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<title>md: add block tracing for bio_remapping</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T17:32:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-18T02:22:04+00:00</published>
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The block tracing infrastructure (accessed with blktrace/blkparse)
supports the tracing of mapping bios from one device to another.
This is currently used when a bio in a partition is mapped to the
whole device, when bios are mapped by dm, and for mapping in md/raid5.
Other md personalities do not include this tracing yet, so add it.

When a read-error is detected we redirect the request to a different device.
This could justifiably be seen as a new mapping for the originial bio,
or a secondary mapping for the bio that errors.  This patch uses
the second option.

When md is used under dm-raid, the mappings are not traced as we do
not have access to the block device number of the parent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
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The block tracing infrastructure (accessed with blktrace/blkparse)
supports the tracing of mapping bios from one device to another.
This is currently used when a bio in a partition is mapped to the
whole device, when bios are mapped by dm, and for mapping in md/raid5.
Other md personalities do not include this tracing yet, so add it.

When a read-error is detected we redirect the request to a different device.
This could justifiably be seen as a new mapping for the originial bio,
or a secondary mapping for the bio that errors.  This patch uses
the second option.

When md is used under dm-raid, the mappings are not traced as we do
not have access to the block device number of the parent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md/linear: replace printk() with pr_*()</title>
<updated>2016-11-07T23:08:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-02T03:16:49+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf</title>
<updated>2016-08-07T20:41:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T21:35:16+00:00</published>
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Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio-&gt;bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio-&gt;bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-05T19:32:25+00:00</published>
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To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: use bio op accessors</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-05T19:32:07+00:00</published>
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Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have md
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have md
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T06:48:34+00:00</published>
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: add a bi_error field to struct bio</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T13:29:37+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: rename -&gt;stop to -&gt;free</title>
<updated>2015-02-03T21:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T01:56:58+00:00</published>
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Now that the -&gt;stop function only frees the private data,
rename is accordingly.

Also pass in the private pointer as an arg rather than using
mddev-&gt;private.  This flexibility will be useful in level_store().

Finally, don't clear -&gt;private.  It doesn't make sense to clear
it seeing that isn't what we free, and it is no longer necessary
to clear -&gt;private (it was some time ago before  -&gt;to_remove was
introduced).

Setting -&gt;to_remove in -&gt;free() is a bit of a wart, but not a
big problem at the moment.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Now that the -&gt;stop function only frees the private data,
rename is accordingly.

Also pass in the private pointer as an arg rather than using
mddev-&gt;private.  This flexibility will be useful in level_store().

Finally, don't clear -&gt;private.  It doesn't make sense to clear
it seeing that isn't what we free, and it is no longer necessary
to clear -&gt;private (it was some time ago before  -&gt;to_remove was
introduced).

Setting -&gt;to_remove in -&gt;free() is a bit of a wart, but not a
big problem at the moment.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: split detach operation out from -&gt;stop.</title>
<updated>2015-02-03T21:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T01:56:57+00:00</published>
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Each md personality has a 'stop' operation which does two
things:
 1/ it finalizes some aspects of the array to ensure nothing
    is accessing the -&gt;private data
 2/ it frees the -&gt;private data.

All the steps in '1' can apply to all arrays and so can be
performed in common code.

This is useful as in the case where we change the personality which
manages an array (in level_store()), it would be helpful to do
step 1 early, and step 2 later.

So split the 'step 1' functionality out into a new mddev_detach().

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Each md personality has a 'stop' operation which does two
things:
 1/ it finalizes some aspects of the array to ensure nothing
    is accessing the -&gt;private data
 2/ it frees the -&gt;private data.

All the steps in '1' can apply to all arrays and so can be
performed in common code.

This is useful as in the case where we change the personality which
manages an array (in level_store()), it would be helpful to do
step 1 early, and step 2 later.

So split the 'step 1' functionality out into a new mddev_detach().

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/linear: remove rcu protections in favour of suspend/resume</title>
<updated>2015-02-03T21:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T01:56:57+00:00</published>
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The use of 'rcu' to protect accesses to -&gt;private_data so that
the -&gt;private_data could be updated predates the introduction
of mddev_suspend/mddev_resume.
These are a cleaner mechanism for providing stability while
swapping in a new -&gt;private data - it is used by level_store()
to support changing of raid levels.

So get rid of the RCU stuff and just use mddev_suspend, mddev_resume.

As these function call -&gt;quiesce(), we add an empty function for
linear just like for raid0.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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The use of 'rcu' to protect accesses to -&gt;private_data so that
the -&gt;private_data could be updated predates the introduction
of mddev_suspend/mddev_resume.
These are a cleaner mechanism for providing stability while
swapping in a new -&gt;private data - it is used by level_store()
to support changing of raid levels.

So get rid of the RCU stuff and just use mddev_suspend, mddev_resume.

As these function call -&gt;quiesce(), we add an empty function for
linear just like for raid0.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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