linux-stable.git/drivers/md/bcache, branch v4.2.6

bcache: don't embed 'return' statements in closure macros

2015-07-11T15:57:32+00:00

This is horribly confusing, it breaks the flow of the code without
it being apparent in the caller.

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

MAINTAINERS: BCACHE: Kent Overstreet has changed email address

2015-07-01T02:45:01+00:00

Kent's email address in MAINTAINERS seems to be invalid.
This was his last sign-off address, so use that if appropriate.

Fix the S: status entry while there.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: use kvfree() in various places

2015-07-01T02:45:00+00:00

Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io

2015-05-22T14:58:55+00:00

Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for
non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern:
 1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io
 2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io
 3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io
 4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io

The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if
bio_inc_remaining() is called.  For the above pattern it isn't set until
step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN).  As such
the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining
before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with
the value 1 instead of 0.  When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step
3 it brought it to a value of 2.  When the second bio_endio() was
called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but
it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due
to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set
upfront).

Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for
all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only
interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining.  For the
above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called!
Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls
that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface.

Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c.

Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use cases

2015-05-05T19:32:49+00:00

Struct bio has a reference count that controls when it can be freed.
Most uses cases is allocating the bio, which then returns with a
single reference to it, doing IO, and then dropping that single
reference. We can remove this atomic_dec_and_test() in the completion
path, if nobody else is holding a reference to the bio.

If someone does call bio_get() on the bio, then we flag the bio as
now having valid count and that we must properly honor the reference
count when it's being put.

Tested-by: Robert Elliott 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md/bcache: use generic io stats accounting functions to simplify io stat accounting

2014-11-24T15:05:12+00:00

Use generic io stats accounting help functions (generic_{start,end}_io_acct)
to simplify io stat accounting.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng 
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices

2014-10-04T16:55:32+00:00

Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set
QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT.

Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy
contributions.  But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add
sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"):
    - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
      are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
      should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
    - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block
devices.  From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of
caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random"
sources.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: Drop unneeded blk_sync_queue() calls

2014-08-04T22:23:04+00:00

this is needed for the queue/block device we created (it's done by
blk_cleanup_queue() which we do call) - but calling it for the block devices we
only opened is pointless.

Change-Id: I53dfded14ed15b9581d10ca8399d5e1b3abbf9f2

bcache: add mutex lock for bch_is_open

2014-08-04T22:23:04+00:00

Since bch_is_open will iterate linked list bch_cache_sets and
uncached_devices, it needs bch_register_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jianjian Huo