linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.2 - blkback and blkfront patches for 3.2

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Date:	Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:21:57 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jaxboe@...ionio.com
Cc:	lidongyang@...ell.com, joe.jin@...cle.com, Ian.Campbell@...rix.com,
	lersek@...hat.com, jbeulich@...e.com
Subject: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/for-jens-3.2 - blkback and blkfront patches
 for 3.2

Hey Jens,

Please pull the following git tree in your 3.2 drivers tree:

 git pull git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.2

which has a couple of bug fixes and two new features for Xen blkfront
and blkback.

The bug-fixes are the normal variety - on error path we did not the proper
thing (leak memory), on entry to some functions we did not check whether we
should just ignore the request (b/c we might not support it), and we also
forgot to increment the write sector count.

There are also two new features:
 - discard support, aka trim/unmap. We export from the backend the
   discard alignment, granularity and do normal REQ_DISCARD. We do have
   patches for the REQ_SECURE type - but not the hardware to test it so
   holding on the secure discard until I get my hands on it.

 - barrier (pre 2.6.38 kernel) support. The backend supports the FLUSH
   type operation but to support older kernels that did barriers we have
   implemented a drain technique that counts all of the bio's in flight and
   waits until they are completed and then sends a FLUSH.

In regards to testing, I've been testing this on Intel SSD, Western Digital
SSD. But sadly all of them export the block size as 512 - is there a good
SSD or disk where it would export it as something more than 512?

And here is the credit list:

Jan Beulich (1):
      xen-blkback: use kzalloc() in favor of kmalloc()+memset()

Joe Jin (1):
      xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (4):
      xen-blkfront: If no barrier or flush is supported, use invalid operation.
      xen/blkback: Support 'feature-barrier' aka old-style BARRIER requests.
      xen/blkback: Report VBD_WSECT (wr_sect) properly.
      xen/blkback: Fix the inhibition to map pages when discarding sector ranges.

Laszlo Ersek (1):
      xen-blkfront: plug device number leak in xlblk_init() error path

Li Dongyang (4):
      xen-blkfront: add BLKIF_OP_DISCARD and discard request struct
      xen-blkback: Implement discard requests ('feature-discard')
      xen-blkfront: Handle discard requests.
      xen-blkfront: fix a deadlock while handling discard response

The diffstat:

 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c        |  123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h    |   36 ++++++++++
 5 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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