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<title>Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"</title>
<updated>2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao &lt;gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Requested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao &lt;gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Requested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint</title>
<updated>2013-01-14T14:00:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-11T21:06:33+00:00</published>
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bio completion didn't kick block_bio_complete TP.  Only dm was
explicitly triggering the TP on IO completion.  This makes
block_bio_complete TP useless for tracers which want to know about
bios, and all other bio based drivers skip generating blktrace
completion events.

This patch makes all bio completions via bio_endio() generate
block_bio_complete TP.

* Explicit trace_block_bio_complete() invocation removed from dm and
  the trace point is unexported.

* @rq dropped from trace_block_bio_complete().  bios may fly around
  w/o queue associated.  Verifying and accessing the assocaited queue
  belongs to TP probes.

* blktrace now gets both request and bio completions.  Make it ignore
  bio completions if request completion path is happening.

This makes all bio based drivers generate blktrace completion events
properly and makes the block_bio_complete TP actually useful.

v2: With this change, block_bio_complete TP could be invoked on sg
    commands which have bio's with %NULL bi_bdev.  Update TP
    assignment code to check whether bio-&gt;bi_bdev is %NULL before
    dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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bio completion didn't kick block_bio_complete TP.  Only dm was
explicitly triggering the TP on IO completion.  This makes
block_bio_complete TP useless for tracers which want to know about
bios, and all other bio based drivers skip generating blktrace
completion events.

This patch makes all bio completions via bio_endio() generate
block_bio_complete TP.

* Explicit trace_block_bio_complete() invocation removed from dm and
  the trace point is unexported.

* @rq dropped from trace_block_bio_complete().  bios may fly around
  w/o queue associated.  Verifying and accessing the assocaited queue
  belongs to TP probes.

* blktrace now gets both request and bio completions.  Make it ignore
  bio completions if request completion path is happening.

This makes all bio based drivers generate blktrace completion events
properly and makes the block_bio_complete TP actually useful.

v2: With this change, block_bio_complete TP could be invoked on sg
    commands which have bio's with %NULL bi_bdev.  Update TP
    assignment code to check whether bio-&gt;bi_bdev is %NULL before
    dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: fix: don't increase bio_slab_max if krealloc() fails</title>
<updated>2012-10-22T20:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna Leuschner</name>
<email>anna.m.leuschner@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-22T19:53:36+00:00</published>
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Without the patch, bio_slab_max, representing bio_slabs capacity, is increased before krealloc() of bio_slabs. If krealloc() fails, bio_slab_max is too high. Fix that by only updating bio_slab_max if krealloc() is successful.

Signed-off-by: Anna Leuschner &lt;anna.m.leuschner@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Without the patch, bio_slab_max, representing bio_slabs capacity, is increased before krealloc() of bio_slabs. If krealloc() fails, bio_slab_max is too high. Fix that by only updating bio_slab_max if krealloc() is successful.

Signed-off-by: Anna Leuschner &lt;anna.m.leuschner@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: makes bio_split support bio without data</title>
<updated>2012-09-28T08:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-28T08:38:48+00:00</published>
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discard bio hasn't data attached. We hit a BUG_ON with such bio. This makes
bio_split works for such bio.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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discard bio hasn't data attached. We hit a BUG_ON with such bio. This makes
bio_split works for such bio.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Implement support for WRITE SAME</title>
<updated>2012-09-20T12:31:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-18T16:19:27+00:00</published>
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The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()</title>
<updated>2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:35:02+00:00</published>
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Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
__bio_clone().

This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
the functionality the last patch adedd.

This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
CC: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
CC: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
CC: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
__bio_clone().

This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
the functionality the last patch adedd.

This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
CC: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
CC: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
CC: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()</title>
<updated>2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:35:01+00:00</published>
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Previously, bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_bioset() behaved slightly
different because there was some almost-duplicated code - this fixes
some of that.

The important change is that previously bio_kmalloc() always set
bi_io_vec = bi_inline_vecs, even if nr_iovecs == 0 - unlike
bio_alloc_bioset(). This would cause bio_has_data() to return true; I
don't know if this resulted in any actual bugs but it was certainly
wrong.

bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_bioset() also have different arbitrary
limits on nr_iovecs - 1024 (UIO_MAXIOV) for bio_kmalloc(), 256
(BIO_MAX_PAGES) for bio_alloc_bioset(). This patch doesn't fix that, but
at least they're enforced closer together and hopefully they will be
fixed in a later patch.

This'll also help with some future cleanups - there are a fair number of
functions that allocate bios (e.g. bio_clone()), and now they don't have
to be duplicated for bio_alloc(), bio_alloc_bioset(), and bio_kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
v7: Re-add dropped comments, improv patch description
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Previously, bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_bioset() behaved slightly
different because there was some almost-duplicated code - this fixes
some of that.

The important change is that previously bio_kmalloc() always set
bi_io_vec = bi_inline_vecs, even if nr_iovecs == 0 - unlike
bio_alloc_bioset(). This would cause bio_has_data() to return true; I
don't know if this resulted in any actual bugs but it was certainly
wrong.

bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_bioset() also have different arbitrary
limits on nr_iovecs - 1024 (UIO_MAXIOV) for bio_kmalloc(), 256
(BIO_MAX_PAGES) for bio_alloc_bioset(). This patch doesn't fix that, but
at least they're enforced closer together and hopefully they will be
fixed in a later patch.

This'll also help with some future cleanups - there are a fair number of
functions that allocate bios (e.g. bio_clone()), and now they don't have
to be duplicated for bio_alloc(), bio_alloc_bioset(), and bio_kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
v7: Re-add dropped comments, improv patch description
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Kill bi_destructor</title>
<updated>2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:35:00+00:00</published>
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Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
pools, this isn't needed anymore.

This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor
there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else.

bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a
bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant
bio-&gt;bi_next = NULL.

v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz
v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL
v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymore

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
pools, this isn't needed anymore.

This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor
there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else.

bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a
bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant
bio-&gt;bi_next = NULL.

v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz
v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL
v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymore

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Add bio_reset()</title>
<updated>2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:34:58+00:00</published>
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Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
we should provide a generic method.

This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor - drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
was open coding it, by doing a bio_init() and resetting bi_destructor.

This required reordering struct bio, but the block layer is not yet
nearly fast enough for any cacheline effects to matter here.

v5: Add a define BIO_RESET_BITS, to be very explicit about what parts of
bio-&gt;bi_flags are saved.
v6: Further commenting verbosity, per Tejun
v9: Add a function comment

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
we should provide a generic method.

This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor - drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
was open coding it, by doing a bio_init() and resetting bi_destructor.

This required reordering struct bio, but the block layer is not yet
nearly fast enough for any cacheline effects to matter here.

v5: Add a define BIO_RESET_BITS, to be very explicit about what parts of
bio-&gt;bi_flags are saved.
v6: Further commenting verbosity, per Tejun
v9: Add a function comment

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Ues bi_pool for bio_integrity_alloc()</title>
<updated>2012-09-09T08:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>koverstreet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T22:34:56+00:00</published>
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Now that bios keep track of where they were allocated from,
bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() becomes redundant.

Remove bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() and drop bio_set argument from the
related functions and make them use bio-&gt;bi_pool.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
CC: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Now that bios keep track of where they were allocated from,
bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() becomes redundant.

Remove bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() and drop bio_set argument from the
related functions and make them use bio-&gt;bi_pool.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;koverstreet@google.com&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
CC: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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