kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt, branch master

docs: block: convert to ReST

2019-07-15T12:20:27+00:00

Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html output via the Sphinx build system. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

block: remove the bi_phys_segments field in struct bio

2019-06-20T16:29:22+00:00

We only need the number of segments in the blk-mq submission path. Remove the field from struct bio, and return it from a variant of blk_queue_split instead of that it can passed as an argument to those functions that need the value. This also means we stop recounting segments except for cloning and partial segments. To keep the number of arguments in this how path down remove pointless struct request_queue arguments from any of the functions that had it and grew a nr_segs argument. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove legacy rq tagging

2018-11-07T20:42:32+00:00

It's now unused, kill it. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Tested-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remov blk_queue_invalidate_tags

2018-06-15T14:13:35+00:00

This function is entirely unused, so remove it and the tag_queue_busy member of struct request_queue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove __bio_kmap_atomic

2017-11-11T02:53:25+00:00

This helper doesn't buy us much over calling kmap_atomic directly. In fact in the only caller it does a bit of useless work as the caller already has the bvec at hand, and said caller would even buggy for a multi-segment bio due to the use of this helper. So just remove it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: kill bio_kmap/kunmap_irq()

2017-11-11T02:53:25+00:00

There are no users of it anymore. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove bio_clone() and all references.

2017-06-18T18:40:59+00:00

bio_clone() is no longer used. Only bio_clone_bioset() or bio_clone_fast(). This is for the best, as bio_clone() used fs_bio_set, and filesystems are unlikely to want to use bio_clone(). So remove bio_clone() and all references. This includes a fix to some incorrect documentation. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: better op and flags encoding

2016-10-28T14:48:16+00:00

Now that we don't need the common flags to overflow outside the range of a 32-bit type we can encode them the same way for both the bio and request fields. This in addition allows us to place the operation first (and make some room for more ops while we're at it) and to stop having to shift around the operation values. In addition this allows passing around only one value in the block layer instead of two (and eventuall also in the file systems, but we can do that later) and thus clean up a lot of code. Last but not least this allows decreasing the size of the cmd_flags field in struct request to 32-bits. Various functions passing this value could also be updated, but I'd like to avoid the churn for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: split out request-only flags into a new namespace

2016-10-28T14:45:17+00:00

A lot of the REQ_* flags are only used on struct requests, and only of use to the block layer and a few drivers that dig into struct request internals. This patch adds a new req_flags_t rq_flags field to struct request for them, and thus dramatically shrinks the number of common requests. It also removes the unfortunate situation where we have to fit the fields from the same enum into 32 bits for struct bio and 64 bits for struct request. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove remnant refs to hardsect

2016-09-14T14:44:57+00:00

commit e1defc4ff0cf57aca6c5e3ff99fa503f5943c1f1 "block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size" removed the notion of "hardware sector size" from the kernel in favor of logical block size, but references remain in comments and documentation. Update the remaining sites mentioning hardsect. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe