block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add

block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page())
checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create
bios that don't need to be split.

But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with
stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of
complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could
eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked
drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are
convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with
both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the
(potentially multiple) devices underneath them. In the future this will
let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code.

We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various
make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary
size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to
blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and
blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing
affecting segment merging.

Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify
they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are:

* nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c)
* axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c)
* simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c)
* brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c)
* mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c)
* loop_make_request
* null_queue_bio
* bcache's make_request fns

Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left
for future patches.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md/md.c' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers

Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set'
helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too.

It was a bit of a mess o

block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpers

Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set'
helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too.

It was a bit of a mess of atomic vs non-atomic access. With
BIO_UPTODATE gone, we don't have any risk of concurrent access to the
flags. So relax the restriction and don't make any of them atomic. The
flags that do have serialization issues (reffed and chained), we
already handle those separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: only honor SG gap prevention for merges that contain data

We can safely merge anything that wont generate an SG list entry,
so if the bio is data-less (discard), don't look at potential
SG ga

block: only honor SG gap prevention for merges that contain data

We can safely merge anything that wont generate an SG list entry,
so if the bio is data-less (discard), don't look at potential
SG gaps.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Fix bug in blk_rq_merge_ok

Use the right array index to reference the last
element of rq->biotail->bi_io_vec[]

Signed-off-by: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Reviewed-by: Chong Yuan <chong.yua

Fix bug in blk_rq_merge_ok

Use the right array index to reference the last
element of rq->biotail->bi_io_vec[]

Signed-off-by: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Reviewed-by: Chong Yuan <chong.yuan@memblaze.com>
Fixes: 66cb45aa41315 ("block: add support for limiting gaps in SG lists")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed

If the queue has SG_GAPS set, we must not merge across an sg gap.
This is caught for the bio case, but currently not for the
more r

block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed

If the queue has SG_GAPS set, we must not merge across an sg gap.
This is caught for the bio case, but currently not for the
more rare case of merging two requests directly.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>

Cut the dm bits, those will go through the dm tree, and fixed
the test_bit() test.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments()

For cloned bio, bio->bi_vcnt can't be used at all, and we
have resort to bio_segments() to figure out how many
segment there are in the bio.

Signed-off-

block: blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments()

For cloned bio, bio->bi_vcnt can't be used at all, and we
have resort to bio_segments() to figure out how many
segment there are in the bio.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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blk-merge: recaculate segment if it isn't less than max segments

The problem is introduced by commit 764f612c6c3c231b(blk-merge:
don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio),
and merg

blk-merge: recaculate segment if it isn't less than max segments

The problem is introduced by commit 764f612c6c3c231b(blk-merge:
don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio),
and merge is needed if number of current segment isn't less than
max segments.

Strictly speaking, bio->bi_vcnt shouldn't be used here since
it may not be accurate in cases of both cloned bio or bio cloned
from, but bio_segments() is a bit expensive, and bi_vcnt is still
the biggest number, so the approach should work.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio

It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt
if the bio is cloned.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@

blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio

It isn't correct to figure out req->bi_phys_segments from bio->bi_vcnt
if the bio is cloned.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ

We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags.
Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible
integ

block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ

We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags.
Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible
integrity payloads.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments

QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE is set at default for blk-mq devices,
so bio->bi_phys_segment computed may be bigger than
queue_max_segments(q) for blk-mq devices, then dr

blk-merge: fix blk_recount_segments

QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE is set at default for blk-mq devices,
so bio->bi_phys_segment computed may be bigger than
queue_max_segments(q) for blk-mq devices, then drivers will
fail to handle the case, for example, BUG_ON() in
virtio_queue_rq() can be triggerd for virtio-blk:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1359146

This patch fixes the issue by ignoring the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE
flag if the computed bio->bi_phys_segment is bigger than
queue_max_segments(q), and the regression is caused by commit
05f1dd53152173(block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging).

