Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: iss_storagedev@hp.com
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
* 'stable/vmalloc-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
* 'for-3.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits)
virtio-blk: use ida to allocate disk index
hpsa: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
cciss: add small delay when using PCI Power Management to reset for kump
xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.
xen/blkback: Check for proper operation.
xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.
xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path
xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()
xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments
xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response
xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
drivers/block/loop.c: remove unnecessary bdev argument from loop_clr_fd()
drivers/block/loop.c: emit uevent on auto release
drivers/block/cpqarray.c: use pci_dev->revision
loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
...
Fic up trivial header file includsion conflict in drivers/block/loop.c
* 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (29 commits)
block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held()
blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list
blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule
block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth.
block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue
blk-flush: move the queue kick into
blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush
block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio.
block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file
block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later
block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
block: reorganize queue draining
block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl() and blk_get_tg()
block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free
block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h
block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set()
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to "mddev_t" -> "struct mddev" conversion
and making the request functions be of type "void" instead of "int" in
- drivers/md/{faulty.c,linear.c,md.c,md.h,multipath.c,raid0.c,raid1.c,raid10.c,raid5.c}
- drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
Based on a patch by Mark Wu <dwu@redhat.com>
Current index allocation in virtio-blk is based on a monotonically
increasing variable "index". This means we'll run out of numbers
after a while. It also could cause confusion about the disk
name in the case of hot-plugging disks.
Change virtio-blk to use ida to allocate index, instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We want to remove the implicit everywhere presence of module.h
so fix up the people relying on that implicit presence in advance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Based on a patch by Mark Wu <dwu@redhat.com>
Current index allocation in virtio-blk is based on a monotonically
increasing variable "index". This means we'll run out of numbers
after a while. It also could cause confusion about the disk
name in the case of hot-plugging disks.
Change virtio-blk to use ida to allocate index, instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* 'for-linus' of git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client:
libceph: fix double-free of page vector
ceph: fix 32-bit ino numbers
libceph: force resend of osd requests if we skip an osdmap
ceph: use kernel DNS resolver
ceph: fix ceph_monc_init memory leak
ceph: let the set_layout ioctl set single traits
Revert "ceph: don't truncate dirty pages in invalidate work thread"
ceph: replace leading spaces with tabs
libceph: warn on msg allocation failures
libceph: don't complain on msgpool alloc failures
libceph: always preallocate mon connection
libceph: create messenger with client
ceph: document ioctls
ceph: implement (optional) max read size
ceph: rename rsize -> rasize
ceph: make readpages fully async
The xenbus module provides xenbus_map_ring_valloc() and
xenbus_map_ring_vfree(). Use these to map the ring pages granted by
the frontend.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This simplifies the init/shutdown paths, and makes client->msgr available
during the rest of the setup process.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
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Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
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tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
Fix file references in Kconfig files
aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
Fix file references in drivers/ide/
thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
...
* 'stable/bug.fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/p2m/debugfs: Make type_name more obvious.
xen/p2m/debugfs: Fix potential pointer exception.
xen/enlighten: Fix compile warnings and set cx to known value.
xen/xenbus: Remove the unnecessary check.
xen/irq: If we fail during msi_capability_init return proper error code.
xen/events: Don't check the info for NULL as it is already done.
xen/events: BUG() when we can't allocate our event->irq array.
* 'stable/mmu.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen: Fix selfballooning and ensure it doesn't go too far
xen/gntdev: Fix sleep-inside-spinlock
xen: modify kernel mappings corresponding to granted pages
xen: add an "highmem" parameter to alloc_xenballooned_pages
xen/p2m: Use SetPagePrivate and its friends for M2P overrides.
xen/p2m: Make debug/xen/mmu/p2m visible again.
Revert "xen/debug: WARN_ON when identity PFN has no _PAGE_IOMAP flag set."
The P600 requires a small delay when changing states. Otherwise we may think
the board did not reset and we bail. This for kdump only and is particular
to the P600.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There are two windows of opportunity to cause a race when
processing a barrier request. This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Currently the loop device tries to call directly into write_begin/write_end
instead of going through ->write if it can. This is a fairly nasty shortcut
as write_begin and write_end are only callbacks for the generic write code
and expect to be called with filesystem specific locks held.
This code currently causes various issues for clustered filesystems as it
doesn't take the required cluster locks, and it also causes issues for XFS
as it doesn't properly lock against the swapext ioctl as called by the
defragmentation tools. This in case causes data corruption if
defragmentation hits a busy loop device in the wrong time window, as
reported by RH QA.
The reason why we have this shortcut is that it saves a data copy when
doing a transformation on the loop device, which is the technical term
for using cryptoloop (or an XOR transformation). Given that cryptoloop
has been deprecated in favour of dm-crypt my opinion is that we should
simply drop this shortcut instead of finding complicated ways to to
introduce a formal interface for this shortcut.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The patch titled: "xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages
when discarding sector ranges." had the right idea except that
it used the wrong comparison operator. It had == instead of !=.
This fixes the bug where all (except discard) operations would
have been ignored.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The 'operation' parameters are the ones provided to the bio layer while
the req->operation are the ones passed in between the backend and
frontend. We used the wrong 'operation' value to squash the
call to map pages when processing the discard operation resulting
in an hypercall that did nothing. Lets guard against going in the
mapping function by checking for the proper operation type.
CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We did not increment the amount of sectors written to disk
b/c we tested for the == WRITE which is incorrect - as the
operations are more of WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_ODIRECT. This patch
fixes it by doing a & WRITE check.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Burns <xen.lists@burns.me.uk>
Suggested-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We emulate the barrier requests by draining the outstanding bio's
and then sending the WRITE_FLUSH command. To drain the I/Os
we use the refcnt that is used during disconnect to wait for all
the I/Os before disconnecting from the frontend. We latch on its
value and if it reaches either the threshold for disconnect or when
there are no more outstanding I/Os, then we have drained all I/Os.
Suggested-by: Christopher Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
... though after a failed xenbus_register_frontend() all may be lost.
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Guard against issuing BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER or BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_CACHE
by checking whether we successfully negotiated with the backend.
The negotiation with the backend also sets the q->flush_flags which
fortunately for us is also used when submitting an bio to us. If
we don't support barriers or flushes it would be set to zero so
we should never end up having to deal with REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.
However, other third party implementations of __make_request that
might be stacked on top of us might not be so smart, so lets fix this up.
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This fixes the problem of three of those four memset()-s having
improper size arguments passed: Sizeof a pointer-typed expression
returns the size of the pointer, not that of the pointed to data.
It also reverts using kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() for the allocation
of the pending grant handles array, as that array gets fully
initialized in a subsequent loop.
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This patch fixes belows:
1. Fix code style issue.
2. Fix incorrect functions name in comments.
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
When we get -EOPNOTSUPP response for a discard request, we will clear
the discard flag on the request queue so we won't attempt to send discard
requests to backend again, and this should be protected under rq->queue_lock.
However, when we setup the request queue, we pass blkif_io_lock to
blk_init_queue so rq->queue_lock is blkif_io_lock indeed, and this lock
is already taken when we are in blkif_interrpt, so remove the
spin_lock/spin_unlock when we clear the discard flag or we will end up
with deadlock here
Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Updated description a bit and removed comment from source]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If the backend advertises 'feature-discard', then interrogate
the backend for alignment and granularity. Setup the request
queue with the appropiate values and send the discard operation
as required.
Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Amended commit description]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
..aka ATA TRIM/SCSI UNMAP command to be passed through the frontend
and used as appropiately by the backend. We also advertise
certain granulity parameters to the frontend so it can plug them in.
If the backend is a realy device - we just end up using
'blkdev_issue_discard' while for loopback devices - we just punch
a hole in the image file.
Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Fixed up pr_debug and commit description]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If we want to use granted pages for AIO, changing the mappings of a user
vma and the corresponding p2m is not enough, we also need to update the
kernel mappings accordingly.
Currently this is only needed for pages that are created for user usages
through /dev/xen/gntdev. As in, pages that have been in use by the
kernel and use the P2M will not need this special mapping.
However there are no guarantees that in the future the kernel won't
start accessing pages through the 1:1 even for internal usage.
In order to avoid the complexity of dealing with highmem, we allocated
the pages lowmem.
We issue a HYPERVISOR_grant_table_op right away in
m2p_add_override and we remove the mappings using another
HYPERVISOR_grant_table_op in m2p_remove_override.
Considering that m2p_add_override and m2p_remove_override are called
once per page we use multicalls and hypercall batching.
Use the kmap_op pointer directly as argument to do the mapping as it is
guaranteed to be present up until the unmapping is done.
Before issuing any unmapping multicalls, we need to make sure that the
mapping has already being done, because we need the kmap->handle to be
set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
[v1: Removed GRANT_FRAME_BIT usage]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
When no floppy is found the module code can be released while a timer
function is pending or about to be executed.
CPU0 CPU1
floppy_init()
timer_softirq()
spin_lock_irq(&base->lock);
detach_timer();
spin_unlock_irq(&base->lock);
-> Interrupt
del_timer();
return -ENODEV;
module_cleanup();
<- EOI
call_timer_fn();
OOPS
Use del_timer_sync() to prevent this.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If the loop device is associated (lo->lo_state == Lo_bound), it will have
a valid bdev pointed to by lo->lo_device. There is no reason to ever pass
an additional block_device pointer.
Signed-off-by: Ayan George <ayan.george@canonical.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The loopback driver failed to emit the change uevent when auto releasing
the device. Fixed lo_release() to pass the bdev to loop_clr_fd() so it
can emit the event.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ayan George <ayan@ayan.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This driver uses PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID, so it
wasn't converted by commit 44c10138fd ("PCI: Change all drivers to
use pci_device->revision").
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Chirag Kantharia <chirag.kantharia@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/block/.
This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This is a resend from the original, changing the title from PATCH to
RFC(since this is a review for commit, and I should have put that the first go around).
and also removing some of the commit's with ia64 and bash since it is significant.
let me know if I might have missed anything etc..
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request
instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in
__generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling
generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in
generic_make_request handle it.
Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and
returned non-zero values for errors.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Automatic partition scanning can be requested individually per loop
device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN. By default, no
partition tables are scanned.
Userspace can now always add and remove partitions from all loop
devices, regardless if the in-kernel partition scanner is enabled or
not.
The needed partition minor numbers are allocated from the extended
minors space, the main loop device numbers will continue to match the
loop minors, regardless of the number of partitions used.
# grep . /sys/class/block/loop1/loop/*
/sys/block/loop1/loop/autoclear:0
/sys/block/loop1/loop/backing_file:/home/kay/data/stuff/part.img
/sys/block/loop1/loop/offset:0
/sys/block/loop1/loop/partscan:1
/sys/block/loop1/loop/sizelimit:0
# ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 99 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259, 3 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p2
crw------T 1 root root 10, 237 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop-control
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-By: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch fixes belows:
1. Fix code style issue.
2. Fix incorrect functions name in comments.
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
When do block-attach/block-detach test with below steps, umount hangs
in the guest. Furthermore shutdown ends up being stuck when umounting file-systems.
1. start guest.
2. attach new block device by xm block-attach in Dom0.
3. mount new disk in guest.
4. execute xm block-detach to detach the block device in dom0 until timeout
5. Any request to the disk will hung.
Root cause:
This issue is caused when setting backend device's state to
'XenbusStateClosing', which sends to the frontend the XenbusStateClosing
notification. When frontend receives the notification it tries to release
the disk in blkfront_closing(), but at that moment the disk is still in use
by guest, so frontend refuses to close. Specifically it sets the disk state to
XenbusStateClosing and sends the notification to backend - when backend receives the
event, it disconnects the vbd from real device, and sets the vbd device state to
XenbusStateClosing. The backend disconnects the real device/file, and any IO
requests to the disk in guest will end up in ether, leaving disk DEAD and set to
XenbusStateClosing. When the guest wants to disconnect the disk, umount will
hang on blkif_release()->xlvbd_release_gendisk() as it is unable to send any IO
to the disk, which prevents clean system shutdown.
Solution:
Don't disconnect backend until frontend state switched to XenbusStateClosed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Annie Li <annie.li@oracle.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
[v1: Modified description a bit]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This commit adds discard support for loop devices. Discard is usually
supported by SSD and thinly provisioned devices as a method for
reclaiming unused space. This is no different than trying to reclaim
back space which is not used by the file system on the image, but it
still occupies space on the host file system.
We can do the reclamation on file system which does support hole
punching. So when discard request gets to the loop driver we can
translate that to punch a hole to the underlying file, hence reclaim
the free space.
This is very useful for trimming down the size of the image to only what
is really used by the file system on that image. Fstrim may be used for
that purpose.
It has been tested on ext4, xfs and btrfs with the image file systems
ext4, ext3, xfs and btrfs. ext4, or ext6 image on ext4 file system has
some problems but it seems that ext4 punch hole implementation is
somewhat flawed and it is unrelated to this commit.
Also this is a very good method of validating file systems punch hole
implementation.
Note that when encryption is used, discard support is disabled, because
using it might leak some information useful for possible attacker.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
#30: FILE: drivers/block/nbd.c:578:
+^I dev_info(disk_to_dev(lo->disk), "NBD_DISCONNECT\n");$
total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 35 lines checked
NOTE: whitespace errors detected, you may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or
scripts/cleanfile
./patches/nbd-replace-some-printk-with-dev_warn-and-dev_info.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This is only an error, no need to use KERN_CRIT log level.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
