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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
5f7136db82 block: Add bio_max_segs
It's often inconvenient to use BIO_MAX_PAGES due to min() requiring the
sign to be the same.  Introduce bio_max_segs() and change BIO_MAX_PAGES to
be unsigned to make it easier for the users.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-02-26 15:49:51 -07:00
Kees Cook
3f649ab728 treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.

In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:

git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
	xargs perl -pi -e \
		's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
		 s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'

drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.

No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-07-16 12:35:15 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
d377535405 dm: Use kzalloc for all structs with embedded biosets/mempools
mempool_init()/bioset_init() require that the mempools/biosets be zeroed
first; they probably should not _require_ this, but not allocating those
structs with kzalloc is a fairly nonsensical thing to do (calling
mempool_exit()/bioset_exit() on an uninitialized mempool/bioset is legal
and safe, but only works if said memory was zeroed.)

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-05 08:47:43 -06:00
Kent Overstreet
6f1c819c21 dm: convert to bioset_init()/mempool_init()
Convert dm to embedded bio sets.

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-30 15:33:32 -06:00
NeilBrown
c110a4b6e6 dm io: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from bios bioset
The BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag is only needed when a make_request_fn might
do two allocations from the one bioset, and the second one could block
until the first bio completes.

dm_io() is called from make_request_fn() context.  The closest it comes
to multiple allocations is in chunk_io() in dm-snap-persistent.  But
there the code uses a separate thread to avoid problems.

So BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER is not needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-12-13 12:15:56 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
74d46992e0 block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
c6b1e36c8f Merge branch 'for-4.13/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull core block/IO updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for the block layer for 4.13. Not a huge
  round in terms of features, but there's a lot of churn related to some
  core cleanups.

  Note this depends on the UUID tree pull request, that Christoph
  already sent out.

  This pull request contains:

   - A series from Christoph, unifying the error/stats codes in the
     block layer. We now use blk_status_t everywhere, instead of using
     different schemes for different places.

   - Also from Christoph, some cleanups around request allocation and IO
     scheduler interactions in blk-mq.

   - And yet another series from Christoph, cleaning up how we handle
     and do bounce buffering in the block layer.

   - A blk-mq debugfs series from Bart, further improving on the support
     we have for exporting internal information to aid debugging IO
     hangs or stalls.

   - Also from Bart, a series that cleans up the request initialization
     differences across types of devices.

   - A series from Goldwyn Rodrigues, allowing the block layer to return
     failure if we will block and the user asked for non-blocking.

   - Patch from Hannes for supporting setting loop devices block size to
     that of the underlying device.

   - Two series of patches from Javier, fixing various issues with
     lightnvm, particular around pblk.

   - A series from me, adding support for write hints. This comes with
     NVMe support as well, so applications can help guide data placement
     on flash to improve performance, latencies, and write
     amplification.

   - A series from Ming, improving and hardening blk-mq support for
     stopping/starting and quiescing hardware queues.

   - Two pull requests for NVMe updates. Nothing major on the feature
     side, but lots of cleanups and bug fixes. From the usual crew.

   - A series from Neil Brown, greatly improving the bio rescue set
     support. Most notably, this kills the bio rescue work queues, if we
     don't really need them.

   - Lots of other little bug fixes that are all over the place"

* 'for-4.13/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (217 commits)
  lightnvm: pblk: set line bitmap check under debug
  lightnvm: pblk: verify that cache read is still valid
  lightnvm: pblk: add initialization check
  lightnvm: pblk: remove target using async. I/Os
  lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer
  lightnvm: pblk: use right metadata buffer for recovery
  lightnvm: pblk: schedule if data is not ready
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unused return variable
  lightnvm: pblk: fix double-free on pblk init
  lightnvm: pblk: fix bad le64 assignations
  nvme: Makefile: remove dead build rule
  blk-mq: map all HWQ also in hyperthreaded system
  nvmet-rdma: register ib_client to not deadlock in device removal
  nvme_fc: fix error recovery on link down.
  nvmet_fc: fix crashes on bad opcodes
  nvme_fc: Fix crash when nvme controller connection fails.
  nvme_fc: replace ioabort msleep loop with completion
  nvme_fc: fix double calls to nvme_cleanup_cmd()
  nvme-fabrics: verify that a controller returns the correct NQN
  nvme: simplify nvme_dev_attrs_are_visible
  ...
2017-07-03 10:34:51 -07:00
Mike Snitzer
feb7695fe9 dm io: fix duplicate bio completion due to missing ref count
If only a subset of the devices associated with multiple regions support
a given special operation (eg. DISCARD) then the dec_count() that is
used to set error for the region must increment the io->count.

Otherwise, when the dec_count() is called it can cause the dm-io
caller's bio to be completed multiple times.  As was reported against
the dm-mirror target that had mirror legs with a mix of discard
capabilities.

Bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196077
Reported-by: Zhang Yi <yizhan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-06-21 12:04:50 -04:00
NeilBrown
47e0fb461f blk: make the bioset rescue_workqueue optional.
This patch converts bioset_create() to not create a workqueue by
default, so alloctions will never trigger punt_bios_to_rescuer().  It
also introduces a new flag BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER which tells
bioset_create() to preserve the old behavior.

All callers of bioset_create() that are inside block device drivers,
are given the BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag.

biosets used by filesystems or other top-level users do not
need rescuing as the bio can never be queued behind other
bios.  This includes fs_bio_set, blkdev_dio_pool,
btrfs_bioset, xfs_ioend_bioset, and one allocated by
target_core_iblock.c.

biosets used by md/raid do not need rescuing as
their usage was recently audited and revised to never
risk deadlock.

It is hoped that most, if not all, of the remaining biosets
can end up being the non-rescued version.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Credit-to: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> (minor fixes)
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18 12:40:59 -06:00
NeilBrown
011067b056 blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags arg to bioset_create()
"flags" arguments are often seen as good API design as they allow
easy extensibility.
bioset_create_nobvec() is implemented internally as a variation in
flags passed to __bioset_create().

To support future extension, make the internal structure part of the
API.
i.e. add a 'flags' argument to bioset_create() and discard
bioset_create_nobvec().

Note that the bio_split allocations in drivers/md/raid* do not need
the bvec mempool - they should have used bioset_create_nobvec().

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18 12:40:59 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e4cbee93d block: switch bios to blk_status_t
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
ac62d6208a dm: support REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES
Copy & paste from the REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
0f5d690f7b dm io: discards don't take a payload
Fix up do_region to not allocate a bio_vec for discards.  We've
got rid of the discard payload allocated by the caller years ago.

Obviously this wasn't actually harmful given how long it's been
there, but it's still good to avoid the pointless allocation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
Ming Lei
cacc7b0556 dm io: use bvec iterator helpers to implement .get_page and .next_page
Firstly we have mature bvec/bio iterator helper for iterate each
page in one bio, not necessary to reinvent a wheel to do that.

Secondly the coming multipage bvecs requires this patch.

Also add comments about the direct access to bvec table.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-11-21 09:51:57 -05:00
Jens Axboe
1eff9d322a block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf
Since commit 63a4cc2486, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-07 14:41:02 -06:00
Mike Snitzer
4cc96131af dm: move request-based code out to dm-rq.[hc]
Add some seperation between bio-based and request-based DM core code.

'struct mapped_device' and other DM core only structures and functions
have been moved to dm-core.h and all relevant DM core .c files have been
updated to include dm-core.h rather than dm.h

DM targets should _never_ include dm-core.h!

[block core merge conflict resolution from Stephen Rothwell]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2016-06-10 15:15:44 -04:00
Mike Christie
28a8f0d317 block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH
To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
e6047149db dm: use bio op accessors
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have dm
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
5111166693 dm: use op_is_write instead of checking for REQ_WRITE
We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs
like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next patches where we
no longer set up the op as a bitmap, we will not be able to
detect a operation direction like writesame by testing if REQ_WRITE is
set.

This has dm use the op_is_write helper which will do the right
thing.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
4e49ea4a3d block/fs/drivers: remove rw argument from submit_bio
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>

Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Al Viro
93bbf5831d md: more open-coded offset_in_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-04 10:29:12 -05:00
Julia Lawall
6f65985e26 dm: drop NULL test before kmem_cache_destroy() and mempool_destroy()
Remove DM's unneeded NULL tests before calling these destroy functions,
now that they check for NULL, thanks to these v4.3 commits:
3942d2991 ("mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()")
4e3ca3e03 ("mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in mempool_destroy()")

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@ expression x; @@
-if (x != NULL)
  \(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-10-31 19:06:00 -04:00
Kent Overstreet
b54ffb73ca block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
We can always fill up the bio now, no need to estimate the possible
size based on queue parameters.

Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[hch: rebased and wrote a changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-13 12:32:04 -06:00
Sasha Levin
9b81c84235 block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put()
Commit 4246a0b6 ("block: add a bi_error field to struct bio") has added a few
dereferences of 'bio' after a call to bio_put(). This causes use-after-frees
such as:

[521120.719695] BUG: KASan: use after free in dio_bio_complete+0x2b3/0x320 at addr ffff880f36b38714
[521120.720638] Read of size 4 by task mount.ocfs2/9644
[521120.721212] =============================================================================
[521120.722056] BUG kmalloc-256 (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected
[521120.722968] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[521120.722968]
[521120.723915] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[521120.724539] INFO: Slab 0xffffea003cdace00 objects=32 used=25 fp=0xffff880f36b38600 flags=0x46fffff80004080
[521120.726037] INFO: Object 0xffff880f36b38700 @offset=1792 fp=0xffff880f36b38800
[521120.726037]
[521120.726974] Bytes b4 ffff880f36b386f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.727898] Object ffff880f36b38700: 00 88 b3 36 0f 88 ff ff 00 00 d8 de 0b 88 ff ff  ...6............
[521120.728822] Object ffff880f36b38710: 02 00 00 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.729705] Object ffff880f36b38720: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ................
[521120.730623] Object ffff880f36b38730: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 02 00 00  ................
[521120.731621] Object ffff880f36b38740: 00 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 d0 f7 87 ad ff ff ff ff  ................
[521120.732776] Object ffff880f36b38750: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.733640] Object ffff880f36b38760: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.734508] Object ffff880f36b38770: 01 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 88 87 b3 36 0f 88 ff ff  ...........6....
[521120.735385] Object ffff880f36b38780: 00 73 22 ad 02 88 ff ff 40 13 e0 3c 00 ea ff ff  .s".....@..<....
[521120.736667] Object ffff880f36b38790: 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.737596] Object ffff880f36b387a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.738524] Object ffff880f36b387b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.739388] Object ffff880f36b387c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.740277] Object ffff880f36b387d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.741187] Object ffff880f36b387e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.742233] Object ffff880f36b387f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
[521120.743229] CPU: 41 PID: 9644 Comm: mount.ocfs2 Tainted: G    B           4.2.0-rc6-next-20150810-sasha-00039-gf909086 #2420
[521120.744274]  ffff880f36b38000 ffff880d89c8f638 ffffffffb6e9ba8a ffff880101c0e5c0
[521120.745025]  ffff880d89c8f668 ffffffffad76a313 ffff880101c0e5c0 ffffea003cdace00
[521120.745908]  ffff880f36b38700 ffff880f36b38798 ffff880d89c8f690 ffffffffad772854
[521120.747063] Call Trace:
[521120.747520] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
[521120.748053] print_trailer (mm/slub.c:653)
[521120.748582] object_err (mm/slub.c:660)
[521120.749079] kasan_report_error (include/linux/kasan.h:20 mm/kasan/report.c:152 mm/kasan/report.c:194)
[521120.750834] __asan_report_load4_noabort (mm/kasan/report.c:250)
[521120.753580] dio_bio_complete (fs/direct-io.c:478)
[521120.755752] do_blockdev_direct_IO (fs/direct-io.c:494 fs/direct-io.c:1291)
[521120.759765] __blockdev_direct_IO (fs/direct-io.c:1322)
[521120.761658] blkdev_direct_IO (fs/block_dev.c:162)
[521120.762993] generic_file_read_iter (mm/filemap.c:1738)
[521120.767405] blkdev_read_iter (fs/block_dev.c:1649)
[521120.768556] __vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:423 fs/read_write.c:434)
[521120.772126] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:454)
[521120.773118] SyS_pread64 (fs/read_write.c:607 fs/read_write.c:594)
[521120.776062] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:186)
[521120.777375] Memory state around the buggy address:
[521120.778118]  ffff880f36b38600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[521120.779211]  ffff880f36b38680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[521120.780315] >ffff880f36b38700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[521120.781465]                          ^
[521120.782083]  ffff880f36b38780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[521120.783717]  ffff880f36b38800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[521120.784818] ==================================================================

This patch fixes a few of those places that I caught while auditing the patch, but the
original patch should be audited further for more occurences of this issue since I'm
not too familiar with the code.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-11 11:34:32 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
4246a0b63b block: add a bi_error field to struct bio
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 <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
Darrick J. Wong
e5db29806b dm io: deal with wandering queue limits when handling REQ_DISCARD and REQ_WRITE_SAME
Since it's possible for the discard and write same queue limits to
change while the upper level command is being sliced and diced, fix up
both of them (a) to reject IO if the special command is unsupported at
the start of the function and (b) read the limits once and let the
commands error out on their own if the status happens to change.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-02-27 14:53:32 -05:00
Darrick J. Wong
37527b8692 dm io: reject unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP
I created a dm-raid1 device backed by a device that supports DISCARD
and another device that does NOT support DISCARD with the following
dm configuration:

 #  echo '0 2048 mirror core 1 512 2 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0' | dmsetup create moo
 # lsblk -D
 NAME         DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO
 sda                 0        4K       1G         0
 `-moo (dm-0)        0        4K       1G         0
 sdb                 0        0B       0B         0
 `-moo (dm-0)        0        4K       1G         0

Notice that the mirror device /dev/mapper/moo advertises DISCARD
support even though one of the mirror halves doesn't.

If I issue a DISCARD request (via fstrim, mount -o discard, or ioctl
BLKDISCARD) through the mirror, kmirrord gets stuck in an infinite
loop in do_region() when it tries to issue a DISCARD request to sdb.
The problem is that when we call do_region() against sdb, num_sectors
is set to zero because q->limits.max_discard_sectors is zero.
Therefore, "remaining" never decreases and the loop never terminates.

To fix this: before entering the loop, check for the combination of
REQ_DISCARD and no discard and return -EOPNOTSUPP to avoid hanging up
the mirror device.

This bug was found by the unfortunate coincidence of pvmove and a
discard operation in the RHEL 6.5 kernel; upstream is also affected.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-02-13 19:51:09 -05:00
Joe Thornber
97e7cdf12b dm io: simplify dec_count and sync_io
Remove the io struct off the stack in sync_io() and allocate it from
the mempool like is done in async_io().

dec_count() now always calls a callback function and always frees the io
struct back to the mempool (so sync_io and async_io share this pattern).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-08-01 12:30:30 -04:00
Joe Thornber
10f1d5d111 dm io: fix a race condition in the wake up code for sync_io
There's a race condition between the atomic_dec_and_test(&io->count)
in dec_count() and the waking of the sync_io() thread.  If the thread
is spuriously woken immediately after the decrement it may exit,
making the on stack io struct invalid, yet the dec_count could still
be using it.

Fix this race by using a completion in sync_io() and dec_count().

Reported-by: Minfei Huang <huangminfei@ucloud.cn>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-07-10 16:44:14 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
d73f990729 dm io: fix I/O to multiple destinations
Commit 003b5c5719 ("block: Convert drivers
to immutable biovecs") broke dm-mirror due to dm-io breakage.

dm-io had three possible iterators (DM_IO_PAGE_LIST, DM_IO_BVEC,
DM_IO_VMA) that iterate over pages where the I/O should be performed.

The switch to immutable biovecs changed the DM_IO_BVEC iterator to
DM_IO_BIO.  Before this change the iterator stored the pointer to a bio
vector in the dpages structure.  The iterator incremented the pointer in
the dpages structure as it advanced over the pages.  After the immutable
biovecs change, the DM_IO_BIO iterator stores a pointer to the bio in
the dpages structure and uses bio_advance to change the bio as it
advances.

The problem is that the function dispatch_io stores the content of the
dpages structure into the variable old_pages and restores it before
issuing I/O to each of the devices.  Before the change, the statement
"*dp = old_pages;" restored the iterator to its starting position.
After the change, struct dpages holds a pointer to the bio, thus the
statement "*dp = old_pages;" doesn't restore the iterator.

Consequently, in the context of dm-mirror: only the first mirror leg is
written correctly, the kernel locks up when trying to write the other
mirror legs because the number of sectors to write in the where->count
variable doesn't match the number of sectors returned by the iterator.

This patch fixes the bug by partially reverting the original patch - it
changes the code so that struct dpages holds a pointer to the bio vector,
so that the statement "*dp = old_pages;" restores the iterator correctly.

The field "context_u" holds the offset from the beginning of the current
bio vector entry, just like the "bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done" field.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-02-17 11:00:05 -05:00
Kent Overstreet
003b5c5719 block: Convert drivers to immutable biovecs
Now that we've got a mechanism for immutable biovecs -
bi_iter.bi_bvec_done - we need to convert drivers to use primitives that
respect it instead of using the bvec array directly.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
2013-11-23 22:33:51 -08:00
Kent Overstreet
4f024f3797 block: Abstract out bvec iterator
Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6
2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
Mike Snitzer
e8603136cb dm: add reserved_bio_based_ios module parameter
Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
bio-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_bio_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_BIO_BASED_IOS (16).  The maximum allowed
value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_bio_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-io's mempool and bioset using DM core's
configurable 'reserved_bio_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
2013-09-23 10:42:24 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
70d6c400ac dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
Add WRITE SAME support to dm-io and make it accessible to
dm_kcopyd_zero().  dm_kcopyd_zero() provides an asynchronous interface
whereas the blkdev_issue_write_same() interface is synchronous.

WRITE SAME is a SCSI command that can be leveraged for more efficient
zeroing of a specified logical extent of a device which supports it.
Only a single zeroed logical block is transfered to the target for each
WRITE SAME and the target then writes that same block across the
specified extent.

The dm thin target uses this.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21 20:23:37 +00:00
Kent Overstreet
395c72a707 block: Generalized bio pool freeing
With the old code, when you allocate a bio from a bio pool you have to
implement your own destructor that knows how to find the bio pool the
bio was originally allocated from.

This adds a new field to struct bio (bi_pool) and changes
bio_alloc_bioset() to use it. This makes various bio destructors
unnecessary, so they're then deleted.

v6: Explain the temporary if statement in bio_put

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
CC: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09 10:35:38 +02:00
Milan Broz
0c535e0d6f dm io: fix discard support
This patch fixes a crash by recognising discards in dm_io.

Currently dm_mirror can send REQ_DISCARD bios if running over a
discard-enabled device and without support in dm_io the system
crashes badly.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00800000
IP:  __bio_add_page.part.17+0xf5/0x1e0
...
 bio_add_page+0x56/0x70
 dispatch_io+0x1cf/0x240 [dm_mod]
 ? km_get_page+0x50/0x50 [dm_mod]
 ? vm_next_page+0x20/0x20 [dm_mod]
 ? mirror_flush+0x130/0x130 [dm_mirror]
 dm_io+0xdc/0x2b0 [dm_mod]
...

Introduced in 2.6.38-rc1 by commit 5fc2ffeabb
(dm raid1: support discard).

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-07 19:09:37 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
bb91bc7bac dm io: flush cpu cache with vmapped io
For normal kernel pages, CPU cache is synchronized by the dma layer.
However, this is not done for pages allocated with vmalloc. If we do I/O
to/from vmallocated pages, we must synchronize CPU cache explicitly.

Prior to doing I/O on vmallocated page we must call
flush_kernel_vmap_range to flush dirty cache on the virtual address.
After finished read we must call invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to
invalidate cache on the virtual address, so that accesses to the virtual
address return newly read data and not stale data from CPU cache.

This patch fixes metadata corruption on dm-snapshots on PA-RISC and
possibly other architectures with caches indexed by virtual address.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-08-02 12:32:01 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
bda8efec5c dm io: use fixed initial mempool size
Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size
with a constant.

The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request
size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4.  This patch changes
it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily.
Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose.

Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an
arbitrary number of "struct io" structures.  One structure is enough to
process the whole request.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:09 +01:00
Jens Axboe
721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d87f4c14f2 dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm
This patch converts bio-based dm to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of
now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER.

* -EOPNOTSUPP handling logic dropped.

* Preflush is handled as before but postflush is dropped and replaced
  with passing down REQ_FUA to member request_queues.  This replaces
  one array wide cache flush w/ member specific FUA writes.

* __split_and_process_bio() now calls __clone_and_map_flush() directly
  for flushes and guarantees all FLUSH bio's going to targets are zero
`  length.

* It's now guaranteed that all FLUSH bio's which are passed onto dm
  targets are zero length.  bio_empty_barrier() tests are replaced
  with REQ_FLUSH tests.

* Empty WRITE_BARRIERs are replaced with WRITE_FLUSHes.

* Dropped unlikely() around REQ_FLUSH tests.  Flushes are not unlikely
  enough to be marked with unlikely().

* Block layer now filters out REQ_FLUSH/FUA bio's if the request_queue
  doesn't support cache flushing.  Advertise REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA
  capability.

* Request based dm isn't converted yet.  dm_init_request_based_queue()
  resets flush support to 0 for now.  To avoid disturbing request
  based dm code, dm->flush_error is added for bio based dm while
  requested based dm continues to use dm->barrier_error.

Lightly tested linear, stripe, raid1, snap and crypt targets.  Please
proceed with caution as I'm not familiar with the code base.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Mikulas Patocka
12fc0f49dc dm io: handle empty barriers
Accept empty barriers in dm-io.

dm-io will process empty write barrier requests just like the other
read/write requests.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:52:22 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
f1e5398746 dm io: remove extra bi_io_vec region hack
Remove the hack where we allocate an extra bi_io_vec to store additional
private data.  This hack prevents us from supporting barriers in
dm-raid1 without first making another little block layer change.
Instead of doing that, this patch eliminates the bi_io_vec abuse by
storing the region number directly in the low bits of bi_private.

We need to store two things for each bio, the pointer to the main io
structure and, if parallel writes were requested, an index indicating
which of these writes this bio belongs to.  There can be at most
BITS_PER_LONG regions - 32 or 64.

The index (region number) was stored in the last (hidden) bio vector and
the pointer to struct io was stored in bi_private.

This patch now aligns "struct io" on BITS_PER_LONG bytes and stores the
region number in the low BITS_PER_LONG bits of bi_private.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:51:58 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
952b355760 dm io: use slab for struct io
Allocate "struct io" from a slab.

This patch changes dm-io, so that "struct io" is allocated from a slab cache.
It used to be allocated with kmalloc. Allocating from a slab will be needed
for the next patch, because it requires a special alignment of "struct io"
and kmalloc cannot meet this alignment.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10 23:51:57 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
51aa322849 dm io: retry after barrier error
If -EOPNOTSUPP was returned and the request was a barrier request, retry it
without barrier.

Retry all regions for now. Barriers are submitted only for one-region requests,
so it doesn't matter.  (In the future, retries can be limited to the actual
regions that failed.)

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:26 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
5af443a7e1 dm io: record eopnotsupp
Add another field, eopnotsupp_bits. It is subset of error_bits, representing
regions that returned -EOPNOTSUPP.  (The bit is set in both error_bits and
eopnotsupp_bits).

This value will be used in further patches.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:25 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
b64b6bf4fd dm io: make sync_io uninterruptible
If someone sends signal to a process performing synchronous dm-io call,
the kernel may crash.

The function sync_io attempts to exit with -EINTR if it has pending signal,
however the structure "io" is allocated on stack, so already submitted io
requests end up touching unallocated stack space and corrupting kernel memory.

sync_io sets its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so the signal can't break out
of io_schedule() --- however, if the signal was pending before sync_io entered
while (1) loop, the corruption of kernel memory will happen.

There is no way to cancel in-progress IOs, so the best solution is to ignore
signals at this point.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02 19:55:24 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
d659e6cc98 dm io: respect BIO_MAX_PAGES limit
dm-io calls bio_get_nr_vecs to get the maximum number of pages to use
for a given device.  It allocates one additional bio_vec to use
internally but failed to respect BIO_MAX_PAGES, so fix this.

This was the likely cause of:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173153

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-03-16 17:44:30 +00:00
Jens Axboe
93dbb39350 block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO
and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before
213d9417fe.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-18 10:32:00 +01:00
Jens Axboe
bb799ca020 bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one
in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs
in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes.

This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may
want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation
more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio.
Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end
of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now
possible.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:23 +01:00