Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.
Non-highlights:
- Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
with x86.
Highlights:
- Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.
- Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.
- Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.
- Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.
- Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).
- Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
some Power9 revisions.
- Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.
- A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.
- Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
using transactional memory.
- Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
Power9.
- Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
handles requests.
- Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
Kennington III"
* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use >= 128T
powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
...
We have some dependencies & conflicts between patches in fixes and
things to go in next, both in the radix TLB flush code and the IMC PMU
driver. So merge fixes into next.
IPIC Status is provided by register IPIC_SERSR and not by IPIC_SERMR
which is the mask register.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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 local variable "rc" will eventually be set only to an error code.
Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"Nine small fixes, really nothing that stands out.
A work-around for a spurious MCE on Power9. A CXL fault handling fix,
some fixes to the new XIVE code, and a fix to the new 32-bit
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX code.
Fixes for old code/stable: an fix to an incorrect TLB flush on boot
but not on any current machines, a compile error on 4xx and a fix to
memory hotplug when using radix (Power9).
Thanks to: Anton Blanchard, Cédric Le Goater, Christian Lamparter,
Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Guenter Roeck, Jeremy Kerr,
Michael Neuling, Nicholas Piggin"
* tag 'powerpc-4.14-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix
powerpc/mm: Call flush_tlb_kernel_range with interrupts enabled
powerpc/xive: Clear XIVE internal structures when a CPU is removed
powerpc/xive: Fix IPI reset
powerpc/4xx: Fix compile error with 64K pages on 40x, 44x
powerpc: Fix action argument for cpufeatures-based TLB flush
cxl: Fix memory page not handled
powerpc: Fix workaround for spurious MCE on POWER9
powerpc: Handle MCE on POWER9 with only DSISR bit 30 set
Commit eac1e731b5 ("powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE
interrupt controller") introduced support for the XIVE exploitation
mode of the P9 interrupt controller on the pseries platform.
At that time, support for CPU removal was not complete on PowerVM and
CPU hot unplug remained untested. It appears that some cleanups of the
XIVE internal structures are required before releasing the CPU,
without which the kernel crashes in a RTAS call doing the CPU
isolation.
These changes fix the crash by deconfiguring the IPI interrupt source
and clearing the event queues of the CPU when it is removed.
Fixes: eac1e731b5 ("powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When resetting an IPI, hw_ipi should also be set to zero.
Fixes: eac1e731b5 ("powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Locking of config and doorbell operations should be done only if the
underlying hardware requires it.
This patch removes the global spinlocks from the rapidio subsystem and
moves them to the mport drivers (fsl_rio and tsi721), only to the
necessary places. For example, local config space read and write
operations (lcread/lcwrite) are atomic in all existing drivers, so there
should be no need for locking, while the cread/cwrite operations which
generate maintenance transactions need to be synchronized with a lock.
Later, each driver could chose to use a per-port lock instead of a
global one, or even more granular locking.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824113023.GD50104@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Ioan Nicu <ioan.nicu.ext@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Kunz <frank.kunz@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
First, number of CPUs can't be negative number.
Second, different signnnedness leads to suboptimal code in the following
cases:
1)
kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(X));
"int" has to be sign extended to size_t.
2)
while (loff_t *pos < nr_cpu_ids)
MOVSXD is 1 byte longed than the same MOV.
Other cases exist as well. Basically compiler is told that nr_cpu_ids
can't be negative which can't be deduced if it is "int".
Code savings on allyesconfig kernel: -3KB
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 25/264 up/down: 261/-3631 (-3370)
function old new delta
coretemp_cpu_online 450 512 +62
rcu_init_one 1234 1272 +38
pci_device_probe 374 399 +25
...
pgdat_reclaimable_pages 628 556 -72
select_fallback_rq 446 369 -77
task_numa_find_cpu 1923 1807 -116
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819114959.GA30580@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
the churn of the last few series. This contains:
- Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.
- Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.
- Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.
- Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.
- A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.
- CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.
- A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.
- A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
device remova. From David Jeffery.
- A few nbd fixes from Josef.
- Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.
- Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
to actually hold data, among other things.
- Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.
- Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
machines.
- Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.
- Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
fall through case complaints"
* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
drbd: mark symbols static where possible
drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
...
xive_spapr_init() is called from a __init routine and calls __init
routines.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Having the CPU identifier in the debug logs is helpful when tracking
issues. Also add some more logging and fix a compile issue in
xive_do_source_eoi().
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The H_INT_ESB hcall() is used to issue a load or store to the ESB page
instead of using the MMIO pages. This can be used as a workaround on
some HW issues. The OS knows that this hcall should be used on an
interrupt source when the ESB hcall flag is set to 1 in the hcall
H_INT_GET_SOURCE_INFO.
