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Thomas Gleixner 9467f85960 blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
Replace the block-mq notifier list management with the multi instance
facility in the cpu hotplug state machine.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Christoph Hellwing <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-22 08:05:17 -06:00
Stephen Rothwell 8ec2ef2b66 blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
and building block/blk-mq-pci.o should depend on CONFIG_BLOCK

Fixes: 973c4e372c ("blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-19 08:21:51 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 973c4e372c blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-15 08:42:03 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 048ccca8c1 Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches
- Remove usage of ib_query_device and instead store attributes in
   ib_device struct
 - Move iopoll out of block and into lib, rename to irqpoll, and use
   in several places in the rdma stack as our new completion queue
   polling library mechanism.  Update the other block drivers that
   already used iopoll to use the new mechanism too.
 - Replace the per-entry GID table locks with a single GID table lock
 - IPoIB multicast cleanup
 - Cleanups to the IB MR facility
 - Add support for 64bit extended IB counters
 - Fix for netlink oops while parsing RDMA nl messages
 - RoCEv2 support for the core IB code
 - mlx4 RoCEv2 support
 - mlx5 RoCEv2 support
 - Cross Channel support for mlx5
 - Timestamp support for mlx5
 - Atomic support for mlx5
 - Raw QP support for mlx5
 - MAINTAINERS update for mlx4/mlx5
 - Misc ocrdma, qib, nes, usNIC, cxgb3, cxgb4, mlx4, mlx5 updates
 - Add support for remote invalidate to the iSER driver (pushed through the
   RDMA tree due to dependencies, acknowledged by nab)
 - Update to NFSoRDMA (pushed through the RDMA tree due to dependencies,
   acknowledged by Bruce)
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma

Pull rdma updates from Doug Ledford:
 "Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches

   - Remove usage of ib_query_device and instead store attributes in
     ib_device struct

   - Move iopoll out of block and into lib, rename to irqpoll, and use
     in several places in the rdma stack as our new completion queue
     polling library mechanism.  Update the other block drivers that
     already used iopoll to use the new mechanism too.

   - Replace the per-entry GID table locks with a single GID table lock

   - IPoIB multicast cleanup

   - Cleanups to the IB MR facility

   - Add support for 64bit extended IB counters

   - Fix for netlink oops while parsing RDMA nl messages

   - RoCEv2 support for the core IB code

   - mlx4 RoCEv2 support

   - mlx5 RoCEv2 support

   - Cross Channel support for mlx5

   - Timestamp support for mlx5

   - Atomic support for mlx5

   - Raw QP support for mlx5

   - MAINTAINERS update for mlx4/mlx5

   - Misc ocrdma, qib, nes, usNIC, cxgb3, cxgb4, mlx4, mlx5 updates

   - Add support for remote invalidate to the iSER driver (pushed
     through the RDMA tree due to dependencies, acknowledged by nab)

   - Update to NFSoRDMA (pushed through the RDMA tree due to
     dependencies, acknowledged by Bruce)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma: (169 commits)
  IB/mlx5: Unify CQ create flags check
  IB/mlx5: Expose Raw Packet QP to user space consumers
  {IB, net}/mlx5: Move the modify QP operation table to mlx5_ib
  IB/mlx5: Support setting Ethernet priority for Raw Packet QPs
  IB/mlx5: Add Raw Packet QP query functionality
  IB/mlx5: Add create and destroy functionality for Raw Packet QP
  IB/mlx5: Refactor mlx5_ib_qp to accommodate other QP types
  IB/mlx5: Allocate a Transport Domain for each ucontext
  net/mlx5_core: Warn on unsupported events of QP/RQ/SQ
  net/mlx5_core: Add RQ and SQ event handling
  net/mlx5_core: Export transport objects
  IB/mlx5: Expose CQE version to user-space
  IB/mlx5: Add CQE version 1 support to user QPs and SRQs
  IB/mlx5: Fix data validation in mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext
  IB/sa: Fix netlink local service GFP crash
  IB/srpt: Remove redundant wc array
  IB/qib: Improve ipoib UD performance
  IB/mlx4: Advertise RoCE v2 support
  IB/mlx4: Create and use another QP1 for RoCEv2
  IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers
  ...
2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
Vishal Verma 9e0e252a04 badblocks: Add core badblock management code
Take the core badblocks implementation from md, and make it generally
available. This follows the same style as kernel implementations of
linked lists, rb-trees etc, where you can have a structure that can be
embedded anywhere, and accessor functions to manipulate the data.

The only changes in this copy of the code are ones to generalize
function/variable names from md-specific ones. Also add init and free
functions.

Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-01-09 06:35:12 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 511cbce2ff irq_poll: make blk-iopoll available outside the block layer
The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken.  Better suggestions
welcome.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
2015-12-11 11:52:24 -08:00
Martin K. Petersen 2341c2f8c3 block: Add T10 Protection Information functions
The T10 Protection Information format is also used by some devices that
do not go through the SCSI layer (virtual block devices, NVMe). Relocate
the relevant functions to a block layer library that can be used without
involving SCSI.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-27 09:14:59 -06:00
Jens Axboe 719c555f44 block: move mm/bounce.c to block/
Continue moving some of the block files that are scattered around.
bounce.c contains only code for bouncing the contents of a bio.
It's block proper code, not mm code.

Suggested-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-19 20:01:52 -06:00
Jens Axboe 2667bcbbd5 block: move ioprio.c from fs/ to block/
Like commit f9c78b2b, move this block related file outside
of fs/ and into the core block directory, block/.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-19 11:02:18 -06:00
Jens Axboe f9c78b2be2 block: move bio.c and bio-integrity.c from fs/ to block/
They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in
drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script
gets it wrong when in fs/.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-19 08:34:46 -06:00
Jens Axboe 320ae51fee blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
Linux currently has two models for block devices:

- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
  request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
  functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
  management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.

- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
  block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
  driver generally have to manage everything themselves.

With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.

The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.

This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.

blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:

- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
  be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
  to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
  tags, to enable cache hot reuse.

- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
  basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
  if a request happens to fail.

- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
  submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
  desired location.

- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
  to associate a request structure with some driver private
  command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
  and then any request handed to the driver will have the
  required size of memory associated with it.

- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
  gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
  sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
  increases bandwidth.

For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).

Contributions in this patch from the following people:

Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25 11:56:00 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker 080506ad0a block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing
Recently commit bab55417b1 ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER.  However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.

Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.

In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
 - help text was not really at all helpful.
 - index file for Documentation was not updated
 - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 - clarify wording in source comments

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
Cai Zhiyong bab55417b1 block: support embedded device command line partition
Read block device partition table from command line.  The partition used
for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device.  It is no MBR, save
storage space.  Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of
data on the block device.  Users can easily change the partition.

This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c"
About the partition verbose reference
"Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt"

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text]
[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()]
Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com>
Cc: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:56:57 -07:00
Al Viro 94ea4158f1 separate partition format handling from generic code
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
Al Viro 9be96f3fd1 move fs/partitions to block/
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
Mike Christie aa387cc895 block: add bsg helper library
This moves the FC classes bsg code to the block layer and
makes it a lib so that other classes like iscsi and SAS can use it.

It is helpful because working with the request queue, bios,
creating scatterlists, etc are a pain that the LLD does not
have to worry about with normal IOs and should not have to
worry about for bsg requests.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:05:09 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a2887097f2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...
2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
Vivek Goyal e43473b7f2 blkio: Core implementation of throttle policy
o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
  implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
  comes in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16 08:42:52 +02:00
Tejun Heo 8839a0e055 block: rename blk-barrier.c to blk-flush.c
Without ordering requirements, barrier and ordering are minomers.
Rename block/blk-barrier.c to block/blk-flush.c.  Rename of symbols
will follow.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Dmitry Monakhov f31e7e4022 blkdev: move blkdev_issue helper functions to separate file
Move blkdev_issue_discard from blk-barrier.c because it is
not barrier related.
Later the file will be populated by other helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-28 19:47:36 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 31e4c28d95 blkio: Introduce blkio controller cgroup interface
o This is basic implementation of blkio controller cgroup interface. This is
  the common interface visible to user space and should be used by different
  IO control policies as we implement those.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 19:28:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe 492af6350a block: remove the anticipatory IO scheduler
AS is mostly a subset of CFQ, so there's little point in still
providing this separate IO scheduler. Hopefully at some point we
can get down to one single IO scheduler again, at least this brings
us closer by having only one intelligent IO scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 09:37:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5e605b64a1 block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
to interrupt completion mode.

This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
sold separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 018e044689 block: get rid of queue-private command filter
The initial patches to support this through sysfs export were broken
and have been if 0'ed out in any release. So lets just kill the code
and reclaim some space in struct request_queue, if anyone would later
like to fixup the sysfs bits, the git history can easily restore
the removed bits.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-01 10:56:26 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2db270a80b tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace
Impact: cleanup

Move blktrace.c to kernel/trace, also move its config entry.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:02 +01:00
Jens Axboe 242f9dcb8b block: unify request timeout handling
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling.
Move those bits to the block layer.

Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever
and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to
tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot
less timer fiddling.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe b646fc59b3 block: split softirq handling into blk-softirq.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Adel Gadllah 0b07de85a7 allow userspace to modify scsi command filter on per device basis
This patch exports the per-gendisk command filter to user space through
sysfs, so it can be changed by the system administrator.
All users of the old cmd filter have been converted to use the new one.

Original patch from Peter Jones.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen 7ba1ba12ee block: Block layer data integrity support
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe d6d4819696 block: ll_rw_blk.c split, add blk-merge.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:12 +01:00
Jens Axboe 86db1e2977 block: continue ll_rw_blk.c splitup
Adds files for barrier handling, rq execution, io context handling,
mapping data to requests, and queue settings.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe 8324aa91d1 block: split tag and sysfs handling from blk-core.c
Seperates the tag and sysfs handling from ll_rw_blk.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe a168ee84c9 block: first step of splitting ll_rw_blk, rename it
Then we retain history in blk-core.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:05 +01:00
Jens Axboe 99874d5048 [BLOCK] Only include the compat ioctl code if CONFIG_BLOCK is set
Add an extra CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT that we can use in the Makefile

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-12 12:50:41 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann f58c4c0a17 compat_ioctl: move common block ioctls to compat_blkdev_ioctl
Make compat_blkdev_ioctl and blkdev_ioctl reflect the respective
native versions. This is somewhat more efficient and makes it easier
to keep the two in sync.

Also get rid of the bogus handling for broken_blkgetsize and the
duplicate entry for BLKRASET.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:26:00 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3d6392cfbd bsg: support for full generic block layer SG v3
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16 08:52:44 +02:00
David Howells 9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 2056a782f8 [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
Jens Axboe 3a65dfe8c0 [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directory
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00