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Hannes Reinecke
fef912bf86 block: genhd: add 'groups' argument to device_add_disk
Update device_add_disk() to take an 'groups' argument so that
individual drivers can register a device with additional sysfs
attributes.
This avoids race condition the driver would otherwise have if these
groups were to be created with sysfs_add_groups().

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-28 08:30:28 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
3526dd0c78 for-4.17/block-20180402
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Merge tag 'for-4.17/block-20180402' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It's a pretty quiet round this time, which is nice. This contains:

   - series from Bart, cleaning up the way we set/test/clear atomic
     queue flags.

   - series from Bart, fixing races between gendisk and queue
     registration and removal.

   - set of bcache fixes and improvements from various folks, by way of
     Michael Lyle.

   - set of lightnvm updates from Matias, most of it being the 1.2 to
     2.0 transition.

   - removal of unused DIO flags from Nikolay.

   - blk-mq/sbitmap memory ordering fixes from Omar.

   - divide-by-zero fix for BFQ from Paolo.

   - minor documentation patches from Randy.

   - timeout fix from Tejun.

   - Alpha "can't write a char atomically" fix from Mikulas.

   - set of NVMe fixes by way of Keith.

   - bsg and bsg-lib improvements from Christoph.

   - a few sed-opal fixes from Jonas.

   - cdrom check-disk-change deadlock fix from Maurizio.

   - various little fixes, comment fixes, etc from various folks"

* tag 'for-4.17/block-20180402' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (139 commits)
  blk-mq: Directly schedule q->timeout_work when aborting a request
  blktrace: fix comment in blktrace_api.h
  lightnvm: remove function name in strings
  lightnvm: pblk: remove some unnecessary NULL checks
  lightnvm: pblk: don't recover unwritten lines
  lightnvm: pblk: implement 2.0 support
  lightnvm: pblk: implement get log report chunk
  lightnvm: pblk: rename ppaf* to addrf*
  lightnvm: pblk: check for supported version
  lightnvm: implement get log report chunk helpers
  lightnvm: make address conversions depend on generic device
  lightnvm: add support for 2.0 address format
  lightnvm: normalize geometry nomenclature
  lightnvm: complete geo structure with maxoc*
  lightnvm: add shorten OCSSD version in geo
  lightnvm: add minor version to generic geometry
  lightnvm: simplify geometry structure
  lightnvm: pblk: refactor init/exit sequences
  lightnvm: Avoid validation of default op value
  lightnvm: centralize permission check for lightnvm ioctl
  ...
2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
Bart Van Assche
8b904b5b6b block: Use blk_queue_flag_*() in drivers instead of queue_flag_*()
This patch has been generated as follows:

for verb in set_unlocked clear_unlocked set clear; do
  replace-in-files queue_flag_${verb} blk_queue_flag_${verb%_unlocked} \
    $(git grep -lw queue_flag_${verb} drivers block/bsg*)
done

Except for protecting all queue flag changes with the queue lock
this patch does not change any functionality.

Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-08 14:13:48 -07:00
Vishal Verma
3ffb0ba9b5 libnvdimm, {btt, blk}: do integrity setup before add_disk()
Prior to 25520d55cd ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
we needed to temporarily add a zero-capacity disk before registering for
blk-integrity. But adding a zero-capacity disk caused the partition
table scanning to bail early, and this resulted in partitions not coming
up after a probe of the BTT or blk namespaces.

We can now register for integrity before the disk has been added, and
this fixes the rescan problems.

Fixes: 25520d55cd ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
Reported-by: Dariusz Dokupil <dariusz.dokupil@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2018-03-07 13:50:09 -08:00
Dmitry Monakhov
b1fb2c52b2 block: guard bvec iteration logic
Currently if some one try to advance bvec beyond it's size we simply
dump WARN_ONCE and continue to iterate beyond bvec array boundaries.
This simply means that we endup dereferencing/corrupting random memory
region.

Sane reaction would be to propagate error back to calling context
But bvec_iter_advance's calling context is not always good for error
handling. For safity reason let truncate iterator size to zero which
will break external iteration loop which prevent us from unpredictable
memory range corruption. And even it caller ignores an error, it will
corrupt it's own bvecs, not others.

This patch does:
- Return error back to caller with hope that it will react on this
- Truncate iterator size

Code was added long time ago here 4550dd6c, luckily no one hit it
in real life :)

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[hch: switch to true/false returns instead of errno values]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-03 16:56:26 -06:00
Dmitry Monakhov
e23947bd76 bio-integrity: fold bio_integrity_enabled to bio_integrity_prep
Currently all integrity prep hooks are open-coded, and if prepare fails
we ignore it's code and fail bio with EIO. Let's return real error to
upper layer, so later caller may react accordingly.

In fact no one want to use bio_integrity_prep() w/o bio_integrity_enabled,
so it is reasonable to fold it in to one function.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[hch: merged with the latest block tree,
	return bool from bio_integrity_prep]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-03 16:56:24 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
0b0bcacc3b block: don't bother with bounce limits for make_request drivers
We only call blk_queue_bounce for request-based drivers, so stop messing
with it for make_request based drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-27 12:13:45 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e4cbee93d block: switch bios to blk_status_t
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Vishal Verma
3ae3d67ba7 libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes
nsio_rw_bytes can clear media errors, but this cannot be done while we
are in an atomic context due to locking within ACPI. From the BTT,
->rw_bytes may be called either from atomic or process context depending
on whether the calls happen during initialization or during IO.

During init, we want to ensure error clearing happens, and the flag
marking process context allows nsio_rw_bytes to do that. When called
during IO, we're in atomic context, and error clearing can be skipped.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2017-05-10 21:46:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f0c98ebc57 libnvdimm for 4.8
1/ Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing:
    The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
    deprecated. Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement either
    ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm. ADR
    (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers to the
    memory controller on a power-fail event. Flush addresses are defined in
    ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure:
    "Flush Hint Address Structure". A flush hint is an mmio address that
    when written and fenced assures that all previous posted writes
    targeting a given dimm have been flushed to media.
 
 2/ On-demand ARS (address range scrub):
    Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
    in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the media
    to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a re-scrub at
    any time.
 
 3/ Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command format.
 
 4/ Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.
 
 5/ Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
2016-07-28 17:38:16 -07:00
Dan Williams
0d52c756a6 block: convert to device_add_disk()
For block drivers that specify a parent device, convert them to use
device_add_disk().

This conversion was done with the following semantic patch:

    @@
    struct gendisk *disk;
    expression E;
    @@

    - disk->driverfs_dev = E;
    ...
    - add_disk(disk);
    + device_add_disk(E, disk);

    @@
    struct gendisk *disk;
    expression E1, E2;
    @@

    - disk->driverfs_dev = E1;
    ...
    E2 = disk;
    ...
    - add_disk(E2);
    + device_add_disk(E1, E2);

...plus some manual fixups for a few missed conversions.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-06-27 12:26:08 -07:00
Dan Williams
f02716db95 libnvdimm: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
Clean up needless calls to the action routine by letting
devm_add_action_or_reset() call it automatically.  This does cause the
disk to registered and immediately unregistered when a memory allocation
fails, but the block layer should be prepared for such an event.

Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-06-15 14:59:17 -07:00
Dan Williams
200c79da82 libnvdimm, pmem, pfn: make pmem_rw_bytes generic and refactor pfn setup
In preparation for providing an alternative (to block device) access
mechanism to persistent memory, convert pmem_rw_bytes() to
nsio_rw_bytes().  This allows ->rw_bytes() functionality without
requiring a 'struct pmem_device' to be instantiated.

In other words, when ->rw_bytes() is in use i/o is driven through
'struct nd_namespace_io', otherwise it is driven through 'struct
pmem_device' and the block layer.  This consolidates the disjoint calls
to devm_exit_badblocks() and devm_memunmap() into a common
devm_nsio_disable() and cleans up the init path to use a unified
pmem_attach_disk() implementation.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:23 -07:00
Dan Williams
9d90725ddc libnvdimm, blk: move i/o infrastructure to nd_namespace_blk
Consolidate the information for issuing i/o to a blk-namespace, and
eliminate some pointer chasing.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:23 -07:00
Dan Williams
8378af17a4 libnvdimm, blk: quiet i/o error reporting
I/O errors events have the potential to be a high frequency and a log
message for each event can swamp the system.  This message is also
redundant with upper layer error reporting.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:23 -07:00
Dan Williams
d44077a7cd libnvdimm, blk: use ->queuedata for driver private data
Save a pointer chase by storing the driver private data in the
request_queue rather than the gendisk.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:22 -07:00
Dan Williams
d29cee120e libnvdimm, blk: use devm_add_action to release bdev resources
Register a callback to clean up the request_queue and put the gendisk at
driver disable time.

Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 12:26:22 -07:00
Dan Williams
e32bc729a3 libnvdimm, btt, convert nd_btt_probe() to devm
Pass the device performing the probe so we can use a devm allocation for
the btt superblock.

Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 10:59:54 -07:00
Dan Williams
298f2bc5db libnvdimm, pmem: kill pmem->ndns
We can derive the common namespace from other information.  We also do
not need to cache it because all the usages are in slow paths.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-04-22 10:59:54 -07:00
NeilBrown
ec56151d38 nvdimm/blk: don't allocate unused major device number
When alloc_disk(0) is used ->major is completely ignored, all devices
are allocated with a "major" of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR.

So don't allocate nd_blk_major

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-03-09 14:59:41 -08:00
Jens Axboe
dece16353e block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie
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 <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
2015-11-07 10:40:46 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4246a0b63b block: add a bi_error field to struct bio
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 callback

The 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 <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
Dan Williams
5813882094 libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Dan Williams
f0dc089ce2 libnvdimm: enable iostat
This is disabled by default as the overhead is prohibitive, but if the
user takes the action to turn it on we'll oblige.

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Vishal Verma
fcae695737 libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
Support multiple block sizes (sector + metadata) for nd_blk in the
same way as done for the BTT. Add the idea of an 'internal' lbasize,
which is properly aligned and padded, and store metadata in this space.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00
Ross Zwisler
047fc8a1f9 libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
The libnvdimm implementation handles allocating dimm address space (DPA)
between PMEM and BLK mode interfaces.  After DPA has been allocated from
a BLK-region to a BLK-namespace the nd_blk driver attaches to handle I/O
as a struct bio based block device. Unlike PMEM, BLK is required to
handle platform specific details like mmio register formats and memory
controller interleave.  For this reason the libnvdimm generic nd_blk
driver calls back into the bus provider to carry out the I/O.

This initial implementation handles the BLK interface defined by the
ACPI 6 NFIT [1] and the NVDIMM DSM Interface Example [2] composed from
DCR (dimm control region), BDW (block data window), IDT (interleave
descriptor) NFIT structures and the hardware register format.
[1]: http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
[2]: http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2015-06-26 11:23:38 -04:00