To maintain the frontier between the xive frontend and backend, we
introduce a new xive operation 'esb_rw' to be used in the routines
doing memory accesses on the ESBs.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Some source support MMIO stores on the ESB page to perform EOI. Let's
introduce a specific routine for this case even if this should be the
only use of it.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
xive_poke_esb() is performing a load/read so it is better named as
xive_esb_read() as we will need to introduce a xive_esb_write()
routine. Also use the XIVE_ESB_LOAD_EOI offset when EOI'ing LSI
interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This is the framework for using XIVE in a PowerVM guest. The support
is very similar to the native one in a much simpler form.
Each source is associated with an Event State Buffer (ESB). This is a
two bit state machine which is used to trigger events. The bits are
named "P" (pending) and "Q" (queued) and can be controlled by MMIO.
The Guest OS registers event (or notifications) queues on which the HW
will post event data for a target to notify.
Instead of OPAL calls, a set of Hypervisors call are used to configure
the interrupt sources and the event/notification queues of the guest:
- H_INT_GET_SOURCE_INFO
used to obtain the address of the MMIO page of the Event State
Buffer (PQ bits) entry associated with the source.
- H_INT_SET_SOURCE_CONFIG
assigns a source to a "target".
- H_INT_GET_SOURCE_CONFIG
determines to which "target" and "priority" is assigned to a source
- H_INT_GET_QUEUE_INFO
returns the address of the notification management page associated
with the specified "target" and "priority".
- H_INT_SET_QUEUE_CONFIG
sets or resets the event queue for a given "target" and "priority".
It is also used to set the notification config associated with the
queue, only unconditional notification for the moment. Reset is
performed with a queue size of 0 and queueing is disabled in that
case.
- H_INT_GET_QUEUE_CONFIG
returns the queue settings for a given "target" and "priority".
- H_INT_RESET
resets all of the partition's interrupt exploitation structures to
their initial state, losing all configuration set via the hcalls
H_INT_SET_SOURCE_CONFIG and H_INT_SET_QUEUE_CONFIG.
- H_INT_SYNC
issue a synchronisation on a source to make sure sure all
notifications have reached their queue.
As for XICS, the XIVE interface for the guest is described in the
device tree under the "interrupt-controller" node. A couple of new
properties are specific to XIVE :
- "reg"
contains the base address and size of the thread interrupt
managnement areas (TIMA), also called rings, for the User level and
for the Guest OS level. Only the Guest OS level is taken into
account today.
- "ibm,xive-eq-sizes"
the size of the event queues. One cell per size supported, contains
log2 of size, in ascending order.
- "ibm,xive-lisn-ranges"
the interrupt numbers ranges assigned to the guest. These are
allocated using a simple bitmap.
and also :
- "/ibm,plat-res-int-priorities"
contains a list of priorities that the hypervisor has reserved for
its own use.
Tested with a QEMU XIVE model for pseries and with the Power hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
* Return directly after a call of the function "kzalloc" failed
at the beginning.
* Delete a repeated check for the local variable "bank"
which became unnecessary with this refactoring.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When called from xive_irq_startup(), the size of the cpumask can be
larger than nr_cpu_ids. This can result in a WARN_ON such as:
WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 1 at ../arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c:476 xive_find_target_in_mask+0x110/0x2f0
...
NIP [c00000000008a310] xive_find_target_in_mask+0x110/0x2f0
LR [c00000000008a2e4] xive_find_target_in_mask+0xe4/0x2f0
Call Trace:
xive_find_target_in_mask+0x74/0x2f0 (unreliable)
xive_pick_irq_target.isra.1+0x200/0x230
xive_irq_startup+0x60/0x180
irq_startup+0x70/0xd0
__setup_irq+0x7bc/0x880
request_threaded_irq+0x14c/0x2c0
request_event_sources_irqs+0x100/0x180
__machine_initcall_pseries_init_ras_IRQ+0x104/0x134
do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0
kernel_init_freeable+0x290/0x374
kernel_init+0x24/0x170
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
This happens because we're being called with our affinity mask set to
irq_default_affinity. That in turn was populated using
cpumask_setall(), which sets NR_CPUs worth of bits, not nr_cpu_ids
worth. Finally cpumask_weight() will return > nr_cpu_ids when passed a
mask which has > nr_cpu_ids bits set.
Fix it by limiting the value returned by cpumask_weight().
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
[mpe: Add change log details on actual cause]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
