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Jens Axboe
f6603783f9 block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-15 15:49:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
88b996cd06 block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.

So get rid of some of the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-15 15:20:10 +02:00
Liu Yuan
80656b67b3 block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
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>
2011-04-13 22:14:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe
f4af3c3d07 block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
There are worries that we are now consuming a lot more stack in
some cases, since we potentially call into IO dispatch from
schedule() or io_schedule(). We can reduce this problem by moving
the running of the queue to kblockd, like the old plugging scheme
did as well.

This may or may not be a good idea from a performance perspective,
depending on how many tasks have queue plugs running at the same
time. For even the slightly contended case, doing just a single
queue run from kblockd instead of multiple runs directly from the
unpluggers will be faster.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 14:58:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe
cf82c79839 block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
The original use for this dates back to when we had to track write
requests for serializing around barriers. That's not needed anymore,
so kill it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:30:53 +02:00
Jens Axboe
dc6d36c971 block: readd plug trace event
This was removed with the queue plug state. But we can easily readd
by checking if this is the first request going to this queue. It's
good information to have when tracing to see how effective the
plugging is.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:28:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe
f75664570d block: add callback function for unplug notification
MD would like to know when a queue is unplugged, so it can flush
it's bitmap writes. Add such a callback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:17:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
188112722c block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
It's done at the top to avoid doing it for every queue we unplug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:29 +02:00
Jens Axboe
94b5eb28b4 block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:19 +02:00
NeilBrown
109b81296c block: splice plug list to local context
If the request_fn ends up blocking, we could be re-entering
the plug flush. Since the list is protected by explicitly
not allowing schedule events, this isn't a terribly good idea.

Additionally, it can cause us to recurse. As request_fn called by
__blk_run_queue is allowed to 'schedule()' (after dropping the queue
lock of course), it is possible to get a recursive call:

 schedule -> blk_flush_plug -> __blk_finish_plug -> flush_plug_list
      -> __blk_run_queue -> request_fn -> schedule

We must make sure that the second schedule does not call into
blk_flush_plug again.  So instead of leaving the list of requests on
blk_plug->list, move them to a separate list leaving blk_plug->list
empty.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-11 14:13:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
f83e826181 block: fix request sorting at unplug
Comparison function for list_sort() must be anticommutative,
otherwise it is not sorting in ordinary meaning.

But fortunately list_sort() always check ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0)
it not distinguish negative and zero, so comparison function can
implement only less-or-equal instead of full three-way comparison.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:49 +02:00
Mike Snitzer
a63a5cf84d dm: improve block integrity support
The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return).  To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking).  But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.

Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template.  Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.

Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
  during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
  device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
  conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
  don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
  the point of no return)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
Andreas Schwab
6f03793770 blk-throttle: don't call xchg on bool
xchg does not work portably with smaller than 32bit types.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe
53d63e6b0d block: make the flush insertion use the tail of the dispatch list
It's not a preempt type request, in fact we have to insert it
behind requests that do specify INSERT_FRONT.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b710a48055 block: get rid of elv_insert() interface
Merge it with __elv_add_request(), it's pretty pointless to
have a function with only two callers. The main interface
is elv_add_request()/__elv_add_request().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8182924bc5 block: dump request state on seeing a corrupted request completion
Currently we just dump a non-informative 'request botched' message.
Lets actually try and print something sane to help debug issues
around this.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Jens Axboe
ad3d9d7ede block: fix issue with calling blk_stop_queue() from the request_fn handler
When the queue work handler was converted to delayed work, the
stopping was inadvertently made sync as well. Change this back
to being async stop, using __cancel_delayed_work() instead of
cancel_delayed_work().

Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe
401a18e92c block: fix bug with inserting flush requests as sort/merge
With the introduction of the on-stack plugging, we would assume
that any request being inserted was a normal file system request.
As flush/fua requires a special insert mode, this caused problems.

Fix this up by checking for this in flush_plug_list() and use
the appropriate insert mechanism.

Big thanks goes to Markus Tripplesdorf for tirelessly testing
patches, and to Sergey Senozhatsky for helping find the real
issue.

Reported-by: Markus Tripplesdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Li, Shaohua
c4ade94fc0 cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
Removing think time checking. A high thinktime queue might means the queue
dispatches several requests and then do away. Limitting such queue seems
meaningless. And also this can simplify code. This is suggested by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-23 08:30:34 +01:00
Justin TerAvest
62a37f6bad cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
For v2, I added back lines to cfq_preempt_queue() that were removed
during updates for accounting unaccounted_time. Thanks for pointing out
that I'd missed these, Vivek.

