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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm.h, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>dm: add infrastructure for DAX support</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T03:49:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T23:54:53+00:00</published>
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Change mapped device to implement direct_access function,
dm_blk_direct_access(), which calls a target direct_access function.
'struct target_type' is extended to have target direct_access interface.
This function limits direct accessible size to the dm_target's limit
with max_io_len().

Add dm_table_supports_dax() to iterate all targets and associated block
devices to check for DAX support.  To add DAX support to a DM target the
target must only implement the direct_access function.

Add a new dm type, DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED, which indicates that mapped
device supports DAX and is bio based.  This new type is used to assure
that all target devices have DAX support and remain that way after
QUEUE_FLAG_DAX is set in mapped device.

At initial table load, QUEUE_FLAG_DAX is set to mapped device when setting
DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED to the type.  Any subsequent table load to the
mapped device must have the same type, or else it fails per the check in
table_load().

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Change mapped device to implement direct_access function,
dm_blk_direct_access(), which calls a target direct_access function.
'struct target_type' is extended to have target direct_access interface.
This function limits direct accessible size to the dm_target's limit
with max_io_len().

Add dm_table_supports_dax() to iterate all targets and associated block
devices to check for DAX support.  To add DAX support to a DM target the
target must only implement the direct_access function.

Add a new dm type, DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED, which indicates that mapped
device supports DAX and is bio based.  This new type is used to assure
that all target devices have DAX support and remain that way after
QUEUE_FLAG_DAX is set in mapped device.

At initial table load, QUEUE_FLAG_DAX is set to mapped device when setting
DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED to the type.  Any subsequent table load to the
mapped device must have the same type, or else it fails per the check in
table_load().

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm mpath: add optional "queue_mode" feature</title>
<updated>2016-06-10T19:16:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-25T01:16:51+00:00</published>
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Allow a user to specify an optional feature 'queue_mode &lt;mode&gt;' where
&lt;mode&gt; may be "bio", "rq" or "mq" -- which corresponds to bio-based,
request_fn rq-based, and blk-mq rq-based respectively.

If the queue_mode feature isn't specified the default for the
"multipath" target is still "rq" but if dm_mod.use_blk_mq is set to Y
it'll default to mode "mq".

This new queue_mode feature introduces the ability for each multipath
device to have its own queue_mode (whereas before this feature all
multipath devices effectively had to have the same queue_mode).

This commit also goes a long way to eliminate the awkward (ab)use of
DM_TYPE_*, the associated filter_md_type() and other relatively fragile
and difficult to maintain code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Allow a user to specify an optional feature 'queue_mode &lt;mode&gt;' where
&lt;mode&gt; may be "bio", "rq" or "mq" -- which corresponds to bio-based,
request_fn rq-based, and blk-mq rq-based respectively.

If the queue_mode feature isn't specified the default for the
"multipath" target is still "rq" but if dm_mod.use_blk_mq is set to Y
it'll default to mode "mq".

This new queue_mode feature introduces the ability for each multipath
device to have its own queue_mode (whereas before this feature all
multipath devices effectively had to have the same queue_mode).

This commit also goes a long way to eliminate the awkward (ab)use of
DM_TYPE_*, the associated filter_md_type() and other relatively fragile
and difficult to maintain code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: move request-based code out to dm-rq.[hc]</title>
<updated>2016-06-10T19:15:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T20:28:10+00:00</published>
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Add some seperation between bio-based and request-based DM core code.

'struct mapped_device' and other DM core only structures and functions
have been moved to dm-core.h and all relevant DM core .c files have been
updated to include dm-core.h rather than dm.h

DM targets should _never_ include dm-core.h!

[block core merge conflict resolution from Stephen Rothwell]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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Add some seperation between bio-based and request-based DM core code.

'struct mapped_device' and other DM core only structures and functions
have been moved to dm-core.h and all relevant DM core .c files have been
updated to include dm-core.h rather than dm.h

DM targets should _never_ include dm-core.h!

[block core merge conflict resolution from Stephen Rothwell]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: allow immutable request-based targets to use blk-mq pdu</title>
<updated>2016-02-23T03:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-31T17:05:42+00:00</published>
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This will allow DM multipath to use a portion of the blk-mq pdu space
for target data (e.g. struct dm_mpath_io).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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This will allow DM multipath to use a portion of the blk-mq pdu space
for target data (e.g. struct dm_mpath_io).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: optimize dm_mq_queue_rq()</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T16:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-31T22:22:27+00:00</published>
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DM multipath is the only dm-mq target.  But that aside, request-based DM
only supports tables with a single target that is immutable.  Leverage
this fact in dm_mq_queue_rq() by using the 'immutable_target' stored in
the mapped_device when the table was made active.  This saves the need
to even take the read-side of the SRCU via dm_{get,put}_live_table.

If the active DM table does not have an immutable target (e.g. "error"
target was swapped in) then fallback to the slow-path where the target
is looked up from the live table.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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DM multipath is the only dm-mq target.  But that aside, request-based DM
only supports tables with a single target that is immutable.  Leverage
this fact in dm_mq_queue_rq() by using the 'immutable_target' stored in
the mapped_device when the table was made active.  This saves the need
to even take the read-side of the SRCU via dm_{get,put}_live_table.

If the active DM table does not have an immutable target (e.g. "error"
target was swapped in) then fallback to the slow-path where the target
is looked up from the live table.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: set DM_TARGET_WILDCARD feature on "error" target</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T16:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-06T23:38:46+00:00</published>
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The DM_TARGET_WILDCARD feature indicates that the "error" target may
replace any target; even immutable targets.  This feature will be useful
to preserve the ability to replace the "multipath" target even once it
is formally converted over to having the DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE feature.

Also, implicit in the DM_TARGET_WILDCARD feature flag being set is that
.map, .map_rq, .clone_and_map_rq and .release_clone_rq are all defined
in the target_type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The DM_TARGET_WILDCARD feature indicates that the "error" target may
replace any target; even immutable targets.  This feature will be useful
to preserve the ability to replace the "multipath" target even once it
is formally converted over to having the DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE feature.

Also, implicit in the DM_TARGET_WILDCARD feature flag being set is that
.map, .map_rq, .clone_and_map_rq and .release_clone_rq are all defined
in the target_type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-28T06:48:34+00:00</published>
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh &lt;yehuda@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: also remove -&gt;merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T19:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T19:35:01+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
 "Apologies for not pressing this request-based DM partial completion
  issue further, it was an oversight on my part.  We'll have to get it
  fixed up properly and revisit for a future release.

   - Revert block and DM core changes the removed request-based DM's
     ability to handle partial request completions -- otherwise with the
     current SCSI LLDs these changes could lead to silent data
     corruption.

   - Fix two DM version bumps that were missing from the initial 4.2 DM
     pull request (enabled userspace lvm2 to know certain changes have
     been made)"

* tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache policy smq: fix "default" version to be 1.4.0
  dm: bump the ioctl version to 4.32.0
  Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"
  Revert "dm: do not allocate any mempools for blk-mq request-based DM"
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Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
 "Apologies for not pressing this request-based DM partial completion
  issue further, it was an oversight on my part.  We'll have to get it
  fixed up properly and revisit for a future release.

   - Revert block and DM core changes the removed request-based DM's
     ability to handle partial request completions -- otherwise with the
     current SCSI LLDs these changes could lead to silent data
     corruption.

   - Fix two DM version bumps that were missing from the initial 4.2 DM
     pull request (enabled userspace lvm2 to know certain changes have
     been made)"

* tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache policy smq: fix "default" version to be 1.4.0
  dm: bump the ioctl version to 4.32.0
  Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"
  Revert "dm: do not allocate any mempools for blk-mq request-based DM"
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<entry>
<title>Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T14:11:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T14:01:13+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 5f1b670d0bef508a5554d92525f5f6d00d640b38.

Justification for revert as reported in this dm-devel post:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00160.html

this change should not be pushed to mainline yet.

Firstly, Christoph has a newer version of the patch that fixes silent
data corruption problem:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00229.html

And the new version still depends on LLDDs to always complete requests
to the end when error happens, while block API doesn't enforce such a
requirement. If the assumption is ever broken, the inconsistency between
request and bio (e.g. rq-&gt;__sector and rq-&gt;bio) will cause silent data
corruption:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00022.html

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 5f1b670d0bef508a5554d92525f5f6d00d640b38.

Justification for revert as reported in this dm-devel post:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00160.html

this change should not be pushed to mainline yet.

Firstly, Christoph has a newer version of the patch that fixes silent
data corruption problem:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00229.html

And the new version still depends on LLDDs to always complete requests
to the end when error happens, while block API doesn't enforce such a
requirement. If the assumption is ever broken, the inconsistency between
request and bio (e.g. rq-&gt;__sector and rq-&gt;bio) will cause silent data
corruption:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00022.html

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-22T21:13:32+00:00</published>
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With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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