Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings. This patch
instead introduces a new blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning. Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.
For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.
blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Introduce a module parameter to specify the number of requests
we try to handle with one HW request.
Suggested-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Handle up to 8 block layer requests per HW request. These requests
can be processed in parallel on the device leading to better
throughput (and less interrupts). The overhead for additional
requests is small since we don't blindly allocate new aidaws but
try to use what's left of the previous one.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
AOBs (the structure describing the HW request) need to be 4K
aligned but very little of that page is actually used. With
this patch we place aidaws at the end of the AOB page and only
allocate a separate page for aidaws when we have to (lists of
aidaws must not cross page boundaries).
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
We currently use one preallocated page per HW request to store
aidaws. With this patch we use mempool to allocate an aidaw page
whenever we need it.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Refactor direct debug level comparisons with the (internal) s390db->level
member. Use the debug_level_enabled() function instead.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Stop writing to scm after certain error conditions such as a concurrent
firmware upgrade. Resume to normal state once scm_blk_set_available is
called (due to an scm availability notification).
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Convert the defines for the !CONFIG_SCM* stuff to static inline
functions.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Force writes to Storage Class Memory (SCM) to be in done in clusters.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Block device driver for Storage Class Memory (SCM). This driver
provides a block device interface for each available SCM increment.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Christoph Hellwig