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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-17 05:37:55 +0900
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-17 05:37:55 +0900
commit265c5596da61a5467b6b3bfbd9ba637f867d3927 (patch)
tree92eac309ddb4bc97afef3c2586db1fa32d280073 /Documentation
parent5e7b9212a4a887f42221376445df52cd5991d100 (diff)
parentd6c73964f1e2a07f75057fb32ae46f6599036f93 (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus-20180616' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: "A collection of fixes that should go into -rc1. This contains: - bsg_open vs bsg_unregister race fix (Anatoliy) - NVMe pull request from Christoph, with fixes for regressions in this window, FC connect/reconnect path code unification, and a trace point addition. - timeout fix (Christoph) - remove a few unused functions (Christoph) - blk-mq tag_set reinit fix (Roman)" * tag 'for-linus-20180616' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: bsg: fix race of bsg_open and bsg_unregister block: remov blk_queue_invalidate_tags nvme-fabrics: fix and refine state checks in __nvmf_check_ready nvme-fabrics: handle the admin-only case properly in nvmf_check_ready nvme-fabrics: refactor queue ready check blk-mq: remove blk_mq_tagset_iter nvme: remove nvme_reinit_tagset nvme-fc: fix nulling of queue data on reconnect nvme-fc: remove reinit_request routine blk-mq: don't time out requests again that are in the timeout handler nvme-fc: change controllers first connect to use reconnect path nvme: don't rely on the changed namespace list log nvmet: free smart-log buffer after use nvme-rdma: fix error flow during mapping request data nvme: add bio remapping tracepoint nvme: fix NULL pointer dereference in nvme_init_subsystem blk-mq: reinit q->tag_set_list entry only after grace period
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt15
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 86927029a52d..207eca58efaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -752,18 +752,6 @@ completion of the request to the block layer. This means ending tag
operations before calling end_that_request_last()! For an example of a user
of these helpers, see the IDE tagged command queueing support.
-Certain hardware conditions may dictate a need to invalidate the block tag
-queue. For instance, on IDE any tagged request error needs to clear both
-the hardware and software block queue and enable the driver to sanely restart
-all the outstanding requests. There's a third helper to do that:
-
- blk_queue_invalidate_tags(struct request_queue *q)
-
- Clear the internal block tag queue and re-add all the pending requests
- to the request queue. The driver will receive them again on the
- next request_fn run, just like it did the first time it encountered
- them.
-
3.2.5.2 Tag info
Some block functions exist to query current tag status or to go from a
@@ -805,8 +793,7 @@ Internally, block manages tags in the blk_queue_tag structure:
Most of the above is simple and straight forward, however busy_list may need
a bit of explaining. Normally we don't care too much about request ordering,
but in the event of any barrier requests in the tag queue we need to ensure
-that requests are restarted in the order they were queue. This may happen
-if the driver needs to use blk_queue_invalidate_tags().
+that requests are restarted in the order they were queue.
3.3 I/O Submission