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- Jun 16, 2009
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Li Zefan authored
When porting blktrace to tracepoints, we changed to trace/block.h for trace prober declarations. Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Martin K. Petersen authored
DM reuses the request queue when swapping in a new device table Introduce blk_set_default_limits() which can be used to reset the the queue_limits prior to stacking devices. Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Moyer authored
I noticed a blank line in blktrace output. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
Move the defaults to where we do the init of the backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: -
Gui Jianfeng authored
Actually, last_end_request in cfq_data isn't used now. So lets just remove it. Signed-off-by:
Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
This adds support to the BSG driver to report the proper device name to userspace for the bsg devices. Signed-off-by:
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
This adds support for block drivers to report their requested nodename to userspace. It also updates a number of block drivers to provide the needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 12, 2009
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix kernel-doc warnings in recently changed block/ source code. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jun 11, 2009
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Kiyoshi Ueda authored
This patch adds the following 2 interfaces for request-stacking drivers: - blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *clone, struct request *orig, struct bio_set *bs, gfp_t gfp_mask, int (*bio_ctr)(struct bio *, struct bio*, void *), void *data) * Clones bios in the original request to the clone request (bio_ctr is called for each cloned bios.) * Copies attributes of the original request to the clone request. The actual data parts (e.g. ->cmd, ->buffer, ->sense) are not copied. - blk_rq_unprep_clone(struct request *clone) * Frees cloned bios from the clone request. Request stacking drivers (e.g. request-based dm) need to make a clone request for a submitted request and dispatch it to other devices. To allocate request for the clone, request stacking drivers may not be able to use blk_get_request() because the allocation may be done in an irq-disabled context. So blk_rq_prep_clone() takes a request allocated by the caller as an argument. For each clone bio in the clone request, request stacking drivers should be able to set up their own completion handler. So blk_rq_prep_clone() takes a callback function which is called for each clone bio, and a pointer for private data which is passed to the callback. NOTE: blk_rq_prep_clone() doesn't copy any actual data of the original request. Pages are shared between original bios and cloned bios. So caller must not complete the original request before the clone request. Signed-off-by:Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 10, 2009
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount. In the case of cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the io_context would be taken. And when there are multiple process sharing io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context. Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine. Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t. Signed-off-by:
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 09, 2009
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Li Zefan authored
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds these new capabilities to this tracepoint: - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing - binary tracing without printf overhead - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions ... Cons: - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events. no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL. no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL. This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue. But this may change in the future. - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print. While blktrace do the convertion just before output. Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue. - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry. The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array(). I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing: dd dd + ioctl blktrace dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice) 1 7.36s, 42.7 MB/s 7.50s, 42.0 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s 2 7.43s, 42.3 MB/s 7.48s, 42.1 MB/s 7.43s, 42.4 MB/s 3 7.38s, 42.6 MB/s 7.45s, 42.2 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using those trace events vs blktrace. And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace: # ls -l -h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace: plug: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: 8,0 P N [kjournald] unplug_io: kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1 kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052974: 8,0 U N [kblockd/0] 1 remap: kjournald-480 [000] 303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384 kjournald-480 [000] 303.085043: 8,0 A W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384 bio_backmerge: kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: 8,0 M W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald] getrq: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084975: 8,0 G W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] bash-2066 [001] 1072.953770: 8,0 G N [bash] bash-2066 [001] 1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash] rq_complete: konsole-2065 [001] 300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0] konsole-2065 [001] 300.053191: 8,0 C W 103669040 + 16 [0] ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953811: 8,0 C N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0] ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0] rq_insert: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084986: 8,0 I W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] Changelog from v2 -> v3: - use the newly introduced __dynamic_array(). Changelog from v1 -> v2: - use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required to store hex dump of rq->cmd(). - support large pc requests. - add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT. - some cleanups. Signed-off-by:Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Due to commit 1cd96c24 ("block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak"), BSG SMP requests get the false warnings: WARNING: at block/blk-core.c:1068 __blk_put_request+0x52/0xc0() This sets rq->bio to NULL to avoid that false warnings. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
DM no longer needs to set limits explicitly when calling blk_stack_limits. Let the latter automatically deal with bounce_pfn scaling. Fix kerneldoc variable names. Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
This reverts commit a05c0205. DM doesn't need to access the bounce_pfn directly. Signed-off-by:
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Tejun's "block: set rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes() on issue" patch seems to be incomplete; It doesn't set rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes() for a bidi request (req->next_rq). As a result, all bidi users are broken. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 03, 2009
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Martin K. Petersen authored
blk_queue_bounce_limit() is more than a wrapper about the request queue limits.bounce_pfn variable. Introduce blk_queue_bounce_pfn() which can be called by stacking drivers that wish to set the bounce limit explicitly. Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 02, 2009
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Kiyoshi Ueda authored
I found one more mis-conversion to the 'request is always dequeued when completing' model in elv_abort_queue() during code inspection. Although I haven't hit any problem caused by this mis-conversion yet and just done compile/boot test, please apply if you have no problem. Request must be dequeued when it completes. However, elv_abort_queue() completes requests without dequeueing. This will cause oops in the __blk_end_request_all(). This patch fixes the oops. Signed-off-by:
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- May 30, 2009
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James Bottomley authored
Doing a bit of torture testing, I ran across a BUG in the block subsystem (at blk-core.c:2048): the test for if the request is queued. It turns out the trigger was a BLKPREP_KILL coming out of the SCSI prep function. Currently for BLKPREP_KILL requests, we send them straight into __blk_end_request_all() with an error, but they've never been dequeued, so they trip the bug. Fix this by starting requests before killing them. Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
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- May 28, 2009
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Mike Snitzer authored
DM needs to use blk_stack_limits(), so it needs to be exported. Acked-by:
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- May 27, 2009
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Kiyoshi Ueda authored
The commit below in 2.6-block/for-2.6.31 causes no diskstat problem because the blk_discard_rq() check was added with '&&'. It should be 'blk_fs_request() || blk_discard_rq()'. This patch does it and fixes the no diskstat problem. Please review and apply. ------ /proc/diskstat without this patch ------------------------------------- 8 0 sda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- /proc/diskstat with this patch applied --------------------------------- 8 0 sda 4186 303 373621 61600 9578 3859 107468 169479 2 89755 231059 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- commit c69d4854 Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Date: Fri Apr 24 08:12:19 2009 +0200 block: include discard requests in IO accounting We currently don't do merging on discard requests, but we potentially could. If we do, then we need to include discard requests in the IO accounting, or merging would end up decrementing in_flight IO counters for an IO which never incremented them. So enable accounting for discard requests. <snip> static inline int blk_do_io_stat(struct request *rq) { - return rq->rq_disk && blk_rq_io_stat(rq) && blk_fs_request(rq); + return rq->rq_disk && blk_rq_io_stat(rq) && blk_fs_request(rq) && + blk_discard_rq(rq); } -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by:
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James Bottomley authored
commit e8939a50466fd963eb1ba9118c34b9ffb7ff6aa6 Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Date: Fri May 8 11:54:16 2009 +0900 block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch Added a BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(req)) to the top of blk_finish_req(). Unfortunately, this checks whether req->queuelist is empty. This list is doing double duty both as the queue list and the tag list, so tagged requests come in here with this not empty and boom (the tag list is emptied by blk_queue_end_tag() lower down). Fix this by moving the BUG_ON to below the end tag we also seem vulnerable to this in blk_requeue_request() as well. I think all uses of blk_queued_rq() need auditing because the check is clearly wrong in the tagged case. Signed-off-by:
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- May 22, 2009
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Martin K. Petersen authored
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs. However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum request size, etc. are queue properties. This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices. The elevator code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O scheduler. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
To accommodate stacking drivers that do not have an associated request queue we're moving the limits to a separate, embedded structure. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions instead of poking the request queue variables directly. Signed-off-by:
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Martin K. Petersen authored
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by:
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- May 20, 2009
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Jens Axboe authored
Make them fully share the tag space, but disallow async requests using the last any two slots. Signed-off-by:
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- May 19, 2009
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Jens Axboe authored
Add a note about how one needs to be careful when setting up these bio chains. Extracted from Boaz's updated patch. Signed-off-by: -
Boaz Harrosh authored
OSD was the last in-tree user of blk_rq_append_bio(). Now that it is fixed blk_rq_append_bio is un-exported and is only used internally by block layer. Signed-off-by:
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Boaz Harrosh authored
New block API: given a struct bio allocates a new request. This is the parallel of generic_make_request for BLOCK_PC commands users. The passed bio may be a chained-bio. The bio is bounced if needed inside the call to this member. This is in the effort of un-exporting blk_rq_append_bio(). Signed-off-by:
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James Bottomley authored
Use blk_rq_append_bio() internally instead of blk_rq_bio_prep() so blk_rq_map_kern can be called multiple times, to map multiple buffers. This is in the effort to un-export blk_rq_append_bio() Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
In commit c3a4d78c, while introducing rq->resid_len, the default value of residue count was changed from full count to zero. The conversion was done under the assumption that when a request fails residue count wasn't defined. However, Boaz and James pointed out that this wasn't true and the residue count should be preserved for failed requests too. This patchset restores the original behavior by setting rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes(rq) on request start and restoring explicit clearing in affected drivers. While at it, take advantage of the fact that rq->resid_len is set to full count where applicable. * ide-cd: rq->resid_len cleared on pc success * mptsas: req->resid_len cleared on success * sas_expander: rsp/req->resid_len cleared on success * mpt2sas_transport: req->resid_len cleared on success * ide-cd, ide-tape, mptsas, sas_host_smp, mpt2sas_transport, ub: take advantage of initial full count to simplify code Boaz Harrosh spotted bug in resid_len initialization. Fixed as suggested. Signed-off-by:
Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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- May 12, 2009
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Kazuhisa Ichikawa authored
Current bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test within __end_that_request_first() does not seem correct. It checks bio->bi_idx against bio->bi_vcnt, but the subsequent code uses idx (which is, bio->bi_idx + next_idx) as the array index into bio_vec array. This means that the test really make sense only at the first iteration of !(nr_bytes >=bio->bi_size) case (when next_idx == zero). Fix this by replacing bio->bi_idx with idx. (This patch applies to 2.6.30-rc4.) Signed-off-by:
Kazuhisa Ichikawa <ki@epsilou.com> Signed-off-by:
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- May 11, 2009
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Let's put the completion related functions back to block/blk-core.c where they have lived. We can also unexport blk_end_bidi_request() and __blk_end_bidi_request(), which nobody uses. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution. A request is always acquired from the request queue via elv_next_request(). After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it or process it without dequeueing. Dequeue allows elv_next_request() to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight. Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with segments only without considering request boundary. However, the benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API ambiguity is increasing. Segment based drivers are usually for very old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer and its more modern users. Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing model. This patch completes the API transition by... * renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request() * renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request() * adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start * disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests * applying new API to all LLDs Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating. [ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ] Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Block low level drivers for some reason have been pretty good at abusing block layer API. Especially struct request's fields tend to get violated in all possible ways. Make it clear that low level drivers MUST NOT access or manipulate rq->sector and rq->data_len directly by prefixing them with double underscores. This change is also necessary to break build of out-of-tree codes which assume the previous block API where internal fields can be manipulated and rq->data_len carries residual count on completion. [ Impact: hide internal fields, block API change ] Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
struct request has had a few different ways to represent some properties of a request. ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated as necessary by the low level drivers. The thing is that as block layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't necessary and only cause confusion. In addition, manual management of request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at the very least. Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and rq->bio->bi_size. This is more convoluted than the hard_ case. rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests. rq->data_len is initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc requests. This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and what the specific LLD is actually doing. rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in the contiguous data area at the front. This is mainly used by drivers which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment. This value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9. However, data length for pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field becomes a bit confusing. In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property leads only to confusion and subtle bugs. With recent block low level driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these duplicate fields directly. Drop all the duplicates. Now rq->sector means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length. Everything else is defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors. * blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update. This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no in-kernel user yet tho). * bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer now uses byte count as the primary data length. * blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct. In-block users converted. * blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is blk_rq_sectors(). In-block users converted. * blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9. More convenient one is used. * blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const pointer to request. [ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ] Signed-off-by: -
Tejun Heo authored
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver directly manipulates request fields. This means that the 'hard' request fields always equal the !hard fields. Convert all rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to accessors. While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c. [ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ] Signed-off-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Tested-by:
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by:
Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Acked-by:
Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Implement accessors - blk_rq_pos(), blk_rq_sectors() and blk_rq_cur_sectors() which return rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors and rq->hard_cur_sectors respectively and convert direct references of the said fields to the accessors. This is in preparation of request data length handling cleanup. Geert : suggested adding const to struct request * parameter to accessors Sergei : spotted error in patch description [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Tested-by:
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
rq->data_len served two purposes - the length of data buffer on issue and the residual count on completion. This duality creates some headaches. First of all, block layer and low level drivers can't really determine what rq->data_len contains while a request is executing. It could be the total request length or it coulde be anything else one of the lower layers is using to keep track of residual count. This complicates things because blk_rq_bytes() and thus [__]blk_end_request_all() relies on rq->data_len for PC commands. Drivers which want to report residual count should first cache the total request length, update rq->data_len and then complete the request with the cached data length. Secondly, it makes requests default to reporting full residual count, ie. reporting that no data transfer occurred. The residual count is an exception not the norm; however, the driver should clear rq->data_len to zero to signify the normal cases while leaving it alone means no data transfer occurred at all. This reverse default behavior complicates code unnecessarily and renders block PC on some drivers (ide-tape/floppy) unuseable. This patch adds rq->resid_len which is used only for residual count. While at it, remove now unnecessasry blk_rq_bytes() caching in ide_pc_intr() as rq->data_len is not changed anymore. Boaz : spotted missing conversion in osd Sergei : spotted too early conversion to blk_rq_bytes() in ide-tape [ Impact: cleanup residual count handling, report 0 resid by default ] Signed-off-by:
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