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Pavel Begunkov 8b8755e008 block: introduce bio_iov_iter_set()
In preparation to supporting dma-buf backed iterators and bios,
introduce bio_iov_iter_set() which attempts to set up the bio directly
from the given iterator. For now, it only supports bvec and expects
users to check the result and fall back to other means if fails, but
later we'll add more types.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4686a0e47fc14f3f888967a80d45a6f66044f1e0.1785596451.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-08-15 17:09:32 -06:00
Tal Zussman 77e73fa61b block: add task-context bio completion infrastructure
Some bio completion handlers need to run from preemptible task context,
but bio_endio() may be called from IRQ context (e.g., buffer_head
writeback). Callers need a way to ensure their callback eventually runs
from a sleepable context. Add infrastructure for that, in two forms:

  1. BIO_COMPLETE_IN_TASK, a bio flag the submitter sets when it knows
     in advance that its callback needs task context (e.g., dropbehind
     writeback). bio_endio() sees the flag and offloads completion to a
     worker automatically.

  2. bio_complete_in_task(), a helper that completion callbacks can
     invoke from within bi_end_io() when the deferral decision is
     dynamic (e.g., fserror reporting).

Both share a per-CPU list drained by a work item on a WQ_PERCPU
workqueue. Producers push the bio onto the local CPU's list and schedule
the work item, which then dispatches each bio's bi_end_io() from task
context.

Both methods are gated on bio_in_atomic(), which returns true in any
context where a sleeping bi_end_io() is unsafe, including
non-preemptible task context.

Two CPU hotplug callbacks are used to drain remaining bios from the
departing CPU's batch, while maintaining the per-CPU behavior. The
CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN callback disables the per-CPU work item while the
CPU is still online, preventing it from running on an unbound worker
later. CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN then drains any bios added between disabling
the work item and CPU offline.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-07-31 09:00:14 -06:00
Tal Zussman 8ed0831b52 block: introduce bio_in_atomic()
Move the atomic context detection logic from erofs's z_erofs_in_atomic()
into the block layer as bio_in_atomic(). This helper returns true when
the current context is unsafe for sleeping bio completion handlers (e.g.,
hard/soft IRQ, preempt-disabled).

The logic was originally added to erofs in commit c99fab6e80 ("erofs:
fix atomic context detection when !CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC"). A
subsequent patch will use it in the block layer's bio completion
infrastructure, so move it to include/linux/bio.h where both subsystems
can share it.

Convert erofs to call the new bio_in_atomic() directly.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-07-31 09:00:14 -06:00
Keith Busch 14b007e178 block: validate user space vectors during extraction
The bio-based drivers don't necessarily check the alignment split, and
stacking block drivers don't always handle a misalignment detected after
submitting the bio. Validate user vectors against the device's
dma_alignment as the bio is built from the iov_iter, rejecting
misaligned early with -EINVAL.

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 5ff3f74e14 ("block: simplify direct io validity check")
Fixes: 7eac331869 ("iomap: simplify direct io validity check")
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-07-31 08:10:49 -06:00
Linus Torvalds ba9c792c82 Merge tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - Per-controller admin and IO timeout sysfs attributes, and
       letting the block layer set request timeouts (Maurizio,
       Maximilian)
     - Multipath passthrough iostats, and PCI P2PDMA enablement for
       multipath devices (Keith, Kiran)
     - A new diag sysfs attribute group exporting per-controller
       counters (retries, multipath failover, error counters, requeue
       and failure counts, reset and reconnect events) (Nilay)
     - FDP configuration validation and bounds check fixes (liuxixin)
     - Various nvmet fixes, including a pre-auth out-of-bounds read in
       the Discovery Get Log Page handler, auth payload bounds
       validation, and tcp error-path leak fixes (Bryam, Tianchu,
       Geliang)
     - nvme-tcp lockdep and workqueue fixes (Shin'ichiro, Kuniyuki,
       Eric)
     - Assorted other fixes and cleanups (John, Yao, Chao, Mateusz,
       Achkinazi, Wentao)

 - MD pull request via Yu Kuai:
     - raid1/raid10 fixes for a deadlock in the read error recovery
       path, error-path detection and bio accounting with cloned bios,
       and an nr_pending leak in the REQ_ATOMIC bad-block error path
       (Abd-Alrhman)
     - PCI P2PDMA propagation from member devices to the RAID device
       (Kiran)
     - dm-raid bio requeue fix, and various smaller fixes and cleanups
       (Benjamin, Chen, Li, Thorsten)

 - Enable Clang lock context analysis for the block layer, with the
   accompanying annotations across queue limits, the blk_holder_ops
   callbacks, crypto, cgroup, iocost, kyber and mq-deadline (Bart)

 - Block status code infrastructure work: a tagged status table, a
   str_to_blk_op() helper, a bio_endio_status() helper, and on top of
   that a new configurable block-layer error injection facility
   (Christoph)

 - DRBD netlink rework, replacing the genl_magic machinery with explicit
   netlink serialization and moving the DRBD UAPI headers to
   include/uapi/linux/ (Christoph Böhmwalder)

 - bvec improvements: a bvec_folio() helper and making the bvec_iter
   helpers proper inline functions (Willy, Christoph)

 - ublk cleanups and a canceling-flag fix for the disk-not-allocated
   case (Caleb, Ming)

 - Partition handling fixes: bound the AIX pp_count scan, fix an of_node
   refcount leak, and replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() (Bryam,
   Wentao, Mike)

 - Convert numa_node to int in blk_mq_hw_ctx and ->init_request, and add
   WQ_PERCPU to the block workqueue users (Mateusz, Marco)

 - Block statistics and tracing: propagate in-flight to the whole disk
   on partition IO, export passthrough stats, and a new
   block_rq_tag_wait tracepoint (Tang, Keith, Aaron)

 - A round of removals, unexports and cleanups across bio, direct-io and
   the bvec helpers (Christoph)

 - Various driver fixes (mtip32xx use-after-free, rbd snap_count
   validation and strscpy conversion, nbd socket lockdep reclassify,
   virtio-blk zone report clamp, floppy) and a batch of MAINTAINERS
   email/list updates (Coly, Li, Yu, Christoph Böhmwalder)

 - Other little fixes and cleanups all over

* tag 'for-7.2/block-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (117 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Update Coly Li's email address
  block: check bio split for unaligned bvec
  nbd: Reclassify sockets to avoid lockdep circular dependency
  block: add configurable error injection
  block: add a str_to_blk_op helper
  block: add a "tag" for block status codes
  block: add a macro to initialize the status table
  floppy: Drop unused pnp driver data
  block: propagate in_flight to whole disk on partition I/O
  virtio-blk: clamp zone report to the report buffer capacity
  block: optimize I/O merge hot path with unlikely() hints
  drivers/block/rbd: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  partitions: aix: bound the pp_count scan to the ppe array
  block: Enable lock context analysis
  block/mq-deadline: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang
  block/Kyber: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang
  block/blk-mq-debugfs: Improve lock context annotations
  block/blk-iocost: Inline iocg_lock() and iocg_unlock()
  block/blk-iocost: Split ioc_rqos_throttle()
  block/crypto: Annotate the crypto functions
  ...
2026-06-16 13:02:47 +05:30
Linus Torvalds ec5d1ae94e Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull iomap updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Add the vfs infrastructure required to implement fs-verity support
   for XFS with a post-EOF merkle tree: fsverity generates and stores a
   zero-block hash, and iomap learns to verify data on buffered reads,
   to handle fsverity during writeback via the new IOMAP_F_FSVERITY
   flag, and to write fsverity metadata through iomap_fsverity_write().

 - Skip the memset of the iomap in iomap_iter() once the iteration is
   done. In high-IOPS scenarios (4k randread NVMe polling via io_uring)
   the pointless memset wasted memory write bandwidth; this improves
   IOPS by about 5% on ext4 and xfs.

 - Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to iomap_zero_iter(), aligning
   it with iomap_write_iter(). This prepares for the exFAT iomap
   conversion where zeroing beyond valid_size can trigger large-scale
   zeroing operations that caused memory pressure without throttling.

 - Remove the over-strict inline data boundary check. If a filesystem
   provides a valid inline_data pointer and length there is no reason to
   require that inline data must not cross a page boundary.

 - Don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT, matching the earlier
   equivalent block layer fix: there are valid cases to poll for I/O
   completion without REQ_NOWAIT, and REQ_NOWAIT for file system writes
   is currently not supported as writes aren't idempotent.

 - Introduce IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL for filesystems that maintain a separate
   valid data length (exFAT, NTFS). For a write starting at or beyond
   valid_size, __iomap_write_begin() now zeroes only the tail portion of
   the block while preserving valid data before it, instead of leaving
   stale data in the page cache. The flag is also added to the iomap
   trace event strings.

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  iomap: Add IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL flag to trace event strings
  iomap: introduce iomap_fsverity_write() for writing fsverity metadata
  iomap: teach iomap to read files with fsverity
  iomap: introduce IOMAP_F_FSVERITY and teach writeback to handle fsverity
  fsverity: generate and store zero-block hash
  iomap: introduce IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL flag
  iomap: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT
  iomap: remove over-strict inline data boundary check
  iomap: add dirty page control to iomap_zero_iter
  iomap: avoid memset iomap when iter is done
2026-06-15 03:46:54 +05:30
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) ca36c1aaee block: Add bvec_folio()
This is a simple helper which replaces page_folio(bvec->bv_page).
Minor improvement in readability, but the real motivation is to reduce
the number of references to bvec->bv_page so that it can be changed
with less work.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-29 05:34:24 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig a7d8eaee7f block: add a bio_endio_status helper
Add a helper that sets bi_status and call bio_endio() as that is a very
common pattern and convert the core block code over to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Md Haris Iqbal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-28 07:59:18 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 353c85082a block: mark biovec_init_pool static
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-28 07:57:50 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig a148d0a5af block: don't set BIO_QUIET for BLK_STS_AGAIN
Commit abb30460bd ("block: mark bio_wouldblock_error() bio with
BIO_QUIET") added this to suppress buffer_head warnings, but neither
when this commit was added nor now any buffer_head using code actually
ever sets REQ_NOWAIT which can lead to BLK_STS_AGAIN.

Remove the special handling for now.  If we ever plan to use REQ_NOWAIT
for buffer_head based I/O we're better off handling BLK_STS_AGAIN in
the completion handler as it actually needs to retry the I/O as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-26 11:01:55 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 47f28b493d iomap: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT
As described in commit 2bc0576925 ("block: don't make REQ_POLLED imply
REQ_NOWAIT"), which fixed the same issue for the block device node, there
are valid cases to poll for I/O completion without REQ_NOWAIT.

Additionally, sing REQ_NOWAIT for file system writes is currently not
supported as file systems writes are not idempotent and would need a
retry of just the bio and not the entire operation to be fully supported.

Switch iomap to set REQ_POLLED and remove the now unused bio_set_polled
helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
2026-05-18 14:22:38 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 8d57b5876d block: remove bio_copy_data_iter
Only used by bio_copy_data, so implement that directly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-15 08:46:45 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 64cf531f99 block: remove zero_fill_bio_iter
Only used to implement zero_fill_bio, so directly implement that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-15 08:46:45 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 32d5019ed3 block: pass a minsize argument to bio_iov_iter_bounce
When bouncing for block size > PAGE_SIZE file systems that require
file system block size alignment (e.g. zoned XFS), the bio needs to
be big enough to fit an entire block.

Fixes: 8dd5e7c75d ("block: add helpers to bounce buffer an iov_iter into bios")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-05-13 13:55:06 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 6fa747550e block: factor out a bio_await helper
Add a new helper to wait for a bio and anything chained off it to
complete synchronously after submitting it.  This factors common code out
of submit_bio_wait and bio_await_chain and will also be useful for
file system code and thus is exported.

Note that this will now set REQ_SYNC also for the bio_await case for
consistency.  Nothing should look at the flag in the end_io handler,
but if something does having the flag set makes more sense.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-04-07 08:22:24 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig b520c4eef8 block: split bio_alloc_bioset more clearly into a fast and slowpath
bio_alloc_bioset tries non-waiting slab allocations first for the bio and
bvec array, but does so in a somewhat convoluted way.

Restructure the function so that it first open codes these slab
allocations, and then falls back to the mempools with the original
gfp mask.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]> -ck
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-03-17 19:27:14 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig a9aa6045ab block: pass a maxlen argument to bio_iov_iter_bounce
Allow the file system to limit the size processed in a single
bounce operation.  This is needed when generating integrity data
so that the size of a single integrity segment can't overflow.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-03-09 07:47:02 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 4adc13ed7c Merge tag 'for-7.0/block-stable-pages-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull bounce buffer dio for stable pages from Jens Axboe:
 "This adds support for bounce buffering of dio for stable pages. This
  was all done by Christoph. In his words:

  This series tries to address the problem that under I/O pages can be
  modified during direct I/O, even when the device or file system
  require stable pages during I/O to calculate checksums, parity or data
  operations. It does so by adding block layer helpers to bounce buffer
  an iov_iter into a bio, then wires that up in iomap and ultimately
  XFS.

  The reason that the file system even needs to know about it, is
  because reads need a user context to copy the data back, and the
  infrastructure to defer ioends to a workqueue currently sits in XFS.
  I'm going to look into moving that into ioend and enabling it for
  other file systems. Additionally btrfs already has it's own
  infrastructure for this, and actually an urgent need to bounce buffer,
  so this should be useful there and could be wire up easily. In fact
  the idea comes from patches by Qu that did this in btrfs.

  This patch fixes all but one xfstests failures on T10 PI capable
  devices (generic/095 seems to have issues with a mix of mmap and
  splice still, I'm looking into that separately), and make qemu VMs
  running Windows, or Linux with swap enabled fine on an XFS file on a
  device using PI.

  Performance numbers on my (not exactly state of the art) NVMe PI test
  setup:

      Sequential reads using io_uring, QD=16.
      Bandwidth and CPU usage (usr/sys):

      | size |        zero copy         |          bounce          |
      +------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
      |   4k | 1316MiB/s (12.65/55.40%) | 1081MiB/s (11.76/49.78%) |
      |  64K | 3370MiB/s ( 5.46/18.20%) | 3365MiB/s ( 4.47/15.68%) |
      |   1M | 3401MiB/s ( 0.76/23.05%) | 3400MiB/s ( 0.80/09.06%) |
      +------+--------------------------+--------------------------+

      Sequential writes using io_uring, QD=16.
      Bandwidth and CPU usage (usr/sys):

      | size |        zero copy         |          bounce          |
      +------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
      |   4k |  882MiB/s (11.83/33.88%) |  750MiB/s (10.53/34.08%) |
      |  64K | 2009MiB/s ( 7.33/15.80%) | 2007MiB/s ( 7.47/24.71%) |
      |   1M | 1992MiB/s ( 7.26/ 9.13%) | 1992MiB/s ( 9.21/19.11%) |
      +------+--------------------------+--------------------------+

  Note that the 64k read numbers look really odd to me for the baseline
  zero copy case, but are reproducible over many repeated runs.

  The bounce read numbers should further improve when moving the PI
  validation to the file system and removing the double context switch,
  which I have patches for that will sent out soon"

* tag 'for-7.0/block-stable-pages-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  xfs: use bounce buffering direct I/O when the device requires stable pages
  iomap: add a flag to bounce buffer direct I/O
  iomap: support ioends for direct reads
  iomap: rename IOMAP_DIO_DIRTY to IOMAP_DIO_USER_BACKED
  iomap: free the bio before completing the dio
  iomap: share code between iomap_dio_bio_end_io and iomap_finish_ioend_direct
  iomap: split out the per-bio logic from iomap_dio_bio_iter
  iomap: simplify iomap_dio_bio_iter
  iomap: fix submission side handling of completion side errors
  block: add helpers to bounce buffer an iov_iter into bios
  block: remove bio_release_page
  iov_iter: extract a iov_iter_extract_bvecs helper from bio code
  block: open code bio_add_page and fix handling of mismatching P2P ranges
  block: refactor get_contig_folio_len
  block: add a BIO_MAX_SIZE constant and use it
2026-02-09 18:14:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0c00ed308d Merge tag 'for-7.0/block-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Support for batch request processing for ublk, improving the
   efficiency of the kernel/ublk server communication. This can yield
   nice 7-12% performance improvements

 - Support for integrity data for ublk

 - Various other ublk improvements and additions, including a ton of
   selftests additions and updated

 - Move the handling of blk-crypto software fallback from below the
   block layer to above it. This reduces the complexity of dealing with
   bio splitting

 - Series fixing a number of potential deadlocks in blk-mq related to
   the queue usage counter and writeback throttling and rq-qos debugfs
   handling

 - Add an async_depth queue attribute, to resolve a performance
   regression that's been around for a qhilw related to the scheduler
   depth handling

 - Only use task_work for IOPOLL completions on NVMe, if it is necessary
   to do so. An earlier fix for an issue resulted in all these
   completions being punted to task_work, to guarantee that completions
   were only run for a given io_uring ring when it was local to that
   ring. With the new changes, we can detect if it's necessary to use
   task_work or not, and avoid it if possible.

 - rnbd fixes:
      - Fix refcount underflow in device unmap path
      - Handle PREFLUSH and NOUNMAP flags properly in protocol
      - Fix server-side bi_size for special IOs
      - Zero response buffer before use
      - Fix trace format for flags
      - Add .release to rnbd_dev_ktype

 - MD pull requests via Yu Kuai
      - Fix raid5_run() to return error when log_init() fails
      - Fix IO hang with degraded array with llbitmap
      - Fix percpu_ref not resurrected on suspend timeout in llbitmap
      - Fix GPF in write_page caused by resize race
      - Fix NULL pointer dereference in process_metadata_update
      - Fix hang when stopping arrays with metadata through dm-raid
      - Fix any_working flag handling in raid10_sync_request
      - Refactor sync/recovery code path, improve error handling for
        badblocks, and remove unused recovery_disabled field
      - Consolidate mddev boolean fields into mddev_flags
      - Use mempool to allocate stripe_request_ctx and make sure
        max_sectors is not less than io_opt in raid5
      - Fix return value of mddev_trylock
      - Fix memory leak in raid1_run()
      - Add Li Nan as mdraid reviewer

 - Move phys_vec definitions to the kernel types, mostly in preparation
   for some VFIO and RDMA changes

 - Improve the speed for secure erase for some devices

 - Various little rust updates

 - Various other minor fixes, improvements, and cleanups

* tag 'for-7.0/block-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (162 commits)
  blk-mq: ABI/sysfs-block: fix docs build warnings
  selftests: ublk: organize test directories by test ID
  block: decouple secure erase size limit from discard size limit
  block: remove redundant kill_bdev() call in set_blocksize()
  blk-mq: add documentation for new queue attribute async_dpeth
  block, bfq: convert to use request_queue->async_depth
  mq-deadline: covert to use request_queue->async_depth
  kyber: covert to use request_queue->async_depth
  blk-mq: add a new queue sysfs attribute async_depth
  blk-mq: factor out a helper blk_mq_limit_depth()
  blk-mq-sched: unify elevators checking for async requests
  block: convert nr_requests to unsigned int
  block: don't use strcpy to copy blockdev name
  blk-mq-debugfs: warn about possible deadlock
  blk-mq-debugfs: add missing debugfs_mutex in blk_mq_debugfs_register_hctxs()
  blk-mq-debugfs: remove blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_rqos()
  blk-mq-debugfs: make blk_mq_debugfs_register_rqos() static
  blk-rq-qos: fix possible debugfs_mutex deadlock
  blk-mq-debugfs: factor out a helper to register debugfs for all rq_qos
  blk-wbt: fix possible deadlock to nest pcpu_alloc_mutex under q_usage_counter
  ...
2026-02-09 17:57:21 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 8dd5e7c75d block: add helpers to bounce buffer an iov_iter into bios
Add helpers to implement bounce buffering of data into a bio to implement
direct I/O for cases where direct user access is not possible because
stable in-flight data is required.  These are intended to be used as
easily as bio_iov_iter_get_pages for the zero-copy path.

The write side is trivial and just copies data into the bounce buffer.
The read side is a lot more complex because it needs to perform the copy
from the completion context, and without preserving the iov_iter through
the call chain.  It steals a trick from the integrity data user interface
and uses the first vector in the bio for the bounce buffer data that is
fed to the block I/O stack, and uses the others to record the user
buffer fragments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-01-28 05:16:39 -07:00
Keith Busch 72a41750f1 block: remove bio_last_bvec_all
There are no more callers of this function after commit f6b2d8b134
("btrfs: track the next file offset in struct btrfs_bio_ctrl"), so
remove the function.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2026-01-26 21:07:48 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 7ca44303f9 block: add a bio_reuse helper
Add a helper to allow an existing bio to be resubmitted without
having to re-add the payload.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
2026-01-21 12:57:16 +01:00
Pavel Begunkov d9f514d3e6 block: move around bio flagging helpers
We'll need bio_flagged() earlier in bio.h for later patches, move it
together with all related helpers, and mark the bio_flagged()'s bio
argument as const.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-12-12 12:36:44 -07:00
Keith Busch 2f6b2565d4 block: accumulate memory segment gaps per bio
The blk-mq dma iterator has an optimization for requests that align to
the device's iommu merge boundary. This boundary may be larger than the
device's virtual boundary, but the code had been depending on that queue
limit to know ahead of time if the request is guaranteed to align to
that optimization.

Rather than rely on that queue limit, which many devices may not report,
save the lowest set bit of any boundary gap between each segment in the
bio while checking the segments. The request stores the value for
merging and quickly checking per io if the request can use iova
optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-11-06 18:11:58 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 82dd5d763c block: rename bio_iov_iter_get_pages_aligned to bio_iov_iter_get_pages
Now that the bio_iov_iter_get_pages is free again, use it instead of
the more complicated now.  Also drop the unused export.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-10-07 08:05:44 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 1ed06c8350 block: remove bio_iov_iter_get_pages
Switch the only caller to bio_iov_iter_get_pages, and explain why it does
not have any alignment requirements.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-10-07 08:05:44 -06:00
Keith Busch 743bf2e0c4 block: add size alignment to bio_iov_iter_get_pages
The block layer tries to align bio vectors to the block device's logical
block size. Some cases don't have a block device, or we may need to
align to something larger, which we can't derive it from the queue
limits. Have the caller specify what they want, or allow any length
alignment if nothing was specified. Since the most common use case
relies on the block device's limits, a helper function is provided.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-09-09 10:27:01 -06:00
Keith Busch fec2e70572 block: check for valid bio while splitting
We're already iterating every segment, so check these for a valid IO
lengths at the same time. Individual segment lengths will not be checked
on passthrough commands. The read/write command segments must be sized
to the dma alignment.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-09-09 10:27:01 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig d86eaa0f3c block: remove the bi_inline_vecs variable sized array from struct bio
Bios are embedded into other structures, and at least spare is unhappy
about embedding structures with variable sized arrays.  There's no
real need to the array anyway, we can replace it with a helper pointing
to the memory just behind the bio, and with the previous cleanups there
is very few site doing anything special with it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-09-09 07:31:59 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 70a6f71b1a block: add a bio_init_inline helper
Just a simpler wrapper around bio_init for callers that want to
initialize a bio with inline bvecs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-09-09 07:31:59 -06:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) f826ec7966 bio: Fix bio_first_folio() for SPARSEMEM without VMEMMAP
It is possible for physically contiguous folios to have discontiguous
struct pages if SPARSEMEM is enabled and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is not.
This is correctly handled by folio_page_idx(), so remove this open-coded
implementation.

Fixes: 640d1930be (block: Add bio_for_each_folio_all())
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-06-13 06:19:34 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 6f59de9bc0 Merge tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - ublk updates:
      - Add support for updating the size of a ublk instance
      - Zero-copy improvements
      - Auto-registering of buffers for zero-copy
      - Series simplifying and improving GET_DATA and request lookup
      - Series adding quiesce support
      - Lots of selftests additions
      - Various cleanups

 - NVMe updates via Christoph:
      - add per-node DMA pools and use them for PRP/SGL allocations
        (Caleb Sander Mateos, Keith Busch)
      - nvme-fcloop refcounting fixes (Daniel Wagner)
      - support delayed removal of the multipath node and optionally
        support the multipath node for private namespaces (Nilay Shroff)
      - support shared CQs in the PCI endpoint target code (Wilfred
        Mallawa)
      - support admin-queue only authentication (Hannes Reinecke)
      - use the crc32c library instead of the crypto API (Eric Biggers)
      - misc cleanups (Christoph Hellwig, Marcelo Moreira, Hannes
        Reinecke, Leon Romanovsky, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

 - MD updates via Yu:
      - Fix that normal IO can be starved by sync IO, found by mkfs on
        newly created large raid5, with some clean up patches for bdev
        inflight counters

 - Clean up brd, getting rid of atomic kmaps and bvec poking

 - Add loop driver specifically for zoned IO testing

 - Eliminate blk-rq-qos calls with a static key, if not enabled

 - Improve hctx locking for when a plug has IO for multiple queues
   pending

 - Remove block layer bouncing support, which in turn means we can
   remove the per-node bounce stat as well

 - Improve blk-throttle support

 - Improve delay support for blk-throttle

 - Improve brd discard support

 - Unify IO scheduler switching. This should also fix a bunch of lockdep
   warnings we've been seeing, after enabling lockdep support for queue
   freezing/unfreezeing

 - Add support for block write streams via FDP (flexible data placement)
   on NVMe

 - Add a bunch of block helpers, facilitating the removal of a bunch of
   duplicated boilerplate code

 - Remove obsolete BLK_MQ pci and virtio Kconfig options

 - Add atomic/untorn write support to blktrace

 - Various little cleanups and fixes

* tag 'for-6.16/block-20250523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (186 commits)
  selftests: ublk: add test for UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  ublk: add feature UBLK_F_QUIESCE
  selftests: ublk: add test case for UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE
  traceevent/block: Add REQ_ATOMIC flag to block trace events
  ublk: run auto buf unregisgering in same io_ring_ctx with registering
  io_uring: add helper io_uring_cmd_ctx_handle()
  ublk: remove io argument from ublk_auto_buf_reg_fallback()
  ublk: handle ublk_set_auto_buf_reg() failure correctly in ublk_fetch()
  selftests: ublk: add test for covering UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  selftests: ublk: support UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: support UBLK_AUTO_BUF_REG_FALLBACK
  ublk: register buffer to local io_uring with provided buf index via UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG
  ublk: prepare for supporting to register request buffer automatically
  ublk: convert to refcount_t
  selftests: ublk: make IO & device removal test more stressful
  nvme: rename nvme_mpath_shutdown_disk to nvme_mpath_remove_disk
  nvme: introduce multipath_always_on module param
  nvme-multipath: introduce delayed removal of the multipath head node
  nvme-pci: derive and better document max segments limits
  nvme-pci: use struct_size for allocation struct nvme_dev
  ...
2025-05-26 11:39:36 -07:00
Steve Siwinski e8007fad54 scsi: sd_zbc: block: Respect bio vector limits for REPORT ZONES buffer
The REPORT ZONES buffer size is currently limited by the HBA's maximum
segment count to ensure the buffer can be mapped. However, the block
layer further limits the number of iovec entries to 1024 when allocating
a bio.

To avoid allocation of buffers too large to be mapped, further restrict
the maximum buffer size to BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Replace the UIO_MAXIOV symbolic name with the more contextually
appropriate BIO_MAX_INLINE_VECS.

Fixes: b091ac6168 ("sd_zbc: Fix report zones buffer allocation")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steve Siwinski <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
2025-05-12 22:35:48 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 8dd16f5e34 block: add a bio_add_vmalloc helpers
Add a helper to add a vmalloc region to a bio, abstracting away the
vmalloc addresses from the underlying pages and another one wrapping
it for the simple case where all data fits into a single bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-05-07 07:31:07 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 75f88659e4 block: add a bio_add_max_vecs helper
Add a helper to check how many bio_vecs are needed to add a kernel
virtual address range to a bio, accounting for the always contiguous
direct mapping and vmalloc mappings that usually need a bio_vec
per page sized chunk.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-05-07 07:31:07 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 10b1e59cda block: add a bdev_rw_virt helper
Add a helper to perform synchronous I/O on a kernel direct map range.
Currently this is implemented in various places in usually not very
efficient ways, so provide a generic helper instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-05-07 07:31:07 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 850e210d5a block: add a bio_add_virt_nofail helper
Add a helper to add a directly mapped kernel virtual address to a
bio so that callers don't have to convert to pages or folios.

For now only the _nofail variant is provided as that is what all the
obvious callers want.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-05-07 07:31:07 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 105ca2a2c2 block: split struct bio_integrity_payload
Many of the fields in struct bio_integrity_payload are only needed for
the default integrity buffer in the block layer, and the variable
sized array at the end of the structure makes it very hard to embed
into caller allocated structures.

Reduce struct bio_integrity_payload to the minimal structure needed in
common code and create two separate containing structures for the
automatically generated payload and the caller allocated payload.
The latter is a simple wrapper for struct bio_integrity_payload and
the bvecs, while the former contains the additional fields moved out
of struct bio_integrity_payload.

Always use a dedicated mempool for automatic integrity metadata
instead of depending on bio_set that is submitter controlled and thus
often doesn't have the mempool initialized and stop using mempools for
the submitter buffers as they aren't in the NOIO I/O submission path
where we need to guarantee forward progress.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-03-03 11:17:52 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 6aeb4f8364 block: remove bio_add_pc_page
Lift bio_split_rw_at into blk_rq_append_bio so that it validates the
hardware limits.  With this all passthrough callers can simply add
bio_add_page to build the bio and delay checking for exceeding of limits
to this point instead of doing it for each page.

While this looks like adding a new expensive loop over all bio_vecs,
blk_rq_append_bio is already doing that just to counter the number of
segments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2025-01-04 15:27:35 -07:00
John Garry 19206d3f5e block: Delete bio_set_prio()
Since commit 43b62ce3ff ("block: move bio io prio to a new field"), macro
bio_set_prio() does nothing but set bio->bi_ioprio. All other places just
set bio->bi_ioprio directly, so replace bio_set_prio() remaining
callsites with setting bio->bi_ioprio directly and delete that macro.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jack Wang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-12-23 08:17:23 -07:00
John Garry 5c292ac6e6 block: Delete bio_prio()
Since commit 43b62ce3ff ("block: move bio io prio to a new field"), macro
bio_prio() does nothing but return the value in bio->bi_ioprio. Most other
places just read bio->bi_ioprio directly, so replace bi_ioprio() callsites
with reading bio->bi_ioprio directly and delete that macro.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-12-23 08:17:22 -07:00
John Garry 2f4873f9b5 block: Make bio_iov_bvec_set() accept pointer to const iov_iter
Make bio_iov_bvec_set() accept a pointer to const iov_iter, which means
that we can drop the undesirable casting to struct iov_iter pointer in
blk_rq_map_user_bvec().

Signed-off-by: John Garry <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-12-12 08:43:28 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 0ef2b9e698 block: lift bio_is_zone_append to bio.h
Make bio_is_zone_append globally available, because file systems need
to use to check for a zone append bio in their end_io handlers to deal
with the block layer emulation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-11-11 09:06:45 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig f187b9bf1a block: remove bio_add_zone_append_page
This is only used by the nvmet zns passthrough code, which can trivially
just use bio_add_pc_page and do the sanity check for the max zone append
limit itself.

All future zoned file systems should follow the btrfs lead and let the
upper layers fill up bios unlimited by hardware constraints and split
them to the limits in the I/O submission handler.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-10-31 10:54:25 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig b35243a447 block: rework bio splitting
The current setup with bio_may_exceed_limit and __bio_split_to_limits
is a bit of a mess.

Change it so that __bio_split_to_limits does all the work and is just
a variant of bio_split_to_limits that returns nr_segs.  This is done
by inlining it and instead have the various bio_split_* helpers directly
submit the potentially split bios.

To support btrfs, the rw version has a lower level helper split out
that just returns the offset to split.  This turns out to nicely clean
up the btrfs flow as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-08-29 04:32:32 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig da042a3655 block: split integrity support out of bio.h
Split struct bio_integrity_payload and the related prototypes out of
bio.h into a separate bio-integrity.h header so that it is only pulled
in by the few places that need it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-07-03 10:21:15 -06:00
Anuj Gupta e038ee6189 block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter
The user mapped intergity is copied back and unpinned by
bio_integrity_free which is a low-level routine. Do it via the submitter
rather than doing it in the low-level block layer code, to split the
submitter side from the consumer side of the bio.

Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig e8b4869bc7 block: add a blk_alloc_discard_bio helper
Factor out a helper from __blkdev_issue_discard that chews off as much as
possible from a discard range and allocates a bio for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-05-07 07:29:42 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 81c2168c22 block: add a bio_chain_and_submit helper
This is basically blk_next_bio just with the bio allocation moved
to the caller to allow for more flexible bio handling in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-05-07 07:29:42 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig c9418adfba block: add a bio_list_merge_init helper
This is a simple combination of bio_list_merge + bio_list_init
similar to list_splice_init.  While it only saves a single
line in a callers, it makes the move all bios from one list to
another and reinitialize the original pattern a lot more obvious
in the callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Sakai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
2024-04-01 11:53:37 -06:00