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Christoph Hellwig
4e54ea72ed block: fix spelling and grammar for in writeback_cache_control.rst
Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619154623.450048-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2024-06-20 06:53:14 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
1122c0c1cc block: move cache control settings out of queue->flags
Move the cache control settings into the queue_limits so that the flags
can be set atomically with the device queue frozen.

Add new features and flags field for the driver set flags, and internal
(usually sysfs-controlled) flags in the block layer.  Note that we'll
eventually remove enough field from queue_limits to bring it back to the
previous size.

The disable flag is inverted compared to the previous meaning, which
means it now survives a rescan, similar to the max_sectors and
max_discard_sectors user limits.

The FLUSH and FUA flags are now inherited by blk_stack_limits, which
simplified the code in dm a lot, but also causes a slight behavior
change in that dm-switch and dm-unstripe now advertise a write cache
despite setting num_flush_bios to 0.  The I/O path will handle this
gracefully, but as far as I can tell the lack of num_flush_bios
and thus flush support is a pre-existing data integrity bug in those
targets that really needs fixing, after which a non-zero num_flush_bios
should be required in dm for targets that map to underlying devices.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617060532.127975-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2024-06-19 07:58:28 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
c62b37d96b block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations
The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in
struct request_queue instead of an operation vector.  Replace it with
a block_device_operations method called submit_bio (which describes much
better what it does).  Also remove the request_queue argument to it, as
the queue can be derived pretty trivially from the bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-07-01 07:27:24 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
898bd37a92 docs: block: convert to ReST
Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00