block: introduce new block status code type

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>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-03 09:38:04 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent 1be5690984
commit 2a842acab1
76 changed files with 474 additions and 428 deletions
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@@ -2202,7 +2202,7 @@ static int do_format(int drive, struct format_descr *tmp_format_req)
* =============================
*/
static void floppy_end_request(struct request *req, int error)
static void floppy_end_request(struct request *req, blk_status_t error)
{
unsigned int nr_sectors = current_count_sectors;
unsigned int drive = (unsigned long)req->rq_disk->private_data;
@@ -2263,7 +2263,7 @@ static void request_done(int uptodate)
DRWE->last_error_generation = DRS->generation;
}
spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
floppy_end_request(req, -EIO);
floppy_end_request(req, BLK_STS_IOERR);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
}
}