Chapter 14. Block Devices

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blk_get_backing_dev_info — get the address of a queue's backing_dev_info

blk_delay_queue — restart queueing after defined interval

blk_start_queue — restart a previously stopped queue

blk_stop_queue — stop a queue

blk_sync_queue — cancel any pending callbacks on a queue

__blk_run_queue — run a single device queue

blk_run_queue_async — run a single device queue in workqueue context

blk_run_queue — run a single device queue

blk_init_queue — prepare a request queue for use with a block device

blk_make_request — given a bio, allocate a corresponding struct request.

blk_requeue_request — put a request back on queue

blk_insert_request — insert a special request into a request queue

part_round_stats — Round off the performance stats on a struct disk_stats.

blk_add_request_payload — add a payload to a request

submit_bio — submit a bio to the block device layer for I/O

blk_rq_check_limits — Helper function to check a request for the queue limit

blk_insert_cloned_request — Helper for stacking drivers to submit a request

blk_rq_err_bytes — determine number of bytes till the next failure boundary

blk_peek_request — peek at the top of a request queue

blk_start_request — start request processing on the driver

blk_fetch_request — fetch a request from a request queue

blk_update_request — Special helper function for request stacking drivers

blk_unprep_request — unprepare a request

blk_end_request — Helper function for drivers to complete the request.

blk_end_request_all — Helper function for drives to finish the request.

blk_end_request_cur — Helper function to finish the current request chunk.

blk_end_request_err — Finish a request till the next failure boundary.

__blk_end_request — Helper function for drivers to complete the request.

__blk_end_request_all — Helper function for drives to finish the request.

__blk_end_request_cur — Helper function to finish the current request chunk.

__blk_end_request_err — Finish a request till the next failure boundary.

rq_flush_dcache_pages — Helper function to flush all pages in a request

blk_lld_busy — Check if underlying low-level drivers of a device are busy

blk_rq_unprep_clone — Helper function to free all bios in a cloned request

blk_rq_prep_clone — Helper function to setup clone request

__generic_make_request — hand a buffer to its device driver for I/O

blk_end_bidi_request — Complete a bidi request

__blk_end_bidi_request — Complete a bidi request with queue lock held

blk_rq_map_user — map user data to a request, for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC usage

blk_rq_map_user_iov — map user data to a request, for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC usage

blk_rq_unmap_user — unmap a request with user data

blk_rq_map_kern — map kernel data to a request, for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC usage

blk_release_queue — release a struct request_queue when it is no longer needed

blk_queue_prep_rq — set a prepare_request function for queue

blk_queue_unprep_rq — set an unprepare_request function for queue

blk_queue_merge_bvec — set a merge_bvec function for queue

blk_set_default_limits — reset limits to default values

blk_queue_make_request — define an alternate make_request function for a device

blk_queue_bounce_limit — set bounce buffer limit for queue

blk_limits_max_hw_sectors — set hard and soft limit of max sectors for request

blk_queue_max_hw_sectors — set max sectors for a request for this queue

blk_queue_max_discard_sectors — set max sectors for a single discard

blk_queue_max_segments — set max hw segments for a request for this queue

blk_queue_max_segment_size — set max segment size for blk_rq_map_sg

blk_queue_logical_block_size — set logical block size for the queue

blk_queue_physical_block_size — set physical block size for the queue

blk_queue_alignment_offset — set physical block alignment offset

blk_limits_io_min — set minimum request size for a device

blk_queue_io_min — set minimum request size for the queue

blk_limits_io_opt — set optimal request size for a device

blk_queue_io_opt — set optimal request size for the queue

blk_queue_stack_limits — inherit underlying queue limits for stacked drivers

blk_stack_limits — adjust queue_limits for stacked devices

bdev_stack_limits — adjust queue limits for stacked drivers

disk_stack_limits — adjust queue limits for stacked drivers

blk_queue_dma_pad — set pad mask

blk_queue_update_dma_pad — update pad mask

blk_queue_dma_drain — Set up a drain buffer for excess dma.

blk_queue_segment_boundary — set boundary rules for segment merging

blk_queue_dma_alignment — set dma length and memory alignment

blk_queue_update_dma_alignment — update dma length and memory alignment

blk_queue_flush — configure queue's cache flush capability

blk_execute_rq_nowait — insert a request into queue for execution

blk_execute_rq — insert a request into queue for execution

blkdev_issue_flush — queue a flush

blkdev_issue_discard — queue a discard

blkdev_issue_zeroout — generate number of zero filed write bios

blk_queue_find_tag — find a request by its tag and queue

blk_free_tags — release a given set of tag maintenance info

blk_queue_free_tags — release tag maintenance info

blk_init_tags — initialize the tag info for an external tag map

blk_queue_init_tags — initialize the queue tag info

blk_queue_resize_tags — change the queueing depth

blk_queue_end_tag — end tag operations for a request

blk_queue_start_tag — find a free tag and assign it

blk_queue_invalidate_tags — invalidate all pending tags

__blk_free_tags — release a given set of tag maintenance info

__blk_queue_free_tags — release tag maintenance info

blk_rq_count_integrity_sg — Count number of integrity scatterlist elements

blk_rq_map_integrity_sg — Map integrity metadata into a scatterlist

blk_integrity_compare — Compare integrity profile of two disks

blk_integrity_register — Register a gendisk as being integrity-capable

blk_integrity_unregister — Remove block integrity profile

blk_trace_ioctl — handle the ioctls associated with tracing

blk_trace_shutdown — stop and cleanup trace structures

blk_add_trace_rq — Add a trace for a request oriented action

blk_add_trace_bio — Add a trace for a bio oriented action

blk_add_trace_bio_remap — Add a trace for a bio-remap operation

blk_add_trace_rq_remap — Add a trace for a request-remap operation

blk_mangle_minor — scatter minor numbers apart

blk_alloc_devt — allocate a dev_t for a partition

blk_free_devt — free a dev_t

disk_replace_part_tbl — replace disk->part_tbl in RCU-safe way

disk_expand_part_tbl — expand disk->part_tbl

disk_block_events — block and flush disk event checking

disk_unblock_events — unblock disk event checking

disk_clear_events — synchronously check, clear and return pending events

disk_get_part — get partition

disk_part_iter_init — initialize partition iterator

disk_part_iter_next — proceed iterator to the next partition and return it

disk_part_iter_exit — finish up partition iteration

disk_map_sector_rcu — map sector to partition

register_blkdev — register a new block device

add_disk — add partitioning information to kernel list

get_gendisk — get partitioning information for a given device

bdget_disk — do bdget by gendisk and partition number

disk_check_events — schedule immediate event checking