History log of /linux-master/include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# c7b4b23b 14-Aug-2023 Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>

block: uapi: Fix compilation errors using ioprio.h with C++

The use of the "class" argument name in the ioprio_value() inline
function in include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h confuses C++ compilers
resulting in compilation errors such as:

/usr/include/linux/ioprio.h:110:43: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
110 | static __always_inline __u16 ioprio_value(int class, int level, int hint)
| ^~~

for user C++ programs including linux/ioprio.h.

Avoid these errors by renaming the arguments of the ioprio_value()
function to prioclass, priolevel and priohint. For consistency, the
arguments of the IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE() and IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE_HINT() macros
are also renamed in the same manner.

Reported-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com>
Fixes: 01584c1e2337 ("scsi: block: Improve ioprio value validity checks")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814215833.259286-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 01584c1e 08-Jun-2023 Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>

scsi: block: Improve ioprio value validity checks

The introduction of the macro IOPRIO_PRIO_LEVEL() in commit eca2040972b4
("scsi: block: ioprio: Clean up interface definition") results in an
iopriority level to always be masked using the macro IOPRIO_LEVEL_MASK, and
thus to the kernel always seeing an acceptable value for an I/O priority
level when checked in ioprio_check_cap(). Before this patch, this function
would return an error for some (but not all) invalid values for a level
valid range of [0..7].

Restore and improve the detection of invalid priority levels by introducing
the inline function ioprio_value() to check an ioprio class, level and hint
value before combining these fields into a single value to be used with
ioprio_set() or AIOs. If an invalid value for the class, level or hint of
an ioprio is detected, ioprio_value() returns an ioprio using the class
IOPRIO_CLASS_INVALID, indicating an invalid value and causing
ioprio_check_cap() to return -EINVAL.

Fixes: 6c913257226a ("scsi: block: Introduce ioprio hints")
Fixes: eca2040972b4 ("scsi: block: ioprio: Clean up interface definition")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608095556.124001-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>


# 6c913257 10-May-2023 Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>

scsi: block: Introduce ioprio hints

I/O priorities currently only use 6-bits of the 16-bits ioprio value: the
3-upper bits are used to define up to 8 priority classes (4 of which are
valid) and the 3 lower bits of the value are used to define a priority
level for the real-time and best-effort class.

The remaining 10-bits between the I/O priority class and level are unused,
and in fact, cannot be used by the user as doing so would either result in
the value being completely ignored, or in an error returned by
ioprio_check_cap().

Use these 10-bits of an ioprio value to allow a user to specify I/O
hints. An I/O hint is defined as a 10-bitsvalue, allowing up to 1023
different hints to be specified, with the value 0 being reserved as the "no
hint" case. An I/O hint can apply to any I/O that specifies a valid
priority class other than NONE, regardless of the I/O priority level
specified.

To do so, the macros IOPRIO_PRIO_HINT() and IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE_HINT() are
introduced in include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h to respectively allow a user to
get and set a hint in an ioprio value.

To support the ATA and SCSI command duration limits feature, 7 hints are
defined: IOPRIO_HINT_DEV_DURATION_LIMIT_1 to
IOPRIO_HINT_DEV_DURATION_LIMIT_7, allowing a user to specify which command
duration limit descriptor should be applied to the commands serving an
I/O. Specifying these hints has for now no effect whatsoever if the target
block devices do not support the command duration limits feature. However,
in the future, block I/O schedulers can be modified to optimize I/O issuing
order based on these hints, even for devices that do not support the
command duration limits feature.

Given that the 7 duration limits hints defined have no effect on any block
layer component, the actual definition of the duration limits implied by
these hints remains at the device level.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230511011356.227789-3-nks@flawful.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>


# eca20409 10-May-2023 Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>

scsi: block: ioprio: Clean up interface definition

The I/O priority user interface defines the 16-bits ioprio values as the
combination of the upper 3-bits for an I/O priority class and the lower
13-bits as priority data. However, the kernel only uses the lower 3-bits of
the priority data to define priority levels for the RT and BE priority
classes. The data part of an ioprio value is completely ignored for the
IDLE and NONE classes. This is enforced by checks done in
ioprio_check_cap(), which is called for all paths that allow defining an
I/O priority for I/Os: the per-context ioprio_set() system call, aio
interface and io_uring interface.

Clarify this fact in the uapi ioprio.h header file and introduce the
IOPRIO_PRIO_LEVEL_MASK and IOPRIO_PRIO_LEVEL() macros for users to define
and get priority levels in an ioprio value. The coarser macro
IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA() is retained for backward compatibility with old
applications already using it. There is no functional change introduced
with this.

In-kernel users of the IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA() macro which are explicitly
handling I/O priority data as a priority level are modified to use the new
IOPRIO_PRIO_LEVEL() macro without any functional change. Since f2fs is the
only user of this macro not explicitly using that value as a priority
level, it is left unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230511011356.227789-2-nks@flawful.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>


# e70344c0 10-Aug-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

block: fix default IO priority handling

The default IO priority is the best effort (BE) class with the
normal priority level IOPRIO_NORM (4). However, get_task_ioprio()
returns IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE/IOPRIO_NORM as the default priority and
get_current_ioprio() returns IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE/0. Let's be consistent
with the defined default and have both of these functions return the
default priority IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_NORM) when
the user did not define another default IO priority for the task.

In include/uapi/linux/ioprio.h, introduce the IOPRIO_BE_NORM macro as
an alias to IOPRIO_NORM to clarify that this default level applies to
the BE priotity class. In include/linux/ioprio.h, define the macro
IOPRIO_DEFAULT as IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_BE_NORM)
and use this new macro when setting a priority to the default.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-7-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
[axboe: drop unnecessary lightnvm change]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 202bc942 10-Aug-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

block: Introduce IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS

The BFQ scheduler and ioprio_check_cap() both assume that the RT
priority class (IOPRIO_CLASS_RT) can have up to 8 different priority
levels, similarly to the BE class (IOPRIO_CLASS_iBE). This is
controlled using the IOPRIO_BE_NR macro , which is badly named as the
number of levels also applies to the RT class.

Introduce the class independent IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS macro, defined to 8,
to make things clear. Keep the old IOPRIO_BE_NR macro definition as an
alias for IOPRIO_NR_LEVELS.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-6-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# ba05200f 10-Aug-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

block: fix IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS() and IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE() macros

The ki_ioprio field of struct kiocb is 16-bits (u16) but often handled
as an int in the block layer. E.g. ioprio_check_cap() takes an int as
argument.

With such implicit int casting function calls, the upper 16-bits of the
int argument may be left uninitialized by the compiler, resulting in
invalid values for the IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS() macro (garbage upper bits)
and in an error return for functions such as ioprio_check_cap().

Fix this by masking the result of the shift by IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT bits
in the IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS() macro. The new macro IOPRIO_CLASS_MASK
defines the 3-bits mask for the priority class.
Similarly, apply the IOPRIO_PRIO_MASK mask to the data argument of the
IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE() macro to ignore the upper bits of the data value.
The IOPRIO_CLASS_MASK mask is also applied to the class argument of this
macro before shifting the result by IOPRIO_CLASS_SHIFT bits.

While at it, also change the argument name of the IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS()
and IOPRIO_PRIO_DATA() macros from "mask" to "ioprio" to reflect the
fact that a priority value should be passed rather than a mask.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-5-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# a553a835 10-Aug-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

block: change ioprio_valid() to an inline function

Change the ioprio_valid() macro in include/usapi/linux/ioprio.h to an
inline function declared on the kernel side in include/linux/ioprio.h.
Also improve checks on the class value by checking the upper bound
value.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-4-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 25bca50e 10-Aug-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

block: improve ioprio class description comment

In include/usapi/linux/ioprio.h, change the ioprio class enum comment
to remove the outdated reference to CFQ and mention BFQ and mq-deadline
instead. Also document the high priority NCQ command use for RT class
IOs directed at ATA drives that support NCQ priority.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811033702.368488-3-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 06447ae5 14-Jul-2021 Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>

ioprio: move user space relevant ioprio bits to UAPI includes

systemd added a modified copy of include/linux/ioprio.h into its
code to get the relevant content definitions for the exposed
ioprio_[get|set] system calls.

Move the user space relevant ioprio bits to the UAPI includes to be
able to use the ioprio_[get|set] syscalls as intended.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210714195655.181943-1-socketcan@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>