block: introduce new block status code type

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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
index fcd641032f8d..0cf6735046d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ static inline u16 blk_mq_unique_tag_to_tag(u32 unique_tag)
 
 int blk_mq_request_started(struct request *rq);
 void blk_mq_start_request(struct request *rq);
-void blk_mq_end_request(struct request *rq, int error);
-void __blk_mq_end_request(struct request *rq, int error);
+void blk_mq_end_request(struct request *rq, blk_status_t error);
+void __blk_mq_end_request(struct request *rq, blk_status_t error);
 
 void blk_mq_requeue_request(struct request *rq, bool kick_requeue_list);
 void blk_mq_add_to_requeue_list(struct request *rq, bool at_head,