linux/block/ioctl.c, branch v4.4

block: add an API for Persistent Reservations

2015-10-21T20:46:56Z

This commits adds a driver API and ioctls for controlling Persistent Reservations s/genericly/generically/ at the block layer. Persistent Reservations are supported by SCSI and NVMe and allow controlling who gets access to a device in a shared storage setup. Note that we add a pr_ops structure to struct block_device_operations instead of adding the members directly to avoid bloating all instances of devices that will never support Persistent Reservations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl

2015-10-21T20:46:55Z

Split out helpers for all non-trivial ioctls to make this function simpler, and also start passing around a pointer version of the argument, as that's what most ioctl handlers actually need. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part()

2015-05-20T15:05:45Z

The only possible problem of using mutex_lock() instead of trylock is about deadlock. If there aren't any locks held before calling blkdev_reread_part(), deadlock can't be caused by this conversion. If there are locks held before calling blkdev_reread_part(), and if these locks arn't required in open, close handler and I/O path, deadlock shouldn't be caused too. Both user space's ioctl(BLKRRPART) and md_setup_drive() from init/do_mounts_md.c belongs to the 1st case, so the conversion is safe for the two cases. For loop, the previous patches in this pathset has fixed the ABBA lock dependency, so the conversion is OK. For nbd, tx_lock is held when calling the function: - both open and release won't hold the lock - when blkdev_reread_part() is run, I/O thread has been stopped already, so tx_lock won't be acquired in I/O path at that time. - so the conversion won't cause deadlock for nbd For dasd, both dasd_open(), dasd_release() and request function don't acquire any mutex/semphone, so the conversion should be safe. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Tested-by: Jarod Wilson Acked-by: Jarod Wilson Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part()

2015-05-20T15:05:42Z

This patch exports blkdev_reread_part() for block drivers, also introduce __blkdev_reread_part(). For some drivers, such as loop, reread of partitions can be run from the release path, and bd_mutex may already be held prior to calling ioctl_by_bdev(bdev, BLKRRPART, 0), so introduce __blkdev_reread_part for use in such cases. CC: Christoph Hellwig CC: Jens Axboe CC: Tejun Heo CC: Alexander Viro CC: Markus Pargmann CC: Stefan Weinhuber CC: Stefan Haberland CC: Sebastian Ott CC: Fabian Frederick CC: Ming Lei CC: David Herrmann CC: Andrew Morton CC: Peter Zijlstra CC: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add discard flag to blkdev_issue_zeroout() function

2015-01-21T17:41:46Z

blkdev_issue_discard() will zero a given block range. This is done by way of explicit writing, thus provisioning or allocating the blocks on disk. There are use cases where the desired behavior is to zero the blocks but unprovision them if possible. The blocks must deterministically contain zeroes when they are subsequently read back. This patch adds a flag to blkdev_issue_zeroout() that provides this variant. If the discard flag is set and a block device guarantees discard_zeroes_data we will use REQ_DISCARD to clear the block range. If the device does not support discard_zeroes_data or if the discard request fails we will fall back to first REQ_WRITE_SAME and then a regular REQ_WRITE. Also update the callers of blkdev_issue_zero() to reflect the new flag and make sb_issue_zeroout() prefer the discard approach. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, bdi: an active gendisk always has a request_queue associated with it

2014-09-08T16:00:35Z

bdev_get_queue() returns the request_queue associated with the specified block_device. blk_get_backing_dev_info() makes use of bdev_get_queue() to determine the associated bdi given a block_device. All the callers of bdev_get_queue() including blk_get_backing_dev_info() assume that bdev_get_queue() may return NULL and implement NULL handling; however, bdev_get_queue() requires the passed in block_device is opened and attached to its gendisk. Because an active gendisk always has a valid request_queue associated with it, bdev_get_queue() can never return NULL and neither can blk_get_backing_dev_info(). Make it clear that neither of the two functions can return NULL and remove NULL handling from all the callers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix BLKSECTGET ioctl when max_sectors is greater than USHRT_MAX

2014-07-01T16:43:07Z

BLKSECTGET ioctl loads the request queue's max_sectors as unsigned short value to the argument pointer. So if the max_sector is greater than USHRT_MAX, the upper 16 bits of that is just discarded. In such case, USHRT_MAX is more preferable than the lower 16 bits of max_sectors. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Douglas Gilbert Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO

2013-11-08T16:05:31Z

This patch fixes coccinelle error regarding usage of IS_ERR and PTR_ERR instead of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO. Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-10-11T00:04:23Z

Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe: "Core block IO bits for 3.7. Not a huge round this time, it contains: - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation and freeing. - WRITE_SAME support from Martin. - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes the block size of a device. - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards). - A few other minor fixups." Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew Morton. It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit 6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree"). So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the internal VM knowledge that has changed. * 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits) block: makes bio_split support bio without data scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents scatterlist: add sg_nents fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time block: fix request_queue->flags initialization block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue() block: ioctl to zero block ranges block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME block: Implement support for WRITE SAME block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges block: Clean up special command handling logic block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold block: reject invalid queue attribute values block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc() block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc() ...

block: ioctl to zero block ranges

2012-09-20T12:31:53Z

Introduce a BLKZEROOUT ioctl which can be used to clear block ranges by way of blkdev_issue_zeroout(). Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe