Re: [PATCH] loop: properly observe rotational flag of underlying device

["Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>]

Ping! Jens, can we please let this finally land in 5.2?

thanks,
Holger

On 2/12/19 11:54 PM, Benjamin Gordon wrote:
> From: Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
> 
> The loop driver always declares the rotational flag of its device as
> rotational, even when the device of the mapped file is nonrotational,
> as is the case with SSDs or on tmpfs. This can confuse filesystem tools
> which are SSD-aware; in my case I frequently forget to tell mkfs.btrfs
> that my loop device on tmpfs is nonrotational, and that I really don't
> need any automatic metadata redundancy.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this by introspecting the rotational flag of the
> mapped file's underlying block device, if it exists. If the mapped file's
> filesystem has no associated block device - as is the case on e.g. tmpfs -
> we assume nonrotational storage. If there is a better way to identify such
> non-devices I'd love to hear them.
> 
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: holger@applied-asynchrony.com
> Signed-off-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gordon <bmgordon@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
> ---
>   This is a resend of Holger's original patch from
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/11/288 with the _unlocked functions
>   updated.  We keep running into the same problem on Chrome OS that this
>   originally solved; any chance it can go in?
> 
>   drivers/block/loop.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index cf5538942834..6c0fc0d49dc0 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -900,6 +900,24 @@ static int loop_prepare_queue(struct loop_device *lo)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +static void loop_update_rotational(struct loop_device *lo)
> +{
> +	struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
> +	struct inode *file_inode = file->f_mapping->host;
> +	struct block_device *file_bdev = file_inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
> +	struct request_queue *q = lo->lo_queue;
> +	bool nonrot = true;
> +
> +	/* not all filesystems (e.g. tmpfs) have a sb->s_bdev */
> +	if (file_bdev)
> +		nonrot = blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(file_bdev));
> +
> +	if (nonrot)
> +		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
> +	else
> +		blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, q);
> +}
> +
>   static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
>   		       struct block_device *bdev, unsigned int arg)
>   {
> @@ -963,6 +981,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
>   	if (!(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY) && file->f_op->fsync)
>   		blk_queue_write_cache(lo->lo_queue, true, false);
>   
> +	loop_update_rotational(lo);
>   	loop_update_dio(lo);
>   	set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, size);
>   	bd_set_size(bdev, size << 9);
>