[PATCH 3/7] block: discard may need to allocate pages

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Aug 29 2009 - 19:11:45 EST


SCSI and ATA both need to send data to the device. In order to do this,
the BIO must be allocated with room for a page to be added, and the bio
needs to be passed to the discard prep function. We also need to free
the page attached to the BIO before we free it.

init_request_from_bio() is not currently called from a context which
forbids sleeping, and to make sure it stays that was (so we don't have
to use GFP_ATOMIC), add a might_sleep() to it.

[hch: moved the might_sleep into the discard section, it can trigger
easily for normal requests]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-barrier.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-barrier.c 2009-08-29 19:19:47.351880578 -0300
+++ linux-2.6/block/blk-barrier.c 2009-08-29 19:19:58.087575976 -0300
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_de
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

while (nr_sects && !ret) {
- struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(gfp_mask, 0);
+ struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(gfp_mask, 1);
if (!bio)
return -ENOMEM;

Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-core.c 2009-08-29 18:16:52.427841223 -0300
+++ linux-2.6/block/blk-core.c 2009-08-29 19:19:28.639880676 -0300
@@ -1124,10 +1124,11 @@ void init_request_from_bio(struct reques
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER;

if (unlikely(bio_discard(bio))) {
+ might_sleep();
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_DISCARD;
if (bio_barrier(bio))
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_SOFTBARRIER;
- req->q->prepare_discard_fn(req->q, req);
+ req->q->prepare_discard_fn(req->q, req, bio);
} else if (unlikely(bio_barrier(bio)))
req->cmd_flags |= REQ_HARDBARRIER;

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c 2009-08-29 18:16:52.639841570 -0300
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c 2009-08-29 18:17:22.799373769 -0300
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct mtd_blkcore_priv {
};

static int blktrans_discard_request(struct request_queue *q,
- struct request *req)
+ struct request *req, struct bio *bio)
{
req->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK;
req->cmd[0] = REQ_LB_OP_DISCARD;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/blkdev.h 2009-08-29 18:16:52.899841155 -0300
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/blkdev.h 2009-08-29 18:17:22.803373020 -0300
@@ -255,7 +255,8 @@ typedef void (request_fn_proc) (struct r
typedef int (make_request_fn) (struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio);
typedef int (prep_rq_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *);
typedef void (unplug_fn) (struct request_queue *);
-typedef int (prepare_discard_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *);
+typedef int (prepare_discard_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *,
+ struct bio *bio);

struct bio_vec;
struct bvec_merge_data {

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