linux/drivers/block/loop.c, branch v3.2-rc2

Merge branch 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2011-11-05T00:22:14Z

* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits) virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests. xen/blkback: Check for proper operation. xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges. xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly. xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests. xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation. xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset() xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests. xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard') xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd() drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev->revision loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning ... Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.2/core

2011-10-24T14:24:38Z

Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core

2011-10-19T12:30:42Z

Conflicts: block/blk-core.c include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: remove the incorrect write_begin/write_end shortcut

2011-10-17T10:57:20Z

Currently the loop device tries to call directly into write_begin/write_end instead of going through ->write if it can. This is a fairly nasty shortcut as write_begin and write_end are only callbacks for the generic write code and expect to be called with filesystem specific locks held. This code currently causes various issues for clustered filesystems as it doesn't take the required cluster locks, and it also causes issues for XFS as it doesn't properly lock against the swapext ioctl as called by the defragmentation tools. This in case causes data corruption if defragmentation hits a busy loop device in the wrong time window, as reported by RH QA. The reason why we have this shortcut is that it saves a data copy when doing a transformation on the loop device, which is the technical term for using cryptoloop (or an XOR transformation). Given that cryptoloop has been deprecated in favour of dm-crypt my opinion is that we should simply drop this shortcut instead of finding complicated ways to to introduce a formal interface for this shortcut. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()

2011-09-21T08:02:13Z

If the loop device is associated (lo->lo_state == Lo_bound), it will have a valid bdev pointed to by lo->lo_device. There is no reason to ever pass an additional block_device pointer. Signed-off-by: Ayan George Cc: Phillip Susi Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release

2011-09-21T08:02:13Z

The loopback driver failed to emit the change uevent when auto releasing the device. Fixed lo_release() to pass the bdev to loop_clr_fd() so it can emit the event. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Ayan George Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove support for bio remapping from ->make_request

2011-09-12T10:12:01Z

There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in __generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in generic_make_request handle it. Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and returned non-zero values for errors. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning

2011-08-23T18:12:04Z

Automatic partition scanning can be requested individually per loop device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN. By default, no partition tables are scanned. Userspace can now always add and remove partitions from all loop devices, regardless if the in-kernel partition scanner is enabled or not. The needed partition minor numbers are allocated from the extended minors space, the main loop device numbers will continue to match the loop minors, regardless of the number of partitions used. # grep . /sys/class/block/loop1/loop/* /sys/block/loop1/loop/autoclear:0 /sys/block/loop1/loop/backing_file:/home/kay/data/stuff/part.img /sys/block/loop1/loop/offset:0 /sys/block/loop1/loop/partscan:1 /sys/block/loop1/loop/sizelimit:0 # ls -l /dev/loop* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 99 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 3 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p2 crw------T 1 root root 10, 237 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop-control Cc: Karel Zak Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-By: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: add discard support for loop devices

2011-08-19T12:50:46Z

This commit adds discard support for loop devices. Discard is usually supported by SSD and thinly provisioned devices as a method for reclaiming unused space. This is no different than trying to reclaim back space which is not used by the file system on the image, but it still occupies space on the host file system. We can do the reclamation on file system which does support hole punching. So when discard request gets to the loop driver we can translate that to punch a hole to the underlying file, hence reclaim the free space. This is very useful for trimming down the size of the image to only what is really used by the file system on that image. Fstrim may be used for that purpose. It has been tested on ext4, xfs and btrfs with the image file systems ext4, ext3, xfs and btrfs. ext4, or ext6 image on ext4 file system has some problems but it seems that ext4 punch hole implementation is somewhat flawed and it is unrelated to this commit. Also this is a very good method of validating file systems punch hole implementation. Note that when encryption is used, discard support is disabled, because using it might leak some information useful for possible attacker. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other

2011-07-31T20:21:35Z

LOOP_CLR_FD takes lo->lo_ctl_mutex and tries to remove the loop sysfs files. Sysfs calls show() and waits for lo->lo_ctl_mutex. LOOP_CLR_FD waits for show() to finish to remove the sysfs file. cat /sys/class/block/loop0/loop/backing_file mutex_lock_nested+0x176/0x350 ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop] dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x60 ? sysfs_read_file+0x86/0x1a0 ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50 sysfs_read_file+0xaf/0x1a0 ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD): wait_for_common+0x12c/0x180 ? try_to_wake_up+0x2a0/0x2a0 wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20 sysfs_deactivate+0x178/0x180 ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70 ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x1d/0x20 sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70 sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x85/0xa0 sysfs_remove_group+0x59/0x100 loop_clr_fd+0x1dc/0x3f0 [loop] lo_ioctl+0x223/0x7a0 [loop] Instead of taking the lo_ctl_mutex from sysfs code, take the inner lo->lo_lock, to protect the access to the backing_file data. Thanks to Tejun for help debugging and finding a solution. Cc: Milan Broz Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe