kernel/drivers/md/bcache/closure.h, branch linux-4.3.y

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15Z

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: don't embed 'return' statements in closure macros

2015-07-11T15:57:32Z

This is horribly confusing, it breaks the flow of the code without it being apparent in the caller. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48Z

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

bcache: kill closure locking code

2014-01-08T21:05:08Z

Also flesh out the documentation a bit Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: Zero less memory

2014-01-08T21:05:08Z

Another minor performance optimization Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: Drop some closure stuff

2013-11-11T05:56:10Z

With a the recent bcache refactoring, some of the closure code isn't needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: Refactor journalling flow control

2013-11-11T05:56:02Z

Making things less asynchronous that don't need to be - bch_journal() only has to block when the journal or journal entry is full, which is emphatically not a fast path. So make it a normal function that just returns when it finishes, to make the code and control flow easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: Build fixes from test robot

2013-03-25T19:06:13Z

config: make ARCH=i386 allmodconfig All error/warnings: drivers/md/bcache/bset.c: In function 'bch_ptr_bad': >> drivers/md/bcache/bset.c:164:2: warning: format '%li' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat] -- drivers/md/bcache/debug.c: In function 'bch_pbtree': >> drivers/md/bcache/debug.c:86:4: warning: format '%li' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat] -- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c: In function 'bch_btree_read_done': >> drivers/md/bcache/btree.c:245:8: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat] -- drivers/md/bcache/closure.o: In function `closure_debug_init': >> (.init.text+0x0): multiple definition of `init_module' >> drivers/md/bcache/super.o:super.c:(.init.text+0x0): first defined here Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: A block layer cache

2013-03-23T23:11:31Z

Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage. See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet