[PATCH v8 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO

From: Ming Lei
Date: Thu Jul 30 2015 - 07:38:24 EST


This patches provides one interface for enabling direct IO
from user space:

- userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' which is
opened/fcntl as O_DIRECT

Also __loop_update_dio() is introduced to check if direct I/O
can be used on current loop setting.

The last big change is to introduce LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO flag
for userspace to know if direct IO is used to access backing
file.

Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/block/loop.h | 2 ++
include/uapi/linux/loop.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 1875aad..799cc23 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -164,6 +164,47 @@ static loff_t get_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, struct file *file)
return get_size(lo->lo_offset, lo->lo_sizelimit, file);
}

+static void __loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo, bool dio)
+{
+ struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+ bool use_dio;
+ unsigned dio_align = inode->i_sb->s_bdev ?
+ (bdev_io_min(inode->i_sb->s_bdev) - 1) : 0;
+
+ /*
+ * We support direct I/O only if lo_offset is aligned
+ * with the min I/O size of backing device.
+ *
+ * Request's offset and size will be checked in I/O path.
+ */
+ if (dio) {
+ if (!dio_align || (lo->lo_offset & dio_align))
+ use_dio = false;
+ else
+ use_dio = true;
+ } else {
+ use_dio = false;
+ }
+
+ /* flush dirty pages before changing direct IO */
+ vfs_fsync(file, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * The flag of LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO is handled similarly with
+ * LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY, both are set from kernel, and losetup
+ * will get updated by ioctl(LOOP_GET_STATUS)
+ */
+ blk_mq_freeze_queue(lo->lo_queue);
+ lo->use_dio = use_dio;
+ lo->dio_align = dio_align;
+ if (use_dio)
+ lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO;
+ else
+ lo->lo_flags &= ~LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO;
+ blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(lo->lo_queue);
+}
+
static int
figure_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, loff_t offset, loff_t sizelimit)
{
@@ -173,8 +214,12 @@ figure_loop_size(struct loop_device *lo, loff_t offset, loff_t sizelimit)

if (unlikely((loff_t)x != size))
return -EFBIG;
- if (lo->lo_offset != offset)
+ if (lo->lo_offset != offset) {
lo->lo_offset = offset;
+
+ /* update dio if lo_offset is changed*/
+ __loop_update_dio(lo, lo->use_dio);
+ }
if (lo->lo_sizelimit != sizelimit)
lo->lo_sizelimit = sizelimit;
set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, x);
@@ -421,6 +466,11 @@ struct switch_request {
struct completion wait;
};

+static inline void loop_update_dio(struct loop_device *lo)
+{
+ __loop_update_dio(lo, io_is_direct(lo->lo_backing_file));
+}
+
/*
* Do the actual switch; called from the BIO completion routine
*/
@@ -441,6 +491,7 @@ static void do_loop_switch(struct loop_device *lo, struct switch_request *p)
mapping->host->i_bdev->bd_block_size : PAGE_SIZE;
lo->old_gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping);
mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, lo->old_gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS));
+ loop_update_dio(lo);
}

/*
@@ -627,11 +678,19 @@ static ssize_t loop_attr_partscan_show(struct loop_device *lo, char *buf)
return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", partscan ? "1" : "0");
}

+static ssize_t loop_attr_dio_show(struct loop_device *lo, char *buf)
+{
+ int dio = (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO);
+
+ return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dio ? "1" : "0");
+}
+
LOOP_ATTR_RO(backing_file);
LOOP_ATTR_RO(offset);
LOOP_ATTR_RO(sizelimit);
LOOP_ATTR_RO(autoclear);
LOOP_ATTR_RO(partscan);
+LOOP_ATTR_RO(dio);

static struct attribute *loop_attrs[] = {
&loop_attr_backing_file.attr,
@@ -639,6 +698,7 @@ static struct attribute *loop_attrs[] = {
&loop_attr_sizelimit.attr,
&loop_attr_autoclear.attr,
&loop_attr_partscan.attr,
+ &loop_attr_dio.attr,
NULL,
};

@@ -783,6 +843,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
if (!(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY) && file->f_op->fsync)
blk_queue_flush(lo->lo_queue, REQ_FLUSH);

+ loop_update_dio(lo);
set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, size);
bd_set_size(bdev, size << 9);
loop_sysfs_init(lo);
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.h b/drivers/block/loop.h
index b6c7d21..63f8e14 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.h
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.h
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ struct loop_device {
struct mutex lo_ctl_mutex;
struct kthread_worker worker;
struct task_struct *worker_task;
+ unsigned dio_align;
+ bool use_dio;

struct request_queue *lo_queue;
struct blk_mq_tag_set tag_set;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/loop.h b/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
index e0cecd2..949851c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/loop.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ enum {
LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY = 1,
LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR = 4,
LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN = 8,
+ LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO = 16,
};

#include <asm/posix_types.h> /* for __kernel_old_dev_t */
--
1.9.1

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