Reported-by: Kick In <pierre-andre.morey@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: add support for limiting gaps in SG lists

Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support
SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the
previous SG en

block: add support for limiting gaps in SG lists

Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support
SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the
previous SG entry doesn't end on a page boundary. For NVMe, all SG
entries must start at offset 0 (except the first) and end on a page
boundary (except the last).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging

If devices are not SG starved, we waste a lot of time potentially
collapsing SG segments. Enough that 1.5% of the CPU time goes
to this, at only 400K I

block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging

If devices are not SG starved, we waste a lot of time potentially
collapsing SG segments. Enough that 1.5% of the CPU time goes
to this, at only 400K IOPS. Add a queue flag, QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE,
which just returns the number of vectors in a bio instead of looping
over all segments and checking for collapsible ones.

Add a BLK_MQ_F_SG_MERGE flag so that drivers can opt-in on the sg
merging, if they so desire.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments

Immutable biovecs changed the way biovecs are interpreted - drivers no
longer use bi_vcnt, they have to go by bi_iter.bi_size (to allow for
using

block: Explicitly handle discard/write same segments

Immutable biovecs changed the way biovecs are interpreted - drivers no
longer use bi_vcnt, they have to go by bi_iter.bi_size (to allow for
using part of an existing segment without modifying it).

This breaks with discards and write_same bios, since for those bi_size
has nothing to do with segments in the biovec. So for now, we need a
fairly gross hack - we fortunately know that there will never be more
than one segment for the entire request, so we can special case
discard/write_same.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings

The uninitialized_var() macro appears to not work on structs...
Get rid of it, and manually initialize instead.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@

block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings

The uninitialized_var() macro appears to not work on structs...
Get rid of it, and manually initialize instead.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: Silence spurious compiler warnings

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

block: Kill bio_iovec_idx(), __bio_iovec()

bio_iovec_idx() and __bio_iovec() don't have any valid uses anymore -
previous users have been converted to bio_iovec_iter() or other methods.

__BVEC_END(

block: Kill bio_iovec_idx(), __bio_iovec()

bio_iovec_idx() and __bio_iovec() don't have any valid uses anymore -
previous users have been converted to bio_iovec_iter() or other methods.

__BVEC_END() has to go too - the bvec array can't be used directly for
the last biovec because we might only be using the first portion of it,
we have to iterate over the bvec array with bio_for_each_segment() which
checks against the current value of bi_iter.bi_size.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter

More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers
won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers
that take

block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter

More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers
won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers
that take into account bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done.

This updates callers for the new usage without changing the
implementation yet.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
Cc: support@lsi.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Quoc-Son Anh <quoc-sonx.anh@intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

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block: Abstract out bvec iterator

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for n

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6

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blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set

For blk-mq, if a driver has requested per-request payload data
to carry command structures, they are stuffed into req->special.
For a

blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set

For blk-mq, if a driver has requested per-request payload data
to carry command structures, they are stuffed into req->special.
For an old style request based driver, req->special is used
for the same purpose but indicates that a per-driver request
structure has been prepared for the request already. So for the
old style driver, we do not merge such requests.

As most/all blk-mq drivers will use the payload feature, and
since we have no problem merging on these, make this check
dependent on whether it's a blk-mq enabled driver or not.

Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end

This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.

Acked-by:

scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end

This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block

block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same
block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a
single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device
writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O.

This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The
blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block
drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to
efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges

- blk_check_merge_flags() verifies that cmd_flags / bi_rw are
compatible. This function is called for both req-req and req-bio

block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges

- blk_check_merge_flags() verifies that cmd_flags / bi_rw are
compatible. This function is called for both req-req and req-bio
merging.

- blk_rq_get_max_sectors() and blk_queue_get_max_sectors() can be used
to query the maximum sector count for a given request or queue. The
calls will return the right value from the queue limits given the
type of command (RW, discard, write same, etc.)

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: Clean up special command handling logic

Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable()

block: Clean up special command handling logic

Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge
flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and
bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them.

bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is
done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests
that carry a payload (e.g. write same).

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper

Add a helper to map a bio to a scatterlist, modelled after
blk_rq_map_sg.

This helper is useful for any driver that wants to create
a scatterlist from its ->make_

block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper

Add a helper to map a bio to a scatterlist, modelled after
blk_rq_map_sg.

This helper is useful for any driver that wants to create
a scatterlist from its ->make_request_fn method.

Changes in v2:
- Use __blk_segment_map_sg to avoid duplicated code
- Add cocbook style function comment

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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