Make the following cleanups in preparation of barrier/flush update.

* blk_do_ordered() declaration is moved from include/linux/blkdev.h to
  block/blk.h.

* blk_do_ordered() now returns pointer to struct request, with %NULL
  meaning "try the next request" and ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) "try again
  later".  The third case will be dropped with further changes.

* In the initialization of proxy barrier request, data direction is
  already set by init_request_from_bio().  Drop unnecessary explicit
  REQ_WRITE setting and move init_request_from_bio() above REQ_FUA
  flag setting.

* add_request() is collapsed into __make_request().

These changes don't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Barrier is deemed too heavy and will soon be replaced by FLUSH/FUA
requests.  Deprecate barrier.  All REQ_HARDBARRIERs are failed with
-EOPNOTSUPP and blk_queue_ordered() is replaced with simpler
blk_queue_flush().

blk_queue_flush() takes combinations of REQ_FLUSH and FUA.  If a
device has write cache and can flush it, it should set REQ_FLUSH.  If
the device can handle FUA writes, it should also set REQ_FUA.

All blk_queue_ordered() users are converted.

* ORDERED_DRAIN is mapped to 0 which is the default value.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH is mapped to REQ_FLUSH.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH_FUA is mapped to REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Nobody is making meaningful use of ORDERED_BY_TAG now and queue
draining for barrier requests will be removed soon which will render
the advantage of tag ordering moot.  Kill ORDERED_BY_TAG.  The
following users are affected.

* brd: converted to ORDERED_DRAIN.
* virtio_blk: ORDERED_TAG path was already marked deprecated.  Removed.
* xen-blkfront: ORDERED_TAG case dropped.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Unplugging from a request function doesn't really help much (it's
already in the request_fn) and soon block layer will be updated to mix
barrier sequence with other commands, so there's no need to treat
queue flushing any differently.

ide was the only user of blk_queue_flushing().  Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Filesystems can call sb_issue_discard on a memory reclaim path
(e.g. ext4 calls sb_issue_discard during journal commit).

Use GFP_NOFS in sb_issue_discard to avoid recursing back into the FS.
Reported-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Nobody uses REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK (and its REQ_LB_OP_*).
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Reviewed-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Allocating a fixed payload for discard requests always was a horrible hack,
and it's not coming to byte us when adding support for discard in DM/MD.

So change the code to leave the allocation of a payload to the lowlevel
driver.  Unfortunately that means we'll need another hack, which allows
us to update the various block layer length fields indicating that we
have a payload.  Instead of hiding this in sd.c, which we already partially
do for UNMAP support add a documented helper in the core block layer for it.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

block uses ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD for BLK_BOUNCE_ISA. Only SCSI uses
ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD for ancient drivers with non-zero
unchecked_isa_dma. Nowadays drivers (and subsystems) use dma_mask
properly instead of ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD.

Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt says:

unchecked_isa_dma - 1=>only use bottom 16 MB of ram (ISA DMA addressing
                   restriction), 0=>can use full 32 bit (or better) DMA
                   address space

So block simply uses DMA_BIT_MASK(24) for BLK_BOUNCE_ISA for SCSI.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There are two reasons for doing this:

- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
  are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
  should contribute to the random pool in the first place.

- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Commit 9195291e added calls to
sched_clock() from preemptible code. sched_clock() is both the
wrong interface AND cannot be called without preempt disabled.

Apply a temporary fix to get rid of the warnings, a real patch
is in the works.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

bdops->set_capacity() is unnecessarily generic.  All that's required
is a simple one way notification to lower level driver telling it to
try to unlock native capacity.  There's no reason to pass in target
capacity or return the new capacity.  The former is always the
inherent native capacity and the latter can be handled via the usual
device resize / revalidation path.  In fact, the current API is always
used that way.

Replace ->set_capacity() with ->unlock_native_capacity() which take
only @disk and doesn't return anything.  IDE which is the only current
user of the API is converted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This callback is required when RAM based devices are used as swap disks.
One such device is ramzswap which is used as compressed in-memory swap
disk.  For such devices, we need a callback as soon as a swap slot is no
longer used to allow freeing memory allocated for this slot.  Without this
callback, stale data can quickly accumulate in memory defeating the whole
purpose of such devices.
Signed-off-by: NNitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NNigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

blk_init_queue() allocates the request_queue structure and then
initializes it as needed (request_fn, elevator, etc).

Split initialization out to blk_init_allocated_queue_node.
Introduce blk_init_allocated_queue wrapper function to model existing
blk_init_queue and blk_init_queue_node interfaces.

Export elv_register_queue to allow a newly added elevator to be
registered with sysfs.  Export elv_unregister_queue for symmetry.

These changes allow DM to initialize a device's request_queue with more
precision.  In particular, DM no longer unconditionally initializes a
full request_queue (elevator et al).  It only does so for a
request-based DM device.
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

- Add bio_batch helper primitive. This is rather generic primitive
  for submitting/waiting a complex request which consists of several
  bios.
- blkdev_issue_zeroout() generate number of zero filed write bios.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The patch just convert all blkdev_issue_xxx function to common
set of flags. Wait/allocation semantics preserved.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

blkio + cfq was crashing even when two sequential readers were put in two
separate cgroups (group_isolation=0).

The reason being that cfqq can migrate across groups based on its being
sync-noidle or not, it can happen that at request insertion time, cfqq
belonged to one cfqg and at request dispatch time, it belonged to root
group. In this case request stats per cgroup can go wrong and it also runs
into BUG_ON().

This patch implements rq stashing away a cfq group pointer and not relying
on cfqq->cfqg pointer alone for rq stat accounting.

[   65.163523] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   65.164301] kernel BUG at block/blk-cgroup.c:117!
[   65.164301] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   65.164301] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:60:00.1/host9/rport-9:0-0/target9:0:0/9:0:0:2/block/sde/stat
[   65.164301] CPU 1
[   65.164301] Modules linked in: dm_round_robin dm_multipath qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc dm_zero dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[   65.164301]
[   65.164301] Pid: 4505, comm: fio Not tainted 2.6.34-rc4-blk-for-35 #34 0A98h/HP xw8600 Workstation
[   65.164301] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8121924f>]  [<ffffffff8121924f>] blkiocg_update_io_remove_stats+0x5b/0xaf
[   65.164301] RSP: 0018:ffff8800ba5a79e8  EFLAGS: 00010046
[   65.164301] RAX: 0000000000000096 RBX: ffff8800bb268d60 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   65.164301] RDX: ffff8800bb268eb8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8800bb268e00
[   65.164301] RBP: ffff8800ba5a7a08 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 0000000000000001
[   65.164301] R10: 0000000000079640 R11: ffff8800a0bd5bf0 R12: ffff8800bab4af01
[   65.164301] R13: ffff8800bab4af00 R14: ffff8800bb1d8928 R15: 0000000000000000
[   65.164301] FS:  00007f18f75056f0(0000) GS:ffff880001e40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   65.164301] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   65.164301] CR2: 000000000040e7f0 CR3: 00000000ba52b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[   65.164301] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   65.164301] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   65.164301] Process fio (pid: 4505, threadinfo ffff8800ba5a6000, task ffff8800ba45ae80)
[   65.164301] Stack:
[   65.164301]  ffff8800ba5a7a08 ffff8800ba722540 ffff8800bab4af68 ffff8800bab4af68
[   65.164301] <0> ffff8800ba5a7a38 ffffffff8121d814 ffff8800ba722540 ffff8800bab4af68
[   65.164301] <0> ffff8800ba722540 ffff8800a08f6800 ffff8800ba5a7a68 ffffffff8121d8ca
[   65.164301] Call Trace:
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8121d814>] cfq_remove_request+0xe4/0x116
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8121d8ca>] cfq_dispatch_insert+0x84/0xe1
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8121e833>] cfq_dispatch_requests+0x767/0x8e8
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120e524>] ? submit_bio+0xc3/0xcc
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad657>] ? sync_page_killable+0x0/0x35
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120ea8d>] blk_peek_request+0x191/0x1a7
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffffa000109c>] ? dm_get_live_table+0x44/0x4f [dm_mod]
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffffa0002799>] dm_request_fn+0x38/0x14c [dm_mod]
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad657>] ? sync_page_killable+0x0/0x35
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120f600>] __generic_unplug_device+0x32/0x37
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120f8a0>] generic_unplug_device+0x2e/0x3c
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffffa00011a6>] dm_unplug_all+0x42/0x5b [dm_mod]
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120b063>] blk_unplug+0x29/0x2d
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff8120b079>] blk_backing_dev_unplug+0x12/0x14
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff81108a82>] block_sync_page+0x35/0x39
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad64e>] sync_page+0x41/0x4a
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad665>] sync_page_killable+0xe/0x35
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff81589027>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x46/0x8f
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad52d>] __lock_page_killable+0x66/0x6d
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff81055fd4>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x33
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810ad560>] lock_page_killable+0x2c/0x2e
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810aebfd>] generic_file_aio_read+0x361/0x4f0
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810e906c>] do_sync_read+0xcb/0x108
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff811e32a3>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x18
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810e96d3>] vfs_read+0xab/0x108
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff810e97f0>] sys_read+0x4a/0x6e
[   65.164301]  [<ffffffff81002b5b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   65.164301] Code: 00 74 1c 48 8b 8b 60 01 00 00 48 85 c9 75 04 0f 0b eb fe 48 ff c9 48 89 8b 60 01 00 00 eb 1a 48 8b 8b 58 01 00 00 48 85 c9 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 48 ff c9 48 89 8b 58 01 00 00 45 84 e4 74 16 48 8b
[   65.164301] RIP  [<ffffffff8121924f>] blkiocg_update_io_remove_stats+0x5b/0xaf
[   65.164301]  RSP <ffff8800ba5a79e8>
[   65.164301] ---[ end trace 1b2b828753032e68 ]---
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

that include some minor fixes and addresses all comments.

Changelog: (most based on Vivek Goyal's comments)
o renamed blkiocg_reset_write to blkiocg_reset_stats
o more clarification in the documentation on io_service_time and io_wait_time
o Initialize blkg->stats_lock
o rename io_add_stat to blkio_add_stat and declare it static
o use bool for direction and sync
o derive direction and sync info from existing rq methods
o use 12 for major:minor string length
o define io_service_time better to cover the NCQ case
o add a separate reset_stats interface
o make the indexed stats a 2d array to simplify macro and function pointer code
o blkio.time now exports in jiffies as before
o Added stats description in patch description and
  Documentation/cgroup/blkio-controller.txt
o Prefix all stats functions with blkio and make them static as applicable
o replace IO_TYPE_MAX with IO_TYPE_TOTAL
o Moved #define constant to top of blk-cgroup.c
o Pass dev_t around instead of char *
o Add note to documentation file about resetting stats
o use BLK_CGROUP_MODULE in addition to BLK_CGROUP config option in #ifdef
  statements
o Avoid struct request specific knowledge in blk-cgroup. blk-cgroup.h now has
  rq_direction() and rq_sync() functions which are used by CFQ and when using
  io-controller at a higher level, bio_* functions can be added.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

We also add start_time_ns and io_start_time_ns fields to struct request
here to record the time when a request is created and when it is
dispatched to device. We use ns uints here as ms and jiffies are
not very useful for non-rotational media.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Remove alignment padding to shrink struct request from 336 to 320 bytes
so needing one fewer cacheline and therefore removing 48 bytes from
struct request_queue.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Remove compatibility wrappers and update remaining drivers.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_<limit name>.
blk_queue_max_sectors predates this practice, leading to some confusion.
Rename the function to appropriately reflect that its intended use is to
set max_hw_sectors.

Also introduce a temporary wrapper for backwards compability.  This can
be removed after the merge window is closed.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Add a BLK_ prefix to block layer constants.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

blk_queue_max_hw_sectors is no longer called by any subsystem and can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This reverts commit fb1e7538.

"Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question
causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from
200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec.

Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the
offending commit.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/blkdev.h
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%
Signed-off-by: NAlan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

All callers of the stacking functions use 512-byte sector units rather
than byte offsets.  Simplify the code so the stacking functions take
sectors when specifying data offsets.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

DM does not want to know about partition offsets.  Add a partition-aware
wrapper that DM can use when stacking block devices.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Discard alignment reporting for partitions was incorrect.  Update to
match the algorithm used elsewhere.

The alignment can be negative (misaligned).  Fix format string
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

blk_rq_err_sectors() seems useless, get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: NGui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

queue_sector_alignment_offset returned the wrong value which caused
partitions to report an incorrect alignment_offset.  Since offset
alignment calculation is needed several places it has been split into a
separate helper function.  The topology stacking function has been
updated accordingly.

Furthermore, comments have been added to clarify how the stacking
function works.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: NIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.
Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>