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author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-12-08 20:57:37 +0100 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-12-16 17:53:38 +0100 |
commit | 77ea887e433ad8389d416826936c110fa7910f80 (patch) | |
tree | ac9d32aabcebf5a465acae2066b12c9335b5ca6f /include/linux | |
parent | d2bf1b6723ed0eab378363649d15b7893bf14e91 (diff) | |
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implement in-kernel gendisk events handling
Currently, media presence polling for removeable block devices is done
from userland. There are several issues with this.
* Polling is done by periodically opening the device. For SCSI
devices, the command sequence generated by such action involves a
few different commands including TEST_UNIT_READY. This behavior,
while perfectly legal, is different from Windows which only issues
single command, GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION. Unfortunately, some
ATAPI devices lock up after being periodically queried such command
sequences.
* There is no reliable and unintrusive way for a userland program to
tell whether the target device is safe for media presence polling.
For example, polling for media presence during an on-going burning
session can make it fail. The polling program can avoid this by
opening the device with O_EXCL but then it risks making a valid
exclusive user of the device fail w/ -EBUSY.
* Userland polling is unnecessarily heavy and in-kernel implementation
is lighter and better coordinated (workqueue, timer slack).
This patch implements framework for in-kernel disk event handling,
which includes media presence polling.
* bdops->check_events() is added, which supercedes ->media_changed().
It should check whether there's any pending event and return if so.
Currently, two events are defined - DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE and
DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST. ->check_events() is guaranteed not to be
called parallelly.
* gendisk->events and ->async_events are added. These should be
initialized by block driver before passing the device to add_disk().
The former contains the mask of all supported events and the latter
the mask of all events which the device can report without polling.
/sys/block/*/events[_async] export these to userland.
* Kernel parameter block.events_dfl_poll_msecs controls the system
polling interval (default is 0 which means disable) and
/sys/block/*/events_poll_msecs control polling intervals for
individual devices (default is -1 meaning use system setting). Note
that if a device can report all supported events asynchronously and
its polling interval isn't explicitly set, the device won't be
polled regardless of the system polling interval.
* If a device is opened exclusively with write access, event checking
is automatically disabled until all write exclusive accesses are
released.
* There are event 'clearing' events. For example, both of currently
defined events are cleared after the device has been successfully
opened. This information is passed to ->check_events() callback
using @clearing argument as a hint.
* Event checking is always performed from system_nrt_wq and timer
slack is set to 25% for polling.
* Nothing changes for drivers which implement ->media_changed() but
not ->check_events(). Going forward, all drivers will be converted
to ->check_events() and ->media_change() will be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/genhd.h | 18 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 83031bcf8366..05667e6989f1 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1251,6 +1251,9 @@ struct block_device_operations { int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **, unsigned long *); + unsigned int (*check_events) (struct gendisk *disk, + unsigned int clearing); + /* ->media_changed() is DEPRECATED, use ->check_events() instead */ int (*media_changed) (struct gendisk *); void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *); int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index f48501563917..997d22efdef0 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ struct block_device { void * bd_claiming; void * bd_holder; int bd_holders; + bool bd_write_holder; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS struct gendisk * bd_holder_disk; /* for sysfs slave linkng */ #endif diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h index 56e17ed24816..13893aa2ac9d 100644 --- a/include/linux/genhd.h +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h @@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ struct hd_struct { #define GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT 64 /* allow extended devt */ #define GENHD_FL_NATIVE_CAPACITY 128 +enum { + DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE = 1 << 0, /* media changed */ + DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST = 1 << 1, /* eject requested */ +}; + #define BLK_SCSI_MAX_CMDS (256) #define BLK_SCSI_CMD_PER_LONG (BLK_SCSI_MAX_CMDS / (sizeof(long) * 8)) @@ -143,6 +148,8 @@ struct disk_part_tbl { struct hd_struct __rcu *part[]; }; +struct disk_events; + struct gendisk { /* major, first_minor and minors are input parameters only, * don't use directly. Use disk_devt() and disk_max_parts(). @@ -154,6 +161,10 @@ struct gendisk { char disk_name[DISK_NAME_LEN]; /* name of major driver */ char *(*devnode)(struct gendisk *gd, mode_t *mode); + + unsigned int events; /* supported events */ + unsigned int async_events; /* async events, subset of all */ + /* Array of pointers to partitions indexed by partno. * Protected with matching bdev lock but stat and other * non-critical accesses use RCU. Always access through @@ -171,8 +182,8 @@ struct gendisk { struct kobject *slave_dir; struct timer_rand_state *random; - atomic_t sync_io; /* RAID */ + struct disk_events *ev; #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY struct blk_integrity *integrity; #endif @@ -405,6 +416,11 @@ static inline int get_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk) return disk->part0.policy; } +extern void disk_block_events(struct gendisk *disk); +extern void disk_unblock_events(struct gendisk *disk); +extern void disk_check_events(struct gendisk *disk); +extern unsigned int disk_clear_events(struct gendisk *disk, unsigned int mask); + /* drivers/char/random.c */ extern void add_disk_randomness(struct gendisk *disk); extern void rand_initialize_disk(struct gendisk *disk); |