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>
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Martin K. Petersen
2008-06-30 20:04:41 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent 51d654e1d8
commit 7ba1ba12ee
13 changed files with 1355 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ) += cfq-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE) += blktrace.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT) += compat_ioctl.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY) += blk-integrity.o