History log of /linux-master/block/blk-integrity.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 60d21aac 01-Feb-2024 Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>

block: support PI at non-zero offset within metadata

Block layer integrity processing assumes that protection information
(PI) is placed in the first bytes of each metadata block.

Remove this limitation and include the metadata before the PI in the
calculation of the guard tag.

Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Chinmay Gameti <c.gameti@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240201130126.211402-3-joshi.k@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# ff53cd52 18-Mar-2023 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

blk-integrity: register sysfs attributes on struct device

The "integrity" kobject only acted as a holder for static sysfs entries.
It also was embedded into struct gendisk without managing it, violating
assumptions of the driver core.

Instead register the sysfs entries directly onto the struct device.

Also drop the now unused member integrity_kobj from struct gendisk.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-kobj_release-gendisk_integrity-v3-3-ceccb4493c46@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 76b8c319 18-Mar-2023 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

blk-integrity: convert to struct device_attribute

An upcoming patch will register the integrity attributes directly with
the struct device kobject.
For this the attributes have to be implemented in terms of
struct device_attribute.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-kobj_release-gendisk_integrity-v3-2-ceccb4493c46@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 3315e169 18-Mar-2023 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

blk-integrity: use sysfs_emit

The correct way to emit data into sysfs is via sysfs_emit(), use it.

Also perform some trivial syntactic cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230309-kobj_release-gendisk_integrity-v3-1-ceccb4493c46@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 5f622417 07-Feb-2023 Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>

block: make kobj_type structures constant

Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.

Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208-kobj_type-block-v1-1-0b3eafd7d983@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 72cd9df2 23-Nov-2021 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

blk-crypto: remove blk_crypto_unregister()

This function is trivial and is only used in one place. Having this
function is misleading because it implies that blk_crypto_register()
needs to be paired with blk_crypto_unregister(), which is not the case.
Just set disk->queue->crypto_profile to NULL directly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124013733.347612-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# cb77cb5a 18-Oct-2021 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

blk-crypto: rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile

blk_keyslot_manager is misnamed because it doesn't necessarily manage
keyslots. It actually does several different things:

- Contains the crypto capabilities of the device.

- Provides functions to control the inline encryption hardware.
Originally these were just for programming/evicting keyslots;
however, new functionality (hardware-wrapped keys) will require new
functions here which are unrelated to keyslots. Moreover,
device-mapper devices already (ab)use "keyslot_evict" to pass key
eviction requests to their underlying devices even though
device-mapper devices don't have any keyslots themselves (so it
really should be "evict_key", not "keyslot_evict").

- Sometimes (but not always!) it manages keyslots. Originally it
always did, but device-mapper devices don't have keyslots
themselves, so they use a "passthrough keyslot manager" which
doesn't actually manage keyslots. This hack works, but the
terminology is unnatural. Also, some hardware doesn't have keyslots
and thus also uses a "passthrough keyslot manager" (support for such
hardware is yet to be upstreamed, but it will happen eventually).

Let's stop having keyslot managers which don't actually manage keyslots.
Instead, rename blk_keyslot_manager to blk_crypto_profile.

This is a fairly big change, since for consistency it also has to update
keyslot manager-related function names, variable names, and comments --
not just the actual struct name. However it's still a fairly
straightforward change, as it doesn't change any actual functionality.

Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # For MMC
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018180453.40441-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# fe45e630 20-Sep-2021 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: move integrity handling out of <linux/blkdev.h>

Split the integrity/metadata handling definitions out into a new header.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920123328.1399408-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 3df49967 14-Sep-2021 Lihong Kou <koulihong@huawei.com>

block: flush the integrity workqueue in blk_integrity_unregister

When the integrity profile is unregistered there can still be integrity
reads queued up which could see a NULL verify_fn as shown by the race
window below:

CPU0 CPU1
process_one_work nvme_validate_ns
bio_integrity_verify_fn nvme_update_ns_info
nvme_update_disk_info
blk_integrity_unregister
---set queue->integrity as 0
bio_integrity_process
--access bi->profile->verify_fn(bi is a pointer of queue->integity)

Before calling blk_integrity_unregister in nvme_update_disk_info, we must
make sure that there is no work item in the kintegrityd_wq. Just call
blk_flush_integrity to flush the work queue so the bug can be resolved.

Signed-off-by: Lihong Kou <koulihong@huawei.com>
[hch: split up and shortened the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914070657.87677-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 783a40a1 14-Sep-2021 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: check if a profile is actually registered in blk_integrity_unregister

While clearing the profile itself is harmless, we really should not clear
the stable writes flag if it wasn't set due to a registered integrity
profile.

Reported-by: Lihong Kou <koulihong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210914070657.87677-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 614310c9 18-Aug-2021 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

block: return errors from blk_integrity_add

Prepare for proper error handling in add_disk.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[hch: split from a larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818144542.19305-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# d59da419 06-Oct-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: remove the unused blk_integrity_merge_bio export

Also move the definition from the public blkdev.h to the private
block/blk.h header.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 92cf2fd1 06-Oct-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: remove the unused blk_integrity_merge_rq export

Also move the definition from the public blkdev.h to the private
block/blk.h header.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 1cb039f3 24-Sep-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

bdi: replace BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES with a queue and a sb flag

The BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES is one of the few bits of information in the
backing_dev_info shared between the block drivers and the writeback code.
To help untangling the dependency replace it with a queue flag and a
superblock flag derived from it. This also helps with the case of e.g.
a file system requiring stable writes due to its own checksumming, but
not forcing it on other users of the block device like the swap code.

One downside is that we an't support the stable_pages_required bdi
attribute in sysfs anymore. It is replaced with a queue attribute which
also is writable for easier testing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# d145dc23 13-May-2020 Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>

block: Make blk-integrity preclude hardware inline encryption

Whenever a device supports blk-integrity, make the kernel pretend that
the device doesn't support inline encryption (essentially by setting the
keyslot manager in the request queue to NULL).

There's no hardware currently that supports both integrity and inline
encryption. However, it seems possible that there will be such hardware
in the near future (like the NVMe key per I/O support that might support
both inline encryption and PI).

But properly integrating both features is not trivial, and without
real hardware that implements both, it is difficult to tell if it will
be done correctly by the majority of hardware that support both.
So it seems best not to support both features together right now, and
to decide what to do at probe time.

Signed-off-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 54d4e6ab 16-Sep-2019 Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>

block: centralize PI remapping logic to the block layer

Currently t10_pi_prepare/t10_pi_complete functions are called during the
NVMe and SCSi layers command preparetion/completion, but their actual
place should be the block layer since T10-PI is a general data integrity
feature that is used by block storage protocols. Introduce .prepare_fn
and .complete_fn callbacks within the integrity profile that each type
can implement according to its needs.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Suggested-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>

Fixed to not call queue integrity functions if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
isn't defined in the config.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 898bd37a 18-Apr-2019 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

docs: block: convert to ReST

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 <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>


# 8c16567d 30-Apr-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: switch all files cleared marked as GPLv2 to SPDX tags

All these files have some form of the usual GPLv2 boilerplate. Switch
them to use SPDX tags instead.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 800f5aa1 01-Apr-2019 Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>

block: Replace all ktype default_attrs with groups

The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace all of the ktype default_attrs fields in
the block subsystem with default_groups and use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS
macro to create the default groups.

Remove default_ctx_attrs[] because it doesn't contain any attributes.

This patch was tested by verifying that the sysfs files for the
attributes in the default groups were created.

Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 3dccdae5 24-Sep-2018 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: merge BIOVEC_SEG_BOUNDARY into biovec_phys_mergeable

These two checks should always be performed together, so merge them into
a single helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 6a9f5f24 24-Sep-2018 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: simplify BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE

Turn the macro into an inline, move it to blk.h and simplify the
arch hooks a bit.

Also rename the function to biovec_phys_mergeable as there is no need
to shout.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 5657a819 24-May-2018 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions

Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as
using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
readable.

see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945

Done with automated conversion via:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>

Miscellanea:

o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 4e4cbee9 03-Jun-2017 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: switch bios to blk_status_t

Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 2859323e 22-Apr-2017 Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

block: fix blk_integrity_register to use template's interval_exp if not 0

When registering an integrity profile: if the template's interval_exp is
not 0 use it, otherwise use the ilog2() of logical block size of the
provided gendisk.

This fixes a long-standing DM linear target bug where it cannot pass
integrity data to the underlying device if its logical block size
conflicts with the underlying device's logical block size.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 19b7ccf8 18-Apr-2017 Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>

block: get rid of blk_integrity_revalidate()

Commit 25520d55cdb6 ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
introduced blk_integrity_revalidate(), which seems to assume ownership
of the stable pages flag and unilaterally clears it if no blk_integrity
profile is registered:

if (bi->profile)
disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities |=
BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;
else
disk->queue->backing_dev_info->capabilities &=
~BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES;

It's called from revalidate_disk() and rescan_partitions(), making it
impossible to enable stable pages for drivers that support partitions
and don't use blk_integrity: while the call in revalidate_disk() can be
trivially worked around (see zram, which doesn't support partitions and
hence gets away with zram_revalidate_disk()), rescan_partitions() can
be triggered from userspace at any time. This breaks rbd, where the
ceph messenger is responsible for generating/verifying CRCs.

Since blk_integrity_{un,}register() "must" be used for (un)registering
the integrity profile with the block layer, move BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES
setting there. This way drivers that call blk_integrity_register() and
use integrity infrastructure won't interfere with drivers that don't
but still want stable pages.

Fixes: 25520d55cdb6 ("block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk")
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+, needs backporting
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 869ab90f 24-Mar-2017 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

block: constify struct blk_integrity_profile

blk_integrity_profile's are never modified, so mark them 'const' so that
they are placed in .rodata and benefit from memory protection.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# dc3b17cc 02-Feb-2017 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue

We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 4125a09b 21-Oct-2015 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile

The libnvidmm-btt and nvme drivers use blk_integrity to reserve space
for per-sector metadata, but sometimes without protection checksums.
This property is generically useful, so teach the block core to
internally specify a nop profile if one is not provided at registration
time.

Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[hch: kill the local nvme nop profile as well]
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# ac6fc48c 21-Oct-2015 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

block: move blk_integrity to request_queue

A trace like the following proceeds a crash in bio_integrity_process()
when it goes to use an already freed blk_integrity profile.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800d31b10d8
IP: [<ffff8800d31b10d8>] 0xffff8800d31b10d8
PGD 2f65067 PUD 21fffd067 PMD 80000000d30001e3
Oops: 0011 [#1] SMP
Dumping ftrace buffer:
---------------------------------
ndctl-2222 2.... 44526245us : disk_release: pmem1s
systemd--2223 4.... 44573945us : bio_integrity_endio: pmem1s
<...>-409 4.... 44574005us : bio_integrity_process: pmem1s
---------------------------------
[..]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8144e0f9>] ? bio_integrity_process+0x159/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8144e4f6>] bio_integrity_verify_fn+0x36/0x60
[<ffffffff810bd2dc>] process_one_work+0x1cc/0x4e0

Given that a request_queue is pinned while i/o is in flight and that a
gendisk is allowed to have a shorter lifetime, move blk_integrity to
request_queue to satisfy requests arriving after the gendisk has been
torn down.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[martin: fix the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY=n case]
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 25520d55 21-Oct-2015 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk

Up until now the_integrity profile has been dynamically allocated and
attached to struct gendisk after the disk has been made active.

This causes problems because NVMe devices need to register the profile
prior to the partition table being read due to a mandatory metadata
buffer requirement. In addition, DM goes through hoops to deal with
preallocating, but not initializing integrity profiles.

Since the integrity profile is small (4 bytes + a pointer), Christoph
suggested moving it to struct gendisk proper. This requires several
changes:

- Moving the blk_integrity definition to genhd.h.

- Inlining blk_integrity in struct gendisk.

- Removing the dynamic allocation code.

- Adding helper functions which allow gendisk to set up and tear down
the integrity sysfs dir when a disk is added/deleted.

- Adding a blk_integrity_revalidate() callback for updating the stable
pages bdi setting.

- The calls that depend on whether a device has an integrity profile or
not now key off of the bi->profile pointer.

- Simplifying the integrity support routines in DM (Mike Snitzer).

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 4c241d08 21-Oct-2015 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs

The size of the data interval was not exported in the sysfs integrity
directory. Export it so that userland apps can tell whether the interval
is different from the device's logical block size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# a48f041d 21-Oct-2015 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity

The per-device properties in the blk_integrity structure were previously
unsigned short. However, most of the values fit inside a char. The only
exception is the data interval size and we can work around that by
storing it as a power of two.

This cuts the size of the dynamic portion of blk_integrity in half.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 0f8087ec 21-Oct-2015 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties

We previously made a complete copy of a device's data integrity profile
even though several of the fields inside the blk_integrity struct are
pointers to fixed template entries in t10-pi.c.

Split the static and per-device portions so that we can reference the
template directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# aff34e19 21-Oct-2015 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk

The integrity kobject purely exists to support the integrity
subdirectory in sysfs and doesn't really have anything to do with the
blk_integrity data structure. Move the kobject to struct gendisk where
it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 7f39add3 11-Sep-2015 Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>

block: Refuse request/bio merges with gaps in the integrity payload

If a driver sets the block queue virtual boundary mask, it means that
it cannot handle gaps so we must not allow those in the integrity
payload as well.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>

Fixed up by me to have duplicate integrity merge functions, depending
on whether block integrity is enabled or not. Fixes a compilations
issue with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY unset.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 66114cad 22-May-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it. c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly. This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 4eaf99be 26-Sep-2014 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ

We'd occasionally merge requests with conflicting integrity flags.
Introduce a merge helper which checks that the requests have compatible
integrity payloads.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 3aec2f41 26-Sep-2014 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile

So far we have relied on the app tag size to determine whether a disk
has been formatted with T10 protection information or not. However, not
all target devices provide application tag storage.

Add a flag to the block integrity profile that indicates whether the
disk has been formatted with protection information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 8288f496 26-Sep-2014 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags

Add a BLK_ prefix to the integrity profile flags. Also rename the flags
to be more consistent with the generate/verify terminology in the rest
of the integrity code.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 3be91c4a 26-Sep-2014 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Deprecate the use of the term sector in the context of block integrity

The protection interval is not necessarily tied to the logical block
size of a block device. Stop using the terms "sector" and "sectors".

Going forward we will use the term "seed" to describe the initial
reference tag value for a given I/O. "Interval" will be used to describe
the portion of the data buffer that a given piece of protection
information is associated with.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# 8492b68b 26-Sep-2014 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Remove integrity tagging functions

None of the filesystems appear interested in using the integrity tagging
feature. Potentially because very few storage devices actually permit
using the application tag space.

Remove the tagging functions.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# d57a5f7c 23-Nov-2013 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

bio-integrity: Convert to bvec_iter

The bio integrity is also stored in a bvec array, so if we use the bvec
iter code we just added, the integrity code won't need to implement its
own iteration stuff (bio_integrity_mark_head(), bio_integrity_mark_tail())

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>


# c8164d89 19-Mar-2013 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end

This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


# 7d311cda 21-Feb-2013 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

bdi: allow block devices to say that they require stable page writes

This patchset ("stable page writes, part 2") makes some key
modifications to the original 'stable page writes' patchset. First, it
provides creators (devices and filesystems) of a backing_dev_info a flag
that declares whether or not it is necessary to ensure that page
contents cannot change during writeout. It is no longer assumed that
this is true of all devices (which was never true anyway). Second, the
flag is used to relaxed the wait_on_page_writeback calls so that wait
only occurs if the device needs it. Third, it fixes up the remaining
disk-backed filesystems to use this improved conditional-wait logic to
provide stable page writes on those filesystems.

It is hoped that (for people not using checksumming devices, anyway)
this patchset will give back unnecessary performance decreases since the
original stable page write patchset went into 3.0. Sorry about not
fixing it sooner.

Complaints were registered by several people about the long write
latencies introduced by the original stable page write patchset.
Generally speaking, the kernel ought to allocate as little extra memory
as possible to facilitate writeout, but for people who simply cannot
wait, a second page stability strategy is (re)introduced: snapshotting
page contents. The waiting behavior is still the default strategy; to
enable page snapshotting, a superblock flag (MS_SNAP_STABLE) must be
set. This flag is used to bandaid^Henable stable page writeback on
ext3[1], and is not used anywhere else.

Given that there are already a few storage devices and network FSes that
have rolled their own page stability wait/page snapshot code, it would
be nice to move towards consolidating all of these. It seems possible
that iscsi and raid5 may wish to use the new stable page write support
to enable zero-copy writeout.

Thank you to Jan Kara for helping fix a couple more filesystems.

Per Andrew Morton's request, here are the result of using dbench to measure
latencies on ext2:

3.8.0-rc3:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
WriteX 109347 0.028 59.817
ReadX 347180 0.004 3.391
Flush 15514 29.828 287.283

Throughput 57.429 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=287.290 ms

3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 105556 0.029 4.273
ReadX 335004 0.005 4.112
Flush 14982 30.540 298.634

Throughput 55.4496 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=298.650 ms

As you can see, for ext2 the maximum write latency decreases from ~60ms
on a laptop hard disk to ~4ms. I'm not sure why the flush latencies
increase, though I suspect that being able to dirty pages faster gives
the flusher more work to do.

On ext4, the average write latency decreases as well as all the maximum
latencies:

3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 85624 0.152 33.078
ReadX 272090 0.010 61.210
Flush 12129 36.219 168.260

Throughput 44.8618 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=168.276 ms

3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 86082 0.141 30.928
ReadX 273358 0.010 36.124
Flush 12214 34.800 165.689

Throughput 44.9941 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=165.722 ms

XFS seems to exhibit similar latency improvements as ext2:

3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 125739 0.028 104.343
ReadX 399070 0.005 4.115
Flush 17851 25.004 131.390

Throughput 66.0024 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=131.406 ms

3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 123529 0.028 6.299
ReadX 392434 0.005 4.287
Flush 17549 25.120 188.687

Throughput 64.9113 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=188.704 ms

...and btrfs, just to round things out, also shows some latency
decreases:

3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 67122 0.083 82.355
ReadX 212719 0.005 2.828
Flush 9547 47.561 147.418

Throughput 35.3391 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=147.433 ms

3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 64898 0.101 71.631
ReadX 206673 0.005 7.123
Flush 9190 47.963 219.034

Throughput 34.0795 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=219.044 ms

Before this patchset, all filesystems would block, regardless of whether
or not it was necessary. ext3 would wait, but still generate occasional
checksum errors. The network filesystems were left to do their own
thing, so they'd wait too.

After this patchset, all the disk filesystems except ext3 and btrfs will
wait only if the hardware requires it. ext3 (if necessary) snapshots
pages instead of blocking, and btrfs provides its own bdi so the mm will
never wait. Network filesystems haven't been touched, so either they
provide their own wait code, or they don't block at all. The blocking
behavior is back to what it was before 3.0 if you don't have a disk
requiring stable page writes.

This patchset has been tested on 3.8.0-rc3 on x64 with ext3, ext4, and
xfs. I've spot-checked 3.8.0-rc4 and seem to be getting the same
results as -rc3.

[1] The alternative fixes to ext3 include fixing the locking order and
page bit handling like we did for ext4 (but then why not just use
ext4?), or setting PG_writeback so early that ext3 becomes extremely
slow. I tried that, but the number of write()s I could initiate dropped
by nearly an order of magnitude. That was a bit much even for the
author of the stable page series! :)

This patch:

Creates a per-backing-device flag that tracks whether or not pages must
be held immutable during writeout. Eventually it will be used to waive
wait_for_page_writeback() if nothing requires stable pages.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d5decd3b 26-May-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

block: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros

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>


# a63a5cf8 01-Apr-2011 Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm: improve block integrity support

The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return). To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking). But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.

Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template. Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.

Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
the point of no return)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>


# e817bf3f 15-Oct-2010 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister

Commit 3839e4b introduced a kobject_put but failed to remove the
kmem_cache_free beneath it, leading to a double free.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>


# 13f05c8d 10-Sep-2010 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block/scsi: Provide a limit on the number of integrity segments

Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.

Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.

Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>


# 5a0e3ad6 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.

2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>


# 52cf25d0 18-Jan-2010 Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime

* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime

* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed

* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# 3839e4b2 28-Jul-2009 Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>

block: fix improper kobject release in blk_integrity_unregister

blk_integrity_unregister should use kobject_put to release the kobject,
otherwise after bi is freed, memory of bi->kobj->name is leaked.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# e1defc4f 22-May-2009 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size

Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# 32231638 04-Jan-2009 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Allow empty integrity profile

Allow a block device to allocate and register an integrity profile
without providing a template. This allows DM to preallocate a profile
to avoid deadlocks during table reconfiguration.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# ad7fce93 01-Oct-2008 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Switch blk_integrity_compare from bdev to gendisk

The DM and MD integrity support now depends on being able to use
gendisks instead of block_devices when comparing integrity profiles.
Change function parameters accordingly.

Also update comparison logic so that two NULL profiles are a valid
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# 0c032ab8 01-Oct-2008 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Fix double put in blk_integrity_unregister

- kobject_del already puts the parent.

- Set integrity profile to NULL to prevent stale data.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# ed9e1982 25-Aug-2008 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()

Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device
instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev. To make sure no
user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev.

This is in preparation of unifying partition 0 handling with other
partitions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# 710027a4 19-Aug-2008 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# b24498d4 27-Jun-2008 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

block: integrity flags can't use bit ops on unsigned short

Just use normal open coded bit operations instead, they need not be
atomic.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# b984679e 17-Jun-2008 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

block: integrity checkpatch cleanups

> 80 char lines and that sort of thing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>


# 7ba1ba12 30-Jun-2008 Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

block: Block layer data integrity support

Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>