block: Block layer data integrity support
authorMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:04:41 +0000 (20:04 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:21:13 +0000 (13:21 +0200)
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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