Problem observed:
In IPv6, in the presence of multiple routers candidates to
default gateway in one segment, each sending a different
value of preference, the Linux hosts connected to the
segment weren't selecting the right one in all the
combinations possible of LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH preference.
This patch changes two files:
include/linux/icmpv6.h
Get the "router_pref" bitfield in the right place
(as RFC4191 says), named the bit left with this fix as
"home_agent" (RFC3775 say that's his function)
net/ipv6/ndisc.c
Corrects the binary logic behind the updating of the
router preference in the flags of the routing table
Result:
With this two fixes applied, the default route used by
the system was to consistent with the rules mentioned
in RFC4191 in case of changes in the value of preference
in router advertisements
Signed-off-by: Pedro Ribeiro <pribeiro@net.ipl.pt>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes the module dependency between ctnetlink and
nf_nat by means of an indirect call that is initialized when
nf_nat is loaded. Now, nf_conntrack_netlink only requires
nf_conntrack and nfnetlink.
This patch puts nfnetlink_parse_nat_setup_hook into the
nf_conntrack_core to avoid dependencies between ctnetlink,
nf_conntrack_ipv4 and nf_conntrack_ipv6.
This patch also introduces the function ctnetlink_change_nat
that is only invoked from the creation path. Actually, the
nat handling cannot be invoked from the update path since
this is not allowed. By introducing this function, we remove
the useless nat handling in the update path and we avoid
deadlock-prone code.
This patch also adds the required EAGAIN logic for nfnetlink.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code
to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges
for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where
they won't risk disrupting real changes.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
x86: remove set_bit_string()
iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (236 commits)
[ARM] 5300/1: fixup spitz reset during boot
[ARM] 5295/1: make ZONE_DMA optional
[ARM] 5239/1: Palm Zire 72 power management support
[ARM] 5298/1: Drop desc_handle_irq()
[ARM] 5297/1: [KS8695] Fix two compile-time warnings
[ARM] 5296/1: [KS8695] Replace macro's with trailing underscores.
[ARM] pxa: allow multi-machine PCMCIA builds
[ARM] pxa: add preliminary CPUFREQ support for PXA3xx
[ARM] pxa: add missing ACCR bit definitions to pxa3xx-regs.h
[ARM] pxa: rename cpu-pxa.c to cpufreq-pxa2xx.c
[ARM] pxa/zylonite: add support for USB OHCI
[ARM] ohci-pxa27x: use ioremap() and offset for register access
[ARM] ohci-pxa27x: introduce pxa27x_clear_otgph()
[ARM] ohci-pxa27x: use platform_get_{irq,resource} for the resource
[ARM] ohci-pxa27x: move OHCI controller specific registers into the driver
[ARM] ohci-pxa27x: introduce flags to avoid direct access to OHCI registers
[ARM] pxa: move I2S register and bit definitions into pxa2xx-i2s.c
[ARM] pxa: simplify DMA register definitions
[ARM] pxa: make additional DCSR bits valid for PXA3xx
[ARM] pxa: move i2c register and bit definitions into i2c-pxa.c
...
Fixed up conflicts in
arch/arm/mach-versatile/core.c
sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-ac97.c
sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-i2s.c
manually.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1075 commits)
myri10ge: update driver version number to 1.4.3-1.369
r8169: add shutdown handler
r8169: preliminary 8168d support
r8169: support additional 8168cp chipset
r8169: change default behavior for mildly identified 8168c chipsets
r8169: add a new 8168cp flavor
r8169: add a new 8168c flavor (bis)
r8169: add a new 8168c flavor
r8169: sync existing 8168 device hardware start sequences with vendor driver
r8169: 8168b Tx performance tweak
r8169: make room for more specific 8168 hardware start procedure
r8169: shuffle some registers handling around (8168 operation only)
r8169: new phy init parameters for the 8168b
r8169: update phy init parameters
r8169: wake up the PHY of the 8168
af_key: fix SADB_X_SPDDELETE response
ath9k: Fix return code when ath9k_hw_setpower() fails on reset
ath9k: remove nasty FAIL macro from ath9k_hw_reset()
gre: minor cleanups in netlink interface
gre: fix copy and paste error
...
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
[CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
[CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
[CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
[CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
[CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
[CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
[CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
[CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
[CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
[CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
[CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error
[CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c
[CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
rcu: use irq-safe locks
rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable BUG/panic in selinux_secattr_to_sid()
selinux: use default proc sid on symlinks
file capabilities: uninline cap_safe_nice
Update selinux info in MAINTAINERS and Kconfig help text
SELinux: add gitignore file for mdp script
SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignment
securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY
selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2)
security: add/fix security kernel-doc
selinux: Unify for- and while-loop style
selinux: conditional expression type validation was off-by-one
smack: limit privilege by label
SELinux: Fix a potentially uninitialised variable in SELinux hooks
SELinux: trivial, remove unneeded local variable
SELinux: Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style
make selinux_write_opts() static
* 'sched-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries
sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap
sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const
sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list
sched: fixup buddy selection
sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
sched: fixlet for group load balance
sched: rework wakeup preemption
CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policies
sched: clarify ifdef tangle
sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variant
sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP
sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier
kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiers
sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: skcipher - Use RNG interface instead of get_random_bytes
crypto: rng - RNG interface and implementation
crypto: api - Add fips_enable flag
crypto: skcipher - Move IV generators into their own modules
crypto: cryptomgr - Test ciphers using ECB
crypto: api - Use test infrastructure
crypto: cryptomgr - Add test infrastructure
crypto: tcrypt - Add alg_test interface
crypto: tcrypt - Abort and only log if there is an error
crypto: crc32c - Use Intel CRC32 instruction
crypto: tcrypt - Avoid using contiguous pages
crypto: api - Display larval objects properly
crypto: api - Export crypto_alg_lookup instead of __crypto_alg_lookup
crypto: Kconfig - Replace leading spaces with tabs
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
GFS2: Support for I/O barriers
GFS2: Add UUID to GFS2 sb
GFS2: high time to take some time over atime
GFS2: The war on bloat
GFS2: GFS2 will panic if you misspell any mount options
GFS2: Direct IO write at end of file error
GFS2: Use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test
GFS2: Fix race relating to glock min-hold time
GFS2: Fix & clean up GFS2 rename
GFS2: rm on multiple nodes causes panic
GFS2: Fix metafs mounts
GFS2: Fix debugfs glock file iterator
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (37 commits)
[SCSI] zfcp: fix double dbf id usage
[SCSI] zfcp: wait on SCSI work to be finished before proceeding with init dev
[SCSI] zfcp: fix erp list usage without using locks
[SCSI] zfcp: prevent fc_remote_port_delete calls for unregistered rport
[SCSI] zfcp: fix deadlock caused by shared work queue tasks
[SCSI] zfcp: put threshold data in hba trace
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify zfcp data structures
[SCSI] zfcp: Simplify get_adapter_by_busid
[SCSI] zfcp: remove all typedefs and replace them with standards
[SCSI] zfcp: attach and release SAN nameserver port on demand
[SCSI] zfcp: remove unused references, declarations and flags
[SCSI] zfcp: Update message with input from review
[SCSI] zfcp: add queue_full sysfs attribute
[SCSI] scsi_dh: suppress comparison warning
[SCSI] scsi_dh: add Dell product information into rdac device handler
[SCSI] qla2xxx: remove the unused SCSI_QLOGIC_FC_FIRMWARE option
[SCSI] qla2xxx: fix printk format warnings
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k8.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Ignore payload reserved-bits during RSCN processing.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Additional residual-count corrections during UNDERRUN handling.
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* 'for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (132 commits)
doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present
block_dev: fix kernel-doc in new functions
block: add some comments around the bio read-write flags
block: mark bio_split_pool static
block: Find bio sector offset given idx and offset
block: gendisk integrity wrapper
block: Switch blk_integrity_compare from bdev to gendisk
block: Fix double put in blk_integrity_unregister
block: Introduce integrity data ownership flag
block: revert part of d7533ad0e132f92e75c1b2eb7c26387b25a583c1
bio.h: Remove unused conditional code
block: remove end_{queued|dequeued}_request()
block: change elevator to use __blk_end_request()
gdrom: change to use __blk_end_request()
memstick: change to use __blk_end_request()
virtio_blk: change to use __blk_end_request()
blktrace: use BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE as the name size for setup structure
block: add lld busy state exporting interface
block: Fix blk_start_queueing() to not kick a stopped queue
include blktrace_api.h in headers_install
...
* 'upstream-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
ata_piix: IDE Mode SATA patch for Intel Ibex Peak DeviceIDs
libata-eh: clear UNIT ATTENTION after reset
ata_piix: add Hercules EC-900 mini-notebook to ich_laptop short cable list
libata: reorder ata_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bits
[libata] pata_bf54x: Add proper PM operation
pata_sil680: convert CONFIG_PPC_MERGE to CONFIG_PPC
libata: Implement disk shock protection support
[libata] Introduce ata_id_has_unload()
PATA: RPC now selects HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM for pata platform driver
ata_piix: drop merged SCR access and use slave_link instead
libata: implement slave_link
libata: misc updates to prepare for slave link
libata: reimplement link iterator
libata: make SCR access ops per-link
Publish dm_vcalloc in include/linux/device-mapper.h because this function is
used by targets.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Publish dm_table_unplug_all in include/linux/device-mapper.h because this
function is used by targets.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Publish dm_get_mapinfo in include/linux/device-mapper.h because this function
is used by targets.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Split struct dm_dev in two and publish the part that other targets need in
include/linux/device-mapper.h.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for Ethernet over GRE encapsulation.
This is exposed to user-space with a new link type of "gretap"
instead of "gre". It will create an ARPHRD_ETHER device in
lieu of the usual ARPHRD_IPGRE.
Note that to preserver backwards compatibility all Transparent
Ethernet Bridging packets are passed to an ARPHRD_IPGRE tunnel
if its key matches and there is no ARPHRD_ETHER device whose
key matches more closely.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a netlink interface that will eventually displace
the existing ioctl interface. It utilises the elegant rtnl_link_ops
mechanism.
This also means that user-space no longer needs to rely on the
tunnel interface being of type GRE to identify GRE tunnels. The
identification can now occur using rtnl_link_ops.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Add a cpu parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg(). This is needed for software
cpufreq coordination where policy->cpu may not be same as the CPU on which we
want to getavg frequency.
A follow-on patch will use this parameter to getavg freq from all cpus
in policy->cpus.
Change since last patch. Fix the offline/online and suspend/resume
oops reported by Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.
Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.
depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since all bio_split calls refer the same single bio_split_pool, the bio_split
function can use bio_split_pool directly instead of the mempool_t parameter;
then the mempool_t parameter can be removed from bio_split param list, and
bio_split_pool is only referred in fs/bio.c file, can be marked static.
Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Helper function to find the sector offset in a bio given bvec index
and page offset.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This is a wrapper for accessing a gendisk's integrity bits. It allows
the integrity support in MD to be compiled with BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY off.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The DM and MD integrity support now depends on being able to use
gendisks instead of block_devices when comparing integrity profiles.
Change function parameters accordingly.
Also update comparison logic so that two NULL profiles are a valid
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
A filesystem might supply its own integrity metadata. Introduce a
flag that indicates whether the filesystem or the block layer owns the
integrity buffer.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The whole bio_integrity() definition is inside an #ifdef
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY, there's no need for the conditional code.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch removes end_queued_request() and end_dequeued_request(),
which are no longer used.
As a results, users of __end_request() became only end_request().
So the actual code in __end_request() is moved to end_request()
and __end_request() is removed.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Define as 32, which is is what BDEVNAME_SIZE is/was as well. This keeps
the user interface the same and gets rid of the difference between
kernel and user api here.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds an new interface, blk_lld_busy(), to check lld's
busy state from the block layer.
blk_lld_busy() calls down into low-level drivers for the checking
if the drivers set q->lld_busy_fn() using blk_queue_lld_busy().
This resolves a performance problem on request stacking devices below.
Some drivers like scsi mid layer stop dispatching request when
they detect busy state on its low-level device like host/target/device.
It allows other requests to stay in the I/O scheduler's queue
for a chance of merging.
Request stacking drivers like request-based dm should follow
the same logic.
However, there is no generic interface for the stacked device
to check if the underlying device(s) are busy.
If the request stacking driver dispatches and submits requests to
the busy underlying device, the requests will stay in
the underlying device's queue without a chance of merging.
This causes performance problem on burst I/O load.
With this patch, busy state of the underlying device is exported
via q->lld_busy_fn(). So the request stacking driver can check it
and stop dispatching requests if busy.
The underlying device driver must return the busy state appropriately:
1: when the device driver can't process requests immediately.
0: when the device driver can process requests immediately,
including abnormal situations where the device driver needs
to kill all requests.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This header file is of interest for user space programming, i.e.
for tools that process blktrace data.
We would like to use it for a tool on-top of blktrace which processes
data provided by blktrace. For this purpose, it would be helpful
if the blktrace API would make it to /usr/include/linux.
The git tree for the blktrace tools comes with its own copy of this header
file. I didn't manage to replace that copy with the file generated
by the patch below yet. A few more cleanups would be needed.
For example, the blktrace ioctl numbers, which are currently defined in
usr/include/fs.h, might need to be moved. Should be feasible, though.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schuetz <sven@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
SSD devices should give an RPM setting of 1 in word 217 of the ID
page. If we see such a device, tell the block layer about it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We don't want to idle in AS/CFQ if the device doesn't have a seek
penalty. So add a QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT to indicate a non-rotational
device, low level drivers should set this flag upon discovery of
an SSD or similar device type.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The current floppy_struct allows floppies to number sectors starting
from 0 or 1. This patch allows arbitrary first-sector numbers - for
example, 0xC1 for Amstrad CPC disks.
This extends the existing 1-bit field (FD_ZEROBASED, bit 2 of stretch)
to 8 bits (FD_SECTMASK, bits 2 to 9).
Currently 0x00 denotes a first sector number of 1, and 0x01 denotes a
first sector number of 0. We extend this by interpreting FD_SECTMASK
as the first sector number with the LSB flipped.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wansbrough <keith@lochan.org>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@linux.lu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds a queue flag to indicate the block device can be
used for request stacking.
Request stacking drivers need to stack their devices on top of
only devices of which q->request_fn is functional.
Since bio stacking drivers (e.g. md, loop) basically initialize
their queue using blk_alloc_queue() and don't set q->request_fn,
the check of (q->request_fn == NULL) looks enough for that purpose.
However, dm will become both types of stacking driver (bio-based and
request-based). And dm will always set q->request_fn even if the dm
device is bio-based of which q->request_fn is not functional actually.
So we need something else to distinguish the type of the device.
Adding a queue flag is a solution for that.
The reason why dm always sets q->request_fn is to keep
the compatibility of dm user-space tools.
Currently, all dm user-space tools are using bio-based dm without
specifying the type of the dm device they use.
To use request-based dm without changing such tools, the kernel
must decide the type of the dm device automatically.
The automatic type decision can't be done at the device creation time
and needs to be deferred until such tools load a mapping table,
since the actual type is decided by dm target type included in
the mapping table.
So a dm device has to be initialized using blk_init_queue()
so that we can load either type of table.
Then, all queue stuffs are set (e.g. q->request_fn) and we have
no element to distinguish that it is bio-based or request-based,
even after a table is loaded and the type of the device is decided.
By the way, some stuffs of the queue (e.g. request_list, elevator)
are needless when the dm device is used as bio-based.
But the memory size is not so large (about 20[KB] per queue on ia64),
so I hope the memory loss can be acceptable for bio-based dm users.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds blk_insert_cloned_request(), a generic request
submission interface for request stacking drivers.
Request-based dm will use it to submit their clones to underlying
devices.
blk_rq_check_limits() is also added because it is possible that
the lower queue has stronger limitations than the upper queue
if multiple drivers are stacking at request-level.
Not only for blk_insert_cloned_request()'s internal use, the function
will be used by request-based dm when the queue limitation is
modified (e.g. by replacing dm's table).
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch adds blk_update_request(), which updates struct request
with completing its data part, but doesn't complete the struct
request itself.
Though it looks like end_that_request_first() of older kernels,
blk_update_request() should be used only by request stacking drivers.
Request-based dm will use it in bio->bi_end_io callback to update
the original request when a data part of a cloned request completes.
Followings are additional background information of why request-based
dm needs this interface.
- Request stacking drivers can't use blk_end_request() directly from
the lower driver's completion context (bio->bi_end_io or rq->end_io),
because some device drivers (e.g. ide) may try to complete
their request with queue lock held, and it may cause deadlock.
See below for detailed description of possible deadlock:
<http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120311479108569&w=2>
- To solve that, request-based dm offloads the completion of
cloned struct request to softirq context (i.e. using
blk_complete_request() from rq->end_io).
- Though it is possible to use the same solution from bio->bi_end_io,
it will delay the notification of bio completion to the original
submitter. Also, it will cause inefficient partial completion,
because the lower driver can't perform the cloned request anymore
and request-based dm needs to requeue and redispatch it to
the lower driver again later. That's not good.
- So request-based dm needs blk_update_request() to perform the bio
completion in the lower driver's completion context, which is more
efficient.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Don't put functions that are only used in fs/bio-integrity.c in
blkdev.h, it's much cleaner to just keep it in there. Also kill
completely unused bdev_get_tag_size()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to
sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout
handling.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it
essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations
and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time.
So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except
it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
