The zoned loop block device driver allows a user to create emulated
zoned block devices using one regular file per zone as backing storage.
Compared to null_blk or scsi_debug, it has the advantage of allowing
emulating large zoned devices without requiring the same amount of
memory as the capacity of the emulated device. Furthermore, zoned
devices emulated with this driver can be re-started after a host reboot
without any loss of the state of the device zones, which is something
that null_blk and scsi_debug do not support.
This initial implementation is simple and does not support zone resource
limits. That is, a zoned loop block device limits for the maximum number
of open zones and maximum number of active zones is always 0.
This driver can be either compiled in-kernel or as a module, named
"zloop". Compilation of this driver depends on the block layer support
for zoned block device (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED must be set).
Using the zloop driver to create and delete zoned block devices is
done by writing commands to the zoned loop control character device file
(/dev/zloop-control). Creating a device is done with:
$ echo "add [options]" > /dev/zloop-control
The options available for the "add" operation cat be listed by reading
the zloop-control device file:
$ cat /dev/zloop-control
add id=%d,capacity_mb=%u,zone_size_mb=%u,zone_capacity_mb=%u,conv_zones=%u,base_dir=%s,nr_queues=%u,queue_depth=%u
remove id=%d
The options available allow controlling the zoned device total
capacity, zone size, zone capactity of sequential zones, total number
of conventional zones, base directory for the zones backing file, number
of I/O queues and the maximum queue depth of I/O queues.
Deleting a device is done using the "remove" command:
$ echo "remove id=0" > /dev/zloop-control
This implementation passes various tests using zonefs and fio (t/zbd
tests) and provides a state machine for zone conditions that is
compliant with the T10 ZBC and NVMe ZNS specifications.
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250407075222.170336-2-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This driver is for fairly obscure hardware, and has only seen random
drive-by changes after the maintainer stopped working on it in 2005
(about a year and a half after it was introduced). It has some
"interesting" block layer interactions, so let's just drop it unless
anyone complains.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721064102.1715460-1-hch@lst.de
[axboe: fix date typo, it was in 2005, not 2015]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This is the driver part of userspace block driver(ublk driver), the other
part is userspace daemon part(ublksrv)[1].
The two parts communicate by io_uring's IORING_OP_URING_CMD with one
shared cmd buffer for storing io command, and the buffer is read only for
ublksrv, each io command is indexed by io request tag directly, and is
written by ublk driver.
For example, when one READ io request is submitted to ublk block driver,
ublk driver stores the io command into cmd buffer first, then completes
one IORING_OP_URING_CMD for notifying ublksrv, and the URING_CMD is issued
to ublk driver beforehand by ublksrv for getting notification of any new
io request, and each URING_CMD is associated with one io request by tag.
After ublksrv gets the io command, it translates and handles the ublk io
request, such as, for the ublk-loop target, ublksrv translates the request
into same request on another file or disk, like the kernel loop block
driver. In ublksrv's implementation, the io is still handled by io_uring,
and share same ring with IORING_OP_URING_CMD command. When the target io
request is done, the same IORING_OP_URING_CMD is issued to ublk driver for
both committing io request result and getting future notification of new
io request.
Another thing done by ublk driver is to copy data between kernel io
request and ublksrv's io buffer:
1) before ubsrv handles WRITE request, copy the request's data into
ublksrv's userspace io buffer, so that ublksrv can handle the write
request
2) after ubsrv handles READ request, copy ublksrv's userspace io buffer
into this READ request, then ublk driver can complete the READ request
Zero copy may be switched if mm is ready to support it.
ublk driver doesn't handle any logic of the specific user space driver,
so it is small/simple enough.
[1] ublksrv
https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713140711.97356-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This driver was for rare and shortlived high end enterprise hardware
and hasn't been maintained since 2014, which also means it never got
converted to use blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Support for cyrptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated
in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if
needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has
been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April
2013). The XOR transfer has never been more than a toy to demonstrate
the transfer in the bad old times of crypto export restrictions.
Remove them as they have some nasty interactions with loop device life
times due to the iteration over all loop devices in
loop_unregister_transfer.
Suggested-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019075639.2333969-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This removes the driver on the premise that it has been unused for a long
time. This is a better approach compared to changing untestable code
nobody cares about in the first place. Similarly, the umem.com website now
shows a mere Godaddy parking add.
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sysace IP is no longer used on Xilinx PowerPC 405/440 and Microblaze
systems. The driver is not regularly tested and very likely not working for
quite a long time that's why remove it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull more MIPS updates from Thomas Bogendoerfer:
- added n64 block driver
- fix for ubsan warnings
- fix for bcm63xx platform
- update of linux-mips mailinglist
* tag 'mips_5.12_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
arch: mips: update references to current linux-mips list
mips: bmips: init clocks earlier
vmlinux.lds.h: catch even more instrumentation symbols into .data
n64: store dev instance into disk private data
n64: cleanup n64cart_probe()
n64: cosmetics changes
n64: remove curly brackets
n64: use sector SECTOR_SHIFT instead 512
n64: use enums for reg
n64: move module param at the top
n64: move module info at the end
n64: use pr_fmt to avoid duplicate string
block: Add n64 cart driver
This adds support for the Nintendo 64 console's carts. Carts are a
read-only media ranging from 8mb to 64mb.
Only one cart can be connected at once, and switching it requires a
reboot.
No module support to save RAM, as the target has 8mb RAM.
Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
The STEC S1220 PCIe SSD cards are EOL since 2014 and not supported by
the vendor anymore. As the skd driver for this SSD is starting to cause
problems with improvements to the block layer, stop supporting it in
newer kernel versions.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch adds two new tracpoints for null_blk_zoned.c that allows us
to trace report-zones, zone-mgmt-op and zone-write operations which has
direct effect on the zone condition state machine.
Also, we update drivers/block/Makefile so that new null_blk related
tracefiles can be compiled.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The DAC960 driver has been obsoleted by the myrb/myrs drivers,
so it can be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Adds support for exposing a null_blk device through the zone device
interface.
The interface is managed with the parameters zoned and zone_size.
If zoned is set, the null_blk instance registers as a zoned block
device. The zone_size parameter defines how big each zone will be.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias.bjorling@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver
used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and
make hpsa an alias to cciss.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
This was just a proof of concept user for the SCSI OSD library, and
never had any real users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a
single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver.
It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode
that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
