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Fabian Frederick
35086784ca block/blk-lib.c: make __blkdev_issue_zeroout static
__blkdev_issue_zeroout is only used in blk-lib.c

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-26 17:39:09 -06:00
Jens Axboe
c8123f8c9c block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop
When mkfs issues a full device discard and the device only
supports discards of a smallish size, we can loop in
blkdev_issue_discard() for a long time. If preempt isn't enabled,
this can turn into a softlock situation and the kernel will
start complaining.

Add an explicit cond_resched() at the end of the loop to avoid
that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-12 09:36:37 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
4f024f3797 block: Abstract out bvec iterator
Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6
2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
97597dc08f block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor
do_div() (called by sector_div() if CONFIG_LBDAF=y) is meant for divisions
of 64-bit number by 32-bit numbers.  Passing 64-bit divisor types caused
issues in the past on 32-bit platforms, cfr. commit
ea077b1b96 ("m68k: Truncate base in
do_div()").

As queue_limits.max_discard_sectors and .discard_granularity are unsigned
int, max_discard_sectors and granularity should be unsigned int.
As bdev_discard_alignment() returns int, alignment should be int.
Now 2 calls to sector_div() can be replaced by 32-bit arithmetic:
  - The 64-bit modulo operation can become a 32-bit modulo operation,
  - The 64-bit division and multiplication can be replaced by a 32-bit
    modulo operation and a subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:04:46 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
5577022f4e block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
Using wait_for_completion() for waiting for a IO request to be executed
results in wrong iowait time accounting. For example, a system having
the only task doing write() and fdatasync() on a block device can be
reported being idle instead of iowaiting as it should because
blkdev_issue_flush() calls wait_for_completion() which in turn calls
schedule() that does not increment the iowait proc counter and thus does
not turn on iowait time accounting.

The patch makes block layer use wait_for_completion_io() instead of
wait_for_completion() where appropriate to account iowait time
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-15 16:45:07 +01:00
Shaohua Li
0cfbcafcae block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard
Last post of this patch appears lost, so I resend this.

Now discard merge works, add plug for blkdev_issue_discard. This will help
discard request merge especially for raid0 case. In raid0, a big discard
request is split to small requests, and if correct plug is added, such small
requests can be merged in low layer.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-12-14 20:46:04 +01:00
Shaohua Li
8dd2cb7e88 block: discard granularity might not be power of 2
In MD raid case, discard granularity might not be power of 2, for example, a
4-disk raid5 has 3*chunk_size discard granularity. Correct the calculation for
such cases.

Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-12-14 20:46:04 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
579e8f3c7b block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
If the device supports WRITE SAME, use that to optimize zeroing of
blocks. If the device does not support WRITE SAME or if the operation
fails, fall back to writing zeroes the old-fashioned way.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20 14:31:49 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
4363ac7c13 block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20 14:31:45 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
c6e666345e block: split discard into aligned requests
When a disk has large discard_granularity and small max_discard_sectors,
discards are not split with optimal alignment.  In the limit case of
discard_granularity == max_discard_sectors, no request could be aligned
correctly, so in fact you might end up with no discarded logical blocks
at all.

Another example that helps showing the condition in the patch is with
discard_granularity == 64, max_discard_sectors == 128.  A request that is
submitted for 256 sectors 2..257 will be split in two: 2..129, 130..257.
However, only 2 aligned blocks out of 3 are included in the request;
128..191 may be left intact and not discarded.  With this patch, the
first request will be truncated to ensure good alignment of what's left,
and the split will be 2..127, 128..255, 256..257.  The patch will also
take into account the discard_alignment.

At most one extra request will be introduced, because the first request
will be reduced by at most granularity-1 sectors, and granularity
must be less than max_discard_sectors.  Subsequent requests will run
on round_down(max_discard_sectors, granularity) sectors, as in the
current code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-02 09:48:50 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
f6ff53d361 block: reorganize rounding of max_discard_sectors
Mostly a preparation for the next patch.

In principle this fixes an infinite loop if max_discard_sectors < granularity,
but that really shouldn't happen.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-02 09:48:49 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4c64500ead block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
A '!' snuck in before the unlikely, rendering it useless.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23 20:34:59 +02:00
Mike Snitzer
0f79960391 block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
Due to the recently identified overflow in read_capacity_16() it was
possible for max_discard_sectors to be zero but still have discards
enabled on the associated device's queue.

Eliminate the possibility for blkdev_issue_discard to infinitely loop.

Interestingly this issue wasn't identified until a device, whose
discard_granularity was 0 due to read_capacity_16 overflow, was consumed
by blk_stack_limits() to construct limits for a higher-level DM
multipath device.  The multipath device's resulting limits never had the
discard limits stacked because blk_stack_limits() will only do so if
the bottom device's discard_granularity != 0.  This resulted in the
multipath device's limits.max_discard_sectors being 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-06 21:32:02 +02:00
Lukas Czerner
8af1954d17 blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard is supported
Currently we return -EOPNOTSUPP in blkdev_issue_discard() if any of the
bio fails due to underlying device not supporting discard request.
However, if the device is for example dm device composed of devices
which some of them support discard and some of them does not, it is ok
for some bios to fail with EOPNOTSUPP, but it does not mean that discard
is not supported at all.

This commit removes the check for bios failed with EOPNOTSUPP and change
blkdev_issue_discard() to return operation not supported if and only if
the device does not actually supports it, not just part of the device as
some bios might indicate.

This change also fixes problem with BLKDISCARD ioctl() which now works
correctly on such dm devices.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:30:01 -06:00
Lukas Czerner
5baebe5c86 blkdev: Simple cleanup in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
In blkdev_issue_zeroout() we are submitting regular WRITE bios, so we do
not need to check for -EOPNOTSUPP specifically in case of error. Also
there is no need to have label submit: because there is no way to jump
out from the while cycle without an error and we really want to exit,
rather than try again. And also remove the check for (sz == 0) since at
that point sz can never be zero.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:26:28 -06:00
Lukas Czerner
5dba3089ed blkdev: Submit discard bio in batches in blkdev_issue_discard()
Currently we are waiting for every submitted REQ_DISCARD bio separately,
but it can have unwanted consequences of repeatedly flushing the queue,
so we rather submit bios in batches and wait for the entire batch, hence
narrowing the window of other ios going in.

Use bio_batch_end_io() and struct bio_batch for that purpose, the same
is used by blkdev_issue_zeroout(). Also change bio_batch_end_io() so we
always set !BIO_UPTODATE in the case of error and remove the check for
bb, since we are the only user of this function and we always set this.

Remove bio_get()/bio_put() from the blkdev_issue_discard() since
bio_alloc() and bio_batch_end_io() is doing the same thing, hence it is
not needed anymore.

I have done simple dd testing with surprising results. The script I have
used is:

for i in $(seq 10); do
        echo $i
        dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4k &
        sleep 5
done
/usr/bin/time -f %e ./blkdiscard /dev/sdc1

Running time of BLKDISCARD on the whole device:
with patch              without patch
0.95                    15.58

So we can see that in this artificial test the kernel with the patch
applied is approx 16x faster in discarding the device.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-06 19:26:27 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Tao Ma
eba2ed9c96 block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
barrier is already removed, so remove the obsolete comments
in blkdev_issue_zeroout.

Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 20:13:54 +01:00
Lukas Czerner
0aeea18964 block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
BZ29402
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402

We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of
blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic.

The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of
submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition()
and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for.
However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is
calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to
blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At
this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait),
bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic!

(thread 1)                      (thread 2)
bio_batch_end_io()              blkdev_issue_zeroout()
  if(bb) {                      ...
    if (bb->end_io)             ...
      bb->end_io(bio, err);     ...
    atomic_inc(&bb->done);      ...
    ...                         while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done))
    ...                         (let issued == bb.done)
    ...                         (do the rest of the function)
    ...                         return ret;
    complete(bb->wait);
    ^^^^^^^^
    panic

We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting.

Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Tested-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 15:36:08 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
291d24f6d9 block: fix kernel-doc format for blkdev_issue_zeroout
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 13:45:24 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
dd3932eddf block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
caller.  To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
state machine ahead.  So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout.  For
blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16 20:52:58 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
8c55536782 block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
Remove support for barriers on discards, which is unused now.  Also
remove the DISCARD_NOBARRIER I/O type in favour of just setting the
rw flags up locally in blkdev_issue_discard.

tj: Also remove DISCARD_SECURE and use REQ_SECURE directly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:40 +02:00
Adrian Hunter
8d57a98ccd block: add secure discard
Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
Dmitry Monakhov
18edc8eaa6 blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
- If function called without barrier option retvalue is incorrect

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-08 12:31:08 -04:00
Jens Axboe
10d1f9e2cc block: fix problem with sending down discard that isn't of correct granularity
If the queue doesn't have a limit set, or it just set UINT_MAX like
we default to, we coud be sending down a discard request that isn't
of the correct granularity if the block size is > 512b.

Fix this by adjusting max_discard_sectors down to the proper
alignment.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:26:33 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
66ac028019 block: don't allocate a payload for discard request
Allocating a fixed payload for discard requests always was a horrible hack,
and it's not coming to byte us when adding support for discard in DM/MD.

So change the code to leave the allocation of a payload to the lowlevel
driver.  Unfortunately that means we'll need another hack, which allows
us to update the various block layer length fields indicating that we
have a payload.  Instead of hiding this in sd.c, which we already partially
do for UNMAP support add a documented helper in the core block layer for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:23:08 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0341aafb7f block: fix bad use of min() on different types
Just cast the page size to sector_t, that will always fit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-29 09:28:21 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov
3f14d792f9 blkdev: add blkdev_issue_zeroout helper function
- Add bio_batch helper primitive. This is rather generic primitive
  for submitting/waiting a complex request which consists of several
  bios.
- blkdev_issue_zeroout() generate number of zero filed write bios.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-28 19:47:36 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov
f31e7e4022 blkdev: move blkdev_issue helper functions to separate file
Move blkdev_issue_discard from blk-barrier.c because it is
not barrier related.
Later the file will be populated by other helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-28 19:47:36 +02:00