Update Kconfig.iosched and do the related Makefile changes to include
kernel configuration options for BFQ. Also increase the number of
policies supported by the blkio controller so that BFQ can add its
own.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini@google.com>
block: introduce the BFQ-v7r11 I/O sched for 4.5.0
The general structure is borrowed from CFQ, as much of the code for
handling I/O contexts. Over time, several useful features have been
ported from CFQ as well (details in the changelog in README.BFQ). A
(bfq_)queue is associated to each task doing I/O on a device, and each
time a scheduling decision has to be made a queue is selected and served
until it expires.
- Slices are given in the service domain: tasks are assigned
budgets, measured in number of sectors. Once got the disk, a task
must however consume its assigned budget within a configurable
maximum time (by default, the maximum possible value of the
budgets is automatically computed to comply with this timeout).
This allows the desired latency vs "throughput boosting" tradeoff
to be set.
- Budgets are scheduled according to a variant of WF2Q+, implemented
using an augmented rb-tree to take eligibility into account while
preserving an O(log N) overall complexity.
- A low-latency tunable is provided; if enabled, both interactive
and soft real-time applications are guaranteed a very low latency.
- Latency guarantees are preserved also in the presence of NCQ.
- Also with flash-based devices, a high throughput is achieved
while still preserving latency guarantees.
- BFQ features Early Queue Merge (EQM), a sort of fusion of the
cooperating-queue-merging and the preemption mechanisms present
in CFQ. EQM is in fact a unified mechanism that tries to get a
sequential read pattern, and hence a high throughput, with any
set of processes performing interleaved I/O over a contiguous
sequence of sectors.
- BFQ supports full hierarchical scheduling, exporting a cgroups
interface. Since each node has a full scheduler, each group can
be assigned its own weight.
- If the cgroups interface is not used, only I/O priorities can be
assigned to processes, with ioprio values mapped to weights
with the relation weight = IOPRIO_BE_NR - ioprio.
- ioprio classes are served in strict priority order, i.e., lower
priority queues are not served as long as there are higher
priority queues. Among queues in the same class the bandwidth is
distributed in proportion to the weight of each queue. A very
thin extra bandwidth is however guaranteed to the Idle class, to
prevent it from starving.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini@google.com>
block, bfq: add Early Queue Merge (EQM) to BFQ-v7r11 for 4.5.0
A set of processes may happen to perform interleaved reads, i.e.,requests
whose union would give rise to a sequential read pattern. There are two
typical cases: in the first case, processes read fixed-size chunks of
data at a fixed distance from each other, while in the second case processes
may read variable-size chunks at variable distances. The latter case occurs
for example with QEMU, which splits the I/O generated by the guest into
multiple chunks, and lets these chunks be served by a pool of cooperating
processes, iteratively assigning the next chunk of I/O to the first
available process. CFQ uses actual queue merging for the first type of
rocesses, whereas it uses preemption to get a sequential read pattern out
of the read requests performed by the second type of processes. In the end
it uses two different mechanisms to achieve the same goal: boosting the
throughput with interleaved I/O.
This patch introduces Early Queue Merge (EQM), a unified mechanism to get a
sequential read pattern with both types of processes. The main idea is
checking newly arrived requests against the next request of the active queue
both in case of actual request insert and in case of request merge. By doing
so, both the types of processes can be handled by just merging their queues.
EQM is then simpler and more compact than the pair of mechanisms used in
CFQ.
Finally, EQM also preserves the typical low-latency properties of BFQ, by
properly restoring the weight-raising state of a queue when it gets back to
a non-merged state.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Andreolini <mauro.andreolini@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Turn into BFQ-v8r7 for 4.9.0
CHANGELOG from v8r4 to v8r7
BFQ v8r7
BUGFIX: make BFQ compile also without hierarchical support
BFQ v8r6
BUGFIX Removed the check that, when the new queue to set in service
must be selected, the cached next_in_service entities coincide with
the entities chosen by __bfq_lookup_next_entity. This check,
issuing a warning on failure, was wrong, because the cached and the
newly chosen entity could differ in case of a CLASS_IDLE timeout.
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT (this improvement is related to the above
BUGFIX) The cached next_in_service entities are now really used to
select the next queue to serve when the in-service queue
expires. Before this change, the cached values were used only for
extra (and in general wrong) consistency checks. This caused
additional overhead instead of reducing it.
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT The next entity to serve, for each level of the
hierarchy, is now updated on every event that may change it, i.e., on
every activation or deactivation of any entity. This finer granularity
is not strictly needed for corectness, because it is only on queue
expirations that BFQ needs to know what are the next entities to
serve. Yet this change makes it possible to implement optimizations in
which it is necessary to know the next queue to serve before the
in-service queue expires.
SERVICE-ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT The per-device CLASS_IDLE service timeout
has been turned into a much more accurate per-group timeout.
CODE-QUALITY IMPROVEMENT The non-trivial parts touched by the above
improvements have been partially rewritten, and enriched of comments,
so as to improve their transparency and understandability.
IMPROVEMENT Ported and improved CFQ commit 41647e7a
Before this improvememtn, BFQ used the same logic for detecting
seeky queues for rotational disks and SSDs. This logic is appropriate
for the former, as it takes into account only inter-request distance,
and the latter is the dominant latency factor on a rotational device.
Yet things change with flash-based devices, where serving a large
request still yields a high throughput, even the request is far
from the previous request served. This commits extends seeky
detection to take into accoutn also this fact with flash-based
devices. In particular, this commit is an improved port of the
original commit 41647e7a for CFQ.
CODE IMPROVEMENT Remove useless parameter from bfq_del_bfqq_busy
OPTIMIZATION Optimize the update of next_in_service entity.
If the update of the next_in_service candidate entity is triggered by
the activation of an entity, then it is not necessary to perform full
lookups in the active trees to update next_in_service. In fact, it is
enough to check whether the just-activated entity has a higher
priority than next_in_service, or, even if it has the same priority as
next_in_service, is eligible and has a lower virtual finish time than
next_in_service. If this compound condition holds, then the new entity
can be set as the new next_in_service. Otherwise no change is needed.
This commit implements this optimization.
BUGFIX Fix bug causing occasional loss of weight raising.
When a bfq_queue, say bfqq, is split after a merging with another
bfq_queue, BFQ checks whether it has to restore for bfqq the
weight-raising state that bfqq had before being merged. In
particular, the weight-raising is restored only if, according to the
weight-raising duration decided for bfqq when it started to be
weight-raised (before being merged), bfqq would not have already
finished its weight-raising period.
Yet, by mistake, such a duration was not saved when bfqq is merged. So,
if bfqq was freed and reallocated when it was split, then this duration
was wrongly set to zero on the split. As a consequence, the
weight-raising state of bfqq was wrongly not restored, which caused BFQ
to fail in guaranteeing a low latency to bfqq.
This commit fixes this bug by saving weight-raising duration when bfqq
is merged, and correctly restoring it when bfqq is split.
BUGFIX Fix wrong reset of in-service entities
In-service entities were reset with an indirect logic, which
happened to be even buggy for some cases. This commit fixes
this bug in two important steps. First, by replacing this
indirect logic with a direct logic, in which all involved
entities are immediately reset, with a bubble-up loop, when
the in-service queue is reset. Second, by restructuring the
code related to this change, so as to become not only correct
with respect to this change, but also cleaner and hopefully
clearer.
CODE IMPROVEMENT Add code to be able to redirect trace log to
console.
BUGFIX Fixed bug in optimized update of next_in_service entity.
There was a case where bfq_update_next_in_service did not update
next_in_service, even if it might need to be changed: in case of
requeueing or repositioning of the entity that happened to be
pointed exactly by next_in_service. This could result in violation
of service guarantees, because, after a change of timestamps for
such an entity, it might be the case that next_in_service had to
point to a different entity. This commit fixes this bug.
OPTIMIZATION Stop bubble-up of next_in_service update if possible.
BUGFIX Fixed a false-positive warning for uninitialized var
BFQ-v8r5
DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT Added documentation of BFQ
benefits, inner workings, interface and tunables.
BUGFIX: Replaced max wrongly used for modulo numbers.
DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT Improved help message in
Kconfig.iosched.
BUGFIX: Removed wrong conversion in use of bfq_fifo_expire.
CODE IMPROVEMENT Added parentheses to complex macros.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine"
* 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine"
blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine
blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
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>
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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
