linux/fs/block_dev.c, branch v4.0

Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-02-12T22:13:23Z

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe: "This contains: - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling. Contributions in that series from Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well. - CFQ: - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer. - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM situations. From Konstantin Khlebnikov. - blk-mq: - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own. - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for DM blk-mq support. - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me. - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby. - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz. - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from Martin" * 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits) block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov blk-mq: fix double-free in error path block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov() block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user block: simplify bio_map_kern block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request() block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request blk-mq: add tag allocation policy ...

fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:03:05Z

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block_dev: only write bdev inode on close

2015-01-20T21:02:59Z

Since 018a17bdc865 ("bdi: reimplement bdev_inode_switch_bdi()") the block device code writes out all dirty data whenever switching the backing_dev_info for a block device inode. But a block device inode can only be dirtied when it is in use, which means we only have to write it out on the final blkdev_put, but not when doing a blkdev_get. Factoring out the write out from the bdi list switch prepares from removing the list switch later in the series. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Change direct_access calling convention

2015-01-14T04:58:11Z

In order to support accesses to larger chunks of memory, pass in a 'size' parameter (counted in bytes), and return the amount available at that address. Add a new helper function, bdev_direct_access(), to handle common functionality including partition handling, checking the length requested is positive, checking for the sector being page-aligned, and checking the length of the request does not pass the end of the partition. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fs: add freeze_super/thaw_super fs hooks

2014-11-17T10:35:17Z

Currently, freezing a filesystem involves calling freeze_super, which locks sb->s_umount and then calls the fs-specific freeze_fs hook. This makes it hard for gfs2 (and potentially other cluster filesystems) to use the vfs freezing code to do freezes on all the cluster nodes. In order to communicate that a freeze has been requested, and to make sure that only one node is trying to freeze at a time, gfs2 uses a glock (sd_freeze_gl). The problem is that there is no hook for gfs2 to acquire this lock before calling freeze_super. This means that two nodes can attempt to freeze the filesystem by both calling freeze_super, acquiring the sb->s_umount lock, and then attempting to grab the cluster glock sd_freeze_gl. Only one will succeed, and the other will be stuck in freeze_super, making it impossible to finish freezing the node. To solve this problem, this patch adds the freeze_super and thaw_super hooks. If a filesystem implements these hooks, they are called instead of the vfs freeze_super and thaw_super functions. This means that every filesystem that implements these hooks must call the vfs freeze_super and thaw_super functions itself within the hook function to make use of the vfs freezing code. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Return short read or 0 at end of a raw device, not EIO

2014-10-31T10:33:26Z

Author: David Jeffery Changes to the basic direct I/O code have broken the raw driver when reading to the end of a raw device. Instead of returning a short read for a read that extends partially beyond the device's end or 0 when at the end of the device, these reads now return EIO. The raw driver needs the same end of device handling as was added for normal block devices. Using blkdev_read_iter, which has the needed size checks, prevents the EIO conditions at the end of the device. Signed-off-by: David Jeffery Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2014-10-18T18:53:51Z

Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe: "This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18. Apart from the new and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes and cleanups. - blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph. - Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph. We pass it through the ->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request bits. The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used. - blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng. - Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei. Now we have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq. - Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott. - Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun. - Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes. - Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing. From Joe Lawrence. - Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm devices from Junichi Nomura. This allows creating clone bio sets without preallocating a lot of memory. - Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and hardware queues from me. - Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI shared tag setups). We now just use a single queue and limited depth for that" * 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits) block: Remove REQ_KERNEL blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating block: include func name in __get_request prints block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2 blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high block: add bioset_create_nobvec() block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone() block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp block: Add T10 Protection Information functions block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ block: Integrity checksum flag block: Relocate bio integrity flags block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags ...

block_dev: implement readpages() to optimize sequential read

2014-10-10T02:25:53Z

Sequential read from a block device is expected to be equal or faster than from the file on a filesystem. But it is not correct due to the lack of effective readpages() in the address space operations for block device. This implements readpages() operation for block device by using mpage_readpages() which can create multipage BIOs instead of BIOs for each page and reduce system CPU time consumption. Install 1GB of RAM disk storage: # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 delay=0 Sequential read from file on a filesystem: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/$DEV # mount /dev/$DEV /mnt # fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/mnt/file ... read : io=524288KB, bw=2133.4MB/s, iops=546133, runt= 240msec Sequential read from a block device: # fio --name=t --size=512m --rw=read --filename=/dev/$DEV ... (Without this commit) read : io=524288KB, bw=1700.2MB/s, iops=435455, runt= 301msec (With this commit) read : io=524288KB, bw=2160.4MB/s, iops=553046, runt= 237msec Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: reimplement bdev_inode_switch_bdi()

2014-09-08T16:00:43Z

A block_device may be attached to different gendisks and thus different bdis over time. bdev_inode_switch_bdi() is used to switch the associated bdi. The function assumes that the inode could be dirty and transfers it between bdis if so. This is a bit nasty in that it reaches into bdi internals. This patch reimplements the function so that it writes out the inode if dirty. This is a lot simpler and can be implemented without exposing bdi internals. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Alexander Viro 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