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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-08 14:12:17 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-08 14:12:17 -0800 |
commit | 80201fe175cbf7f3e372f53eba0a881a702ad926 (patch) | |
tree | 8026c68d52763614268a9c3c80759ad386bd5967 /Documentation | |
parent | 4221b807d1f73c03d22543416d303b60a5d1ef31 (diff) | |
parent | aaeee62c841cc1e48231e1d60c304d2da9c4e41c (diff) | |
download | linux-80201fe175cbf7f3e372f53eba0a881a702ad926.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'for-5.1/block-20190302' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"Not a huge amount of changes in this round, the biggest one is that we
finally have Mings multi-page bvec support merged. Apart from that,
this pull request contains:
- Small series that avoids quiescing the queue for sysfs changes that
match what we currently have (Aleksei)
- Series of bcache fixes (via Coly)
- Series of lightnvm fixes (via Mathias)
- NVMe pull request from Christoph. Nothing major, just SPDX/license
cleanups, RR mp policy (Hannes), and little fixes (Bart,
Chaitanya).
- BFQ series (Paolo)
- Save blk-mq cpu -> hw queue mapping, removing a pointer indirection
for the fast path (Jianchao)
- fops->iopoll() added for async IO polling, this is a feature that
the upcoming io_uring interface will use (Christoph, me)
- Partition scan loop fixes (Dongli)
- mtip32xx conversion from managed resource API (Christoph)
- cdrom registration race fix (Guenter)
- MD pull from Song, two minor fixes.
- Various documentation fixes (Marcos)
- Multi-page bvec feature. This brings a lot of nice improvements
with it, like more efficient splitting, larger IOs can be supported
without growing the bvec table size, and so on. (Ming)
- Various little fixes to core and drivers"
* tag 'for-5.1/block-20190302' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (117 commits)
block: fix updating bio's front segment size
block: Replace function name in string with __func__
nbd: propagate genlmsg_reply return code
floppy: remove set but not used variable 'q'
null_blk: fix checking for REQ_FUA
block: fix NULL pointer dereference in register_disk
fs: fix guard_bio_eod to check for real EOD errors
blk-mq: use HCTX_TYPE_DEFAULT but not 0 to index blk_mq_tag_set->map
block: optimize bvec iteration in bvec_iter_advance
block: introduce mp_bvec_for_each_page() for iterating over page
block: optimize blk_bio_segment_split for single-page bvec
block: optimize __blk_segment_map_sg() for single-page bvec
block: introduce bvec_nth_page()
iomap: wire up the iopoll method
block: add bio_set_polled() helper
block: wire up block device iopoll method
fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operations
loop: set GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN after blkdev_reread_part()
loop: do not print warn message if partition scan is successful
block: bounce: make sure that bvec table is updated
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/biovecs.txt | 25 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt index 25689584e6e0..ce6eccaf5df7 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt @@ -117,3 +117,28 @@ Other implications: size limitations and the limitations of the underlying devices. Thus there's no need to define ->merge_bvec_fn() callbacks for individual block drivers. + +Usage of helpers: +================= + +* The following helpers whose names have the suffix of "_all" can only be used +on non-BIO_CLONED bio. They are usually used by filesystem code. Drivers +shouldn't use them because the bio may have been split before it reached the +driver. + + bio_for_each_segment_all() + bio_first_bvec_all() + bio_first_page_all() + bio_last_bvec_all() + +* The following helpers iterate over single-page segment. The passed 'struct +bio_vec' will contain a single-page IO vector during the iteration + + bio_for_each_segment() + bio_for_each_segment_all() + +* The following helpers iterate over multi-page bvec. The passed 'struct +bio_vec' will contain a multi-page IO vector during the iteration + + bio_for_each_bvec() + rq_for_each_bvec() diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 8dc8e9c2913f..761c6fd24a53 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); + int (*iopoll)(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool spin); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); int (*iterate_shared) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); __poll_t (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); @@ -902,6 +903,8 @@ otherwise noted. write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source + iopoll: called when aio wants to poll for completions on HIPRI iocbs + iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents iterate_shared: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents |