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>

3 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index e54305cacc98..820e7aaad4fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ static inline bool bio_is_rw(struct bio *bio)
 	if (!bio_has_data(bio))
 		return false;
 
+	if (bio->bi_rw & REQ_WRITE_SAME)
+		return false;
+
 	return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 1b229664f573..cdf11191e645 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
 	__REQ_PRIO,		/* boost priority in cfq */
 	__REQ_DISCARD,		/* request to discard sectors */
 	__REQ_SECURE,		/* secure discard (used with __REQ_DISCARD) */
+	__REQ_WRITE_SAME,	/* write same block many times */
 
 	__REQ_NOIDLE,		/* don't anticipate more IO after this one */
 	__REQ_FUA,		/* forced unit access */
@@ -185,13 +186,15 @@ enum rq_flag_bits {
 #define REQ_META		(1 << __REQ_META)
 #define REQ_PRIO		(1 << __REQ_PRIO)
 #define REQ_DISCARD		(1 << __REQ_DISCARD)
+#define REQ_WRITE_SAME		(1 << __REQ_WRITE_SAME)
 #define REQ_NOIDLE		(1 << __REQ_NOIDLE)
 
 #define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK \
 	(REQ_FAILFAST_DEV | REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT | REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER)
 #define REQ_COMMON_MASK \
 	(REQ_WRITE | REQ_FAILFAST_MASK | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO | \
-	 REQ_DISCARD | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_SECURE)
+	 REQ_DISCARD | REQ_WRITE_SAME | REQ_NOIDLE | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | \
+	 REQ_SECURE)
 #define REQ_CLONE_MASK		REQ_COMMON_MASK
 
 /* This mask is used for both bio and request merge checking */
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 90f7abe8f183..1756001210d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ struct queue_limits {
 	unsigned int		io_min;
 	unsigned int		io_opt;
 	unsigned int		max_discard_sectors;
+	unsigned int		max_write_same_sectors;
 	unsigned int		discard_granularity;
 	unsigned int		discard_alignment;
 
@@ -614,9 +615,20 @@ static inline bool blk_check_merge_flags(unsigned int flags1,
 	if ((flags1 & REQ_SECURE) != (flags2 & REQ_SECURE))
 		return false;
 
+	if ((flags1 & REQ_WRITE_SAME) != (flags2 & REQ_WRITE_SAME))
+		return false;
+
 	return true;
 }
 
+static inline bool blk_write_same_mergeable(struct bio *a, struct bio *b)
+{
+	if (bio_data(a) == bio_data(b))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 /*
  * q->prep_rq_fn return values
  */
@@ -818,6 +830,9 @@ static inline unsigned int blk_queue_get_max_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
 	if (unlikely(cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD))
 		return q->limits.max_discard_sectors;
 
+	if (unlikely(cmd_flags & REQ_WRITE_SAME))
+		return q->limits.max_write_same_sectors;
+
 	return q->limits.max_sectors;
 }
 
@@ -886,6 +901,8 @@ extern void blk_queue_max_segments(struct request_queue *, unsigned short);
 extern void blk_queue_max_segment_size(struct request_queue *, unsigned int);
 extern void blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
 		unsigned int max_discard_sectors);
+extern void blk_queue_max_write_same_sectors(struct request_queue *q,
+		unsigned int max_write_same_sectors);
 extern void blk_queue_logical_block_size(struct request_queue *, unsigned short);
 extern void blk_queue_physical_block_size(struct request_queue *, unsigned int);
 extern void blk_queue_alignment_offset(struct request_queue *q,
@@ -1016,6 +1033,8 @@ static inline struct request *blk_map_queue_find_tag(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt,
 extern int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *, gfp_t, sector_t *);
 extern int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned long flags);
+extern int blkdev_issue_write_same(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
+		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct page *page);
 extern int blkdev_issue_zeroout(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 			sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 static inline int sb_issue_discard(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block,
@@ -1193,6 +1212,16 @@ static inline unsigned int bdev_discard_zeroes_data(struct block_device *bdev)
 	return queue_discard_zeroes_data(bdev_get_queue(bdev));
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int bdev_write_same(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+	struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+
+	if (q)
+		return q->limits.max_write_same_sectors;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int queue_dma_alignment(struct request_queue *q)
 {
 	return q ? q->dma_alignment : 511;