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<updated>2018-11-13T19:14:45+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>bcache: trace missed reading by cache_missed</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:14:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T12:41:08+00:00</published>
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commit 502b291568fc7faf1ebdb2c2590f12851db0ff76 upstream.

Missed reading IOs are identified by s-&gt;cache_missed, not the
s-&gt;cache_miss, so in trace_bcache_read() using trace_bcache_read
to identify whether the IO is missed or not.

Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix kcrashes with fio in RAID5 backend dev</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:52:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-27T17:49:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 60eb34ec5526e264c2bbaea4f7512d714d791caf ]

Kernel crashed when run fio in a RAID5 backend bcache device, the call
trace is bellow:
[  440.012034] kernel BUG at block/blk-ioc.c:146!
[  440.012696] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[  440.026537] CPU: 2 PID: 2205 Comm: md127_raid5 Not tainted 4.15.0 #8
[  440.027441] Hardware name: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8, BIOS J06 07/16
/2015
[  440.028615] RIP: 0010:put_io_context+0x8b/0x90
[  440.029246] RSP: 0018:ffffa8c882b43af8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  440.029990] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa8c88294fca0 RCX: 0000000000
0f4240
[  440.031006] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa8c882
94fca0
[  440.032030] RBP: ffffa8c882b43b10 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: ffff949cb8
0c1700
[  440.033206] R10: 0000000000000104 R11: 000000000000b71c R12: 00000000000
01000
[  440.034222] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff949cad84db70 R15: ffff949cb11
bd1e0
[  440.035239] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff949cba280000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
[  440.060190] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  440.084967] CR2: 00007ff0493ef000 CR3: 00000002f1e0a002 CR4: 00000000001
606e0
[  440.110498] Call Trace:
[  440.135443]  bio_disassociate_task+0x1b/0x60
[  440.160355]  bio_free+0x1b/0x60
[  440.184666]  bio_put+0x23/0x30
[  440.208272]  search_free+0x23/0x40 [bcache]
[  440.231448]  cached_dev_write_complete+0x31/0x70 [bcache]
[  440.254468]  closure_put+0xb6/0xd0 [bcache]
[  440.277087]  request_endio+0x30/0x40 [bcache]
[  440.298703]  bio_endio+0xa1/0x120
[  440.319644]  handle_stripe+0x418/0x2270 [raid456]
[  440.340614]  ? load_balance+0x17b/0x9c0
[  440.360506]  handle_active_stripes.isra.58+0x387/0x5a0 [raid456]
[  440.380675]  ? __release_stripe+0x15/0x20 [raid456]
[  440.400132]  raid5d+0x3ed/0x5d0 [raid456]
[  440.419193]  ? schedule+0x36/0x80
[  440.437932]  ? schedule_timeout+0x1d2/0x2f0
[  440.456136]  md_thread+0x122/0x150
[  440.473687]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[  440.491411]  kthread+0x102/0x140
[  440.508636]  ? find_pers+0x70/0x70
[  440.524927]  ? kthread_associate_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0
[  440.541791]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
[  440.558020] Code: c2 48 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 48 89 c6 4c 89 e7 e8 bb c2
48 00 48 8b 3d bc 36 4b 01 48 89 de e8 7c f7 e0 ff 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 &lt;0f&gt; 0b
0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 8d 47 b8 48 89 e5 41 57 41
[  440.610020] RIP: put_io_context+0x8b/0x90 RSP: ffffa8c882b43af8
[  440.628575] ---[ end trace a1fd79d85643a73e ]--

All the crash issue happened when a bypass IO coming, in such scenario
s-&gt;iop.bio is pointed to the s-&gt;orig_bio. In search_free(), it finishes the
s-&gt;orig_bio by calling bio_complete(), and after that, s-&gt;iop.bio became
invalid, then kernel would crash when calling bio_put(). Maybe its upper
layer's faulty, since bio should not be freed before we calling bio_put(),
but we'd better calling bio_put() first before calling bio_complete() to
notify upper layer ending this bio.

This patch moves bio_complete() under bio_put() to avoid kernel crash.

[mlyle: fixed commit subject for character limits]

Reported-by: Matthias Ferdinand &lt;bcache@mfedv.net&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Ferdinand &lt;bcache@mfedv.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: ret IOERR when read meets metadata error</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T10:32:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rui Hua</name>
<email>huarui.dev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T20:21:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b221fc130c49c50f4c2250d22e873420765a9fa2 ]

The read request might meet error when searching the btree, but the error
was not handled in cache_lookup(), and this kind of metadata failure will
not go into cached_dev_read_error(), finally, the upper layer will receive
bi_status=0.  In this patch we judge the metadata error by the return
value of bch_btree_map_keys(), there are two potential paths give rise to
the error:

1. Because the btree is not totally cached in memery, we maybe get error
   when read btree node from cache device (see bch_btree_node_get()), the
   likely errno is -EIO, -ENOMEM

2. When read miss happens, bch_btree_insert_check_key() will be called to
   insert a "replace_key" to btree(see cached_dev_cache_miss(), just for
   doing preparatory work before insert the missed data to cache device),
   a failure can also happen in this situation, the likely errno is
   -ENOMEM

bch_btree_map_keys() will return MAP_DONE in normal scenario, but we will
get either -EIO or -ENOMEM in above two cases. if this happened, we should
NOT recover data from backing device (when cache device is dirty) because
we don't know whether bkeys the read request covered are all clean.  And
after that happened, s-&gt;iop.status is still its initially value(0) before
we submit s-&gt;bio.bio, we set it to BLK_STS_IOERR, so it can go into
cached_dev_read_error(), and finally it can be passed to upper layer, or
recovered by reread from backing device.

