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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-08 14:12:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-08 14:12:17 -0800
commit80201fe175cbf7f3e372f53eba0a881a702ad926 (patch)
tree8026c68d52763614268a9c3c80759ad386bd5967 /Documentation
parentMerge tag 'for-5.1/libata-20190301' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block (diff)
parentblock: fix updating bio's front segment size (diff)
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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.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt3
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