linux_dsm_epyc7002/include/uapi/linux/nbd.h
Alex Bligh 75f187aba5 nbd: support FLUSH requests
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux
block layer.  If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor
O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback
cache.  Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will
not be safe against power losses.

The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA
command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for
these features.  This patch adds support for the cache flush command and
flag.  In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl,
and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush.  When the
flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we
translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands.

FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software
servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over
supporting flush only.  Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a
realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not.  It is also
not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush.
The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD
protocol documentation says nothing about it.

The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags
must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing
that.  The bug manifests itself as follows.  Suppose you two different
client/server pairs to start the NBD device.  Suppose also that the first
client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends
NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two
things.  Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a
stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every
time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command.

This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this
patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:22 -08:00

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/*
* 1999 Copyright (C) Pavel Machek, pavel@ucw.cz. This code is GPL.
* 1999/11/04 Copyright (C) 1999 VMware, Inc. (Regis "HPReg" Duchesne)
* Made nbd_end_request() use the io_request_lock
* 2001 Copyright (C) Steven Whitehouse
* New nbd_end_request() for compatibility with new linux block
* layer code.
* 2003/06/24 Louis D. Langholtz <ldl@aros.net>
* Removed unneeded blksize_bits field from nbd_device struct.
* Cleanup PARANOIA usage & code.
* 2004/02/19 Paul Clements
* Removed PARANOIA, plus various cleanup and comments
*/
#ifndef _UAPILINUX_NBD_H
#define _UAPILINUX_NBD_H
#include <linux/types.h>
#define NBD_SET_SOCK _IO( 0xab, 0 )
#define NBD_SET_BLKSIZE _IO( 0xab, 1 )
#define NBD_SET_SIZE _IO( 0xab, 2 )
#define NBD_DO_IT _IO( 0xab, 3 )
#define NBD_CLEAR_SOCK _IO( 0xab, 4 )
#define NBD_CLEAR_QUE _IO( 0xab, 5 )
#define NBD_PRINT_DEBUG _IO( 0xab, 6 )
#define NBD_SET_SIZE_BLOCKS _IO( 0xab, 7 )
#define NBD_DISCONNECT _IO( 0xab, 8 )
#define NBD_SET_TIMEOUT _IO( 0xab, 9 )
#define NBD_SET_FLAGS _IO( 0xab, 10)
enum {
NBD_CMD_READ = 0,
NBD_CMD_WRITE = 1,
NBD_CMD_DISC = 2,
NBD_CMD_FLUSH = 3,
NBD_CMD_TRIM = 4
};
/* values for flags field */
#define NBD_FLAG_HAS_FLAGS (1 << 0) /* nbd-server supports flags */
#define NBD_FLAG_READ_ONLY (1 << 1) /* device is read-only */
#define NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH (1 << 2) /* can flush writeback cache */
/* there is a gap here to match userspace */
#define NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM (1 << 5) /* send trim/discard */
#define nbd_cmd(req) ((req)->cmd[0])
/* userspace doesn't need the nbd_device structure */
/* These are sent over the network in the request/reply magic fields */
#define NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC 0x25609513
#define NBD_REPLY_MAGIC 0x67446698
/* Do *not* use magics: 0x12560953 0x96744668. */
/*
* This is the packet used for communication between client and
* server. All data are in network byte order.
*/
struct nbd_request {
__be32 magic;
__be32 type; /* == READ || == WRITE */
char handle[8];
__be64 from;
__be32 len;
} __attribute__((packed));
/*
* This is the reply packet that nbd-server sends back to the client after
* it has completed an I/O request (or an error occurs).
*/
struct nbd_reply {
__be32 magic;
__be32 error; /* 0 = ok, else error */
char handle[8]; /* handle you got from request */
};
#endif /* _UAPILINUX_NBD_H */