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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c, branch linux-4.6.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>virtio_blk: VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE-&gt;VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH</title>
<updated>2016-03-02T15:01:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-24T15:07:27+00:00</published>
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Latest virtio spec says the feature bit name is VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH,
VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE is the legacy name.  virtio blk header says exactly the
reverse - fix that and update driver code to match.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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Latest virtio spec says the feature bit name is VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH,
VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE is the legacy name.  virtio blk header says exactly the
reverse - fix that and update driver code to match.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq: fix racy updates of rq-&gt;errors</title>
<updated>2015-10-01T08:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-27T19:01:50+00:00</published>
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blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq-&gt;errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.

Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq-&gt;errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq-&gt;errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.

Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq-&gt;errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio-blk: Allow extended partitions</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T10:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fam Zheng</name>
<email>famz@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-06T09:05:42+00:00</published>
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This will allow up to DISK_MAX_PARTS (256) partitions, with for example
GPT in the guest. Otherwise, the partition scan code will only discover
the first 15 partitions.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng &lt;famz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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This will allow up to DISK_MAX_PARTS (256) partitions, with for example
GPT in the guest. Otherwise, the partition scan code will only discover
the first 15 partitions.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng &lt;famz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio-blk: use VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE and VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE in virtio1</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T10:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-21T22:53:55+00:00</published>
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VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE is important in order to achieve good performance
(up to 2x, though more realistically +30-40%) in latency-bound workloads.
However, it was removed by mistake together with VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH.

It will be restored in the next revision of the virtio 1.0 standard, so
do the same in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE is important in order to achieve good performance
(up to 2x, though more realistically +30-40%) in latency-bound workloads.
However, it was removed by mistake together with VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH.

It will be restored in the next revision of the virtio 1.0 standard, so
do the same in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: rename REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV</title>
<updated>2015-05-05T19:40:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T20:37:16+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sd, mmc, virtio_blk, string_helpers: fix block size units</title>
<updated>2015-04-10T23:27:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>JBottomley@Odin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-06T02:47:01+00:00</published>
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The current string_get_size() overflows when the device size goes over
2^64 bytes because the string helper routine computes the suffix from
the size in bytes.  However, the entirety of Linux thinks in terms of
blocks, not bytes, so this will artificially induce an overflow on very
large devices.  Fix this by making the function string_get_size() take
blocks and the block size instead of bytes.  This should allow us to
keep working until the current SCSI standard overflows.

Also fix virtio_blk and mmc (both of which were also artificially
multiplying by the block size to pass a byte side to string_get_size()).

The mathematics of this is pretty simple:  we're taking a product of
size in blocks (S) and block size (B) and trying to re-express this in
exponential form: S*B = R*N^E (where N, the exponent is either 1000 or
1024) and R &lt; N.  Mathematically, S = RS*N^ES and B=RB*N^EB, so if RS*RB
&lt; N it's easy to see that S*B = RS*RB*N^(ES+EB).  However, if RS*BS &gt; N,
we can see that this can be re-expressed as RS*BS = R*N (where R =
RS*BS/N &lt; N) so the whole exponent becomes R*N^(ES+EB+1)

[jejb: fix incorrect 32 bit do_div spotted by kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;]
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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The current string_get_size() overflows when the device size goes over
2^64 bytes because the string helper routine computes the suffix from
the size in bytes.  However, the entirety of Linux thinks in terms of
blocks, not bytes, so this will artificially induce an overflow on very
large devices.  Fix this by making the function string_get_size() take
blocks and the block size instead of bytes.  This should allow us to
keep working until the current SCSI standard overflows.

Also fix virtio_blk and mmc (both of which were also artificially
multiplying by the block size to pass a byte side to string_get_size()).

The mathematics of this is pretty simple:  we're taking a product of
size in blocks (S) and block size (B) and trying to re-express this in
exponential form: S*B = R*N^E (where N, the exponent is either 1000 or
1024) and R &lt; N.  Mathematically, S = RS*N^ES and B=RB*N^EB, so if RS*RB
&lt; N it's easy to see that S*B = RS*RB*N^(ES+EB).  However, if RS*BS &gt; N,
we can see that this can be re-expressed as RS*BS = R*N (where R =
RS*BS/N &lt; N) so the whole exponent becomes R*N^(ES+EB+1)

[jejb: fix incorrect 32 bit do_div spotted by kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;]
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_blk: coding style fixes</title>
<updated>2015-01-21T05:58:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T11:33:31+00:00</published>
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Most of our code has
struct foo {
}

Fix two instances where blk is inconsistent.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Most of our code has
struct foo {
}

Fix two instances where blk is inconsistent.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio/blk: verify device has config space</title>
<updated>2015-01-21T05:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-12T14:23:37+00:00</published>
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Some devices might not implement config space access
(e.g. remoteproc used not to - before 3.9).
virtio/blk needs config space access so make it
fail gracefully if not there.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Some devices might not implement config space access
(e.g. remoteproc used not to - before 3.9).
virtio/blk needs config space access so make it
fail gracefully if not there.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: fix checking return value of blk_mq_init_queue</title>
<updated>2015-01-02T17:32:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-02T14:25:27+00:00</published>
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Check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(return value) instead of just return value.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;

Reduced to IS_ERR() by me, we never return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(return value) instead of just return value.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;

Reduced to IS_ERR() by me, we never return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T22:14:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T22:14:23+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19.  Not
  a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes:

   - Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer
     dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API.  From Arianna
     Avanzini.

   - Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq:

        - A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag
          handling.

        - Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph.

        - Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO
          requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me.

        - A few tag and request handling updates from me.

        - Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo.

        - Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei.

        - Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct
          location, from Shaohua.

        - Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This
          prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that
          weren't online when a queue was registered.

   - Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun.  Queued with
     the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix.

   - Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from
     Maurizio.  Hope the Xth time is the charm.

   - Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan.

   - Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq
     drivers, from Gu Zheng.

   - Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from
     Christoph"

* 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment
  blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
  blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list
  blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
  blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get()
  blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get()
  blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times
  blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
  blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled
  blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue
  blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()
  blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
  blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling
  blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq &lt;-&gt; cpu map
  blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function
  blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu
  genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl()
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request()
  blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request()
  blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable
  ...
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Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19.  Not
  a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes:

   - Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer
     dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API.  From Arianna
     Avanzini.

   - Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq:

        - A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag
          handling.

        - Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph.

        - Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO
          requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me.

        - A few tag and request handling updates from me.

        - Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo.

        - Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei.

        - Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct
          location, from Shaohua.

        - Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This
          prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that
          weren't online when a queue was registered.

   - Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun.  Queued with
     the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix.

   - Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from
     Maurizio.  Hope the Xth time is the charm.

   - Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan.

   - Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq
     drivers, from Gu Zheng.

   - Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from
     Christoph"

* 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment
  blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
  blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list
  blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
  blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get()
  blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get()
  blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times
  blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
  blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled
  blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue
  blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()
  blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
  blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling
  blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq &lt;-&gt; cpu map
  blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function
  blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu
  genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl()
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request()
  blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request()
  blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable
  ...
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