Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block-related fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Improvements to the buffered and direct write IO plugging from
   Fengguang.

 - Abstract out the mapping of a bio in a request, and use that to
   provide a blk_bio_map_sg() helper.  Useful for mapping just a bio
   instead of a full request.

 - Regression fix from Hugh, fixing up a patch that went into the
   previous release cycle (and marked stable, too) attempting to prevent
   a loop in __getblk_slow().

 - Updates to discard requests, fixing up the sizing and how we align
   them.  Also a change to disallow merging of discard requests, since
   that doesn't really work properly yet.

 - A few drbd fixes.

 - Documentation updates.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: replace __getblk_slow misfix by grow_dev_page fix
  drbd: Write all pages of the bitmap after an online resize
  drbd: Finish requests that completed while IO was frozen
  drbd: fix drbd wire compatibility for empty flushes
  Documentation: update tunable options in block/cfq-iosched.txt
  Documentation: update tunable options in block/cfq-iosched.txt
  Documentation: update missing index files in block/00-INDEX
  block: move down direct IO plugging
  block: remove plugging at buffered write time
  block: disable discard request merge temporarily
  bio: Fix potential memory leak in bio_find_or_create_slab()
  block: Don't use static to define "void *p" in show_partition_start()
  block: Add blk_bio_map_sg() helper
  block: Introduce __blk_segment_map_sg() helper
  fs/block-dev.c:fix performance regression in O_DIRECT writes to md block devices
  block: split discard into aligned requests
  block: reorganize rounding of max_discard_sectors
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Linus Torvalds 2012-08-25 11:36:43 -07:00
commit a7e546f175
17 changed files with 378 additions and 123 deletions

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@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static inline void blk_clear_rl_full(struct request_list *rl, bool sync)
* it already be started by driver.
*/
#define RQ_NOMERGE_FLAGS \
(REQ_NOMERGE | REQ_STARTED | REQ_SOFTBARRIER | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)
(REQ_NOMERGE | REQ_STARTED | REQ_SOFTBARRIER | REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA | REQ_DISCARD)
#define rq_mergeable(rq) \
(!((rq)->cmd_flags & RQ_NOMERGE_FLAGS) && \
(((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD) || \
@ -894,6 +894,8 @@ extern void blk_queue_flush_queueable(struct request_queue *q, bool queueable);
extern struct backing_dev_info *blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device *bdev);
extern int blk_rq_map_sg(struct request_queue *, struct request *, struct scatterlist *);
extern int blk_bio_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
struct scatterlist *sglist);
extern void blk_dump_rq_flags(struct request *, char *);
extern long nr_blockdev_pages(void);
@ -1139,6 +1141,16 @@ static inline int queue_limit_discard_alignment(struct queue_limits *lim, sector
& (lim->discard_granularity - 1);
}
static inline int bdev_discard_alignment(struct block_device *bdev)
{
struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
return bdev->bd_part->discard_alignment;
return q->limits.discard_alignment;
}
static inline unsigned int queue_discard_zeroes_data(struct request_queue *q)
{
if (q->limits.max_discard_sectors && q->limits.discard_zeroes_data == 1)