linux-stable.git/block/blk-lib.c, branch v4.12.4

block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

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

block: stop using discards for zeroing

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

Now that we have REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES implemented for all devices that
support efficient zeroing, we can remove the call to blkdev_issue_discard.
This means we only have two ways of zeroing left and can simplify the
code.

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

block: add a new BLKDEV_ZERO_NOFALLBACK flag

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

This avoids fallbacks to explicit zeroing in (__)blkdev_issue_zeroout if
the caller doesn't want them.

Also clean up the convoluted check for the return condition that this
new flag is added to.

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

block: add a REQ_NOUNMAP flag for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

If this flag is set logical provisioning capable device should
release space for the zeroed blocks if possible, if it is not set
devices should keep the blocks anchored.

Also remove an out of sync kerneldoc comment for a static function
that would have become even more out of data with this change.

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

block: add a flags argument to (__)blkdev_issue_zeroout

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

Turn the existing discard flag into a new BLKDEV_ZERO_UNMAP flag with
similar semantics, but without referring to diѕcard.

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

block: stop using blkdev_issue_write_same for zeroing

2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00

We'll always use the WRITE ZEROES code for zeroing now.

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

block: correct documentation for blkdev_issue_discard() flags

2017-03-24T21:41:28+00:00

BLKDEV_IFL_* flags no longer exist; blkdev_issue_discard() now actually
takes BLKDEV_DISCARD_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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