user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/blkdev.h, branch ipvs/experimental

block: bdev_stack_limits wrapper

2010-01-11T13:29:20Z

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: Martin K. Petersen Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix discard alignment calculation and printing

2010-01-11T13:29:19Z

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: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: blk_rq_err_sectors cleanup

2009-12-30T07:41:07Z

blk_rq_err_sectors() seems useless, get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix incorrect alignment offset reporting and update documentation

2009-12-29T07:35:35Z

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: Martin K. Petersen Tested-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed

2009-12-03T08:24:48Z

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: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages

2009-11-26T08:16:19Z

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: Ilya Loginov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Horton Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Expose discard granularity

2009-11-10T10:50:21Z

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: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: move bdi/address_space unplug functions to backing-dev.h

2009-10-29T12:59:26Z

There's nothing block related about them, the backing device is used by things like NFS etc as well. This gets rid of the need to protect such calls by CONFIG_BLOCK. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()

2009-10-05T09:03:58Z

It was briefly introduced to allow CFQ to to delayed scheduling, but we ended up removing that feature again. So lets kill the function and export, and just switch CFQ back to the normal work schedule since it is now passing in a '0' delay from all call sites. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Topology ioctls

2009-10-03T18:52:01Z

Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid. Provide the topology information through bdev ioctls. Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe