linux-stable.git/fs/bio.c, branch v3.7

vfs: fix: don't increase bio_slab_max if krealloc() fails

2012-10-22T20:00:26+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: makes bio_split support bio without data

2012-09-28T08:38:48+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

2012-09-20T12:31:45+00:00

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

block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()

2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00

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 
CC: Jens Axboe 
CC: NeilBrown 
CC: Alasdair Kergon 
CC: Boaz Harrosh 
CC: Jeff Garzik 
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()

2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00

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 
CC: Jens Axboe 
v7: Re-add dropped comments, improv patch description
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Kill bi_destructor

2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00

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->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 
CC: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add bio_reset()

2012-09-09T08:35:39+00:00

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->bi_flags are saved.
v6: Further commenting verbosity, per Tejun
v9: Add a function comment

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
CC: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Ues bi_pool for bio_integrity_alloc()

2012-09-09T08:35:38+00:00

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->bi_pool.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
CC: Jens Axboe 
CC: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Generalized bio pool freeing

2012-09-09T08:35:38+00:00

With the old code, when you allocate a bio from a bio pool you have to
implement your own destructor that knows how to find the bio pool the
bio was originally allocated from.

This adds a new field to struct bio (bi_pool) and changes
bio_alloc_bioset() to use it. This makes various bio destructors
unnecessary, so they're then deleted.

v6: Explain the temporary if statement in bio_put

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
CC: Jens Axboe 
CC: NeilBrown 
CC: Alasdair Kergon 
CC: Nicholas Bellinger 
CC: Lars Ellenberg 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

2012-08-25T18:36:43+00:00

Pull block-related fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Improvements to the buffered and direct write IO plugging from
   Fengguang.

 - Abstract out the mapping of a bio in a request, and use that to
   provide a blk_bio_map_sg() helper.  Useful for mapping just a bio
   instead of a full request.

 - Regression fix from Hugh, fixing up a patch that went into the
   previous release cycle (and marked stable, too) attempting to prevent
   a loop in __getblk_slow().

 - Updates to discard requests, fixing up the sizing and how we align
   them.  Also a change to disallow merging of discard requests, since
   that doesn't really work properly yet.

 - A few drbd fixes.

 - Documentation updates.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: replace __getblk_slow misfix by grow_dev_page fix
  drbd: Write all pages of the bitmap after an online resize
  drbd: Finish requests that completed while IO was frozen
  drbd: fix drbd wire compatibility for empty flushes
  Documentation: update tunable options in block/cfq-iosched.txt
  Documentation: update tunable options in block/cfq-iosched.txt
  Documentation: update missing index files in block/00-INDEX
  block: move down direct IO plugging
  block: remove plugging at buffered write time
  block: disable discard request merge temporarily
  bio: Fix potential memory leak in bio_find_or_create_slab()
  block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start()
  block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper
  block: Introduce __blk_segment_map_sg() helper
  fs/block-dev.c:fix performance regression in O_DIRECT writes to md block devices
  block: split discard into aligned requests
  block: reorganize rounding of max_discard_sectors