linux-toradex.git/include/linux/bio.h, branch v2.6.38.5

block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER

2010-11-10T13:54:09+00:00

REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions

2010-10-21T08:32:29+00:00

Convert bvec_k{un,}map_irq() from macros to static inline functions if
!CONFIG_HIGHMEM, so we can easier detect mistakes like the one fixed in
93055c31045a2d5599ec613a0c6cdcefc481a460 ("ps3disk: passing wrong variable =
to
bvec_kunmap_irq()")

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block/scsi: Provide a limit on the number of integrity segments

2010-09-10T18:50:10+00:00

Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.

Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.

Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bio, fs: separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags

2010-08-07T16:53:10+00:00

linux/fs.h hard coded READ/WRITE constants which should match BIO_RW_*
flags.  This is fragile and caused breakage during BIO_RW_* flag
rearrangement.  The hardcoding is to avoid include dependency hell.

Create linux/bio_types.h which contatins definitions for bio data
structures and flags and include it from bio.h and fs.h, and make fs.h
define all READ/WRITE related constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: introduce REQ_FLUSH flag

2010-08-07T16:23:53+00:00

SCSI-ml needs a way to mark a request as flush request in
q->prepare_flush_fn because it needs to identify them later (e.g. in
q->request_fn or prep_rq_fn).

queue_flush sets REQ_HARDBARRIER in rq->cmd_flags however the block
layer also sends normal REQ_TYPE_FS requests with REQ_HARDBARRIER. So
SCSI-ml can't use REQ_HARDBARRIER to identify flush requests.

We could change the block layer to clear REQ_HARDBARRIER bit before
sending non flush requests to the lower layers. However, intorudcing
the new flag looks cleaner (surely easier).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request

2010-08-07T16:20:39+00:00

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages

2009-11-26T08:16:19+00:00

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Peter Horton 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Do not __always_inline bvec_kmap_irq() and bvec_kunmap_irq()

2009-11-02T10:40:16+00:00

So remove both the comment and the inline requirement, going back to the
inline hint.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing

2009-09-11T12:33:31+00:00

Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make bio_rw_flagged() return a bool

2009-09-11T12:33:31+00:00

Makes for a saner interface, instead of returning the bit position.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe