From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Nowait is a feature of direct AIO, where users can request to return immediately if the I/O is going to block. This translates to REQ_NOWAIT in bio.bi_opf flags. While request based devices don't wait, stacked devices such as md/dm will. In order to explicitly mark stacked devices as supported, we set the QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT in the queue_flags and return -EAGAIN whenever the device would block. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 3 ++- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index 970b9c9638c5..1c9a981d88e5 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -2025,7 +2025,8 @@ generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio) * if queue is not a request based queue. */ - if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !queue_is_rq_based(q)) + if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !queue_is_rq_based(q) && + !blk_queue_supports_nowait(q)) goto not_supported; part = bio->bi_bdev->bd_part; diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 25f6a0cb27d3..fae021ebec1b 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ struct request_queue { #define QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED 29 /* queue has been registered to a disk */ #define QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH 30 /* queue supports SCSI commands */ #define QUEUE_FLAG_QUIESCED 31 /* queue has been quiesced */ +#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT 32 /* stack device driver supports REQ_NOWAIT */ #define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \ (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE) | \ @@ -732,6 +733,7 @@ static inline void queue_flag_clear(unsigned int flag, struct request_queue *q) #define blk_queue_dax(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DAX, &(q)->queue_flags) #define blk_queue_scsi_passthrough(q) \ test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH, &(q)->queue_flags) +#define blk_queue_supports_nowait(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT, &(q)->queue_flags) #define blk_noretry_request(rq) \ ((rq)->cmd_flags & (REQ_FAILFAST_DEV|REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT| \ -- 2.12.3 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel