sysfs-controlled) flags in the block layer. Note that we'll eventually remove enough field from queue_limits to bring it back to the previous size. The disable flag is inverted compared to the previous meaning, which means it now survives a rescan, similar to the max_sectors and max_discard_sectors user limits. The FLUSH and FUA flags are now inherited by blk_stack_limits, which simplified the code in dm a lot, but also causes a slight behavior change in that dm-switch and dm-unstripe now advertise a write cache despite setting num_flush_bios to 0. The I/O path will handle this gracefully, but as far as I can tell the lack of num_flush_bios and thus flush support is a pre-existing data integrity bug in those targets that really needs fixing, after which a non-zero num_flush_bios should be required in dm for targets that map to underlying devices. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Ulf Hansson Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617060532.127975-14-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations

2020-07-01T13:27:24+00:00

The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in struct request_queue instead of an operation vector. Replace it with a block_device_operations method called submit_bio (which describes much better what it does). Also remove the request_queue argument to it, as the queue can be derived pretty trivially from the bio. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

docs: block: convert to ReST

2019-07-15T12:20:27+00:00

Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab