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  5. Jun 11, 2015
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report · 4d66e5e9
      Dan Williams authored
      
      
       =================================
       [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
       4.1.0-rc7+ #217 Tainted: G           O
       ---------------------------------
       inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
       swapper/6/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
        (ext_devt_lock){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffff8143a60c>] blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
       {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
         [<ffffffff810bf6b1>] __lock_acquire+0x461/0x1e70
         [<ffffffff810c1947>] lock_acquire+0xb7/0x290
         [<ffffffff818ac3a8>] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50
         [<ffffffff8143a07d>] blk_alloc_devt+0x6d/0xd0  <-- take the lock in process context
      [..]
        [<ffffffff810bf64e>] __lock_acquire+0x3fe/0x1e70
        [<ffffffff810c00ad>] ? __lock_acquire+0xe5d/0x1e70
        [<ffffffff810c1947>] lock_acquire+0xb7/0x290
        [<ffffffff8143a60c>] ? blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
        [<ffffffff818ac3a8>] _raw_spin_lock+0x38/0x50
        [<ffffffff8143a60c>] ? blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70
        [<ffffffff8143a60c>] blk_free_devt+0x3c/0x70    <-- take the lock in softirq
        [<ffffffff8143bfec>] part_release+0x1c/0x50
        [<ffffffff8158edf6>] device_release+0x36/0xb0
        [<ffffffff8145ac2b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0
        [<ffffffff8145aad0>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70
        [<ffffffff8158f147>] put_device+0x17/0x20
        [<ffffffff8143c29c>] delete_partition_rcu_cb+0x16c/0x180
        [<ffffffff8143c130>] ? read_dev_sector+0xa0/0xa0
        [<ffffffff810e0e0f>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x2ff/0xa90
        [<ffffffff810e0dcf>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x2bf/0xa90
        [<ffffffff81067e2e>] __do_softirq+0xde/0x600
      
      Neil sees this in his tests and it also triggers on pmem driver unbind
      for the libnvdimm tests.  This fix is on top of an initial fix by Keith
      for incorrect usage of mutex_lock() in this path: 2da78092 "block:
      Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime".  Both this and 2da78092 are
      candidates for -stable.
      
      Fixes: 2da78092 ("block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime")
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      4d66e5e9
  6. Jun 10, 2015
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      cfq-iosched: fix the setting of IOPS mode on SSDs · 0bb97947
      Jens Axboe authored
      
      
      A previous commit wanted to make CFQ default to IOPS mode on
      non-rotational storage, however it did so when the queue was
      initialized and the non-rotational flag is only set later on
      in the probe.
      
      Add an elevator hook that gets called off the add_disk() path,
      at that point we know that feature probing has finished, and
      we can reliably check for the various flags that drivers can
      set.
      
      Fixes: 41c0126b ("block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs")
      Tested-by: default avatarRomain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      0bb97947
  7. Jun 09, 2015
  8. Jun 07, 2015
    • Arianna Avanzini's avatar
      block, cgroup: implement policy-specific per-blkcg data · e48453c3
      Arianna Avanzini authored
      
      
      The block IO (blkio) controller enables the block layer to provide service
      guarantees in a hierarchical fashion. Specifically, service guarantees
      are provided by registered request-accounting policies. As of now, a
      proportional-share and a throttling policy are available. They are
      implemented, respectively, by the CFQ I/O scheduler and the blk-throttle
      subsystem. Unfortunately, as for adding new policies, the current
      implementation of the block IO controller is only halfway ready to allow
      new policies to be plugged in. This commit provides a solution to make
      the block IO controller fully ready to handle new policies.
      In what follows, we first describe briefly the current state, and then
      list the changes made by this commit.
      
      The throttling policy does not need any per-cgroup information to perform
      its task. In contrast, the proportional share policy uses, for each cgroup,
      both the weight assigned by the user to the cgroup, and a set of dynamically-
      computed weights, one for each device.
      
      The first, user-defined weight is stored in the blkcg data structure: the
      block IO controller allocates a private blkcg data structure for each
      cgroup in the blkio cgroups hierarchy (regardless of which policy is active).
      In other words, the block IO controller internally mirrors the blkio cgroups
      with private blkcg data structures.
      
      On the other hand, for each cgroup and device, the corresponding dynamically-
      computed weight is maintained in the following, different way. For each device,
      the block IO controller keeps a private blkcg_gq structure for each cgroup in
      blkio. In other words, block IO also keeps one private mirror copy of the blkio
      cgroups hierarchy for each device, made of blkcg_gq structures.
      Each blkcg_gq structure keeps per-policy information in a generic array of
      dynamically-allocated 'dedicated' data structures, one for each registered
      policy (so currently the array contains two elements). To be inserted into the
      generic array, each dedicated data structure embeds a generic blkg_policy_data
      structure. Consider now the array contained in the blkcg_gq structure
      corresponding to a given pair of cgroup and device: one of the elements
      of the array contains the dedicated data structure for the proportional-share
      policy, and this dedicated data structure contains the dynamically-computed
      weight for that pair of cgroup and device.
      
      The generic strategy adopted for storing per-policy data in blkcg_gq structures
      is already capable of handling new policies, whereas the one adopted with blkcg
      structures is not, because per-policy data are hard-coded in the blkcg
      structures themselves (currently only data related to the proportional-
      share policy).
      
      This commit addresses the above issues through the following changes:
      . It generalizes blkcg structures so that per-policy data are stored in the same
        way as in blkcg_gq structures.
        Specifically, it lets also the blkcg structure store per-policy data in a
        generic array of dynamically-allocated dedicated data structures. We will
        refer to these data structures as blkcg dedicated data structures, to
        distinguish them from the dedicated data structures inserted in the generic
        arrays kept by blkcg_gq structures.
        To allow blkcg dedicated data structures to be inserted in the generic array
        inside a blkcg structure, this commit also introduces a new blkcg_policy_data
        structure, which is the equivalent of blkg_policy_data for blkcg dedicated
        data structures.
      . It adds to the blkcg_policy structure, i.e., to the descriptor of a policy, a
        cpd_size field and a cpd_init field, to be initialized by the policy with,
        respectively, the size of the blkcg dedicated data structures, and the
        address of a constructor function for blkcg dedicated data structures.
      . It moves the CFQ-specific fields embedded in the blkcg data structure (i.e.,
        the fields related to the proportional-share policy), into a new blkcg
        dedicated data structure called cfq_group_data.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      e48453c3
  9. Jun 06, 2015
    • Tahsin Erdogan's avatar
      block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs · 41c0126b
      Tahsin Erdogan authored
      
      
      CFQ idling causes reduced IOPS throughput on non-rotational disks.
      Since disk head seeking is not applicable to SSDs, it doesn't really
      help performance by anticipating future near-by IO requests.
      
      By turning off idling (and switching to IOPS mode), we allow other
      processes to dispatch IO requests down to the driver and so increase IO
      throughput.
      
      Following FIO benchmark results were taken on a cloud SSD offering with
      idling on and off:
      
      Idling     iops    avg-lat(ms)    stddev            bw
      ------------------------------------------------------
          On     7054    90.107         38.697     28217KB/s
         Off    29255    21.836         11.730    117022KB/s
      
      fio --name=temp --size=100G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
          --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
          --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
          --filename=/dev/sdb --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10
      
      And the following is from a local SSD run:
      
      Idling     iops    avg-lat(ms)    stddev            bw
      ------------------------------------------------------
          On    19320    33.043         14.068     77281KB/s
         Off    21626    29.465         12.662     86507KB/s
      
      fio --name=temp --size=5G --time_based --ioengine=libaio \
          --randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --verify=0 \
          --verify_fatal=0 --rw=randread --blocksize=4k --group_reporting=1 \
          --filename=/fio_data --runtime=10 --iodepth=64 --numjobs=10
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarNauman Rafique <nauman@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      41c0126b
  10. Jun 02, 2015
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback, blkcg: propagate non-root blkcg congestion state · 482cf79c
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      Now that bdi layer can handle per-blkcg bdi_writeback_congested state,
      blk_{set|clear}_congested() can propagate non-root blkcg congestion
      state to them.
      
      This can be easily achieved by disabling the root_rl tests in
      blk_{set|clear}_congested().  Note that we still need those tests when
      !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK as otherwise we'll end up flipping root blkcg
      wb's congestion state for events happening on other blkcgs.
      
      v2: Updated for bdi_writeback_congested.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      482cf79c
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback, blkcg: restructure blk_{set|clear}_queue_congested() · d40f75a0
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      blk_{set|clear}_queue_congested() take @q and set or clear,
      respectively, the congestion state of its bdi's root wb.  Because bdi
      used to be able to handle congestion state only on the root wb, the
      callers of those functions tested whether the congestion is on the
      root blkcg and skipped if not.
      
      This is cumbersome and makes implementation of per cgroup
      bdi_writeback congestion state propagation difficult.  This patch
      renames blk_{set|clear}_queue_congested() to
      blk_{set|clear}_congested(), and makes them take request_list instead
      of request_queue and test whether the specified request_list is the
      root one before updating bdi_writeback congestion state.  This makes
      the tests in the callers unnecessary and simplifies them.
      
      As there are no external users of these functions, the definitions are
      moved from include/linux/blkdev.h to block/blk-core.c.
      
      This patch doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior difference.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      d40f75a0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback, blkcg: associate each blkcg_gq with the corresponding bdi_writeback_congested · ce7acfea
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      A blkg (blkcg_gq) can be congested and decongested independently from
      other blkgs on the same request_queue.  Accordingly, for cgroup
      writeback support, the congestion status at bdi (backing_dev_info)
      should be split and updated separately from matching blkg's.
      
      This patch prepares by adding blkg->wb_congested and associating a
      blkg with its matching per-blkcg bdi_writeback_congested on creation.
      
      v2: Updated to associate bdi_writeback_congested instead of
          bdi_writeback.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      ce7acfea
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks · 52ebea74
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      For the planned cgroup writeback support, on each bdi
      (backing_dev_info), each memcg will be served by a separate wb
      (bdi_writeback).  This patch updates bdi so that a bdi can host
      multiple wbs (bdi_writebacks).
      
      On the default hierarchy, blkcg implicitly enables memcg.  This allows
      using memcg's page ownership for attributing writeback IOs, and every
      memcg - blkcg combination can be served by its own wb by assigning a
      dedicated wb to each memcg.  This means that there may be multiple
      wb's of a bdi mapped to the same blkcg.  As congested state is per
      blkcg - bdi combination, those wb's should share the same congested
      state.  This is achieved by tracking congested state via
      bdi_writeback_congested structs which are keyed by blkcg.
      
      bdi->wb remains unchanged and will keep serving the root cgroup.
      cgwb's (cgroup wb's) for non-root cgroups are created on-demand or
      looked up while dirtying an inode according to the memcg of the page
      being dirtied or current task.  Each cgwb is indexed on bdi->cgwb_tree
      by its memcg id.  Once an inode is associated with its wb, it can be
      retrieved using inode_to_wb().
      
      Currently, none of the filesystems has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK and all
      pages will keep being associated with bdi->wb.
      
      v3: inode_attach_wb() in account_page_dirtied() moved inside
          mapping_cap_account_dirty() block where it's known to be !NULL.
          Also, an unnecessary NULL check before kfree() removed.  Both
          detected by the kbuild bot.
      
      v2: Updated so that wb association is per inode and wb is per memcg
          rather than blkcg.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      52ebea74
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: add {CONFIG|BDI_CAP|FS}_CGROUP_WRITEBACK · 89e9b9e0
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      cgroup writeback requires support from both bdi and filesystem sides.
      Add BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK and FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK to indicate
      support and enable BDI_CAP_CGROUP_WRITEBACK on block based bdi's by
      default.  Also, define CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK which is enabled if
      both MEMCG and BLK_CGROUP are enabled.
      
      inode_cgwb_enabled() which determines whether a given inode's both bdi
      and fs support cgroup writeback is added.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      89e9b9e0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h · 66114cad
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
      declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
      unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
      makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.
      
      This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
      essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
      which need access to more backing-dev details now include
      backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
      include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
      and cgroup.
      
      v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      66114cad
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: move backing_dev_info->state into bdi_writeback · 4452226e
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      Currently, a bdi (backing_dev_info) embeds single wb (bdi_writeback)
      and the role of the separation is unclear.  For cgroup support for
      writeback IOs, a bdi will be updated to host multiple wb's where each
      wb serves writeback IOs of a different cgroup on the bdi.  To achieve
      that, a wb should carry all states necessary for servicing writeback
      IOs for a cgroup independently.
      
      This patch moves bdi->state into wb.
      
      * enum bdi_state is renamed to wb_state and the prefix of all enums is
        changed from BDI_ to WB_.
      
      * Explicit zeroing of bdi->state is removed without adding zeoring of
        wb->state as the whole data structure is zeroed on init anyway.
      
      * As there's still only one bdi_writeback per backing_dev_info, all
        uses of bdi->state are mechanically replaced with bdi->wb.state
        introducing no behavior changes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      4452226e
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blkcg: implement bio_associate_blkcg() · 1d933cf0
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      Currently, a bio can only be associated with the io_context and blkcg
      of %current using bio_associate_current().  This is too restrictive
      for cgroup writeback support.  Implement bio_associate_blkcg() which
      associates a bio with the specified blkcg.
      
      bio_associate_blkcg() leaves the io_context unassociated.
      bio_associate_current() is updated so that it considers a bio as
      already associated if it has a blkcg_css, instead of an io_context,
      associated with it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      1d933cf0
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      cgroup, block: implement task_get_css() and use it in bio_associate_current() · ec438699
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      bio_associate_current() currently open codes task_css() and
      css_tryget_online() to find and pin $current's blkcg css.  Abstract it
      into task_get_css() which is implemented from cgroup side.  As a task
      is always associated with an online css for every subsystem except
      while the css_set update is propagating, task_get_css() retries till
      css_tryget_online() succeeds.
      
      This is a cleanup and shouldn't lead to noticeable behavior changes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      ec438699
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blkcg: add blkcg_root_css · 496d5e75
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      Add global constant blkcg_root_css which points to &blkcg_root.css.
      This will be used by cgroup writeback support.  If blkcg is disabled,
      it's defined as ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).
      
      v2: The declarations moved to include/linux/blk-cgroup.h as suggested
          by Vivek.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      496d5e75
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blkcg: always create the blkcg_gq for the root blkcg · ec13b1d6
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      Currently, blkcg does a minor optimization where the root blkcg is
      created when the first blkcg policy is activated on a queue and
      destroyed on the deactivation of the last.  On systems where blkcg is
      configured but not used, this saves one blkcg_gq struct per queue.  On
      systems where blkcg is actually used, there's no difference.  The only
      case where this can lead to any meaninful, albeit still minute, save
      in memory consumption is when all blkcg policies are deactivated after
      being widely used in the system, which is a hihgly unlikely scenario.
      
      The conditional existence of root blkcg_gq has already created several
      bugs in blkcg and became an issue once again for the new per-cgroup
      wb_congested mechanism for cgroup writeback support leading to a NULL
      dereference when no blkcg policy is active.  This is really not worth
      bothering with.  This patch makes blkcg always allocate and link the
      root blkcg_gq and release it only on queue destruction.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      ec13b1d6
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      blkcg: move block/blk-cgroup.h to include/linux/blk-cgroup.h · eea8f41c
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      cgroup aware writeback support will require exposing some of blkcg
      details.  In preprataion, move block/blk-cgroup.h to
      include/linux/blk-cgroup.h.  This patch is pure file move.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      eea8f41c
  11. Jun 01, 2015
    • Keith Busch's avatar
      blk-mq: Shared tag enhancements · f26cdc85
      Keith Busch authored
      
      
      Storage controllers may expose multiple block devices that share hardware
      resources managed by blk-mq. This patch enhances the shared tags so a
      low-level driver can access the shared resources not tied to the unshared
      h/w contexts. This way the LLD can dynamically add and delete disks and
      request queues without having to track all the request_queue hctx's to
      iterate outstanding tags.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      f26cdc85
  12. May 29, 2015
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  15. May 22, 2015
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones · 5f1b670d
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      
      Currently dm-multipath has to clone the bios for every request sent
      to the lower devices, which wastes cpu cycles and ties down memory.
      
      This patch instead adds a new REQ_CLONE flag that instructs req_bio_endio
      to not complete bios attached to a request, which we set on clone
      requests similar to bios in a flush sequence.  With this change I/O
      errors on a path failure only get propagated to dm-multipath, which
      can then either resubmit the I/O or complete the bios on the original
      request.
      
      I've done some basic testing of this on a Linux target with ALUA support,
      and it survives path failures during I/O nicely.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      5f1b670d
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io · 326e1dbb
      Mike Snitzer authored
      
      
      Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for
      non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern:
       1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io
       2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io
       3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io
       4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io
      
      The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if
      bio_inc_remaining() is called.  For the above pattern it isn't set until
      step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN).  As such
      the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining
      before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with
      the value 1 instead of 0.  When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step
      3 it brought it to a value of 2.  When the second bio_endio() was
      called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but
      it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due
      to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set
      upfront).
      
      Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for
      all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only
      interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining.  For the
      above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called!
      Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls
      that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface.
      
      Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c.
      
      Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains")
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      326e1dbb
  16. May 20, 2015
    • Ming Lei's avatar
      block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part() · b04a5636
      Ming Lei authored
      
      
      The only possible problem of using mutex_lock() instead of trylock
      is about deadlock.
      
      If there aren't any locks held before calling blkdev_reread_part(),
      deadlock can't be caused by this conversion.
      
      If there are locks held before calling blkdev_reread_part(),
      and if these locks arn't required in open, close handler and I/O
      path, deadlock shouldn't be caused too.
      
      Both user space's ioctl(BLKRRPART) and md_setup_drive() from
      init/do_mounts_md.c belongs to the 1st case, so the conversion is safe
      for the two cases.
      
      For loop, the previous patches in this pathset has fixed the ABBA lock
      dependency, so the conversion is OK.
      
      For nbd, tx_lock is held when calling the function:
      
      	- both open and release won't hold the lock
      	- when blkdev_reread_part() is run, I/O thread has been stopped
      	already, so tx_lock won't be acquired in I/O path at that time.
      	- so the conversion won't cause deadlock for nbd
      
      For dasd, both dasd_open(), dasd_release() and request function don't
      acquire any mutex/semphone, so the conversion should be safe.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Tested-by: default avatarJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      b04a5636
    • Jarod Wilson's avatar
      block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part() · be324177
      Jarod Wilson authored
      
      
      This patch exports blkdev_reread_part() for block drivers, also
      introduce __blkdev_reread_part().
      
      For some drivers, such as loop, reread of partitions can be run
      from the release path, and bd_mutex may already be held prior to
      calling ioctl_by_bdev(bdev, BLKRRPART, 0), so introduce
      __blkdev_reread_part for use in such cases.
      
      CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      CC: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
      CC: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
      CC: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
      CC: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      CC: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
      CC: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
      CC: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
      CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      CC: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
      CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      be324177
  17. May 19, 2015
  18. May 12, 2015
  19. May 08, 2015
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-mq: make plug work for mutiple disks and queues · 5b3f341f
      Shaohua Li authored
      
      
      Last patch makes plug work for multiple queue case. However it only
      works for single disk case, because it assumes only one request in the
      plug list. If a task is accessing multiple disks, eg MD/DM, the
      assumption is wrong. Let blk_attempt_plug_merge() record request from
      the same queue.
      
      V2: use NULL parameter in !mq case. Fix a bug. Add comments in
      blk_attempt_plug_merge to make it less (hopefully) confusion.
      
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      5b3f341f
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-mq: do limited block plug for multiple queue case · f984df1f
      Shaohua Li authored
      
      
      plug is still helpful for workload with IO merge, but it can be harmful
      otherwise especially with multiple hardware queues, as there is
      (supposed) no lock contention in this case and plug can introduce
      latency. For multiple queues, we do limited plug, eg plug only if there
      is request merge. If a request doesn't have merge with following
      request, the requet will be dispatched immediately.
      
      V2: check blk_queue_nomerges() as suggested by Jeff.
      
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      f984df1f
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk-mq: avoid re-initialize request which is failed in direct dispatch · 239ad215
      Shaohua Li authored
      
      
      If we directly issue a request and it fails, we use
      blk_mq_merge_queue_io(). But we already assigned bio to a request in
      blk_mq_bio_to_request. blk_mq_merge_queue_io shouldn't run
      blk_mq_bio_to_request again.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      239ad215
    • Jeff Moyer's avatar
      blk-mq: fix plugging in blk_sq_make_request · e6c4438b
      Jeff Moyer authored
      
      
      The following appears in blk_sq_make_request:
      
      	/*
      	 * If we have multiple hardware queues, just go directly to
      	 * one of those for sync IO.
      	 */
      
      We clearly don't have multiple hardware queues, here!  This comment was
      introduced with this commit 07068d5b (blk-mq: split make request
      handler for multi and single queue):
      
          We want slightly different behavior from them:
      
          - On single queue devices, we currently use the per-process plug
            for deferred IO and for merging.
      
          - On multi queue devices, we don't use the per-process plug, but
            we want to go straight to hardware for SYNC IO.
      
      The old code had this:
      
              use_plug = !is_flush_fua && ((q->nr_hw_queues == 1) || !is_sync);
      
      and that was converted to:
      
      	use_plug = !is_flush_fua && !is_sync;
      
      which is not equivalent.  For the single queue case, that second half of
      the && expression is always true.  So, what I think was actually inteded
      follows (and this more closely matches what is done in blk_queue_bio).
      
      V2: delete the 'likely', which should not be a big deal
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      e6c4438b
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      blk: clean up plug · dd6cf3e1
      Shaohua Li authored
      
      
      Current code looks like inner plug gets flushed with a
      blk_finish_plug(). Actually it's a nop. All requests/callbacks are added
      to current->plug, while only outmost plug is assigned to current->plug.
      So inner plug always has empty request/callback list, which makes
      blk_flush_plug_list() a nop. This tries to make the code more clear.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
      dd6cf3e1
  20. May 05, 2015
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