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* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-05-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: ide-cd: fix REQ_QUIET tests in cdrom_decode_status Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/blkdev.h
| * ide-cd: fix REQ_QUIET tests in cdrom_decode_statusBorislav Petkov2009-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Original patch (dfa4411cc3a690011cab90e9a536938795366cf9) was buggy. This is a more proper fix which introduces blk_rq_quiet() macro alleviating the need for dumb, too short caching variables. Thanks to Helge Deller and Bart for debugging this. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | block: simplify I/O stat accountingJerome Marchand2009-04-24
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies I/O stat accounting switching code and separates it completely from I/O scheduler switch code. Requests are accounted according to the state of their request queue at the time of the request allocation. There is no need anymore to flush the request queue when switching I/O accounting state. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: remove unused REQ_UNPLUGJens Axboe2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | The request inherits the unplug flag from the bio, but it isn't actually used. The bio flag stops at __make_request(), which tells it to unplug after submission. Passing it on to the request doesn't make any sense. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IOJens Axboe2009-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those. Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this flag. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async basedJens Axboe2009-04-06
| | | | | | | | This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead of doing the split on writes vs reads. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: reduce stack footprint of blk_recount_segments()Jens Axboe2009-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | blk_recalc_rq_segments() requires a request structure passed in, which we don't have from blk_recount_segments(). So the latter allocates one on the stack, using > 400 bytes of stack for that. This can cause us to spill over one page of stack from ext4 at least: 0) 4560 400 blk_recount_segments+0x43/0x62 1) 4160 32 bio_phys_segments+0x1c/0x24 2) 4128 32 blk_rq_bio_prep+0x2a/0xf9 3) 4096 32 init_request_from_bio+0xf9/0xfe 4) 4064 112 __make_request+0x33c/0x3f6 5) 3952 144 generic_make_request+0x2d1/0x321 6) 3808 64 submit_bio+0xb9/0xc3 7) 3744 48 submit_bh+0xea/0x10e 8) 3696 368 ext4_mb_init_cache+0x257/0xa6a [ext4] 9) 3328 288 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x421/0xcd9 [ext4] 10) 3040 160 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x211/0x4b4 [ext4] 11) 2880 336 ext4_ext_get_blocks+0xb61/0xd45 [ext4] 12) 2544 96 ext4_get_blocks_wrap+0xf2/0x200 [ext4] 13) 2448 80 ext4_da_get_block_write+0x6e/0x16b [ext4] 14) 2368 352 mpage_da_map_blocks+0x7e/0x4b3 [ext4] 15) 2016 352 ext4_da_writepages+0x2ce/0x43c [ext4] 16) 1664 32 do_writepages+0x2d/0x3c 17) 1632 144 __writeback_single_inode+0x162/0x2cd 18) 1488 96 generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x1e3/0x32b 19) 1392 16 sync_sb_inodes+0xe/0x10 20) 1376 48 writeback_inodes+0x69/0xb3 21) 1328 208 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x187/0x2f9 22) 1120 224 generic_file_buffered_write+0x1d4/0x2c4 23) 896 176 __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x35f/0x393 24) 720 80 generic_file_aio_write+0x6c/0xc8 25) 640 80 ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x137 [ext4] 26) 560 320 do_sync_write+0xf0/0x137 27) 240 48 vfs_write+0xb3/0x13c 28) 192 64 sys_write+0x4c/0x74 29) 128 128 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Split the segment counting out into a __blk_recalc_rq_segments() helper to avoid allocating an onstack request just for checking the physical segment count. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: fix inconsistent parenthesisation of QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULTJens Axboe2009-02-02
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accountingJens Axboe2009-01-30
| | | | | | | This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bitsJens Axboe2009-01-30
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [SCSI] block: make blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer for WRITEFUJITA Tomonori2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit 818827669d85b84241696ffef2de485db46b0b5e (block: make blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer) extended blk_rq_map_user to accept a NULL user-space buffer with a READ command. It was necessary to convert sg to use the block layer mapping API. This patch extends blk_rq_map_user again for a WRITE command. It is necessary to convert st and osst drivers to use the block layer apping API. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* [SCSI] block: fix the partial mappings with struct rq_map_dataFUJITA Tomonori2009-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes bio_copy_user_iov to properly handle the partial mappings with struct rq_map_data (which only sg uses for now but st and osst will shortly). It adds the offset member to struct rq_map_data and changes blk_rq_map_user to update it so that bio_copy_user_iov can add an appropriate page frame via bio_add_pc_page(). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* block: get rid of elevator_t typedefJens Axboe2008-12-29
| | | | | | Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: simplify empty barrier implementationTejun Heo2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to complete it without letting the low level driver see it. With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism. Drop the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered(). Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: make barrier completion more robustTejun Heo2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Barrier completion had the following assumptions. * start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly. If all actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request. * Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's always at least one request in the queue when drain completes. Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to improve empty barrier implementation. This patch makes the following changes. * Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside start_ordered(). * Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether the queue is empty. Empty queue also indicates drain completion. * While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: make every barrier action optionalTejun Heo2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | In all barrier sequences, the barrier write itself was always assumed to be issued and thus didn't have corresponding control flag. This patch adds QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and unify action mask handling in start_ordered() such that any barrier action can be skipped. This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: reorganize QUEUE_ORDERED_* constantsTejun Heo2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Separate out ordering type (drain,) and action masks (preflush, postflush, fua) from visible ordering mode selectors (QUEUE_ORDERED_*). Ordering types are now named QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_* while action masks are named QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_*. This change is necessary to add QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and make it optional to improve empty barrier implementation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: use cancel_work_sync() instead of kblockd_flush_work()Cheng Renquan2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested. The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol, so no non-GPL modules anymore. Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add queue flag for paravirt frontend driversFernando Luis Vázquez Cao2008-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | As is the case with SSD devices, we do not want to idle in AS/CFQ when the block device is a paravirt front-end driver. This patch adds a flag (QUEUE_FLAG_VIRT) which should be used by front-end drivers such as virtio_blk and xen-blkfront to indicate a paravirtualized device. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Enforce a minimum SG_IO timeoutLinus Torvalds2008-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no point in having too short SG_IO timeouts, since if the command does end up timing out, we'll end up through the reset sequence that is several seconds long in order to abort the command that timed out. As a result, shorter timeouts than a few seconds simply do not make sense, as the recovery would be longer than the timeout itself. Add a BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT to match the existign BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT. Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary maskMilan Broz2008-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask for stacked md/dm devices. When stacking devices (LVM over MD over SCSI) some of the request queue parameters are not set up correctly in some cases by default, namely max_segment_size and and seg_boundary mask. If you create MD device over SCSI, these attributes are zeroed. Problem become when there is over this mapping next device-mapper mapping - queue attributes are set in DM this way: request_queue max_segment_size seg_boundary_mask SCSI 65536 0xffffffff MD RAID1 0 0 LVM 65536 -1 (64bit) Unfortunately bio_add_page (resp. bio_phys_segments) calculates number of physical segments according to these parameters. During the generic_make_request() is segment cout recalculated and can increase bio->bi_phys_segments count over the allowed limit. (After bio_clone() in stack operation.) Thi is specially problem in CCISS driver, where it produce OOPS here BUG_ON(creq->nr_phys_segments > MAXSGENTRIES); (MAXSEGENTRIES is 31 by default.) Sometimes even this command is enough to cause oops: dd iflag=direct if=/dev/<vg>/<lv> of=/dev/null bs=128000 count=10 This command generates bios with 250 sectors, allocated in 32 4k-pages (last page uses only 1024 bytes). For LVM layer, it allocates bio with 31 segments (still OK for CCISS), unfortunatelly on lower layer it is recalculated to 32 segments and this violates CCISS restriction and triggers BUG_ON(). The patch tries to fix it by: * initializing attributes above in queue request constructor blk_queue_make_request() * make sure that blk_queue_stack_limits() inherits setting (DM uses its own function to set the limits because it blk_queue_stack_limits() was introduced later. It should probably switch to use generic stack limit function too.) * sets the default seg_boundary value in one place (blkdev.h) * use this mask as default in DM (instead of -1, which differs in 64bit) Bugs related to this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471639 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8672 Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: internal dequeue shouldn't start timerTejun Heo2008-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and both start the timeout timer. Barrier code dequeues the original barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is started on it. If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and oops follows. Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier request as it never goes through actual IO. This patch unexports elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer. Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use elv_dequeue_request(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old onesAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] beginning of methods conversionAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers; to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following: 1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct prototypes, make (few) callers handle both. That's this changeset. 2) for each driver convert to new methods. *ALL* drivers are converted in this series. 3) kill the old (renamed) methods. Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the end of this series no trace of old methods remain. The only reason why we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver debugging if anything goes wrong. New methods: open(bdev, mode) release(disk, mode) ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called without BKL */ compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg) /* Called with BKL, legacy */ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] introduce __blkdev_driver_ioctl()Al Viro2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | Analog of blkdev_driver_ioctl() with sane arguments. For now uses fake struct file, by the end of the series it won't and blkdev_driver_ioctl() will become a wrapper around it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] move block_device_operations to blkdev.hAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] switch scsi_cmd_ioctl() to passing fmode_tAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] switch sg_scsi_ioctl() to passing fmode_tAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotationsAl Viro2008-10-21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2008-10-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: remove __generic_unplug_device() from exports block: move q->unplug_work initialization blktrace: pass zfcp driver data blktrace: add support for driver data block: fix current kernel-doc warnings block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped block: simplify string handling in elv_iosched_store() block: fix kernel-doc for blk_alloc_devt() block: fix nr_phys_segments miscalculation bug block: add partition attribute for partition number block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
| * block: remove __generic_unplug_device() from exportsJens Axboe2008-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only out-of-core user is IDE, and that should be using blk_start_queueing() instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | [SCSI] block: separate failfast into multiple bits.Mike Christie2008-10-13
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Multipath is best at handling transport errors. If it gets a device error then there is not much the multipath layer can do. It will just access the same device but from a different path. This patch breaks up failfast into device, transport and driver errors. The multipath layers (md and dm mutlipath) only ask the lower levels to fast fail transport errors. The user of failfast, read ahead, will ask to fast fail on all errors. Note that blk_noretry_request will return true if any failfast bit is set. This allows drivers that do not support the multipath failfast bits to continue to fail on any failfast error like before. Drivers like scsi that are able to fail fast specific errors can check for the specific fail fast type. In the next patch I will convert scsi. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* block: gendisk integrity wrapperMartin K. Petersen2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | This is a wrapper for accessing a gendisk's integrity bits. It allows the integrity support in MD to be compiled with BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY off. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Switch blk_integrity_compare from bdev to gendiskMartin K. Petersen2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | The DM and MD integrity support now depends on being able to use gendisks instead of block_devices when comparing integrity profiles. Change function parameters accordingly. Also update comparison logic so that two NULL profiles are a valid configuration. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: revert part of d7533ad0e132f92e75c1b2eb7c26387b25a583c1Jens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | We need bdev_get_integrity() to support the pending md/dm patches. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: remove end_{queued|dequeued}_request()Kiyoshi Ueda2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes end_queued_request() and end_dequeued_request(), which are no longer used. As a results, users of __end_request() became only end_request(). So the actual code in __end_request() is moved to end_request() and __end_request() is removed. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add lld busy state exporting interfaceKiyoshi Ueda2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds an new interface, blk_lld_busy(), to check lld's busy state from the block layer. blk_lld_busy() calls down into low-level drivers for the checking if the drivers set q->lld_busy_fn() using blk_queue_lld_busy(). This resolves a performance problem on request stacking devices below. Some drivers like scsi mid layer stop dispatching request when they detect busy state on its low-level device like host/target/device. It allows other requests to stay in the I/O scheduler's queue for a chance of merging. Request stacking drivers like request-based dm should follow the same logic. However, there is no generic interface for the stacked device to check if the underlying device(s) are busy. If the request stacking driver dispatches and submits requests to the busy underlying device, the requests will stay in the underlying device's queue without a chance of merging. This causes performance problem on burst I/O load. With this patch, busy state of the underlying device is exported via q->lld_busy_fn(). So the request stacking driver can check it and stop dispatching requests if busy. The underlying device driver must return the busy state appropriately: 1: when the device driver can't process requests immediately. 0: when the device driver can process requests immediately, including abnormal situations where the device driver needs to kill all requests. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add queue flag for SSD/non-rotational devicesJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | We don't want to idle in AS/CFQ if the device doesn't have a seek penalty. So add a QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to indicate a non-rotational device, low level drivers should set this flag upon discovery of an SSD or similar device type. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add a queue flag for request stacking supportKiyoshi Ueda2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a queue flag to indicate the block device can be used for request stacking. Request stacking drivers need to stack their devices on top of only devices of which q->request_fn is functional. Since bio stacking drivers (e.g. md, loop) basically initialize their queue using blk_alloc_queue() and don't set q->request_fn, the check of (q->request_fn == NULL) looks enough for that purpose. However, dm will become both types of stacking driver (bio-based and request-based). And dm will always set q->request_fn even if the dm device is bio-based of which q->request_fn is not functional actually. So we need something else to distinguish the type of the device. Adding a queue flag is a solution for that. The reason why dm always sets q->request_fn is to keep the compatibility of dm user-space tools. Currently, all dm user-space tools are using bio-based dm without specifying the type of the dm device they use. To use request-based dm without changing such tools, the kernel must decide the type of the dm device automatically. The automatic type decision can't be done at the device creation time and needs to be deferred until such tools load a mapping table, since the actual type is decided by dm target type included in the mapping table. So a dm device has to be initialized using blk_init_queue() so that we can load either type of table. Then, all queue stuffs are set (e.g. q->request_fn) and we have no element to distinguish that it is bio-based or request-based, even after a table is loaded and the type of the device is decided. By the way, some stuffs of the queue (e.g. request_list, elevator) are needless when the dm device is used as bio-based. But the memory size is not so large (about 20[KB] per queue on ia64), so I hope the memory loss can be acceptable for bio-based dm users. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add request submission interfaceKiyoshi Ueda2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds blk_insert_cloned_request(), a generic request submission interface for request stacking drivers. Request-based dm will use it to submit their clones to underlying devices. blk_rq_check_limits() is also added because it is possible that the lower queue has stronger limitations than the upper queue if multiple drivers are stacking at request-level. Not only for blk_insert_cloned_request()'s internal use, the function will be used by request-based dm when the queue limitation is modified (e.g. by replacing dm's table). Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add request update interfaceKiyoshi Ueda2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds blk_update_request(), which updates struct request with completing its data part, but doesn't complete the struct request itself. Though it looks like end_that_request_first() of older kernels, blk_update_request() should be used only by request stacking drivers. Request-based dm will use it in bio->bi_end_io callback to update the original request when a data part of a cloned request completes. Followings are additional background information of why request-based dm needs this interface. - Request stacking drivers can't use blk_end_request() directly from the lower driver's completion context (bio->bi_end_io or rq->end_io), because some device drivers (e.g. ide) may try to complete their request with queue lock held, and it may cause deadlock. See below for detailed description of possible deadlock: <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120311479108569&w=2> - To solve that, request-based dm offloads the completion of cloned struct request to softirq context (i.e. using blk_complete_request() from rq->end_io). - Though it is possible to use the same solution from bio->bi_end_io, it will delay the notification of bio completion to the original submitter. Also, it will cause inefficient partial completion, because the lower driver can't perform the cloned request anymore and request-based dm needs to requeue and redispatch it to the lower driver again later. That's not good. - So request-based dm needs blk_update_request() to perform the bio completion in the lower driver's completion context, which is more efficient. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: cleanup some of the integrity stuff in blkdev.hJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | Don't put functions that are only used in fs/bio-integrity.c in blkdev.h, it's much cleaner to just keep it in there. Also kill completely unused bdev_get_tag_size() Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeoutsJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: adjust blkdev_issue_discard for swapHugh Dickins2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two mods to blkdev_issue_discard(), thinking ahead to its use on swap: 1. Add gfp_mask argument, so swap allocation can use it where GFP_KERNEL might deadlock but GFP_NOIO is safe. 2. Enlarge nr_sects argument from unsigned to sector_t: unsigned long is enough to cover a whole swap area, but sector_t suits any partition. Change sb_issue_discard()'s nr_blocks to sector_t too; but no need seen for a gfp_mask there, just pass GFP_KERNEL down to blkdev_issue_discard(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: Add interface to abort queued requestsMike Anderson2008-10-09
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: unify request timeout handlingJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling. Move those bits to the block layer. Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot less timer fiddling. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add blk_rq_aligned helper functionFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | This adds blk_rq_aligned helper function to see if alignment and padding requirement is satisfied for DMA transfer. This also converts blk_rq_map_kern and __blk_rq_map_user to use the helper function. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: introduce struct rq_map_data to use reserved pagesFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces struct rq_map_data to enable bio_copy_use_iov() use reserved pages. Currently, bio_copy_user_iov allocates bounce pages but drivers/scsi/sg.c wants to allocate pages by itself and use them. struct rq_map_data can be used to pass allocated pages to bio_copy_user_iov. The current users of bio_copy_user_iov simply passes NULL (they don't want to use pre-allocated pages). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: add gfp_mask argument to blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iovFUJITA Tomonori2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iov always do GFP_KERNEL allocation. This adds gfp_mask argument to blk_rq_map_user and blk_rq_map_user_iov so sg can use it (sg always does GFP_ATOMIC allocation). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* block: inherit CPU completion on bio->rq and rq->rq mergesJens Axboe2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | Somewhat incomplete, as we do allow merges of requests and bios that have different completion CPUs given. This is done on the assumption that a larger IO is still more beneficial than CPU locality. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>