[PATCH 04/11] block: remove the blk_integrity_profile structure

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Thu Jun 6 23:15:34 PDT 2024


On 6/7/24 07:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Block layer integrity configuration is a bit complex right now, as it
> indirects through operation vectors for a simple two-dimensional
> configuration:
> 
>   a) the checksum type of none, ip checksum, crc, crc64
>   b) the presence or absence of a reference tag
> 
> Remove the integrity profile, and instead add a separate csum_type flag
> which replaces the existing ip-checksum field and a new flag that
> indicates the presence of the reference tag.
> 
> This removes up to two layers of indirect calls, remove the need to
> offload the no-op verification of non-PI metadata to a workqueue and
> generally simplifies the code. The downside is that block/t10-pi.c now
> has to be built into the kernel when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is
> supported.  Given that both nvme and SCSI require t10-pi.ko, it is loaded
> for all usual configurations that enabled CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
> already, though.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>   block/Kconfig                       |   8 +-
>   block/Makefile                      |   3 +-
>   block/bio-integrity.c               |  30 ++--
>   block/blk-integrity.c               |  66 ++++----
>   block/blk-mq.c                      |  13 +-
>   block/blk.h                         |   8 +
>   block/t10-pi.c                      | 241 ++++++++++------------------
>   drivers/md/dm-crypt.c               |   2 +-
>   drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig           |   1 -
>   drivers/nvme/host/core.c            |  17 +-
>   drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig         |   1 -
>   drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c   |  16 +-
>   drivers/scsi/Kconfig                |   1 -
>   drivers/scsi/sd.c                   |   2 +-
>   drivers/scsi/sd_dif.c               |  19 +--
>   drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c |  49 +++---
>   include/linux/blk-integrity.h       |  35 ++--
>   include/linux/blkdev.h              |   9 +-
>   include/linux/t10-pi.h              |   8 -
>   19 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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