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authorAlex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>2013-02-27 17:05:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-27 19:10:22 -0800
commit75f187aba5e7a3eea259041f85099029774a4c5b (patch)
tree34a26995689413e123463300447f2e0fb7b05673 /drivers/block
parentcd89f46b52cd2354d3d322ea7eab193b86ba03c6 (diff)
downloadlinux-75f187aba5e7a3eea259041f85099029774a4c5b.tar.bz2
nbd: support FLUSH requests
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux block layer. If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback cache. Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will not be safe against power losses. The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for these features. This patch adds support for the cache flush command and flag. In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl, and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush. When the flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands. FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over supporting flush only. Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not. It is also not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush. The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD protocol documentation says nothing about it. The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing that. The bug manifests itself as follows. Suppose you two different client/server pairs to start the NBD device. Suppose also that the first client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two things. Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command. This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nbd.c22
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index ade146bf65e5..695c68fedd32 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static const char *nbdcmd_to_ascii(int cmd)
case NBD_CMD_READ: return "read";
case NBD_CMD_WRITE: return "write";
case NBD_CMD_DISC: return "disconnect";
+ case NBD_CMD_FLUSH: return "flush";
case NBD_CMD_TRIM: return "trim/discard";
}
return "invalid";
@@ -244,8 +245,15 @@ static int nbd_send_req(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct request *req)
request.magic = htonl(NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC);
request.type = htonl(nbd_cmd(req));
- request.from = cpu_to_be64((u64)blk_rq_pos(req) << 9);
- request.len = htonl(size);
+
+ if (nbd_cmd(req) == NBD_CMD_FLUSH) {
+ /* Other values are reserved for FLUSH requests. */
+ request.from = 0;
+ request.len = 0;
+ } else {
+ request.from = cpu_to_be64((u64)blk_rq_pos(req) << 9);
+ request.len = htonl(size);
+ }
memcpy(request.handle, &req, sizeof(req));
dprintk(DBG_TX, "%s: request %p: sending control (%s@%llu,%uB)\n",
@@ -482,6 +490,11 @@ static void nbd_handle_req(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct request *req)
}
}
+ if (req->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH) {
+ BUG_ON(unlikely(blk_rq_sectors(req)));
+ nbd_cmd(req) = NBD_CMD_FLUSH;
+ }
+
req->errors = 0;
mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
@@ -684,6 +697,10 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
if (nbd->flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM)
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD,
nbd->disk->queue);
+ if (nbd->flags & NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH)
+ blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, REQ_FLUSH);
+ else
+ blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0);
thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
@@ -705,6 +722,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
if (file)
fput(file);
+ nbd->flags = 0;
nbd->bytesize = 0;
bdev->bd_inode->i_size = 0;
set_capacity(nbd->disk, 0);