As mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, move EXPORT* macro's
to the line immediately after the closing function brace line.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
I overlooked SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV support when I converted sg to use
the block layer mapping API (2.6.28).
Douglas Gilbert explained SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37135.html
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The semantics of SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV were:
- copy user space buffer to kernel (LLD) buffer
- do SCSI command which is assumed to be of the DATA_IN
(data from device) variety. This would overwrite
some or all of the kernel buffer
- copy kernel (LLD) buffer back to the user space.
The idea was to detect short reads by filling the original
user space buffer with some marker bytes ("0xec" it would
seem in this report). The "resid" value is a better way
of detecting short reads but that was only added this century
and requires co-operation from the LLD.
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This patch changes the block layer mapping API to support this
semantics. This simply adds another field to struct rq_map_data and
enables __bio_copy_iov() to copy data from user space even with READ
requests.
It's better to add the flags field and kills null_mapped and the new
from_user fields in struct rq_map_data but that approach makes it
difficult to send this patch to stable trees because st and osst
drivers use struct rq_map_data (they were converted to use the block
layer in 2.6.29 and 2.6.30). Well, I should clean up the block layer
mapping API.
zhou sf reported this regiression and tested this patch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37128.htmlhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37168.html
Reported-by: zhou sf <sxzzsf@gmail.com>
Tested-by: zhou sf <sxzzsf@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch restores stacking ability to the block layer integrity
infrastructure by creating a set of dedicated bip slabs. Each bip slab
has an embedded bio_vec array at the end. This cuts down on memory
allocations and also simplifies the code compared to the original bvec
version. Only the largest bip slab is backed by a mempool. The pool is
contained in the bio_set so stacking drivers can ensure forward
progress.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
When porting blktrace to tracepoints, we changed to trace/block.h
for trace prober declarations.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:
- zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
- binary tracing without printf overhead
- structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
- trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
- user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
...
Cons:
- no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.
This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
But this may change in the future.
- A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
While blktrace do the convertion just before output.
Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.
- In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.
The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().
I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:
dd dd + ioctl blktrace dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1 7.36s, 42.7 MB/s 7.50s, 42.0 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2 7.43s, 42.3 MB/s 7.48s, 42.1 MB/s 7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3 7.38s, 42.6 MB/s 7.45s, 42.2 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.
And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:
# ls -l -h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out
Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:
plug:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: 8,0 P N [kjournald]
unplug_io:
kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052974: 8,0 U N [kblockd/0] 1
remap:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085043: 8,0 A W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
bio_backmerge:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: 8,0 M W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
getrq:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084975: 8,0 G W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
bash-2066 [001] 1072.953770: 8,0 G N [bash]
bash-2066 [001] 1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]
rq_complete:
konsole-2065 [001] 300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
konsole-2065 [001] 300.053191: 8,0 C W 103669040 + 16 [0]
ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953811: 8,0 C N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]
rq_insert:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084986: 8,0 I W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
Changelog from v2 -> v3:
- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().
Changelog from v1 -> v2:
- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
to store hex dump of rq->cmd().
- support large pc requests.
- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.
- some cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.
This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When a read bio_copy_kern() request fails, the content of the bounce
buffer is not copied back. However, as request failure doesn't
necessarily mean complete failure, the buffer state can be useful.
This behavior is also inconsistent with the user map counterpart and
causes the subtle difference between bounced and unbounced IO causes
confusion.
This patch makes bio_copy_kern_endio() ignore @err and always copy
back data on request completion.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
st driver uses blk_rq_map_user() in order to just build a request out
of page frames. In this case, map_data->offset is a non zero value and
iov[0].iov_base is NULL. We need to increase nr_pages for that.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Impact: remove possible deadlock condition
There is no reason to use mempool backed allocation for map functions.
Also, because kern mapping is used inside LLDs (e.g. for EH), using
mempool backed allocation can lead to deadlock under extreme
conditions (mempool already consumed by the time a request reached EH
and requests are blocked on EH).
Switch copy/map functions to bio_kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Impact: fix bio_kmalloc() and its destruction path
bio_kmalloc() was broken in two ways.
* bvec_alloc_bs() first allocates bvec using kmalloc() and then
ignores it and allocates again like non-kmalloc bvecs.
* bio_kmalloc_destructor() didn't check for and free bio integrity
data.
This patch fixes the above problems. kmalloc patch is separated out
from bio_alloc_bioset() and allocates the requested number of bvecs as
inline bvecs.
* bio_alloc_bioset() no longer takes NULL @bs. None other than
bio_kmalloc() used it and outside users can't know how it was
allocated anyway.
* Define and use BIO_POOL_NONE so that pool index check in
bvec_free_bs() triggers if inline or kmalloc allocated bvec gets
there.
* Relocate destructors on top of each allocation function so that how
they're used is more clear.
Jens Axboe suggested allocating bvecs inline.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Explain that with __GFP_WAIT set it will not fail, and that the caller
must never allocate more than 1 bio at the time.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The integrity bio allocation needs its own bio_set to avoid violating
the mempool allocation rules and risking deadlocks.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If we don't have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY set, then we don't have
any external dependencies on the bio_vec slabs. So don't create
the ones that we will inline anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
this warning (which got fixed by commit b2bf968):
fs/bio.c: In function ‘bio_alloc_bioset’:
fs/bio.c:305: warning: ‘p’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Triggered because the code flow in bio_alloc_bioset() is correct
but a bit complex for the compiler to see through.
Streamline it a bit - this also makes the code a tiny bit more compact:
text data bss dec hex filename
7540 256 40 7836 1e9c bio.o.before
7539 256 40 7835 1e9b bio.o.after
Also remove an older compiler-warnings annotation from this function,
it's not needed.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
If bio_integrity_clone() fails, bio_clone() returns NULL without freeing
the newly allocated bio.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Stricter gfp_mask might be required for clone allocation.
For example, request-based dm may clone bio in interrupt context
so it has to use GFP_ATOMIC.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Newer gcc throw this warning:
fs/bio.c: In function ?bio_alloc_bioset?:
fs/bio.c:305: warning: ?p? may be used uninitialized in this function
since it cannot figure out that 'p' is only ever used if 'bs' is non-NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When freeing from bio pool use right ptr to account for bs->front_pad,
instead of bio ptr,
Signed-off-by: Subhash Peddamallu <subhash.peddamallu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The commit 818827669d (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>
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>
This fixes bio_add_page misuse in bio_copy_user_iov with rq_map_data,
which only sg uses now.
rq_map_data carries page frames for bio_add_pc_page. bio_copy_user_iov
uses bio_add_pc_page with a larger size than PAGE_SIZE. It's clearly
wrong.
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>
We don't need to clear the memory used for adding bio_vec entries,
since nobody should be looking at members unitialized. Any valid
use should be below bio->bi_vcnt, and that members up until that count
must be valid since they were added through bio_add_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations.
One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the
actual pages we are interested in.
This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio
itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up
to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k
of IO.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one
in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs
in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes.
This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may
want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation
more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio.
Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end
of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now
possible.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We only very rarely need the mempool backing, so it makes sense to
get rid of all but one of the mempool in a bio_set. So keep the
largest bio_vec count mempool so we can always honor the largest
allocation, and "upgrade" callers that fail.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE()
sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by
Mathieu Desnoyers.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to
encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register
interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the
'what' parameter.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since all bio_split calls refer the same single bio_split_pool, the bio_split
function can use bio_split_pool directly instead of the mempool_t parameter;
then the mempool_t parameter can be removed from bio_split param list, and
bio_split_pool is only referred in fs/bio.c file, can be marked static.
Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Helper function to find the sector offset in a bio given bvec index
and page offset.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it
essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations
and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time.
So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except
it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch changes blk_rq_map_user to accept a NULL user-space buffer
with a READ command if rq_map_data is not NULL. Thus a caller can pass
page frames to lk_rq_map_user to just set up a request and bios with
page frames propely. bio_uncopy_user (called via blk_rq_unmap_user)
doesn't copy data to user space with such request.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
bio_copy_kern and bio_copy_user are very similar. This converts
bio_copy_kern to use bio_copy_user.
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>
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>
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>
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of
either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export
a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions
of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper
(bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask
for completion on that specific CPU.
In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much
as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired.
This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only
work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp
helper infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual
merge accounting they have no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The commit c5dec1c303 introduced
__bio_copy_iov() to add bounce support to blk_rq_map_user_iov.
__bio_copy_iov() uses bio->bv_len to copy data for READ commands after
the completion but it doesn't work with a request that partially
completed. SCSI always completes a PC request as a whole but seems
some don't.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The commit 68154e90c9 introduced
bio_copy_kern() to add bounce support to blk_rq_map_kern.
bio_copy_kern() uses bio->bv_len to copy data for READ commands after
the completion but it doesn't work with a request that partially
completed. SCSI always completes a PC request as a whole but seems
some don't.
This patch fixes bio_copy_kern to handle the above case. As
bio_copy_user does, bio_copy_kern uses struct bio_map_data to store
struct bio_vec.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Tested-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Since introduced in 7ba1ba12ee, it should be made use of.
Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Use get_user_pages_fast in the common/generic block and fs direct IO paths.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When devices are stacked, one device's merge_bvec_fn may need to perform
the mapping and then call one or more functions for its underlying devices.
The following bio fields are used:
bio->bi_sector
bio->bi_bdev
bio->bi_size
bio->bi_rw using bio_data_dir()
This patch creates a new struct bvec_merge_data holding a copy of those
fields to avoid having to change them directly in the struct bio when
going down the stack only to have to change them back again on the way
back up. (And then when the bio gets mapped for real, the whole
exercise gets repeated, but that's a problem for another day...)
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.
This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.
See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
