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2013-11-15kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERSChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so remove the new useless config variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-25blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanismJens Axboe1-0/+13
Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-11block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han1-1/+1
The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-03block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_storeArnd Bergmann1-0/+2
As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether that value was set or not. block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot': block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive, writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has an undefined result, rather than returning an error. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-09block: RCU free request_queueTejun Heo1-1/+8
RCU free request_queue so that blkcg_gq->q can be dereferenced under RCU lock. This will be used to implement hierarchical stats. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2012-12-06block: Rename queue dead flagBart Van Assche1-2/+2
QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is used to indicate that queuing new requests must stop. After this flag has been set queue draining starts. However, during the queue draining phase it is still safe to invoke the queue's request_fn, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is a better name for this flag. This patch has been generated by running the following command over the kernel source tree: git grep -lEw 'blk_queue_dead|QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD' | xargs sed -i.tmp -e 's/blk_queue_dead/blk_queue_dying/g' \ -e 's/QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING/g'; \ sed -i.tmp -e "s/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)*5/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)5/g" \ include/linux/blkdev.h; \ sed -i.tmp -e 's/ DEAD/ DYING/g' -e 's/dead queue/a dying queue/' \ -e 's/Dead queue/A dying queue/' block/blk-core.c Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-21block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+6
blk_init_allocated_queue() b82d4b197c ("blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation") made request_queues bypassed on allocation to avoid switching on and off bypass mode on a queue being initialized. Some drivers allocate and then destroy a lot of queues without fully initializing them and incurring bypass latency overhead on each of them could add upto significant overhead. Unfortunately, blk_init_allocated_queue() is never used by queues of bio-based drivers, which means that all bio-based driver queues are in bypass mode even after initialization and registration complete successfully. Due to the limited way request_queues are used by bio drivers, this problem is hidden pretty well but it shows up when blk-throttle is used in combination with a bio-based driver. Trying to configure (echoing to cgroupfs file) blk-throttle for a bio-based driver hangs indefinitely in blkg_conf_prep() waiting for bypass mode to end. This patch moves the initial blk_queue_bypass_end() call from blk_init_allocated_queue() to blk_register_queue() which is called for any userland-visible queues regardless of its type. I believe this is correct because I don't think there is any block driver which needs or wants working elevator and blk-cgroup on a queue which isn't visible to userland. If there are such users, we need a different solution. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20block: Implement support for WRITE SAMEMartin K. Petersen1-0/+13
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O. This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: reject invalid queue attribute valuesDave Reisner1-2/+23
Instead of using simple_strtoul which "converts" invalid numbers to 0, use strict_strtoul and perform error checking to ensure that userspace passes us a valid unsigned long. This addresses problems with functions such as writev, which might want to write a trailing newline -- the newline should rightfully be rejected, but the value preceeding it should be preserved. Fixes BZ#46981. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-26blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocationTejun Heo1-13/+19
Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued. When the unified request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless - whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless of the configured weights. This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup. As soon as the request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes. This patch implements per-blkg request_list. Each blkg has its own request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation. * Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue, which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq. While making blkcg rl handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root blkcg. * Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root blkcg. As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals. It's better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but needs to be improved with future changes. * After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making resource consumption of each cgroup higher. This makes allowing non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not hierarchical). v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested by Vivek. v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure. Fix it by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures. This problem was spotted by Rakesh Iyer <rni@google.com>. v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue". blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all blkg->rl on the target queue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: prepare for multiple request_listsTejun Heo1-7/+5
Request allocation is about to be made per-blkg meaning that there'll be multiple request lists. * Make queue full state per request_list. blk_*queue_full() functions are renamed to blk_*rl_full() and takes @rl instead of @q. * Rename blk_init_free_list() to blk_init_rl() and make it take @rl instead of @q. Also add @gfp_mask parameter. * Add blk_exit_rl() instead of destroying rl directly from blk_release_queue(). * Add request_list->q and make request alloc/free functions - blk_free_request(), [__]freed_request(), __get_request() - take @rl instead of @q. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policiesTejun Heo1-2/+2
Currently, blkg is per cgroup-queue-policy combination. This is unnatural and leads to various convolutions in partially used duplicate fields in blkg, config / stat access, and general management of blkgs. This patch make blkg's per cgroup-queue and let them serve all policies. blkgs are now created and destroyed by blkcg core proper. This will allow further consolidation of common management logic into blkcg core and API with better defined semantics and layering. As a transitional step to untangle blkg management, elvswitch and policy [de]registration, all blkgs except the root blkg are being shot down during elvswitch and bypass. This patch adds blkg_root_update() to update root blkg in place on policy change. This is hacky and racy but should be good enough as interim step until we get locking simplified and switch over to proper in-place update for all blkgs. -v2: Root blkgs need to be updated on elvswitch too and blkg_alloc() comment wasn't updated according to the function change. Fixed. Both pointed out by Vivek. -v3: v2 updated blkg_destroy_all() to invoke update_root_blkg_pd() for all policies. This freed root pd during elvswitch before the last queue finished exiting and led to oops. Directly invoke update_root_blkg_pd() only on BLKIO_POLICY_PROP from cfq_exit_queue(). This also is closer to what will be done with proper in-place blkg update. Reported by Vivek. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue()Tejun Heo1-2/+2
Currently block core calls directly into blk-throttle for init, drain and exit. This patch adds blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() which wraps the blk-throttle functions. This is to give more control and visiblity to blkcg core layer for proper layering. Further patches will add logic common to blkcg policies to the functions. While at it, collapse blk_throtl_release() into blk_throtl_exit(). There's no reason to keep them separate. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.cTejun Heo1-1/+5
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to blk-ioc too. The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc. The elevator operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator - in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's. Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and automatically performed on elevator switch and q release. Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq needs to be freed when the io_cq is released. New field io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose. As both the new field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->idTejun Heo1-0/+2
cfq allocates per-queue id using ida and uses it to index cic radix tree from io_context. Move it to q->id and allocate on queue init and free on queue release. This simplifies cfq a bit and will allow for further improvements of io context life-cycle management. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block: add blk_queue_dead()Tejun Heo1-2/+2
There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests. Add blk_queue_dead() macro and use it. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+1
properly shutdown request_queue is refcounted but actually depdends on lifetime management from the queue owner - on blk_cleanup_queue(), block layer expects that there's no request passing through request_queue and no new one will. This is fundamentally broken. The queue owner (e.g. SCSI layer) doesn't have a way to know whether there are other active users before calling blk_cleanup_queue() and other users (e.g. bsg) don't have any guarantee that the queue is and would stay valid while it's holding a reference. With delay added in blk_queue_bio() before queue_lock is grabbed, the following oops can be easily triggered when a device is removed with in-flight IOs. sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Stopping disk ata1.01: disabled general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: Pid: 648, comm: test_rawio Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #56 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8137d651>] [<ffffffff8137d651>] elv_rqhash_find+0x61/0x100 ... Process test_rawio (pid: 648, threadinfo ffff880019efa000, task ffff880019ef8a80) ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8137d774>] elv_merge+0x84/0xe0 [<ffffffff81385b54>] blk_queue_bio+0xf4/0x400 [<ffffffff813838ea>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100 [<ffffffff81383994>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100 [<ffffffff811c53ec>] dio_bio_submit+0xbc/0xc0 [<ffffffff811c610e>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x92e/0xb40 [<ffffffff811c39f7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60 [<ffffffff8113b1c5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760 [<ffffffff8118c1ca>] do_sync_read+0xda/0x120 [<ffffffff8118ce55>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180 [<ffffffff8118cfaa>] sys_pread64+0x9a/0xb0 [<ffffffff81afaf6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This happens because blk_queue_cleanup() destroys the queue and elevator whether IOs are in progress or not and DEAD tests are sprinkled in the request processing path without proper synchronization. Similar problem exists for blk-throtl. On queue cleanup, blk-throtl is shutdown whether it has requests in it or not. Depending on timing, it either oopses or throttled bios are lost putting tasks which are waiting for bio completion into eternal D state. The way it should work is having the usual clear distinction between shutdown and release. Shutdown drains all currently pending requests, marks the queue dead, and performs partial teardown of the now unnecessary part of the queue. Even after shutdown is complete, reference holders are still allowed to issue requests to the queue although they will be immmediately failed. The rest of teardown happens on release. This patch makes the following changes to make blk_queue_cleanup() behave as proper shutdown. * QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is now set while holding both q->exit_mutex and queue_lock. * Unsynchronized DEAD check in generic_make_request_checks() removed. This couldn't make any meaningful difference as the queue could die after the check. * blk_drain_queue() updated such that it can drain all requests and is now called during cleanup. * blk_throtl updated such that it checks DEAD on grabbing queue_lock, drains all throttled bios during cleanup and free td when queue is released. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/coreJens Axboe1-4/+11
Conflicts: block/blk-core.c include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-28block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()Hannes Reinecke1-0/+5
A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(), Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-21block/blk-sysfs.c: fix kerneldoc referencesAndrew Morton1-3/+3
The kerneldoc for blk_release_queue() is referring to blk_cleanup_queue(). Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-08-24block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1Eric Seppanen1-4/+6
Commit 5757a6d76cdf added the QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE flag, but fails to clear that flag when the current state is '2' (SAME_COMP + SAME_FORCE) and the new state is '1' (SAME_COMP). Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Seppanen <eric@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23block: strict rq_affinityDan Williams1-4/+9
Some systems benefit from completions always being steered to the strict requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering that blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default. This is because the first CPU in the group mask ends up being completely overloaded with work, while the others (including the original submitter) has power left to spare. Allow the strict mode to be set by writing '2' to the sysfs control file. This is identical to the scheme used for the nomerges file, where '2' is a more aggressive setting than just being turned on. echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/coreJens Axboe1-3/+5
Since for-2.6.40/core was forked off the 2.6.39 devel tree, we've had churn in the core area that makes it difficult to handle patches for eg cfq or blk-throttle. Instead of requiring that they be based in older versions with bugs that have been fixed later in the rc cycle, merge in 2.6.39 final. Also fixes up conflicts in the below files. Conflicts: drivers/block/paride/pcd.c drivers/cdrom/viocd.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: Fix discard topology stacking and reportingMartin K. Petersen1-1/+2
In some cases we would end up stacking discard_zeroes_data incorrectly. Fix this by enabling the feature by default for stacking drivers and clearing it for low-level drivers. Incorporating a device that does not support dzd will then cause the feature to be disabled in the stacking driver. Also ensure that the maximum discard value does not overflow when exported in sysfs and return 0 in the alignment and dzd fields for devices that don't support discard. Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_storeTao Ma1-2/+2
In queue_requests_store, the code looks like if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC] >= q->nr_requests) { blk_set_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); } else if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests) { blk_clear_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); wake_up(&rl->wait[BLK_RW_SYNC]); } If we don't satify the situation of "if", we can get that rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC} < q->nr_quests. It is the same as rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests. All the "else" should satisfy the "else if" check so it isn't needed actually. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()Liu Yuan1-1/+3
We do not call blk_trace_remove_sysfs() in err return path if kobject_add() fails. This path fixes it. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-13block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function callLiu Yuan1-2/+1
In the function blk_register_queue(), var _dev_ is already assigned by disk_to_dev().So use it directly instead of calling disk_to_dev() again. Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Modified by me to delete an empty line in the same function while in there anyway. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()Vivek Goyal1-2/+0
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue() there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around. Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported one problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86 And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue(). commit 7ad58c028652753814054f4e3ac58f925e7343f4 Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Date: Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid the problem reported by Ingo. blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn() or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work. In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might never be dispatched. Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related data structures are cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits insteadMartin K. Petersen1-1/+1
When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a metadevice. There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver. The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing. We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking. Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD. Reported-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-23block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle codeJens Axboe1-0/+2
blk_throtl_exit() frees the throttle data hanging off the queue in blk_cleanup_queue(), but blk_put_queue() will indirectly dereference this data when calling blk_sync_queue() which in turns calls throtl_shutdown_timer_wq(). Fix this by moving the freeing of the throttle data to when the queue is truly being released, and post the call to blk_sync_queue(). Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+11
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386 blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O cfq: improve fsync performance for small files ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
2010-09-10block/scsi: Provide a limit on the number of integrity segmentsMartin K. Petersen1-0/+11
Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection information scatter-gather list segments they can handle. Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a value suitable for the hardware. Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both bios and requests. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
2010-08-23block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail pathXiaotian Feng1-0/+1
kernel needs to kobject_put on dev->kobj if elv_register_queue fails. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: add helpers for the trivial queue flag sysfs show/store entriesJens Axboe1-68/+36
The code for nonrot, random, and io stats are completely identical. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributionsJens Axboe1-0/+28
There are two reasons for doing this: - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they should contribute to the random pool in the first place. - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead. This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there should be no functional changes from this patch. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-04-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+25
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch loop: Update mtime when writing using aops block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL cciss: unlock on error path cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() paride: fix off-by-one test drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size ...
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+1
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-19Merge branch 'master' into for-linusJens Axboe1-1/+1
Conflicts: block/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfsMartin K. Petersen1-0/+25
These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum I/O size. Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy1-1/+1
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-01-29block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/OAlan D. Brunelle1-4/+7
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_ merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache). The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system. nomerges Throughput %System Improvement (tput / %sys) -------- ------------ ----------- ------------------------- 0 12.45 MB/sec 0.669365609 1 12.50 MB/sec 0.641519199 0.40% / 2.71% 2 12.52 MB/sec 0.639849750 0.56% / 2.96% Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroedMartin K. Petersen1-0/+11
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10block: Expose discard granularityMartin K. Petersen1-0/+22
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to handle them. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfsZdenek Kabelac1-5/+6
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9192fed5dd3b60224d9f2dfea0dcd82. Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL. Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were note properly destroyed during device removal: unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80): comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff .........e...... 90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff .f........S..... backtrace: [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60 [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0 [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120 [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0 [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160 [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0 [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests storeJens Axboe1-1/+6
Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling reasons. This fixes 5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309 and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-01block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512Nikanth Karthikesan1-1/+1
The patch "block: Use accessor functions for queue limits" (ae03bf639a5027d27270123f5f6e3ee6a412781d) changed queue_max_sectors_store() to use blk_queue_max_sectors() instead of directly assigning the value. But blk_queue_max_sectors() differs a bit 1. It sets both max_sectors_kb, and max_hw_sectors_kb 2. Never allows one to change max_sectors_kb above BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS. If one specifies a value greater then max_hw_sectors is set to that value but max_sectors is set to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS I am not sure whether blk_queue_max_sectors() should be changed, as it seems to be that way for a long time. And there may be callers dependent on that behaviour. This patch simply reverts to the older way of directly assigning the value to max_sectors as it was before. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-17block: sysfs fix mismatched queue_var_{store,show} in 64bit kernelXiaotian Feng1-5/+6
In blk-sysfs.c, queue_var_store uses unsigned long to store data, but queue_var_show uses unsigned int to show data. This causes, # echo 70000000000 > /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb # cat /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb => get wrong value Fix it by using unsigned long. While at it, convert queue_rq_affinity_show() such that it uses bool variable instead of explicit != 0 testing. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-12/+50
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-05-22block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitionsMartin K. Petersen1-0/+33
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfsMartin K. Petersen1-3/+3
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs. However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum request size, etc. are queue properties. This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices. The elevator code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O scheduler. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>