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* blk-mq: merge blk-softirq.c into blk-mq.cChristoph Hellwig2020-06-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | __blk_complete_request is only called from the blk-mq code, and duplicates a lot of code from blk-mq.c. Move it there to prepare for better code sharing and simplifications. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline EncryptionSatya Tangirala2020-05-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Blk-crypto delegates crypto operations to inline encryption hardware when available. The separately configurable blk-crypto-fallback contains a software fallback to the kernel crypto API - when enabled, blk-crypto will use this fallback for en/decryption when inline encryption hardware is not available. This lets upper layers not have to worry about whether or not the underlying device has support for inline encryption before deciding to specify an encryption context for a bio. It also allows for testing without actual inline encryption hardware - in particular, it makes it possible to test the inline encryption code in ext4 and f2fs simply by running xfstests with the inlinecrypt mount option, which in turn allows for things like the regular upstream regression testing of ext4 to cover the inline encryption code paths. For more details, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst. Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: Inline encryption support for blk-mqSatya Tangirala2020-05-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We must have some way of letting a storage device driver know what encryption context it should use for en/decrypting a request. However, it's the upper layers (like the filesystem/fscrypt) that know about and manages encryption contexts. As such, when the upper layer submits a bio to the block layer, and this bio eventually reaches a device driver with support for inline encryption, the device driver will need to have been told the encryption context for that bio. We want to communicate the encryption context from the upper layer to the storage device along with the bio, when the bio is submitted to the block layer. To do this, we add a struct bio_crypt_ctx to struct bio, which can represent an encryption context (note that we can't use the bi_private field in struct bio to do this because that field does not function to pass information across layers in the storage stack). We also introduce various functions to manipulate the bio_crypt_ctx and make the bio/request merging logic aware of the bio_crypt_ctx. We also make changes to blk-mq to make it handle bios with encryption contexts. blk-mq can merge many bios into the same request. These bios need to have contiguous data unit numbers (the necessary changes to blk-merge are also made to ensure this) - as such, it suffices to keep the data unit number of just the first bio, since that's all a storage driver needs to infer the data unit number to use for each data block in each bio in a request. blk-mq keeps track of the encryption context to be used for all the bios in a request with the request's rq_crypt_ctx. When the first bio is added to an empty request, blk-mq will program the encryption context of that bio into the request_queue's keyslot manager, and store the returned keyslot in the request's rq_crypt_ctx. All the functions to operate on encryption contexts are in blk-crypto.c. Upper layers only need to call bio_crypt_set_ctx with the encryption key, algorithm and data_unit_num; they don't have to worry about getting a keyslot for each encryption context, as blk-mq/blk-crypto handles that. Blk-crypto also makes it possible for request-based layered devices like dm-rq to make use of inline encryption hardware by cloning the rq_crypt_ctx and programming a keyslot in the new request_queue when necessary. Note that any user of the block layer can submit bios with an encryption context, such as filesystems, device-mapper targets, etc. Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: Keyslot Manager for Inline EncryptionSatya Tangirala2020-05-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inline Encryption hardware allows software to specify an encryption context (an encryption key, crypto algorithm, data unit num, data unit size) along with a data transfer request to a storage device, and the inline encryption hardware will use that context to en/decrypt the data. The inline encryption hardware is part of the storage device, and it conceptually sits on the data path between system memory and the storage device. Inline Encryption hardware implementations often function around the concept of "keyslots". These implementations often have a limited number of "keyslots", each of which can hold a key (we say that a key can be "programmed" into a keyslot). Requests made to the storage device may have a keyslot and a data unit number associated with them, and the inline encryption hardware will en/decrypt the data in the requests using the key programmed into that associated keyslot and the data unit number specified with the request. As keyslots are limited, and programming keys may be expensive in many implementations, and multiple requests may use exactly the same encryption contexts, we introduce a Keyslot Manager to efficiently manage keyslots. We also introduce a blk_crypto_key, which will represent the key that's programmed into keyslots managed by keyslot managers. The keyslot manager also functions as the interface that upper layers will use to program keys into inline encryption hardware. For more information on the Keyslot Manager, refer to documentation found in block/keyslot-manager.c and linux/keyslot-manager.h. Co-developed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: merge partition-generic.c and check.cChristoph Hellwig2020-03-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | Merge block/partition-generic.c and block/partitions/check.c into a single block/partitions/core.c as the content is closely related and both files are tiny. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds2020-01-291-1/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This series is slightly unusual because it includes Arnd's compat ioctl tree here: 1c46a2cf2dbd Merge tag 'block-ioctl-cleanup-5.6' into 5.6/scsi-queue Excluding Arnd's changes, this is mostly an update of the usual drivers: megaraid_sas, mpt3sas, qla2xxx, ufs, lpfc, hisi_sas. There are a couple of core and base updates around error propagation and atomicity in the attribute container base we use for the SCSI transport classes. The rest is minor changes and updates" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (149 commits) scsi: hisi_sas: Rename hisi_sas_cq.pci_irq_mask scsi: hisi_sas: Add prints for v3 hw interrupt converge and automatic affinity scsi: hisi_sas: Modify the file permissions of trigger_dump to write only scsi: hisi_sas: Replace magic number when handle channel interrupt scsi: hisi_sas: replace spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_restore with spin_lock/spin_unlock scsi: hisi_sas: use threaded irq to process CQ interrupts scsi: ufs: Use UFS device indicated maximum LU number scsi: ufs: Add max_lu_supported in struct ufs_dev_info scsi: ufs: Delete is_init_prefetch from struct ufs_hba scsi: ufs: Inline two functions into their callers scsi: ufs: Move ufshcd_get_max_pwr_mode() to ufshcd_device_params_init() scsi: ufs: Split ufshcd_probe_hba() based on its called flow scsi: ufs: Delete struct ufs_dev_desc scsi: ufs: Fix ufshcd_probe_hba() reture value in case ufshcd_scsi_add_wlus() fails scsi: ufs-mediatek: enable low-power mode for hibern8 state scsi: ufs: export some functions for vendor usage scsi: ufs-mediatek: add dbg_register_dump implementation scsi: qla2xxx: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in an error path scsi: qla1280: Make checking for 64bit support consistent scsi: megaraid_sas: Update driver version to 07.713.01.00-rc1 ...
| * compat_ioctl: block: move blkdev_compat_ioctl() into ioctl.cArnd Bergmann2020-01-031-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Having both in the same file allows a number of simplifications to the compat path, and makes it more likely that changes to the native path get applied to the compat version as well. Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | block: Allow t10-pi to be modularHerbert Xu2020-01-061-1/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently t10-pi can only be built into the block layer which via crc-t10dif pulls in a whole chunk of the Crypto API. In fact all users of t10-pi work as modules and there is no reason for it to always be built-in. This patch adds a new hidden option for t10-pi that is selected automatically based on BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY and whether the users of t10-pi are built-in or not. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* blk-cgroup: separate out blkg_rwstat under CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_RWSTATTejun Heo2019-11-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | blkg_rwstat is now only used by bfq-iosched and blk-throtl when on cgroup1. Let's move it into its own files and gate it behind a config option. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* blkcg: implement blk-iocostTejun Heo2019-08-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset implements IO cost model based work-conserving proportional controller. While io.latency provides the capability to comprehensively prioritize and protect IOs depending on the cgroups, its protection is binary - the lowest latency target cgroup which is suffering is protected at the cost of all others. In many use cases including stacking multiple workload containers in a single system, it's necessary to distribute IO capacity with better granularity. One challenge of controlling IO resources is the lack of trivially observable cost metric. The most common metrics - bandwidth and iops - can be off by orders of magnitude depending on the device type and IO pattern. However, the cost isn't a complete mystery. Given several key attributes, we can make fairly reliable predictions on how expensive a given stream of IOs would be, at least compared to other IO patterns. The function which determines the cost of a given IO is the IO cost model for the device. This controller distributes IO capacity based on the costs estimated by such model. The more accurate the cost model the better but the controller adapts based on IO completion latency and as long as the relative costs across differents IO patterns are consistent and sensible, it'll adapt to the actual performance of the device. Currently, the only implemented cost model is a simple linear one with a few sets of default parameters for different classes of device. This covers most common devices reasonably well. All the infrastructure to tune and add different cost models is already in place and a later patch will also allow using bpf progs for cost models. Please see the top comment in blk-iocost.c and documentation for more details. v2: Rebased on top of RQ_ALLOC_TIME changes and folded in Rik's fix for a divide-by-zero bug in current_hweight() triggered by zero inuse_sum. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: remove legacy IO schedulersJens Axboe2018-11-071-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | Retain the deadline documentation, as that carries over to mq-deadline as well. Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: remove legacy rq taggingJens Axboe2018-11-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | It's now unused, kill it. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: Move power management code into a new source fileBart Van Assche2018-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the code for runtime power management from blk-core.c into the new source file blk-pm.c. Move the corresponding declarations from <linux/blkdev.h> into <linux/blk-pm.h>. For CONFIG_PM=n, leave out the declarations of the functions that are not used in that mode. This patch not only reduces the number of #ifdefs in the block layer core code but also reduces the size of header file <linux/blkdev.h> and hence should help to reduce the build time of the Linux kernel if CONFIG_PM is not defined. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: introduce blk-iolatency io controllerJosef Bacik2018-07-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current IO controllers for the block layer are less than ideal for our use case. The io.max controller is great at hard limiting, but it is not work conserving. This patch introduces io.latency. You provide a latency target for your group and we monitor the io in short windows to make sure we are not exceeding those latency targets. This makes use of the rq-qos infrastructure and works much like the wbt stuff. There are a few differences from wbt - It's bio based, so the latency covers the whole block layer in addition to the actual io. - We will throttle all IO types that comes in here if we need to. - We use the mean latency over the 100ms window. This is because writes can be particularly fast, which could give us a false sense of the impact of other workloads on our protected workload. - By default there's no throttling, we set the queue_depth to INT_MAX so that we can have as many outstanding bio's as we're allowed to. Only at throttle time do we pay attention to the actual queue depth. - We backcharge cgroups for root cg issued IO and induce artificial delays in order to deal with cases like metadata only or swap heavy workloads. In testing this has worked out relatively well. Protected workloads will throttle noisy workloads down to 1 io at time if they are doing normal IO on their own, or induce up to a 1 second delay per syscall if they are doing a lot of root issued IO (metadata/swap IO). Our testing has revolved mostly around our production web servers where we have hhvm (the web server application) in a protected group and everything else in another group. We see slightly higher requests per second (RPS) on the test tier vs the control tier, and much more stable RPS across all machines in the test tier vs the control tier. Another test we run is a slow memory allocator in the unprotected group. Before this would eventually push us into swap and cause the whole box to die and not recover at all. With these patches we see slight RPS drops (usually 10-15%) before the memory consumer is properly killed and things recover within seconds. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* blk-rq-qos: refactor out common elements of blk-wbtJosef Bacik2018-07-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | blkcg-qos is going to do essentially what wbt does, only on a cgroup basis. Break out the common code that will be shared between blkcg-qos and wbt into blk-rq-qos.* so they can both utilize the same infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: Make struct request_queue smaller for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED=nBart Van Assche2018-07-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Exclude zoned block device members from struct request_queue for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED == n. Avoid breaking the build by only building the code that uses these struct request_queue members if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED != n. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-11-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* block: Add rdma affinity based queue mapping helperSagi Grimberg2017-08-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Like pci and virtio, we add a rdma helper for affinity spreading. This achieves optimal mq affinity assignments according to the underlying rdma device affinity maps. Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
* block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source filesPaolo Valente2017-04-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The BFQ I/O scheduler features an optimal fair-queuing (proportional-share) scheduling algorithm, enriched with several mechanisms to boost throughput and reduce latency for interactive and real-time applications. This makes BFQ a large and complex piece of code. This commit addresses this issue by splitting BFQ into three main, independent components, and by moving each component into a separate source file: 1. Main algorithm: handles the interaction with the kernel, and decides which requests to dispatch; it uses the following two further components to achieve its goals. 2. Scheduling engine (Hierarchical B-WF2Q+ scheduling algorithm): computes the schedule, using weights and budgets provided by the above component. 3. cgroups support: handles group operations (creation, destruction, move, ...). Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra schedulerPaolo Valente2017-04-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We tag as v0 the version of BFQ containing only BFQ's engine plus hierarchical support. BFQ's engine is introduced by this commit, while hierarchical support is added by next commit. We use the v0 tag to distinguish this minimal version of BFQ from the versions containing also the features and the improvements added by next commits. BFQ-v0 coincides with the version of BFQ submitted a few years ago [1], apart from the introduction of preemption, described below. BFQ is a proportional-share I/O scheduler, whose general structure, plus a lot of code, are borrowed from CFQ. - Each process doing I/O on a device is associated with a weight and a (bfq_)queue. - BFQ grants exclusive access to the device, for a while, to one queue (process) at a time, and implements this service model by associating every queue with a budget, measured in number of sectors. - After a queue is granted access to the device, the budget of the queue is decremented, on each request dispatch, by the size of the request. - The in-service queue is expired, i.e., its service is suspended, only if one of the following events occurs: 1) the queue finishes its budget, 2) the queue empties, 3) a "budget timeout" fires. - The budget timeout prevents processes doing random I/O from holding the device for too long and dramatically reducing throughput. - Actually, as in CFQ, a queue associated with a process issuing sync requests may not be expired immediately when it empties. In contrast, BFQ may idle the device for a short time interval, giving the process the chance to go on being served if it issues a new request in time. Device idling typically boosts the throughput on rotational devices, if processes do synchronous and sequential I/O. In addition, under BFQ, device idling is also instrumental in guaranteeing the desired throughput fraction to processes issuing sync requests (see [2] for details). - With respect to idling for service guarantees, if several processes are competing for the device at the same time, but all processes (and groups, after the following commit) have the same weight, then BFQ guarantees the expected throughput distribution without ever idling the device. Throughput is thus as high as possible in this common scenario. - Queues are scheduled according to a variant of WF2Q+, named B-WF2Q+, and implemented using an augmented rb-tree to preserve an O(log N) overall complexity. See [2] for more details. B-WF2Q+ is also ready for hierarchical scheduling. However, for a cleaner logical breakdown, the code that enables and completes hierarchical support is provided in the next commit, which focuses exactly on this feature. - B-WF2Q+ guarantees a tight deviation with respect to an ideal, perfectly fair, and smooth service. In particular, B-WF2Q+ guarantees that each queue receives a fraction of the device throughput proportional to its weight, even if the throughput fluctuates, and regardless of: the device parameters, the current workload and the budgets assigned to the queue. - The last, budget-independence, property (although probably counterintuitive in the first place) is definitely beneficial, for the following reasons: - First, with any proportional-share scheduler, the maximum deviation with respect to an ideal service is proportional to the maximum budget (slice) assigned to queues. As a consequence, BFQ can keep this deviation tight not only because of the accurate service of B-WF2Q+, but also because BFQ *does not* need to assign a larger budget to a queue to let the queue receive a higher fraction of the device throughput. - Second, BFQ is free to choose, for every process (queue), the budget that best fits the needs of the process, or best leverages the I/O pattern of the process. In particular, BFQ updates queue budgets with a simple feedback-loop algorithm that allows a high throughput to be achieved, while still providing tight latency guarantees to time-sensitive applications. When the in-service queue expires, this algorithm computes the next budget of the queue so as to: - Let large budgets be eventually assigned to the queues associated with I/O-bound applications performing sequential I/O: in fact, the longer these applications are served once got access to the device, the higher the throughput is. - Let small budgets be eventually assigned to the queues associated with time-sensitive applications (which typically perform sporadic and short I/O), because, the smaller the budget assigned to a queue waiting for service is, the sooner B-WF2Q+ will serve that queue (Subsec 3.3 in [2]). - Weights can be assigned to processes only indirectly, through I/O priorities, and according to the relation: weight = 10 * (IOPRIO_BE_NR - ioprio). The next patch provides, instead, a cgroups interface through which weights can be assigned explicitly. - If several processes are competing for the device at the same time, but all processes and groups have the same weight, then BFQ guarantees the expected throughput distribution without ever idling the device. It uses preemption instead. Throughput is then much higher in this common scenario. - ioprio classes are served in strict priority order, i.e., lower-priority queues are not served as long as there are higher-priority queues. Among queues in the same class, the bandwidth is distributed in proportion to the weight of each queue. A very thin extra bandwidth is however guaranteed to the Idle class, to prevent it from starving. - If the strict_guarantees parameter is set (default: unset), then BFQ - always performs idling when the in-service queue becomes empty; - forces the device to serve one I/O request at a time, by dispatching a new request only if there is no outstanding request. In the presence of differentiated weights or I/O-request sizes, both the above conditions are needed to guarantee that every queue receives its allotted share of the bandwidth (see Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt for more details). Setting strict_guarantees may evidently affect throughput. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/1/234 https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/11/148 [2] P. Valente and M. Andreolini, "Improving Application Responsiveness with the BFQ Disk I/O Scheduler", Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR '12), June 2012. Slightly extended version: http://algogroup.unimore.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/bfq-v1-suite- results.pdf Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* blk-mq: introduce Kyber multiqueue I/O schedulerOmar Sandoval2017-04-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Kyber I/O scheduler is an I/O scheduler for fast devices designed to scale to multiple queues. Users configure only two knobs, the target read and synchronous write latencies, and the scheduler tunes itself to achieve that latency goal. The implementation is based on "tokens", built on top of the scalable bitmap library. Tokens serve as a mechanism for limiting requests. There are two tiers of tokens: queueing tokens and dispatch tokens. A queueing token is required to allocate a request. In fact, these tokens are actually the blk-mq internal scheduler tags, but the scheduler manages the allocation directly in order to implement its policy. Dispatch tokens are device-wide and split up into two scheduling domains: reads vs. writes. Each hardware queue dispatches batches round-robin between the scheduling domains as long as tokens are available for that domain. These tokens can be used as the mechanism to enable various policies. The policy Kyber uses is inspired by active queue management techniques for network routing, similar to blk-wbt. The scheduler monitors latencies and scales the number of dispatch tokens accordingly. Queueing tokens are used to prevent starvation of synchronous requests by asynchronous requests. Various extensions are possible, including better heuristics and ionice support. The new scheduler isn't set as the default yet. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostLinus Torvalds2017-03-021-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull vhost updates from Michael Tsirkin: "virtio, vhost: optimizations, fixes Looks like a quiet cycle for vhost/virtio, just a couple of minor tweaks. Most notable is automatic interrupt affinity for blk and scsi. Hopefully other devices are not far behind" * tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack vhost: introduce O(1) vq metadata cache virtio_scsi: use virtio IRQ affinity virtio_blk: use virtio IRQ affinity blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for virtio device virtio: provide a method to get the IRQ affinity mask for a virtqueue virtio: allow drivers to request IRQ affinity when creating VQs virtio_pci: simplify MSI-X setup virtio_pci: don't duplicate the msix_enable flag in struct pci_dev virtio_pci: use shared interrupts for virtqueues virtio_pci: remove struct virtio_pci_vq_info vhost: try avoiding avail index access when getting descriptor virtio_mmio: expose header to userspace
| * blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for virtio deviceChristoph Hellwig2017-02-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Similar to the PCI version, just calling into virtio instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-4.11/next' into for-4.11/linus-mergeJens Axboe2017-02-171-2/+3
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
| * | block: make scsi_request and scsi ioctl support optionalChristoph Hellwig2017-01-311-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio. And at least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with. This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use, say eMMC a bit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | | block: Add Sed-opal libraryScott Bauer2017-02-061-0/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the necessary logic to bring an Opal enabled drive out of a factory-enabled into a working Opal state. This patch set also enables logic to save a password to be replayed during a resume from suspend. Signed-off-by: Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael Antognolli <Rafael.Antognolli@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | blk-mq: fix debugfs compilation issuesOmar Sandoval2017-01-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a couple of problems: 1. In the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case, the stub definitions were bogus. 2. In the !CONFIG_BLOCK case, blk-mq-debugfs.c shouldn't be compiled at all. Fix the stub definitions and add a CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS Kconfig option. Fixes: 07e4fead45e6 ("blk-mq: create debugfs directory tree") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Augment Kconfig description. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | blk-mq: create debugfs directory treeOmar Sandoval2017-01-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In preparation for putting blk-mq debugging information in debugfs, create a directory tree mirroring the one in sysfs: # tree -d /sys/kernel/debug/block /sys/kernel/debug/block |-- nvme0n1 | `-- mq | |-- 0 | | `-- cpu0 | |-- 1 | | `-- cpu1 | |-- 2 | | `-- cpu2 | `-- 3 | `-- cpu3 `-- vda `-- mq `-- 0 |-- cpu0 |-- cpu1 |-- cpu2 `-- cpu3 Also add the scaffolding for the actual files that will go in here, either under the hardware queue or software queue directories. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | mq-deadline: add blk-mq adaptation of the deadline IO schedulerJens Axboe2017-01-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is basically identical to deadline-iosched, except it registers as a MQ capable scheduler. This is still a single queue design. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
* | blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulersJens Axboe2017-01-171-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a set of hooks that intercepts the blk-mq path of allocating/inserting/issuing/completing requests, allowing us to develop a scheduler within that framework. We reuse the existing elevator scheduler API on the registration side, but augment that with the scheduler flagging support for the blk-mq interfce, and with a separate set of ops hooks for MQ devices. We split driver and scheduler tags, so we can run the scheduling independently of device queue depth. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
* blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanismJens Axboe2016-11-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can hook this up to the block layer, to help throttle buffered writes. wbt registers a few trace points that can be used to track what is happening in the system: wbt_lat: 259:0: latency 2446318 wbt_stat: 259:0: rmean=2446318, rmin=2446318, rmax=2446318, rsamples=1, wmean=518866, wmin=15522, wmax=5330353, wsamples=57 wbt_step: 259:0: step down: step=1, window=72727272, background=8, normal=16, max=32 This shows a sync issue event (wbt_lat) that exceeded it's time. wbt_stat dumps the current read/write stats for that window, and wbt_step shows a step down event where we now scale back writes. Each trace includes the device, 259:0 in this case. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: add scalable completion tracking of requestsJens Axboe2016-11-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device state. The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows. Add sysfs files to display the stats. The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of the stats files, that is something we could add as well. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: Implement support for zoned block devicesHannes Reinecke2016-10-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement zoned block device zone information reporting and reset. Zone information are reported as struct blk_zone. This implementation does not differentiate between host-aware and host-managed device models and is valid for both. Two functions are provided: blkdev_report_zones for discovering the zone configuration of a zoned block device, and blkdev_reset_zones for resetting the write pointer of sequential zones. The helper function blk_queue_zone_size and bdev_zone_size are also provided for, as the name suggest, obtaining the zone size (in 512B sectors) of the zones of the device. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> [Damien: * Removed the zone cache * Implement report zones operation based on earlier proposal by Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>] Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge branch 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2016-10-091-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe: "This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine" * 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine" blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
| * blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machineThomas Gleixner2016-09-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the block-mq notifier list management with the multi instance facility in the cpu hotplug state machine. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: rt@linutronix.de Cc: Christoph Hellwing <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends onStephen Rothwell2016-09-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and building block/blk-mq-pci.o should depend on CONFIG_BLOCK Fixes: 973c4e372c8f ("blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device") Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* | blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI deviceChristoph Hellwig2016-09-151-1/+1
|/ | | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* Merge tag 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2016-01-231-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma Pull rdma updates from Doug Ledford: "Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches - Remove usage of ib_query_device and instead store attributes in ib_device struct - Move iopoll out of block and into lib, rename to irqpoll, and use in several places in the rdma stack as our new completion queue polling library mechanism. Update the other block drivers that already used iopoll to use the new mechanism too. - Replace the per-entry GID table locks with a single GID table lock - IPoIB multicast cleanup - Cleanups to the IB MR facility - Add support for 64bit extended IB counters - Fix for netlink oops while parsing RDMA nl messages - RoCEv2 support for the core IB code - mlx4 RoCEv2 support - mlx5 RoCEv2 support - Cross Channel support for mlx5 - Timestamp support for mlx5 - Atomic support for mlx5 - Raw QP support for mlx5 - MAINTAINERS update for mlx4/mlx5 - Misc ocrdma, qib, nes, usNIC, cxgb3, cxgb4, mlx4, mlx5 updates - Add support for remote invalidate to the iSER driver (pushed through the RDMA tree due to dependencies, acknowledged by nab) - Update to NFSoRDMA (pushed through the RDMA tree due to dependencies, acknowledged by Bruce)" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma: (169 commits) IB/mlx5: Unify CQ create flags check IB/mlx5: Expose Raw Packet QP to user space consumers {IB, net}/mlx5: Move the modify QP operation table to mlx5_ib IB/mlx5: Support setting Ethernet priority for Raw Packet QPs IB/mlx5: Add Raw Packet QP query functionality IB/mlx5: Add create and destroy functionality for Raw Packet QP IB/mlx5: Refactor mlx5_ib_qp to accommodate other QP types IB/mlx5: Allocate a Transport Domain for each ucontext net/mlx5_core: Warn on unsupported events of QP/RQ/SQ net/mlx5_core: Add RQ and SQ event handling net/mlx5_core: Export transport objects IB/mlx5: Expose CQE version to user-space IB/mlx5: Add CQE version 1 support to user QPs and SRQs IB/mlx5: Fix data validation in mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext IB/sa: Fix netlink local service GFP crash IB/srpt: Remove redundant wc array IB/qib: Improve ipoib UD performance IB/mlx4: Advertise RoCE v2 support IB/mlx4: Create and use another QP1 for RoCEv2 IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers ...
| * irq_poll: make blk-iopoll available outside the block layerChristoph Hellwig2015-12-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken. Better suggestions welcome. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
* | badblocks: Add core badblock management codeVishal Verma2016-01-091-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Take the core badblocks implementation from md, and make it generally available. This follows the same style as kernel implementations of linked lists, rb-trees etc, where you can have a structure that can be embedded anywhere, and accessor functions to manipulate the data. The only changes in this copy of the code are ones to generalize function/variable names from md-specific ones. Also add init and free functions. Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* block: Add T10 Protection Information functionsMartin K. Petersen2014-09-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | The T10 Protection Information format is also used by some devices that do not go through the SCSI layer (virtual block devices, NVMe). Relocate the relevant functions to a block layer library that can be used without involving SCSI. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: move mm/bounce.c to block/Jens Axboe2014-05-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Continue moving some of the block files that are scattered around. bounce.c contains only code for bouncing the contents of a bio. It's block proper code, not mm code. Suggested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: move ioprio.c from fs/ to block/Jens Axboe2014-05-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | Like commit f9c78b2b, move this block related file outside of fs/ and into the core block directory, block/. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* block: move bio.c and bio-integrity.c from fs/ to block/Jens Axboe2014-05-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script gets it wrong when in fs/. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanismJens Axboe2013-10-251-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsingPaul Gortmaker2013-09-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot arg processing, when it really is block specific. Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_ prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it is block specific. In addition, fix up the following less critical items: - help text was not really at all helpful. - index file for Documentation was not updated - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - clarify wording in source comments Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: support embedded device command line partitionCai Zhiyong2013-09-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text] [yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()] Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com> Cc: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* separate partition format handling from generic codeAl Viro2012-01-031-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* move fs/partitions to block/Al Viro2012-01-031-1/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* block: add bsg helper libraryMike Christie2011-07-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This moves the FC classes bsg code to the block layer and makes it a lib so that other classes like iscsi and SAS can use it. It is helpful because working with the request queue, bios, creating scatterlists, etc are a pain that the LLD does not have to worry about with normal IOs and should not have to worry about for bsg requests. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>