linux-toradex.git/mm/page_io.c, branch v4.4.154

fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec

2015-08-13T18:32:00+00:00

Call pre-defined helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding for
iterating through bi_io_vec[]. Doing that, it's possible to make some
parts in filesystems and mm/page_io.c simpler than before.

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: add more description in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

suspend: simplify block I/O handling

2015-05-19T15:19:59+00:00

Stop abusing struct page functionality and the swap end_io handler, and
instead add a modified version of the blk-lib.c bio_batch helpers.

Also move the block I/O code into swap.c as they are directly tied into
each other.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: Pavel Machek 
Tested-by: Ming Lin 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

direct_IO: remove rw from a_ops->direct_IO()

2015-04-12T02:29:45+00:00

Now that no one is using rw, remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h

2015-03-26T00:28:11+00:00

struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h.
Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: remove ki_nbytes

2015-03-13T03:50:23+00:00

There is no need to pass the total request length in the kiocb, as
we already get passed in through the iov_iter argument.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: iov_iter_bvec()

2015-01-29T05:13:11+00:00

similar to iov_iter_kvec(), for ITER_BVEC ones

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fix __swap_writepage() compile failure on old gcc versions

2014-06-15T00:30:48+00:00

Tetsuo Handa wrote:
 "Commit 62a8067a7f35 ("bio_vec-backed iov_iter") introduced an unnamed
  union inside a struct which gcc-4.4.7 cannot handle.  Name the unnamed
   union as u in order to fix build failure"

Let's do this instead: there is only one place in the entire tree that
steps into this breakage.  Anon structs and unions work in older gcc
versions; as the matter of fact, we have those in the tree - see e.g.
struct ieee80211_tx_info in include/net/mac80211.h

What doesn't work is handling their initializers:

struct {
	int a;
	union {
		int b;
		char c;
	};
} x[2] = {{.a = 1, .c = 'a'}, {.a = 0, .b = 1}};

is the obvious syntax for initializer, perfectly fine for C11 and
handled correctly by gcc-4.7 or later.

Earlier versions, though, break on it - declaration is fine and so's
access to fields (i.e.  x[0].c = 'a'; would produce the right code), but
members of the anon structs and unions are not inserted into the right
namespace.  Tellingly, those older versions will not barf on struct {int
a; struct {int a;};}; - looks like they just have it hacked up somewhere
around the handling of .  and -> instead of doing the right thing.

The easiest way to deal with that crap is to turn initialization of
those fields (in the only place where we have such initializer of
iov_iter) into plain assignment.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Reported-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2014-06-12T17:30:18+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "This the bunch that sat in -next + lock_parent() fix.  This is the
  minimal set; there's more pending stuff.

  In particular, I really hope to get acct.c fixes merged this cycle -
  we need that to deal sanely with delayed-mntput stuff.  In the next
  pile, hopefully - that series is fairly short and localized
  (kernel/acct.c, fs/super.c and fs/namespace.c).  In this pile: more
  iov_iter work.  Most of prereqs for ->splice_write with sane locking
  order are there and Kent's dio rewrite would also fit nicely on top of
  this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (70 commits)
  lock_parent: don't step on stale ->d_parent of all-but-freed one
  kill generic_file_splice_write()
  ceph: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  shmem: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  nfs: switch to iter_splice_write_file()
  fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports
  ocfs2: switch to iter_file_splice_write()
  ->splice_write() via ->write_iter()
  bio_vec-backed iov_iter
  optimize copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  bury generic_file_aio_{read,write}
  lustre: get rid of messing with iovecs
  ceph: switch to ->write_iter()
  ceph_sync_direct_write: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  ceph_sync_read: stop poking into iov_iter guts
  new helper: copy_page_from_iter()
  fuse: switch to ->write_iter()
  btrfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ocfs2: switch to ->write_iter()
  xfs: switch to ->write_iter()
  ...

swap: use bdev_read_page() / bdev_write_page()

2014-06-04T23:54:02+00:00

By calling the device driver to write the page directly, we avoid
allocating a BIO, which allows us to free memory without allocating
memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-uninitialized bug]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds