kernel/linux.git/drivers/block/loop.c, branch linux-4.13.y

Revert "loop: support 4k physical blocksize"

2017-08-23T21:57:55+00:00

There's some stuff still up in the air, let's not get stuck with a subpar ABI. I'll follow up with something better for 4.14. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-07-05T21:35:57+00:00

Pull read/write updates from Al Viro: "Christoph's fs/read_write.c series - consolidation and cleanups" * 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: nfsd: remove nfsd_vfs_read nfsd: use vfs_iter_read/write fs: implement vfs_iter_write using do_iter_write fs: implement vfs_iter_read using do_iter_read fs: move more code into do_iter_read/do_iter_write fs: remove __do_readv_writev fs: remove do_compat_readv_writev fs: remove do_readv_writev

fs: implement vfs_iter_write using do_iter_write

2017-06-29T21:49:23+00:00

De-dupliate some code and allow for passing the flags argument to vfs_iter_write. Additionally it now properly updates timestamps. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: implement vfs_iter_read using do_iter_read

2017-06-29T21:49:23+00:00

De-dupliate some code and allow for passing the flags argument to vfs_iter_read. Additional it properly updates atime now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread.

2017-06-18T15:07:42+00:00

When a filesystem is mounted from a loop device, writes are throttled by balance_dirty_pages() twice: once when writing to the filesystem and once when the loop_handle_cmd() writes to the backing file. This double-throttling can trigger positive feedback loops that create significant delays. The throttling at the lower level is seen by the upper level as a slow device, so it throttles extra hard. The PF_LESS_THROTTLE flag was created to handle exactly this circumstance, though with an NFS filesystem mounted from a local NFS server. It reduces the throttling on the lower layer so that it can proceed largely unthrottled. To demonstrate this, create a filesystem on a loop device and write (e.g. with dd) several large files which combine to consume significantly more than the limit set by /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio or dirty_bytes. Measure the total time taken. When I do this directly on a device (no loop device) the total time for several runs (mkfs, mount, write 200 files, umount) is fairly stable: 28-35 seconds. When I do this over a loop device the times are much worse and less stable. 52-460 seconds. Half below 100seconds, half above. When I apply this patch, the times become stable again, though not as fast as the no-loop-back case: 53-72 seconds. There may be room for further improvement as the total overhead still seems too high, but this is a big improvement. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'v4.12-rc5' into for-4.13/block

2017-06-12T14:30:13+00:00

We've already got a few conflicts and upcoming work depends on some of the changes that have gone into mainline as regression fixes for this series. Pull in 4.12-rc5 to resolve these conflicts and make it easier on down stream trees to continue working on 4.13 changes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: switch ->queue_rq return value to blk_status_t

2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00

Use the same values for use for request completion errors as the return value from ->queue_rq. BLK_STS_RESOURCE is special cased to cause a requeue, and all the others are completed as-is. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: introduce new block status code type

2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00

Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings. This patch instead introduces a new blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific status codes and explicitly explains their meaning. Helpers to convert from and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later. For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging fruite to improve it. blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: fix error handling regression

2017-06-09T14:18:42+00:00

gcc points out an unusual indentation: drivers/block/loop.c: In function 'loop_set_status': drivers/block/loop.c:1149:3: error: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Werror=misleading-indentation] if (figure_loop_size(lo, info->lo_offset, info->lo_sizelimit, ^~ drivers/block/loop.c:1152:4: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the 'if' goto exit; This was introduced by a new feature that accidentally moved the opening braces from one condition to another. Adding a second pair of braces makes it work correctly again and also more readable. Fixes: f2c6df7dbf9a ("loop: support 4k physical blocksize") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: support 4k physical blocksize

2017-06-08T14:40:00+00:00

When generating bootable VM images certain systems (most notably s390x) require devices with 4k blocksize. This patch implements a new flag 'LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE' which will set the physical blocksize to that of the underlying device, and allow to change the logical blocksize for up to the physical blocksize. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe