From: John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev>
To: james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, mkp@kernel.org
Cc: hare@suse.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, snitzer@kernel.org,
jmeneghi@redhat.com, bmarzins@redhat.com,
dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, hch@lst.de,
michael.christie@oracle.com, John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v9 02/29] libmultipath: Add initial framework
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 20:47:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261108204733.557995-3-john.garry@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261108204733.557995-1-john.garry@linux.dev>
Add initial framework for libmultipath. libmultipath is a library for
multipath-capable block drivers, such as NVMe. The main function is to
support path management, path selection, and failover handling.
Basic support to add and remove the head structure - mpath_head - is
included.
This main purpose of this structure is to manage available paths and path
selection. It is quite similar to the multipath functionality in
nvme_ns_head. It also manages the multipath gendisk.
Each path is represented by the mpath_device structure. It should hold a
pointer to the per-path gendisk and also a list element for all siblings
of paths. For NVMe, there would be a mpath_device per nvme_ns.
All the libmultipath code is more or less taken from
drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c, which was originally authored by Christoph
Hellwig <hch@lst.de>.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev>
---
include/linux/multipath.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++
lib/Kconfig | 6 ++++
lib/Makefile | 2 ++
lib/multipath.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 include/linux/multipath.h
create mode 100644 lib/multipath.c
diff --git a/include/linux/multipath.h b/include/linux/multipath.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..407d985cd31f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/multipath.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+#ifndef _LIBMULTIPATH_H
+#define _LIBMULTIPATH_H
+
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
+
+struct mpath_device {
+ struct list_head siblings;
+ struct gendisk *disk;
+};
+
+struct mpath_head {
+ struct srcu_struct srcu;
+ struct list_head dev_list; /* list of all mpath_devs */
+ struct mutex lock;
+
+ refcount_t refcount;
+
+ struct mpath_device __rcu *current_path[MAX_NUMNODES];
+};
+
+int mpath_get_head(struct mpath_head *mpath_head);
+void mpath_put_head(struct mpath_head *mpath_head);
+int mpath_head_init(struct mpath_head *mpath_head);
+void mpath_head_uninit(struct mpath_head *mpath_head);
+
+#endif // _LIBMULTIPATH_H
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 1e42f5167c68..3580bab7c2b1 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -630,3 +630,9 @@ config UNION_FIND
config MIN_HEAP
bool
+
+config LIBMULTIPATH
+ bool "MULTIPATH BLOCK DRIVER LIBRARY"
+ depends on BLOCK
+ help
+ If you say yes here then you get a multipath lib for block drivers
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index a2afe954805c..b4c0da268b67 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -350,3 +350,5 @@ CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_test_context-analysis.o := y
obj-$(CONFIG_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_TEST) += test_context-analysis.o
subdir-$(CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE) += test_fortify
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_LIBMULTIPATH) += multipath.o
diff --git a/lib/multipath.c b/lib/multipath.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..31ef98980ba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/multipath.c
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Christoph Hellwig.
+ *
+ * Base on NVMe multipath support in drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+ */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/multipath.h>
+#include <linux/wait_bit.h>
+
+static struct workqueue_struct *mpath_wq;
+
+int mpath_get_head(struct mpath_head *mpath_head)
+{
+ if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&mpath_head->refcount))
+ return -ENXIO;
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpath_get_head);
+
+void mpath_put_head(struct mpath_head *mpath_head)
+{
+ refcount_t *refcount = &mpath_head->refcount;
+
+ if (refcount_dec_and_test(&mpath_head->refcount))
+ wake_up_var(refcount);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpath_put_head);
+
+void mpath_head_uninit(struct mpath_head *mpath_head)
+{
+ refcount_t *refcount = &mpath_head->refcount;
+
+ if (!refcount_dec_and_test(refcount))
+ wait_var_event(refcount, !refcount_read(refcount));
+ cleanup_srcu_struct(&mpath_head->srcu);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpath_head_uninit);
+
+int mpath_head_init(struct mpath_head *mpath_head)
+{
+ memset(mpath_head, 0, sizeof(*mpath_head));
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mpath_head->dev_list);
+ mutex_init(&mpath_head->lock);
+ refcount_set(&mpath_head->refcount, 1);
+
+ return init_srcu_struct(&mpath_head->srcu);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpath_head_init);
+
+static int __init mpath_init(void)
+{
+ mpath_wq = alloc_workqueue("mpath-wq",
+ WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_SYSFS, 0);
+ if (!mpath_wq)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit mpath_exit(void)
+{
+ destroy_workqueue(mpath_wq);
+}
+
+module_init(mpath_init);
+module_exit(mpath_exit);
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("libmultipath");
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-08 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-08 20:47 [PATCH v9 00/29] Native SCSI Multipath support John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 01/29] scsi: core: Clear cmd->flags for terminal queuing error John Garry
2026-11-09 20:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2026-11-08 20:47 ` John Garry [this message]
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 03/29] libmultipath: Add basic gendisk support John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 04/29] libmultipath: Add path selection support John Garry
2026-11-08 21:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 05/29] libmultipath: Add bio handling John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 06/29] libmultipath: Add support for mpath_device management John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 07/29] libmultipath: Add delayed removal support John Garry
2026-11-08 21:11 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 08/29] libmultipath: Add sysfs helpers John Garry
2026-11-08 21:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 09/29] libmultipath: Add support for block device IOCTL John Garry
2026-11-08 21:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 10/29] libmultipath: Add mpath_bdev_getgeo() John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 11/29] libmultipath: Add mpath_bdev_get_unique_id() John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 12/29] scsi-multipath: introduce basic SCSI device support John Garry
2026-11-08 21:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 13/29] scsi-multipath: introduce scsi_device head structure John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 14/29] scsi-multipath: provide sysfs link from to scsi_device John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 15/29] scsi-multipath: support iopolicy John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 16/29] scsi-multipath: clone each bio John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 17/29] scsi-multipath: clear path when device is blocked John Garry
2026-11-08 21:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 18/29] scsi-multipath: revalidate paths upon device unblock John Garry
2026-11-08 21:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 19/29] scsi-multipath: failover handling John Garry
2026-11-08 21:15 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 20/29] scsi-multipath: provide callbacks for path state John Garry
2026-11-08 21:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 21/29] scsi-multipath: add scsi_mpath_{start,end}_request() John Garry
2026-11-08 21:28 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 22/29] scsi-multipath: update request for terminal request queuing error John Garry
2026-11-08 21:09 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 23/29] scsi-multipath: add delayed disk removal support John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 24/29] scsi: sd: add multipath disk class John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 25/29] scsi: sd: add multipath disk attr groups John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 26/29] scsi: sd: support multipath disk John Garry
2026-11-08 21:23 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 27/29] scsi: sd: add mpath_dev file John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 28/29] scsi: sd: add mpath_numa_nodes dev attribute John Garry
2026-11-08 20:47 ` [PATCH v9 29/29] scsi: sd: add mpath_queue_depth " John Garry
2026-11-09 20:19 ` [PATCH v9 00/29] Native SCSI Multipath support Laurence Oberman
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