Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request(). After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing. Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.
Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary. However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing. Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.
Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model. This patch completes the API transition by...
* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()
* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()
* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start
* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests
* applying new API to all LLDs
Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.
[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
jsflash processes requests one-by-one synchronously from a kthread and
can be easily converted to dequeueing model. Convert it.
[ Impact: dequeue in-flight request ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.
* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() >> 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() >> 9
Clean up accessor usages. Notable changes are
* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields. This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields. Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.
While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.
[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
end_request() has been kept around for backward compatibility;
however, it's about time for it to go away.
* There aren't too many users left.
* Its use of @updtodate is pretty confusing.
* In some cases, newer code ends up using mixture of end_request() and
[__]blk_end_request[_all](), which is way too confusing.
So, add [__]blk_end_request_cur() and replace end_request() with it.
Most conversions are straightforward. Noteworthy ones are...
* paride/pcd: next_request() updated to take 0/-errno instead of 1/0.
* paride/pf: pf_end_request() and next_request() updated to take
0/-errno instead of 1/0.
* xd: xd_readwrite() updated to return 0/-errno instead of 1/0.
* mtd/mtd_blkdevs: blktrans_discard_request() updated to return
0/-errno instead of 1/0. Unnecessary local variable res
initialization removed from mtd_blktrans_thread().
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Ever since early 2.5 kernels block drivers don't need to define MAJOR_NR
anymore, so use the JSFD_MAJOR defined directly and kill it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by the callers. (The previous
patch makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in error case)
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Alexey Dobriyan