linux/arch/powerpc
Christoph Hellwig 4246a0b63b block: add a bi_error field to struct bio
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
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boot Devicetree changes for v4.2 2015-07-01 19:40:18 -07:00
configs Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scottwood/linux into next 2015-06-19 17:23:48 +10:00
crypto crypto: powerpc/md5 - use md5 IV MD5_HX instead of their raw value 2015-05-18 12:20:20 +08:00
include Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
kernel powerpc/powernv: Fix race in updating core_idle_state 2015-07-07 10:16:52 +10:00
kvm The bulk of the changes here is for x86. And for once it's not 2015-06-24 09:36:49 -07:00
lib powerpc updates for 4.2 2015-06-24 08:46:32 -07:00
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm powerpc: Add plain English description for alignment exception oopses 2015-07-06 20:24:35 +10:00
net ppc: bpf: Add SKF_AD_CPU for ppc32 2015-02-20 15:19:43 -05:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: reduce mmap_sem hold for exe_file 2015-04-17 09:04:11 -04:00
perf powerpc/perf/24x7: Fix lockdep warning 2015-07-08 15:18:04 +10:00
platforms powerpc/powernv: Fix opal-elog interrupt handler 2015-07-06 20:24:36 +10:00
sysdev block: add a bi_error field to struct bio 2015-07-29 08:55:15 -06:00
xmon powerpc updates for 3.20 2015-02-11 18:15:38 -08:00
Kconfig EDAC: Cleanup atomic_scrub mess 2015-05-28 15:31:53 +02:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Make STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS a config option 2015-05-11 19:53:59 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Don't use gcc specific options on clang 2015-06-11 17:33:05 +10:00
relocs_check.sh powerpc: Convert relocs_check to a shell script using grep 2015-03-23 14:47:39 +11:00