[edit by mlyle: patch formatting, word-wrap, comment spelling,
commit log format]

Signed-off-by: Hua Rui &lt;huarui.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix wrong cache_misses statistics</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:10:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>tang.junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T21:46:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c157313791a999646901b3e3c6888514ebc36d62 ]

Currently, Cache missed IOs are identified by s-&gt;cache_miss, but actually,
there are many situations that missed IOs are not assigned a value for
s-&gt;cache_miss in cached_dev_cache_miss(), for example, a bypassed IO
(s-&gt;iop.bypass = 1), or the cache_bio allocate failed. In these situations,
it will go to out_put or out_submit, and s-&gt;cache_miss is null, which leads
bch_mark_cache_accounting() to treat this IO as a hit IO.

[ML: applied by 3-way merge]

Signed-off-by: tang.junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: recover data from backing when data is clean</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rui Hua</name>
<email>huarui.dev@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-24T23:14:26+00:00</published>
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commit e393aa2446150536929140739f09c6ecbcbea7f0 upstream.

When we send a read request and hit the clean data in cache device, there
is a situation called cache read race in bcache(see the commit in the tail
of cache_look_up(), the following explaination just copy from there):
The bucket we're reading from might be reused while our bio is in flight,
and we could then end up reading the wrong data. We guard against this
by checking (in bch_cache_read_endio()) if the pointer is stale again;
if so, we treat it as an error (s-&gt;iop.error = -EINTR) and reread from
the backing device (but we don't pass that error up anywhere)

It should be noted that cache read race happened under normal
circumstances, not the circumstance when SSD failed, it was counted
and shown in  /sys/fs/bcache/XXX/internal/cache_read_races.

Without this patch, when we use writeback mode, we will never reread from
the backing device when cache read race happened, until the whole cache
device is clean, because the condition
(s-&gt;recoverable &amp;&amp; (dc &amp;&amp; !atomic_read(&amp;dc-&gt;has_dirty))) is false in
cached_dev_read_error(). In this situation, the s-&gt;iop.error(= -EINTR)
will be passed up, at last, user will receive -EINTR when it's bio end,
this is not suitable, and wield to up-application.

In this patch, we use s-&gt;read_dirty_data to judge whether the read
request hit dirty data in cache device, it is safe to reread data from
the backing device when the read request hit clean data. This can not
only handle cache read race, but also recover data when failed read
request from cache device.

[edited by mlyle to fix up whitespace, commit log title, comment
spelling]

Fixes: d59b23795933 ("bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean")
Signed-off-by: Hua Rui &lt;huarui.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T21:46:31+00:00</published>
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commit d59b23795933678c9638fd20c942d2b4f3cd6185 upstream.

When bcache does read I/Os, for example in writeback or writethrough mode,
if a read request on cache device is failed, bcache will try to recovery
the request by reading from cached device. If the data on cached device is
not synced with cache device, then requester will get a stale data.

For critical storage system like database, providing stale data from
recovery may result an application level data corruption, which is
unacceptible.

With this patch, for a failed read request in writeback or writethrough
mode, recovery a recoverable read request only happens when cache device
is clean. That is to say, all data on cached device is up to update.

For other cache modes in bcache, read request will never hit
cached_dev_read_error(), they don't need this patch.

Please note, because cache mode can be switched arbitrarily in run time, a
writethrough mode might be switched from a writeback mode. Therefore
checking dc-&gt;has_data in writethrough mode still makes sense.

Changelog:
V4: Fix parens error pointed by Michael Lyle.
v3: By response from Kent Oversteet, he thinks recovering stale data is a
    bug to fix, and option to permit it is unnecessary. So this version
    the sysfs file is removed.
v2: rename sysfs entry from allow_stale_data_on_failure  to
    allow_stale_data_on_failure, and fix the confusing commit log.
v1: initial patch posted.

[small change to patch comment spelling by mlyle]

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Reported-by: Arne Wolf &lt;awolf@lenovo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nix &lt;nix@esperi.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kai Krakow &lt;hurikhan77@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@lists.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: Junhui Tang &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: do not subtract sectors_to_gc for bypassed IO</title>
<updated>2017-09-06T14:17:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T06:25:53+00:00</published>
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Since bypassed IOs use no bucket, so do not subtract sectors_to_gc to
trigger gc thread.

Signed-off-by: tang.junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>bcache: fix sequential large write IO bypass</title>
<updated>2017-09-06T14:17:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T06:25:52+00:00</published>
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Sequential write IOs were tested with bs=1M by FIO in writeback cache
mode, these IOs were expected to be bypassed, but actually they did not.
We debug the code, and find in check_should_bypass():
    if (!congested &amp;&amp;
        mode == CACHE_MODE_WRITEBACK &amp;&amp;
        op_is_write(bio_op(bio)) &amp;&amp;
        (bio-＞bi_opf &amp; REQ_SYNC))
        goto rescale
that means, If in writeback mode, a write IO with REQ_SYNC flag will not
be bypassed though it is a sequential large IO, It's not a correct thing
to do actually, so this patch remove these codes.

Signed-off-by: tang.junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index</title>
<updated>2017-08-23T18:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T17:10:32+00:00</published>
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This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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