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-rw-r--r--block/elevator.c8
-rw-r--r--block/ll_rw_blk.c58
2 files changed, 47 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index ec23ca02f2f..952aee04a68 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -712,6 +712,14 @@ struct request *elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q)
int ret;
while ((rq = __elv_next_request(q)) != NULL) {
+ /*
+ * Kill the empty barrier place holder, the driver must
+ * not ever see it.
+ */
+ if (blk_empty_barrier(rq)) {
+ end_queued_request(rq, 1);
+ continue;
+ }
if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_STARTED)) {
/*
* This is the first time the device driver
diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 548f0d82667..4fde3a3c92d 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -458,9 +458,12 @@ static inline struct request *start_ordered(struct request_queue *q,
* Queue ordered sequence. As we stack them at the head, we
* need to queue in reverse order. Note that we rely on that
* no fs request uses ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT and thus no fs
- * request gets inbetween ordered sequence.
+ * request gets inbetween ordered sequence. If this request is
+ * an empty barrier, we don't need to do a postflush ever since
+ * there will be no data written between the pre and post flush.
+ * Hence a single flush will suffice.
*/
- if (q->ordered & QUEUE_ORDERED_POSTFLUSH)
+ if ((q->ordered & QUEUE_ORDERED_POSTFLUSH) && !blk_empty_barrier(rq))
queue_flush(q, QUEUE_ORDERED_POSTFLUSH);
else
q->ordseq |= QUEUE_ORDSEQ_POSTFLUSH;
@@ -484,7 +487,7 @@ static inline struct request *start_ordered(struct request_queue *q,
int blk_do_ordered(struct request_queue *q, struct request **rqp)
{
struct request *rq = *rqp;
- int is_barrier = blk_fs_request(rq) && blk_barrier_rq(rq);
+ const int is_barrier = blk_fs_request(rq) && blk_barrier_rq(rq);
if (!q->ordseq) {
if (!is_barrier)
@@ -3054,7 +3057,7 @@ static inline void blk_partition_remap(struct bio *bio)
{
struct block_device *bdev = bio->bi_bdev;
- if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains) {
+ if (bio_sectors(bio) && bdev != bdev->bd_contains) {
struct hd_struct *p = bdev->bd_part;
const int rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
@@ -3313,23 +3316,32 @@ void submit_bio(int rw, struct bio *bio)
{
int count = bio_sectors(bio);
- BIO_BUG_ON(!bio->bi_size);
- BIO_BUG_ON(!bio->bi_io_vec);
bio->bi_rw |= rw;
- if (rw & WRITE) {
- count_vm_events(PGPGOUT, count);
- } else {
- task_io_account_read(bio->bi_size);
- count_vm_events(PGPGIN, count);
- }
- if (unlikely(block_dump)) {
- char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%d): %s block %Lu on %s\n",
- current->comm, current->pid,
- (rw & WRITE) ? "WRITE" : "READ",
- (unsigned long long)bio->bi_sector,
- bdevname(bio->bi_bdev,b));
+ /*
+ * If it's a regular read/write or a barrier with data attached,
+ * go through the normal accounting stuff before submission.
+ */
+ if (!bio_empty_barrier(bio)) {
+
+ BIO_BUG_ON(!bio->bi_size);
+ BIO_BUG_ON(!bio->bi_io_vec);
+
+ if (rw & WRITE) {
+ count_vm_events(PGPGOUT, count);
+ } else {
+ task_io_account_read(bio->bi_size);
+ count_vm_events(PGPGIN, count);
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(block_dump)) {
+ char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%d): %s block %Lu on %s\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid,
+ (rw & WRITE) ? "WRITE" : "READ",
+ (unsigned long long)bio->bi_sector,
+ bdevname(bio->bi_bdev,b));
+ }
}
generic_make_request(bio);
@@ -3405,6 +3417,14 @@ static int __end_that_request_first(struct request *req, int uptodate,
while ((bio = req->bio) != NULL) {
int nbytes;
+ /*
+ * For an empty barrier request, the low level driver must
+ * store a potential error location in ->sector. We pass
+ * that back up in ->bi_sector.
+ */
+ if (blk_empty_barrier(req))
+ bio->bi_sector = req->sector;
+
if (nr_bytes >= bio->bi_size) {
req->bio = bio->bi_next;
nbytes = bio->bi_size;