kernel/drivers/s390/block/xpram.c, branch linux-4.3.y

block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-08-13T18:31:33Z

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page()) checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create bios that don't need to be split. But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the (potentially multiple) devices underneath them. In the future this will let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code. We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing affecting segment merging. Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are: * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c) * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c) * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c) * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c) * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c) * loop_make_request * null_queue_bio * bcache's make_request fns Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left for future patches. Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Jim Paris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Andreas Dilger Acked-by: NeilBrown (for the 'md/md.c' bits) Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet [dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park Signed-off-by: Ming Lin Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

s390: block: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers

2014-10-20T14:21:31Z

A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the driver core. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang

block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices

2014-10-04T16:55:32Z

Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT. Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy contributions. But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"): - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they should contribute to the random pool in the first place. - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead. There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block devices. From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random" sources. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2014-01-30T19:19:05Z

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe: "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request contains: - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major here, just minor fixes and cleanups. - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code from Christian Engelmayer. - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong. - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable bio_vecs: - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer. - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar. - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable" * 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits) xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier() blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set" block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue() block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored block: fixup for generic bio chaining block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings block: Silence spurious compiler warnings block: Kill bio_pair_split() ...

s390/xpram: don't modify module parameters

2014-01-22T13:02:15Z

During parsing of the sizes array the pointer to the particular string is lost. Keep it by using an extra pointer to store the end position of the parsed string. Keeping these parameters accessible can be helpful for debugging purposes and for userspace reading the parameters at runtime via sysfs. Also this will ensure that the memory is freed at module unload time. Reported-by: Michael Veigel Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter

2013-11-24T06:33:49Z

More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers that take into account bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done. This updates callers for the new usage without changing the implementation yet. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Paul Clements Cc: Jim Paris Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Alex Elder Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Joshua Morris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama Cc: Sreekanth Reddy Cc: support@lsi.com Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Guo Chao Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Quoc-Son Anh Cc: Sebastian Ott Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Jan Kara Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: Geoff Levand

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47Z

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames things. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Alex Elder Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Joshua Morris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Benny Halevy Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Chris Mason Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Joern Engel Cc: Prasad Joshi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Ben Myers Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Guo Chao Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Wei Yongjun Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Sebastian Ott Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Peng Tao Cc: Andy Adamson Cc: fanchaoting Cc: Jie Liu Cc: Sunil Mushran Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Pankaj Kumar Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Mel Gorman 6

s390/xpram: mark xpram as non-rotational

2013-05-17T09:47:04Z

xpram is a memory technology. Lets mark that as non-rotational. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage.

2011-12-22T00:26:03Z

The sysdev.h file should not be needed by any in-kernel code, so remove the .h file from these random files that seem to still want to include it. The sysdev code will be going away soon, so this include needs to be removed no matter what. Cc: Jiandong Zheng Cc: Scott Branden Cc: Russell King Cc: Kukjin Kim Cc: David Brown Cc: Daniel Walker Cc: Bryan Huntsman Cc: Ben Dooks Cc: Wan ZongShun Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Grant Likely Cc: Richard Purdie Cc: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers