linux-stable.git/include/linux/blk_types.h, branch v4.7.3

block: copy NOMERGE flag from bio to request

2016-04-26T01:13:44+00:00

bio might have NOMERGE flag set, for example blk_queue_split sets it.
When we initiate request, copy this flag too.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove REQ_NO_TIMEOUT flag

2015-12-22T16:38:34+00:00

This was added for the 'magic' AEN requests in the NVMe driver that never
return.  We now handle them purely inside the driver and don't need this
core hack any more.

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

block: don't hardcode blk_qc_t -> tag mask

2015-11-11T16:37:34+00:00

Use the shift/mask we use elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie

2015-11-07T17:40:46+00:00

No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.

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

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2015-09-03T19:28:30+00:00

Pull ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes from Jan Kara:
 "The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem
  driver (~28k lines removed).  Ext4 driver is a full featured
  replacement these days and both RH and SUSE use it for several years
  without issues.  Also there are some workarounds in VM & block layer
  mainly for ext3 which we could eventually get rid of.

  Other larger change is addition of proper error handling for
  dquot_initialize().  The rest is small fixes and cleanups"

[ I wasn't convinced about the ext3 removal and worried about things
  falling through the cracks for legacy users, but ext4 maintainers
  piped up and were all unanimously in favor of removal, and maintaining
  all legacy ext3 support inside ext4.   - Linus ]

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  udf: Don't modify filesystem for read-only mounts
  quota: remove an unneeded condition
  ext4: memory leak on error in ext4_symlink()
  mm/Kconfig: NEED_BOUNCE_POOL: clean-up condition
  ext4: Improve ext4 Kconfig test
  block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO
  fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driver
  doc: Update doc about journalling layer
  jfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  reiserfs: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ocfs2: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext4: Handle error from dquot_initialize()
  ext2: Handle error from dquot_initalize()
  quota: Propagate error from ->acquire_dquot()

block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again

2015-07-29T14:55:25+00:00

Commit bcf2843b3f8f added ->bi_error to cleanup the error passing
for struct bio, but that ended up adding 4 bytes and a 4 byte hole
to the size of struct bio. For a clean config, that bumped it from
128 bytes, to 136 bytes, on x86-64.

The ->bi_flags member is currently an unsigned long, but it fits
easily within an int. Change it to an unsigned int, adjust the
the pool offset code, and move ->bi_error into the new hole. Then
we end up with a 128 byte bio again.

Change the bio flag set/clear to use cmpxchg to ensure we don't
lose any flags when manipulating them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers

2015-07-29T14:55:20+00:00

Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set'
helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too.

It was a bit of a mess of atomic vs non-atomic access. With
BIO_UPTODATE gone, we don't have any risk of concurrent access to the
flags. So relax the restriction and don't make any of them atomic. The
flags that do have serialization issues (reffed and chained), we
already handle those separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO

2015-07-23T18:59:40+00:00

JBD layer wrote back data buffers without setting PageWriteback bit.
Thus standard mechanism for guaranteeing stable pages under IO did not
work. Since JBD is gone now and there is no other user of the
functionality, just remove it.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"

2015-06-26T14:11:58+00:00

This reverts commit 5f1b670d0bef508a5554d92525f5f6d00d640b38.

Justification for revert as reported in this dm-devel post:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00160.html

this change should not be pushed to mainline yet.

Firstly, Christoph has a newer version of the patch that fixes silent
data corruption problem:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00229.html

And the new version still depends on LLDDs to always complete requests
to the end when error happens, while block API doesn't enforce such a
requirement. If the assumption is ever broken, the inconsistency between
request and bio (e.g. rq->__sector and rq->bio) will cause silent data
corruption:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00022.html

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer