From 9e8c0bccdc944bd09361672d47660810c027bcaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Márton Németh Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:12:51 +0100 Subject: block: add documentation for register_blkdev() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add documentation for register_blkdev() function and for the parameters. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/genhd.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index e1eadcc9546..a9ec910974c 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ void blkdev_show(struct seq_file *seqf, off_t offset) } #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ +/** + * register_blkdev - register a new block device + * + * @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major=0, try to + * allocate any unused major number. + * @name: the name of the new block device as a zero terminated string + * + * The @name must be unique within the system. + * + * The return value depends on the @major input parameter. + * - if a major device number was requested in range [1..255] then the + * function returns zero on success, or a negative error code + * - if any unused major number was requested with @major=0 parameter + * then the return value is the allocated major number in range + * [1..255] or a negative error code otherwise + */ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name) { struct blk_major_name **n, *p; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 1e42807918d17e8c93bf14fbb74be84b141334c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:03:10 +0100 Subject: block: reduce stack footprint of blk_recount_segments() blk_recalc_rq_segments() requires a request structure passed in, which we don't have from blk_recount_segments(). So the latter allocates one on the stack, using > 400 bytes of stack for that. This can cause us to spill over one page of stack from ext4 at least: 0) 4560 400 blk_recount_segments+0x43/0x62 1) 4160 32 bio_phys_segments+0x1c/0x24 2) 4128 32 blk_rq_bio_prep+0x2a/0xf9 3) 4096 32 init_request_from_bio+0xf9/0xfe 4) 4064 112 __make_request+0x33c/0x3f6 5) 3952 144 generic_make_request+0x2d1/0x321 6) 3808 64 submit_bio+0xb9/0xc3 7) 3744 48 submit_bh+0xea/0x10e 8) 3696 368 ext4_mb_init_cache+0x257/0xa6a [ext4] 9) 3328 288 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x421/0xcd9 [ext4] 10) 3040 160 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x211/0x4b4 [ext4] 11) 2880 336 ext4_ext_get_blocks+0xb61/0xd45 [ext4] 12) 2544 96 ext4_get_blocks_wrap+0xf2/0x200 [ext4] 13) 2448 80 ext4_da_get_block_write+0x6e/0x16b [ext4] 14) 2368 352 mpage_da_map_blocks+0x7e/0x4b3 [ext4] 15) 2016 352 ext4_da_writepages+0x2ce/0x43c [ext4] 16) 1664 32 do_writepages+0x2d/0x3c 17) 1632 144 __writeback_single_inode+0x162/0x2cd 18) 1488 96 generic_sync_sb_inodes+0x1e3/0x32b 19) 1392 16 sync_sb_inodes+0xe/0x10 20) 1376 48 writeback_inodes+0x69/0xb3 21) 1328 208 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x187/0x2f9 22) 1120 224 generic_file_buffered_write+0x1d4/0x2c4 23) 896 176 __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x35f/0x393 24) 720 80 generic_file_aio_write+0x6c/0xc8 25) 640 80 ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x137 [ext4] 26) 560 320 do_sync_write+0xf0/0x137 27) 240 48 vfs_write+0xb3/0x13c 28) 192 64 sys_write+0x4c/0x74 29) 128 128 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Split the segment counting out into a __blk_recalc_rq_segments() helper to avoid allocating an onstack request just for checking the physical segment count. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-merge.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c index b92f5b0866b..a104593e70c 100644 --- a/block/blk-merge.c +++ b/block/blk-merge.c @@ -38,72 +38,84 @@ void blk_recalc_rq_sectors(struct request *rq, int nsect) } } -void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq) +static unsigned int __blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request_queue *q, + struct bio *bio, + unsigned int *seg_size_ptr) { - int nr_phys_segs; unsigned int phys_size; struct bio_vec *bv, *bvprv = NULL; - int seg_size; - int cluster; - struct req_iterator iter; - int high, highprv = 1; - struct request_queue *q = rq->q; + int cluster, i, high, highprv = 1; + unsigned int seg_size, nr_phys_segs; + struct bio *fbio; - if (!rq->bio) - return; + if (!bio) + return 0; + fbio = bio; cluster = test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER, &q->queue_flags); seg_size = 0; phys_size = nr_phys_segs = 0; - rq_for_each_segment(bv, rq, iter) { - /* - * the trick here is making sure that a high page is never - * considered part of another segment, since that might - * change with the bounce page. - */ - high = page_to_pfn(bv->bv_page) > q->bounce_pfn; - if (high || highprv) - goto new_segment; - if (cluster) { - if (seg_size + bv->bv_len > q->max_segment_size) - goto new_segment; - if (!BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE(bvprv, bv)) - goto new_segment; - if (!BIOVEC_SEG_BOUNDARY(q, bvprv, bv)) + for_each_bio(bio) { + bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, i) { + /* + * the trick here is making sure that a high page is + * never considered part of another segment, since that + * might change with the bounce page. + */ + high = page_to_pfn(bv->bv_page) > q->bounce_pfn; + if (high || highprv) goto new_segment; + if (cluster) { + if (seg_size + bv->bv_len > q->max_segment_size) + goto new_segment; + if (!BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE(bvprv, bv)) + goto new_segment; + if (!BIOVEC_SEG_BOUNDARY(q, bvprv, bv)) + goto new_segment; + + seg_size += bv->bv_len; + bvprv = bv; + continue; + } +new_segment: + if (nr_phys_segs == 1 && seg_size > + fbio->bi_seg_front_size) + fbio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size; - seg_size += bv->bv_len; + nr_phys_segs++; bvprv = bv; - continue; + seg_size = bv->bv_len; + highprv = high; } -new_segment: - if (nr_phys_segs == 1 && seg_size > rq->bio->bi_seg_front_size) - rq->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size; - - nr_phys_segs++; - bvprv = bv; - seg_size = bv->bv_len; - highprv = high; } - if (nr_phys_segs == 1 && seg_size > rq->bio->bi_seg_front_size) + if (seg_size_ptr) + *seg_size_ptr = seg_size; + + return nr_phys_segs; +} + +void blk_recalc_rq_segments(struct request *rq) +{ + unsigned int seg_size = 0, phys_segs; + + phys_segs = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(rq->q, rq->bio, &seg_size); + + if (phys_segs == 1 && seg_size > rq->bio->bi_seg_front_size) rq->bio->bi_seg_front_size = seg_size; if (seg_size > rq->biotail->bi_seg_back_size) rq->biotail->bi_seg_back_size = seg_size; - rq->nr_phys_segments = nr_phys_segs; + rq->nr_phys_segments = phys_segs; } void blk_recount_segments(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) { - struct request rq; struct bio *nxt = bio->bi_next; - rq.q = q; - rq.bio = rq.biotail = bio; + bio->bi_next = NULL; - blk_recalc_rq_segments(&rq); + bio->bi_phys_segments = __blk_recalc_rq_segments(q, bio, NULL); bio->bi_next = nxt; - bio->bi_phys_segments = rq.nr_phys_segments; bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_SEG_VALID); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_recount_segments); diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index dcaa0fd84b0..465d6babc84 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -708,6 +708,8 @@ struct req_iterator { }; /* This should not be used directly - use rq_for_each_segment */ +#define for_each_bio(_bio) \ + for (; _bio; _bio = _bio->bi_next) #define __rq_for_each_bio(_bio, rq) \ if ((rq->bio)) \ for (_bio = (rq)->bio; _bio; _bio = _bio->bi_next) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2