block: fix spelling and grammar for in writeback_cache_control.rst

Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoa

block: fix spelling and grammar for in writeback_cache_control.rst

Suggested-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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block: move cache control settings out of queue->flags

Move the cache control settings into the queue_limits so that the flags
can be set atomically with the device queue frozen.

Add new features a

block: move cache control settings out of queue->flags

Move the cache control settings into the queue_limits so that the flags
can be set atomically with the device queue frozen.

Add new features and flags field for the driver set flags, and internal
(usually sysfs-controlled) flags in the block layer. Note that we'll
eventually remove enough field from queue_limits to bring it back to the
previous size.

The disable flag is inverted compared to the previous meaning, which
means it now survives a rescan, similar to the max_sectors and
max_discard_sectors user limits.

The FLUSH and FUA flags are now inherited by blk_stack_limits, which
simplified the code in dm a lot, but also causes a slight behavior
change in that dm-switch and dm-unstripe now advertise a write cache
despite setting num_flush_bios to 0. The I/O path will handle this
gracefully, but as far as I can tell the lack of num_flush_bios
and thus flush support is a pre-existing data integrity bug in those
targets that really needs fixing, after which a non-zero num_flush_bios
should be required in dm for targets that map to underlying devices.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations

The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in
struct request_queue instead of an operation vector. Replace it wit

block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations

The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in
struct request_queue instead of an operation vector. Replace it with
a block_device_operations method called submit_bio (which describes much
better what it does). Also remove the request_queue argument to it, as
the queue can be derived pretty trivially from the bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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docs: block: convert to ReST

Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst,

docs: block: convert to ReST

Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

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