linux-stable.git/block/bio.c, branch v4.10.2

block: improve handling of the magic discard payload

2016-12-09T15:30:51+00:00

Instead of allocating a single unused biovec for discard requests, send
them down without any payload.  Instead we allow the driver to add a
"special" payload using a biovec embedded into struct request (unioned
over other fields never used while in the driver), and overloading
the number of segments for this case.

This has a couple of advantages:

 - we don't have to allocate the bio_vec
 - the amount of special casing for discard requests in the block
   layer is significantly reduced
 - using this same scheme for other request types is trivial,
   which will be important for implementing the new WRITE_ZEROES
   op on devices where it actually requires a payload (e.g. SCSI)
 - we can get rid of playing games with the request length, as
   we'll never touch it and completions will work just fine
 - it will allow us to support ranged discard operations in the
   future by merging non-contiguous discard bios into a single
   request
 - last but not least it removes a lot of code

This patch is the common base for my WIP series for ranges discards and to
remove discard_zeroes_data in favor of always using REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES,
so it would be good to get it in quickly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

2016-12-01T14:58:40+00:00

This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of
LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use
either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes.
The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command,
but in the future, this should also help with improving the way
zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in
sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one
write zeroes operation by the device.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: bio: pass bvec table to bio_init()

2016-11-22T15:57:21+00:00

Some drivers often use external bvec table, so introduce
this helper for this case. It is always safe to access the
bio->bi_io_vec in this way for this case.

After converting to this usage, it will becomes a bit easier
to evaluate the remaining direct access to bio->bi_io_vec,
so it can help to prepare for the following multipage bvec
support.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 

Fixed up the new O_DIRECT cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add bio_iov_iter_get_pages()

2016-11-02T16:50:18+00:00

This is a helper that pins down a range from an iov_iter and adds it to
a bio without requiring a separate memory allocation for the page array.
It will be used for upcoming direct I/O implementations for block devices
and iomap based file systems.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[hch: ported to the iov_iter interface, renamed and added comments.
      All blame should be directed to me and all fame should go to Kent
      after this!]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: export bio_free_pages to other modules

2016-09-22T13:48:03+00:00

bio_free_pages is introduced in commit 1dfa0f68c040
("block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages"),
we can reuse the func in other modules after it was
imported.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang 
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove remnant refs to hardsect

2016-09-14T14:44:57+00:00

commit e1defc4ff0cf57aca6c5e3ff99fa503f5943c1f1
"block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size"
removed the notion of "hardware sector size" from
the kernel in favor of logical block size, but
references remain in comments and documentation.

Update the remaining sites mentioning hardsect.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix secure erase

2016-08-16T15:16:51+00:00

Commit 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure
erase") split REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD without considering
all the places REQ_OP_DISCARD was being used to mean either. Fix those.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Fixes: 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure erase")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf

2016-08-07T20:41:02+00:00

Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add missing group association in bio-cloning functions

2016-08-04T20:19:16+00:00

When a bio is cloned, the newly created bio must be associated with
the same blkcg as the original bio (if BLK_CGROUP is enabled). If
this operation is not performed, then the new bio is not associated
with any group, and the group of the current task is returned when
the group of the bio is requested.

Depending on the cloning frequency, this may cause a large
percentage of the bios belonging to a given group to be treated
as if belonging to other groups (in most cases as if belonging to
the root group). The expected group isolation may thereby be broken.

This commit adds the missing association in bio-cloning functions.

Fixes: da2f0f74cf7d ("Btrfs: add support for blkio controllers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+

Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente 
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: unexport various bio mapping helpers

2016-07-20T23:38:37+00:00

They are unused and potential new users really should use the
blk_rq_map* versions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe