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Akinobu Mita
b2c9cd3793 fail_make_request: cleanup should_fail_request
This changes should_fail_request() to more usable wrapper function of
should_fail().  It can avoid putting #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST in
the middle of a function.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:46 -07:00
Jens Axboe
11ccf116d0 block: fix warning with calling smp_processor_id() in preemptible section
After commit 5757a6d7 introduced an unsafe calling of
smp_processor_id(), with preempt debuggin turned on we spew a lot of:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kjournald/514
caller is __make_request+0x1b8/0x308
[<c0019f44>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe8) from [<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0)
[<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) from [<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308)
[<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308) from [<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558)
[<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558) from [<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138)
[<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138) from [<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c)
[<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c) from [<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8)
[<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8) from [<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688)
[<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688) from [<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224)
[<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224) from [<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94)
[<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94) from [<c00137f8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

Fix this by just using raw_smp_processor_id(), it's just a hint
after all. There's no pinning of the CPU or accessing per-cpu
structures involved.

Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-26 15:01:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8ded371f81 Merge branch 'for-3.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register
  xen/blkback: Add module alias for autoloading
  xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.
  bsg: fix address space warning from sparse
  bsg: remove unnecessary conditional expressions
  bsg: fix bsg_poll() to return POLLOUT properly
2011-07-25 10:38:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Dan Williams
5757a6d76c block: strict rq_affinity
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>
2011-07-23 20:44:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4c64500ead block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
A '!' snuck in before the unlikely, rendering it useless.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23 20:34:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d4e06701b8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (77 commits)
  [SCSI] fix crash in scsi_dispatch_cmd()
  [SCSI] sr: check_events() ignore GET_EVENT when TUR says otherwise
  [SCSI] bnx2i: Fixed kernel panic due to illegal usage of sc->request->cpu
  [SCSI] bfa: Update the driver version to 3.0.2.1
  [SCSI] bfa: Driver and BSG enhancements.
  [SCSI] bfa: Added support to query PHY.
  [SCSI] bfa: Added HBA diagnostics support.
  [SCSI] bfa: Added support for flash configuration
  [SCSI] bfa: Added support to obtain SFP info.
  [SCSI] bfa: Added support for CEE info and stats query.
  [SCSI] bfa: Extend BSG interface.
  [SCSI] bfa: FCS bug fixes.
  [SCSI] bfa: DMA memory allocation enhancement.
  [SCSI] bfa: Brocade-1860 Fabric Adapter vHBA support.
  [SCSI] bfa: Brocade-1860 Fabric Adapter PLL init fixes.
  [SCSI] bfa: Added Fabric Assigned Address(FAA) support
  [SCSI] bfa: IOC bug fixes.
  [SCSI] bfa: Enable ASIC block configuration and query.
  [SCSI] bnx2i: Updated copyright and bump version
  [SCSI] bnx2i: Modified to skip CNIC registration if iSCSI is not supported
  ...

Fix up some trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/{bnx2fc.h,bnx2fc_fcoe.c}:
	Crazy broadcom version number conflicts
 - drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_cmd.c
	Just trivial cleanups done on adjacent lines
2011-07-23 11:13:11 -07:00
James Bottomley
bfe159a512 [SCSI] fix crash in scsi_dispatch_cmd()
USB surprise removal of sr is triggering an oops in
scsi_dispatch_command().  What seems to be happening is that USB is
hanging on to a queue reference until the last close of the upper
device, so the crash is caused by surprise remove of a mounted CD
followed by attempted unmount.

The problem is that USB doesn't issue its final commands as part of
the SCSI teardown path, but on last close when the block queue is long
gone.  The long term fix is probably to make sr do the teardown in the
same way as sd (so remove all the lower bits on ejection, but keep the
upper disk alive until last close of user space).  However, the
current oops can be simply fixed by not allowing any commands to be
sent to a dead queue.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-07-21 14:21:18 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
57bdfbf9ee block,rcu: Convert call_rcu(disk_free_ptbl_rcu_cb) to kfree_rcu()
The rcu callback disk_free_ptbl_rcu_cb() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(disk_free_ptbl_rcu_cb).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-07-20 14:10:13 -07:00
Shaohua Li
7700fc4f67 CFQ: add think time check for group
Currently when the last queue of a group has no request, we don't expire
the queue to hope request from the group comes soon, so the group doesn't
miss its share. But if the think time is big, the assumption isn't correct
and we just waste bandwidth. In such case, we don't do idle.

[global]
runtime=30
direct=1

[test1]
cgroup=test1
cgroup_weight=1000
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
runtime=30
directory=/mnt
filename=file1
thinktime=9000

[test2]
cgroup=test2
cgroup_weight=1000
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
runtime=30
directory=/mnt
filename=file2

	patched		base
test1	64k		39k
test2	548k		540k
total	604k		578k

group1 gets much better throughput because it waits less time.

To check if the patch changes behavior of queue without think time. I also
tried to give test1 2ms think time or no think time. The test result is stable.
The thoughput doesn't change with/without the patch.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 14:24:56 +02:00
Shaohua Li
f5f2b6ceb2 CFQ: add think time check for service tree
Currently when the last queue of a service tree has no request, we don't
expire the queue to hope request from the service tree comes soon, so the
service tree doesn't miss its share. But if the think time is big, the
assumption isn't correct and we just waste bandwidth. In such case, we
don't do idle.

[global]
runtime=10
direct=1

[test1]
rw=randread
ioengine=libaio
size=500m
directory=/mnt
filename=file1
thinktime=9000

[test2]
rw=read
ioengine=libaio
size=1G
directory=/mnt
filename=file2

	patched		base
test1	41k/s		33k/s
test2	15868k/s	15789k/s
total	15902k/s	15817k/s

A slightly better

To check if the patch changes behavior of queue without think time. I also
tried to give test1 2ms think time or no think time. The test has variation
even without the patch, but the average throughput doesn't change with/without
the patch.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 14:24:55 +02:00
Shaohua Li
383cd7213f CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
Move the variables to do think time check to a sepatate struct. This is
to prepare adding think time check for service tree and group. No
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 14:24:35 +02:00
Justin TerAvest
4aede84b33 fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
Justin TerAvest
a07405b780 cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
There is no consistency among filesystems from what bios (or requests)
are marked as being metadata. It's interesting to expose this in traces,
but we shouldn't schedule the requests differently based on whether or
not they're marked as being metadata.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-10 22:09:19 +02:00
Shaohua Li
55c022bbdd block: avoid building too big plug list
When I test fio script with big I/O depth, I found the total throughput drops
compared to some relative small I/O depth. The reason is the thread accumulates
big requests in its plug list and causes some delays (surely this depends
on CPU speed).
I thought we'd better have a threshold for requests. When a threshold reaches,
this means there is no request merge and queue lock contention isn't severe
when pushing per-task requests to queue, so the main advantages of blk plug
don't exist. We can force a plug list flush in this case.
With this, my test throughput actually increases and almost equals to small
I/O depth. Another side effect is irq off time decreases in blk_flush_plug_list()
for big I/O depth.
The BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT is choosen arbitarily, but 16 is efficiently to
reduce lock contention to me. But I'm open here, 32 is ok in my test too.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-08 08:19:20 +02:00
Mike Snitzer
0f79960391 block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
Due to the recently identified overflow in read_capacity_16() it was
possible for max_discard_sectors to be zero but still have discards
enabled on the associated device's queue.

Eliminate the possibility for blkdev_issue_discard to infinitely loop.

Interestingly this issue wasn't identified until a device, whose
discard_granularity was 0 due to read_capacity_16 overflow, was consumed
by blk_stack_limits() to construct limits for a higher-level DM
multipath device.  The multipath device's resulting limits never had the
discard limits stacked because blk_stack_limits() will only do so if
the bottom device's discard_granularity != 0.  This resulted in the
multipath device's limits.max_discard_sectors being 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-06 21:32:02 +02:00
Johannes Stezenbach
390192b300 compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
On Linux x86_64 host with 32bit userspace, running
qemu or even just "qemu-img create -f qcow2 some.img 1G"
causes a kernel warning:

ioctl32(qemu-img:5296): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00005326){t:'S';sz:0} arg(7fffffff) on some.img
ioctl32(qemu-img:5296): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(801c0204){t:02;sz:28} arg(fff77350) on some.img

ioctl 00005326 is CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS,
ioctl 801c0204 is FDGETPRM.

The warning appears because the Linux compat-ioctl handler for these
ioctls only applies to block devices, while qemu also uses the ioctls on
plain files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-01 22:32:26 +02:00
Tejun Heo
85ef06d1d2 block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
Currently, only open(2) is defined as the 'clearing' point.  It has
two roles - first, it's an acknowledgement from userland indicating
that the event has been received and kernel can clear pending states
and proceed to generate more events.  Secondly, it's passed on to
device drivers as a hint indicating that a synchronization point has
been reached and it might want to take a deeper look at the device.

The latter currently is only used by sr which uses two different
mechanisms - GET_EVENT_MEDIA_STATUS_NOTIFICATION and TEST_UNIT_READY
to discover events, where the former is lighter weight and safe to be
used repeatedly but may not provide full coverage.  Among other
things, GET_EVENT can't detect media removal while TUR can.

This patch makes close(2) - blkdev_put() - indicate clearing hint for
MEDIA_CHANGE to drivers.  disk_check_events() is renamed to
disk_flush_events() and updated to take @mask for events to flush
which is or'd to ev->clearing and will be passed to the driver on the
next ->check_events() invocation.

This change makes sr generate MEDIA_CHANGE when media is ejected from
userland - e.g. with eject(1).

Note: Given the current usage, it seems @clearing hint is needlessly
complex.  disk_clear_events() can simply clear all events and the hint
can be boolean @flush.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-01 16:17:47 +02:00
Jens Axboe
04bf7869ca Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.1/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-throttle.c
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-01 16:17:13 +02:00
Shaohua Li
726e99ab88 cfq-iosched: make code consistent
ioc->ioc_data is rcu protectd, so uses correct API to access it.
This doesn't change any behavior, but just make code consistent.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22d
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-27 09:36:06 +02:00
Shaohua Li
3181faa85b cfq-iosched: fix a rcu warning
I got a rcu warnning at boot. the ioc->ioc_data is rcu_deferenced, but
doesn't hold rcu_read_lock.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # after ab4bd22d
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-27 09:36:06 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
2b727c6300 bsg: fix address space warning from sparse
copy_from/to_user() and blk_rq_map_user() want __user pointer.
This patch fixes following warnings from sparse:

   CHECK   block/bsg.c
 block/bsg.c:185:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
 block/bsg.c:185:38:    expected void const [noderef] <asn:1>*from
 block/bsg.c:185:38:    got void *<noident>
 block/bsg.c:295:58: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 block/bsg.c:295:58:    expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*<noident>
 block/bsg.c:295:58:    got void *[assigned] dxferp
 block/bsg.c:311:52: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
 block/bsg.c:311:52:    expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*<noident>
 block/bsg.c:311:52:    got void *[assigned] dxferp
 block/bsg.c:448:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
 block/bsg.c:448:37:    expected void [noderef] <asn:1>*dst
 block/bsg.c:448:37:    got void *<noident>

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-20 13:27:45 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
44194e3e88 bsg: remove unnecessary conditional expressions
Second condition in OR always implies first condition is false
thus bytes_read in the second is not needed. The same goes to
bytes_written.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-20 13:27:44 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
80ceb05713 bsg: fix bsg_poll() to return POLLOUT properly
POLLOUT should be returned only if bd->queued_cmds < bd->max_queue
so that bsg_alloc_command() can proceed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-20 13:27:44 +02:00
Joe Perches
d2f31a5fd6 blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
The total of two unsigned values should also be unsigned.

Update throtl_log output to unsigned.
Update total_nr_queued test to non-zero to be the
same as the other total_nr_queued tests.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-13 20:19:27 +02:00
Joe Perches
fd16d26319 block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
Use the compiler to verify format strings and arguments.

Fix fallout.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-13 20:18:49 +02:00
Wanlong Gao
9f5e486550 block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
Remove the end-of-line spaces in genhd.c.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-13 10:45:43 +02:00
Joe Perches
08e8138ade block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
Use the compiler to verify format strings and arguments.

Fix fallout.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-13 10:42:49 +02:00
Tejun Heo
fdd514e16b block: make disk_block_events() properly wait for work cancellation
disk_block_events() should guarantee that the event work is not in
flight on return and once blocked it shouldn't issue further
cancellations.

Because there was no synchronization between the first blocker doing
cancel_delayed_work_sync() and the following blockers, the following
blockers could finish before cancellation was complete, which broke
both guarantees - event work could be in flight and cancellation could
happen after return.

This bug triggered WARN_ON_ONCE() in disk_clear_events() reported in
bug#34662.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34662

Fix it by adding an outer mutex which protects both block count
manipulation and work cancellation.

-v2: Use outer mutex instead of bit waitqueue per Linus.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-09 20:43:59 +02:00
Tejun Heo
c3af54afba block: remove non-syncing __disk_block_events() and fold it into disk_block_events()
After the previous update to disk_check_events(), nobody is using
non-syncing __disk_block_events().  Remove @sync and, as this makes
__disk_block_events() virtually identical to disk_block_events(),
remove the underscore prefixed version.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-09 20:43:55 +02:00
Tejun Heo
a9dce2a3b4 block: don't use non-syncing event blocking in disk_check_events()
This patch is part of fix for triggering of WARN_ON_ONCE() in
disk_clear_events() reported in bug#34662.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34662

disk_clear_events() blocks events, schedules and flushes the event
work.  It expects the work to have started execution on schedule and
finished on return from flush.  WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers if the event
work hasn't executed as expected.  This problem happens because
__disk_block_events() fails to guarantee that the event work item is
not in flight on return from the function in race-free manner.  The
problem is two-fold and this patch addresses one of them.

When __disk_block_events() is called with @sync == %false, it bumps
event block count, calls cancel_delayed_work() and return.  This makes
it impossible to guarantee that event polling is not in flight on
return from syncing __disk_block_events() - if the first blocker was
non-syncing, polling could still be in progress and later syncing ones
would assume that the first blocker already canceled it.

Making __disk_block_events() cancel_sync regardless of block count
isn't feasible either as it may race with forced event checking in
disk_clear_events().

As disk_check_events() is the only user of non-syncing
__disk_block_events(), updating it to directly cancel and schedule
event work is the easiest way to solve the issue.

Note that there's another bug in __disk_block_events() and this patch
doesn't fix the issue completely.  Later patch will fix the other bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-09 20:43:54 +02:00
Paul Bolle
df4156569d block: rename the return of two functions
If we rename the return of alloc_io_context() and get_io_context() from
"ret" to "ioc" the code get's (a bit) more readable and (a lot) more
grepable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06 05:57:25 +02:00
Paul Bolle
8aea45451b CFQ: make two functions static
Correctly suggested by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06 05:57:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9b50902db5 cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06 05:57:21 +02:00
Jens Axboe
ab4bd22d3c cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment
Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-06 05:56:49 +02:00
Jeff Moyer
796d5116c4 iosched: prevent aliased requests from starving other I/O
Hi, Jens,

If you recall, I posted an RFC patch for this back in July of last year:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/13/279

The basic problem is that a process can issue a never-ending stream of
async direct I/Os to the same sector on a device, thus starving out
other I/O in the system (due to the way the alias handling works in both
cfq and deadline).  The solution I proposed back then was to start
dispatching from the fifo after a certain number of aliases had been
dispatched.  Vivek asked why we had to treat aliases differently at all,
and I never had a good answer.  So, I put together a simple patch which
allows aliases to be added to the rb tree (it adds them to the right,
though that doesn't matter as the order isn't guaranteed anyway).  I
think this is the preferred solution, as it doesn't break up time slices
in CFQ or batches in deadline.  I've tested it, and it does solve the
starvation issue.  Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02 21:19:05 +02:00
Paul Bolle
e2bd9678fc block: Use hlist_entry() for io_context.cic_list.first
list_entry() and hlist_entry() are both simply aliases for
container_of(), but since io_context.cic_list.first is an hlist_node one
should at least use the correct alias.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02 13:05:02 +02:00
Paul Bolle
28304f485c cfq-iosched: Remove bogus check in queue_fail path
queue_fail can only be reached if cic is NULL, so its check for cic must
be bogus.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-02 13:05:02 +02:00
Kyungmin Park
4495a7d41d CFQ: Fix typo and remove unnecessary semicolon
Fix comment typo and remove unnecessary semicolon at macro

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-31 19:49:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bdf7cf1c83 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  loop: export module parameters
  block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
  block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
  block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented
  brd: export module parameters
  brd: fix comment on initial device creation
  brd: handle on-demand devices correctly
  brd: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS
  brd: get rid of unused members from struct brd_device
  block: fix oops on !disk->queue and sysfs discard alignment display
2011-05-27 10:24:40 -07:00
Jens Axboe
d86e0e83b3 block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
We need them in SCSI to fix a bug, but currently they are not
exported to modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27 07:45:45 +02:00
Ben Blum
f780bdb7c1 cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Luca Tettamanti
700c4f3325 block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
sector is never read inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:07:26 +02:00
Tejun Heo
75e3f3ee3c block: always allocate genhd->ev if check_events is implemented
9fd097b149 (block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe
drivers) removed DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from legacy/fringe block
drivers which have inadequate ->check_events().  Combined with earlier
change 7c88a168da (block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to
userland), this enables using ->check_events() for internal processing
while avoiding enabling in-kernel block event polling which can lead
to infinite event loop.

Unfortunately, this made many drivers including floppy without any bit
set in disk->events and ->async_events in which case disk_add_events()
simply skipped allocation of disk->ev, which disables whole event
handling.  As ->check_events() is still used during open processing
for revalidation, this can lead to open failure.

This patch always allocates disk->ev if ->check_events is implemented.
In the long term, it would make sense to simply include the event
structure inline into genhd as it's now used by virtually all block
devices.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:06:50 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
1547010e6e cfq-iosched: free cic_index if cfqd allocation fails
When struct cfq_data allocation fails, cic_index need to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:22 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
20359f27e8 cfq-iosched: remove unused 'group_changed' in cfq_service_tree_add()
The 'group_changed' variable is initialized to 0 and never changed, so
checking the variable is meaningless.

It is a leftover from 0bbfeb8320 ("cfq-iosched: Always provide group
iosolation."). Let's get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:22 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
229836bd63 cfq-iosched: reduce bit operations in cfq_choose_req()
Reduce the number of bit operations in cfq_choose_req() on average
(and worst) cases.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:21 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
b9f8ce0599 cfq-iosched: algebraic simplification in cfq_prio_to_maxrq()
Simplify the calculation in cfq_prio_to_maxrq(), plus replace CFQ_PRIO_LISTS to
IOPRIO_BE_NR since they are the same and IOPRIO_BE_NR looks more reasonable in
this context IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-24 10:23:21 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
4cbadbd16e blk-cgroup: Initialize ioc->cgroup_changed at ioc creation time
If we don't explicitly initialize it to zero, CFQ might think that
cgroup of ioc has changed and it generates lots of unnecessary calls
to call_for_each_cic(changed_cgroup). Fix it.

cfq_get_io_context()
  cfq_ioc_set_cgroup()
     call_for_each_cic(ioc, changed_cgroup)

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 19:35:04 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
95cf3dd9db block: call elv_bio_merged() when merged
Commit 73c1010119 ("block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging")
removed calls to elv_bio_merged() when @bio merged with @req. Re-add them.

This in turn will update merged stats in associated group. That
should be safe as long as request has got reference to the blkio_group.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00