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

block: don't try Write Same from __blkdev_issue_zeroout

2017-02-06T16:34:46+00:00

Write Same can return an error asynchronously if it turns out the
underlying SCSI device does not support Write Same, which makes a
proper fallback to other methods in __blkdev_issue_zeroout impossible.
Thus only issue a Write Same from blkdev_issue_zeroout an don't try it
at all from __blkdev_issue_zeroout as a non-invasive workaround.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reported-by: Junichi Nomura 
Fixes: e73c23ff ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Tested-by: Junichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't try to discard from __blkdev_issue_zeroout

2017-01-13T22:18:16+00:00

Discard can return -EIO asynchronously if the alignment for the request
isn't suitable for the driver, which makes a proper fallback to other
methods in __blkdev_issue_zeroout impossible.  Thus only issue a sync
discard from blkdev_issue_zeroout an don't try discard at all from
__blkdev_issue_zeroout as a non-invasive workaround.

One more reason why abusing discard for zeroing must die..

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reported-by: Eryu Guan 
Fixes: e73c23ff ("block: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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: add async variant of blkdev_issue_zeroout

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

Similar to __blkdev_issue_discard this variant allows submitting
the final bio asynchronously and chaining multiple ranges
into a single completion.

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

block: better op and flags encoding

2016-10-28T14:48:16+00:00

Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range
of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and
request fields.  This in addition allows us to place the operation
first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to
stop having to shift around the operation values.

In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer
instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do
that later) and thus clean up a lot of code.

Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags
field in struct request to 32-bits.  Various functions passing this
value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now.

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

block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical block size

2016-10-11T22:06:30+00:00

Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
logical block size.  Failure to do this causes other errors in other parts
of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support partial
logical block writes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379026.22791.4437508871355153928.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Mike Snitzer  # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-07-26T22:37:51+00:00

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This branch also contains core changes.  I've come to the conclusion
  that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch.  We
  often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
  always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
  when that happens.

  That said, this contains:

   - separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
     Christoph.

   - set of discard fixes, from Christoph.

   - bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
     op/flags change in the core branch.

   - map and append request fixes from Christoph.

   - NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph.  This is pretty
     exciting!

   - nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.

   - removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
     device_add_disk() helper.

   - bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.

   - cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.

   - set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.

   - set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.

   - mg_disk error path fix from Bart.

   - user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.

   - NVMe in general:
        + NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
        + SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
        + fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
        + use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
        + cancel IO fixes from Ming.
        + don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
        + error code fixup from Dan.
        + use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
        + variable init fix from Jay.
        + fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
        + various fixes"

* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
  nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
  nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
  block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
  scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
  target: stop using blk_make_request
  block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
  block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
  virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
  memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
  block: shrink bio size again
  block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
  block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
  block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
  block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
  NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
  nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
  nvme: Limit command retries
  loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
  nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
  nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
  ...

Merge branch 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-07-26T22:03:07+00:00

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:

   - the big change is the cleanup from Mike Christie, cleaning up our
     uses of command types and modified flags.  This is what will throw
     some merge conflicts

   - regression fix for the above for btrfs, from Vincent

   - following up to the above, better packing of struct request from
     Christoph

   - a 2038 fix for blktrace from Arnd

   - a few trivial/spelling fixes from Bart Van Assche

   - a front merge check fix from Damien, which could cause issues on
     SMR drives

   - Atari partition fix from Gabriel

   - convert cfq to highres timers, since jiffies isn't granular enough
     for some devices these days.  From Jan and Jeff

   - CFQ priority boost fix idle classes, from me

   - cleanup series from Ming, improving our bio/bvec iteration

   - a direct issue fix for blk-mq from Omar

   - fix for plug merging not involving the IO scheduler, like we do for
     other types of merges.  From Tahsin

   - expose DAX type internally and through sysfs.  From Toshi and Yigal

* 'for-4.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (76 commits)
  block: Fix front merge check
  block: do not merge requests without consulting with io scheduler
  block: Fix spelling in a source code comment
  block: expose QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in sysfs
  block: add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX for devices to advertise their DAX support
  Btrfs: fix comparison in __btrfs_map_block()
  block: atari: Return early for unsupported sector size
  Doc: block: Fix a typo in queue-sysfs.txt
  cfq-iosched: Charge at least 1 jiffie instead of 1 ns
  cfq-iosched: Fix regression in bonnie++ rewrite performance
  cfq-iosched: Convert slice_resid from u64 to s64
  block: Convert fifo_time from ulong to u64
  blktrace: avoid using timespec
  block/blk-cgroup.c: Declare local symbols static
  block/bio-integrity.c: Add #include "blk.h"
  block/partition-generic.c: Remove a set-but-not-used variable
  block: bio: kill BIO_MAX_SIZE
  cfq-iosched: temporarily boost queue priority for idle classes
  block: drbd: avoid to use BIO_MAX_SIZE
  block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS
  ...

block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same

2016-07-20T23:35:22+00:00

WRITE SAME is a data integrity operation and we can't simply ignore
errors.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe