21 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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These two are confusing leftover of the old world order, combining
values of the REQ_OP_ and REQ_ namespaces. For callers that don't
special case we mostly just replace bi_rw with bio_data_dir or
op_is_write, except for the few cases where a switch over the REQ_OP_
values makes more sense. Any check for READA is replaced with an
explicit check for REQ_RAHEAD. Also remove the READA alias for
REQ_RAHEAD.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
19 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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After register null_blk devices into lightnvm, we forget
to add these devices to the the nullb_list, makes them
invisible to the null_blk driver.Signed-off-by: Wenwei Tao
Fixes: a514379b0c77 ("null_blk: oops when initializing without lightnvm")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
11 Feb, 2016
1 commit
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If the LightNVM subsystem is not compiled into the kernel, and the
null_blk device driver requests lightnvm to be initialized. The call to
nvm_register fails and the null_add_dev function cleans up the
initialization. However, at this point the null block device has
already been added to the nullb_list and thus a second cleanup will
occur when the function has returned, that leads to a double call to
blk_cleanup_queue.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
05 Feb, 2016
1 commit
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System block allows the device to initialize with its configured media
manager. The system blocks is written to disk, and read again when media
manager is determined. For this to work, the backend must store the
data. Device drivers, such as null_blk, does not have any backend
storage. This patch allows the media manager to be initialized without a
storage backend.It also fix incorrect configuration of capabilities in null_blk, as it
does not support get/set bad block interface.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
22 Jan, 2016
2 commits
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Pull lightnvm fixes and updates from Jens Axboe:
"This should have been part of the drivers branch, but it arrived a bit
late and wasn't based on the official core block driver branch. So
they got a small scolding, but got a pass since it's still new. Hence
it's in a separate branch.This is mostly pure fixes, contained to lightnvm/, and minor feature
additions"* 'for-4.5/lightnvm' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
lightnvm: ensure that nvm_dev_ops can be used without CONFIG_NVM
lightnvm: introduce factory reset
lightnvm: use system block for mm initialization
lightnvm: introduce ioctl to initialize device
lightnvm: core on-disk initialization
lightnvm: introduce mlc lower page table mappings
lightnvm: add mccap support
lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately
lightnvm: fix missing grown bad block type
lightnvm: reference rrpc lun in rrpc block
lightnvm: introduce nvm_submit_ppa
lightnvm: move rq->error to nvm_rq->error
lightnvm: support multiple ppas in nvm_erase_ppa
lightnvm: move the pages per block check out of the loop
lightnvm: sectors first in ppa list
lightnvm: fix locking and mempool in rrpc_lun_gc
lightnvm: put block back to gc list on its reclaim fail
lightnvm: check bi_error in gc
lightnvm: return the get_bb_tbl return value
lightnvm: refactor end_io functions for sync
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.This pull request contains:
- A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
community, so it's about time that they got in.- A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.- A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
Peng.- A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.
- A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.
- A null_blk division fix from Arnd"
* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of ->xbdev.
xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
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20 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
"We don't have a lot of core changes this time around, it's mostly in
drivers, which will come in a subsequent pull.The cores changes include:
- blk-mq
- Prep patch from Christoph, changing blk_mq_alloc_request() to
take flags instead of just using gfp_t for sleep/nosleep.
- Doc patch from me, clarifying the difference between legacy
and blk-mq for timer usage.
- Fixes from Raghavendra for memory-less numa nodes, and a reuse
of CPU masks.- Cleanup from Geliang Tang, using offset_in_page() instead of open
coding it.- From Ilya, rename request_queue slab to it reflects what it holds,
and a fix for proper use of bdgrab/put.- A real fix for the split across stripe boundaries from Keith. We
yanked a broken version of this from 4.4-rc final, this one works.- From Mike Krinkin, emit a trace message when we split.
- From Wei Tang, two small cleanups, not explicitly clearing memory
that is already cleared"* 'for-4.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: use bd{grab,put}() instead of open-coding
block: split bios to max possible length
block: add call to split trace point
blk-mq: Avoid memoryless numa node encoded in hctx numa_node
blk-mq: Reuse hardware context cpumask for tags
blk-mq: add a flags parameter to blk_mq_alloc_request
Revert "blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required"
block: clarify blk_add_timer() use case for blk-mq
bio: use offset_in_page macro
block: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
block: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL
block: rename request_queue slab cache
14 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Dividing a sector_t number should be done using sector_div rather than do_div
to optimize the 32-bit sector_t case, and with the latest do_div optimizations,
we now get a compile-time warning for this:arch/arm/include/asm/div64.h:32:95: note: expected 'uint64_t * {aka long long unsigned int *}' but argument is of type 'sector_t * {aka long unsigned int *}'
drivers/block/null_blk.c:521:81: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a castThis changes the newly added code to use sector_div. It is a simplified version
of the original patch, as Linus Torvalds pointed out that we should not be using
an expensive division function in the first place.This version was suggested by Matias Bjorling.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Matias Bjorling
Fixes: b2b7e00148a2 ("null_blk: register as a LightNVM device")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
12 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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To implement sync I/O support within the LightNVM core, the end_io
functions are refactored to take an end_io function pointer instead of
testing for initialized media manager, followed by calling its end_io
function.Sync I/O can then be implemented using a callback that signal I/O
completion. This is similar to the logic found in blk_to_execute_io().
By implementing it this way, the underlying device I/Os submission logic
is abstracted away from core, targets, and media managers.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
29 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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If null_blk is run in NULL_IRQ_TIMER mode and with queue_mode NULL_Q_RQ,
we need to restart the queue from the hrtimer interrupt. We can't
directly invoke the request_fn from that context, so punt the queue run
to async kblockd context.Tested-by: Rabin Vincent
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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blk_end_request_all may free request, so we need to save
request_queue pointer before blk_end_request_all call.The problem was introduced in commit cf8ecc5a8455266f8d51
("null_blk: guarantee device restart in all irq modes")
and causes general protection fault with slab poisoning
enabled.Fixes: cf8ecc5a8455266f8d51 ("null_blk: guarantee device
restart in all irq modes")Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
09 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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Module couldn't release resource properly during the initialization. To
fix this issue, we will clean up the proper resource before returning.Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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In the case where a request queue is passed to the low lever lightnvm
device drive integration, the device driver might pass its admin
commands through another queue. Instead pass nvm_dev, and let the
low level drive the appropriate queue.Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
02 Dec, 2015
4 commits
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We already have the reserved flag, and a nowait flag awkwardly encoded as
a gfp_t. Add a real flags argument to make the scheme more extensible and
allow for a nicer calling convention.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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This commit at least doubles the maximum value for
completion_nsec. This helps in special cases where one wants/needs to
emulate an extremely slow I/O (for example to spot bugs).Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini
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In single-queue (block layer) mode,the function null_rq_prep_fn stops
the device if alloc_cmd fails. Then, once stopped, the device must be
restarted on the next command completion, so that the request(s) for
which alloc_cmd failed can be requeued. Otherwise the device hangs.Unfortunately, device restart is currently performed only for delayed
completions, i.e., in irqmode==2. This fact causes hangs, for the
above reasons, with the other irqmodes in combination with single-queue
block layer.This commits addresses this issue by making sure that, if stopped, the
device is properly restarted for all irqmodes on completions.Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente
Signed-off-by: Arianna AVanzini
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For the Timer IRQ mode (i.e., when command completions are delayed),
there is one timer for each CPU. Each of these timers
. has a completion queue associated with it, containing all the
command completions to be executed when the timer fires;
. is set, and a new completion-to-execute is inserted into its
completion queue, every time the dispatch code for a new command
happens to be executed on the CPU related to the timer.This implies that, if the dispatch of a new command happens to be
executed on a CPU whose timer has already been set, but has not yet
fired, then the timer is set again, to the completion time of the
newly arrived command. When the timer eventually fires, all its queued
completions are executed.This way of handling delayed command completions entails the following
problem: if more than one command completion is inserted into the
queue of a timer before the timer fires, then the expiration time for
the timer is moved forward every time each of these completions is
enqueued. As a consequence, only the last completion enqueued enjoys a
correct execution time, while all previous completions are unjustly
delayed until the last completion is executed (and at that time they
are executed all together).Specifically, if all the above completions are enqueued almost at the
same time, then the problem is negligible. On the opposite end, if
every completion is enqueued a while after the previous completion was
enqueued (in the extreme case, it is enqueued only right before the
timer would have expired), then every enqueued completion, except for
the last one, experiences an inflated delay, proportional to the number
of completions enqueued after it. In the end, commands, and thus I/O
requests, may be completed at an arbitrarily lower rate than the
desired one.This commit addresses this issue by replacing per-CPU timers with
per-command timers, i.e., by associating an individual timer with each
command.Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
20 Nov, 2015
3 commits
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The gendisk structure has not been initialized when using lightnvm.
Make sure to not delete it upon exit. Also make sure that we use the
appropriate disk_name at unregistration.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
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The linear addressing mode was removed in 7386af2. Make null_blk instead
expose the ppa format geometry and support the generic addressing mode.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
Instead of using a page pool, we can save memory by only allocating room
for 64 entries for the ppa command. Introduce a ppa_cache to allocate only
the required memory for the ppa list.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
17 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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Add support for registering as a LightNVM device. This allows us to
evaluate the performance of the LightNVM subsystem.In /drivers/Makefile, LightNVM is moved above block device drivers
to make sure that the LightNVM media managers have been initialized
before drivers under /drivers/block are initialized.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Fix by Jens Axboe to remove unneeded slab cache and the following
memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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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
01 Oct, 2015
1 commit
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blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq->errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq->errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
03 Sep, 2015
3 commits
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set_capacity() sets device's capacity using 512 bytes sectors.
null_blk calculates the number of sectors by size / bs, which
set_capacity is called with. This led to null_blk exposing the
wrong number of sectors when bs is not 512 bytes.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
Driver was not freeing the memory allocated for internal nullb queues.
This patch frees the memory during driver unload.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
"This first core part of the block IO changes contains:- Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph. We used to
rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
store the error in the bio itself.- Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.- Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
from Jeff Moyer. This caused performance regressions in various
tests. Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
instead.- Make /sys/block//queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
when deleting files. Enable the admin to configure the size down.
We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
sectors.- Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.
- Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
path). From Kent.- Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
faster. From Ming Lei.- Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
condition.- Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
for a while, and testing them. Ming also did a few fixes around
that.- Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
the bio->bi_error changes from Christoph.- Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"
* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
block: simplify bio_add_page()
block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put()
block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
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29 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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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 callbackThe 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
23 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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end_cmd finishes request associated with nullb_cmd struct, so we
should save pointer to request_queue in a local variable before
calling end_cmd.The problem was causes general protection fault with slab poisoning
enabled.Fixes: 8b70f45e2eb2 ("null_blk: restart request processing on completion handler")
Tested-by: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
02 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module
lock doing that too.A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual
suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
appended too"* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
module: add per-module param_lock
module: make perm const
params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
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02 Jun, 2015
2 commits
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When irqmode=2 (IRQ completion handler is timer) and queue_mode=1
(Block interface to use is rq), the completion handler should restart
request handling for any pending requests on a queue because request
processing stops when the number of commands are queued more than
hw_queue_depth (null_rq_prep_fn returns BLKPREP_DEFER).Without this change, the following command cannot finish.
# modprobe null_blk irqmode=2 queue_mode=1 hw_queue_depth=1
# fio --name=t --rw=read --size=1g --direct=1 \
--ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --filename=/dev/nullb0Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
When irqmode=2 (IRQ completion handler is timer), timer handler should
be called on the same CPU where the timer has been started.Since completion_queues are per-cpu and the completion handler only
touches completion_queue for local CPU, we need to prevent the handler
from running on a different CPU where the timer has been started.
Otherwise, the IO cannot be completed until another completion handler
is executed on that CPU.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
28 May, 2015
1 commit
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Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --> fail --> grammar --> Coccinelle --> new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.Test compiled on x86_64 against:
* allnoconfig
* allmodconfig
* allyesconfig@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Junio C Hamano
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
17 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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null_blk is partitionable, but it doesn't store any of the info. When
it is loaded, you would normally see:[1226739.343608] nullb0: unknown partition table
[1226739.343746] nullb1: unknown partition tablewhich can confuse some people. Add the appropriate gendisk flag
to suppress this info.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
03 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Check IS_ERR_OR_NULL(return value) instead of just return value.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei
Reduced to IS_ERR() by me, we never return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
27 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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When either queue_mode or irq_mode parameter is set outside its
boundaries, the driver will not complete requests. This stalls driver
initialization when partitions are probed. Fix by setting out of bound
values to the parameters default.Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling
Updated by me to have the parse+check in just one function.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
19 Nov, 2014
1 commit
30 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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Since we have the notion of a 'last' request in a chain, we can use
this to have the hardware optimize the issuing of requests. Add
a list_head parameter to queue_rq that the driver can use to
temporarily store hw commands for issue when 'last' is true. If we
are doing a chain of requests, pass in a NULL list for the first
request to force issue of that immediately, then batch the remainder
for deferred issue until the last request has been sent.Instead of adding yet another argument to the hot ->queue_rq path,
encapsulate the passed arguments in a blk_mq_queue_data structure.
This is passed as a constant, and has been tested as faster than
passing 4 (or even 3) args through ->queue_rq. Update drivers for
the new ->queue_rq() prototype. There are no functional changes
in this patch for drivers - if they don't use the passed in list,
then they will just queue requests individually like before.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
22 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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When creation of queues fails in init_driver_queues(), we free the
queues. But null_add_dev() doesn't test for this failure and continues
with the setup leading to strange consequences, likely oops. Fix the
problem by testing whether init_driver_queues() failed and do proper
error cleanup.Coverity-id: 1148005
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
19 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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Pull block layer driver update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block driver pull request for 3.18. Not a lot in there
this round, and nothing earth shattering.- A round of drbd fixes from the linbit team, and an improvement in
asender performance.- Removal of deprecated (and unused) IRQF_DISABLED flag in rsxx and
hd from Michael Opdenacker.- Disable entropy collection from flash devices by default, from Mike
Snitzer.- A small collection of xen blkfront/back fixes from Roger Pau Monné
and Vitaly Kuznetsov"* 'for-3.18/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices
xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request()
xen-blkback: fix leak on grant map error path
xen/blkback: unmap all persistent grants when frontend gets disconnected
rsxx: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
block: hd: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
drbd: use RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS() to define augment callbacks
drbd: compute the end before rb_insert_augmented()
drbd: Add missing newline in resync progress display in /proc/drbd
drbd: reduce lock contention in drbd_worker
drbd: Improve asender performance
drbd: Get rid of the WORK_PENDING macro
drbd: Get rid of the __no_warn and __cond_lock macros
drbd: Avoid inconsistent locking warning
drbd: Remove superfluous newline from "resync_extents" debugfs entry.
drbd: Use consistent names for all the bi_end_io callbacks
drbd: Use better variable names
05 Oct, 2014
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Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set
QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT.Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy
contributions. But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add
sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"):
- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block
devices. From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of
caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random"
sources.Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