Previous commit "cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt" wrongly
cleared stats for preempting queues when it shouldn't have, because when
we choose a queue to preempt, it still isn't necessarily scheduled next.

Thanks to Vivek Goyal for figuring this out and understanding how the
preemption code works.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-23 08:25:44 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
04521db04e blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
Lina reported that if throttle limits are initially very high and then
dropped, then no new bio might be dispatched for a long time. And the
reason being that after dropping the limits we don't reset the existing
slice and do the rate calculation with new low rate and account the bios
dispatched at high rate. To fix it, reset the slice upon rate change.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/10/298

Another problem with very high limit is that we never queued the
bio on throtl service tree. That means we kept on extending the
group slice but never trimmed it. Fix that also by regulary
trimming the slice even if bio is not being queued up.

Reported-by: Lina Lu <lulina_nuaa@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:55:00 +01:00
Justin TerAvest
9026e521c0 blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
This change moves unaccounted_time to only be reported when
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP is true.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:26:54 +01:00
Justin TerAvest
eda5e0c91f cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
Commit "Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used" changed the behavior of
cfq_preempt_queue to set cfqq active. Vivek pointed out that other
preemption rules might get involved, so we shouldn't manually set which
queue is active.

This cleans up the code to just clear the queue stats at preemption
time.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-22 21:26:49 +01:00
Jens Axboe
5e84ea3a9c block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.

Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).

This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.

Thanks to Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c55d267de2 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: (170 commits)
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
  [SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
  [SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
  [SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
  [SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
  [SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
  [SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
  [SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
  [SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
  [SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
  [SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
  [SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
  [SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
  [SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
  [SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
  [SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
  [SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
  [SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
2011-03-17 17:54:40 -07:00
Justin TerAvest
8184f93ece cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
Version 3 is updated to apply to for-2.6.39/core.

For version 2, I took Vivek's advice and made sure we update the group
weight from cfq_group_service_tree_add().

If a weight was updated while a group is on the service tree, the
calculation for the total weight of the service tree can be adjusted
improperly, which either leads to bad service tree weights, or
potentially crashes (if total_weight becomes 0).

This patch defers updates to the weight until a group is off the service
tree.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-17 16:12:36 +01:00
Justin TerAvest
167400d340 blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
There are two kind of times that tasks are not charged for: the first
seek and the extra time slice used over the allocated timeslice. Both
of these exported as a new unaccounted_time stat.

I think it would be good to have this reported in 'time' as well, but
that is probably a separate discussion.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-12 16:54:00 +01:00
Tao Ma
eba2ed9c96 block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
barrier is already removed, so remove the obsolete comments
in blkdev_issue_zeroout.

Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 20:13:54 +01:00
Lukas Czerner
0aeea18964 block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()
BZ29402
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402

We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of
blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic.

The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of
submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition()
and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for.
However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is
calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to
blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At
this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait),
bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in
blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic!

(thread 1)                      (thread 2)
bio_batch_end_io()              blkdev_issue_zeroout()
  if(bb) {                      ...
    if (bb->end_io)             ...
      bb->end_io(bio, err);     ...
    atomic_inc(&bb->done);      ...
    ...                         while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done))
    ...                         (let issued == bb.done)
    ...                         (do the rest of the function)
    ...                         return ret;
    complete(bb->wait);
    ^^^^^^^^
    panic

We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting.

Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Tested-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-11 15:36:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe
4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
69d60eb96a blk-throttle: Use blk_plug in throttle dispatch
Use plug in throttle dispatch also as we are dispatching a bunch of
bios in throttle context and some of them might merge.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe
721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe
73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Jens Axboe
3cca6dc1c8 block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit
Currently we use plugging for that, but as plugging is going away,
we need an alternative mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo
facc31ddc3 block: Don't implicitly trigger event check on disk_unblock_events()
Currently, disk_unblock_events() implicitly kick event check if the
block count reaches zero.  This behavior is not described in the
comment and hinders with future changes.  Make the unblocker
explicitly check events by calling disk_check_events() as necessary.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2011-03-09 19:54:27 +01:00
Justin TerAvest
df457f845e blk-cgroup: Lower minimum weight from 100 to 10.
We've found that we still get good, useful isolation at weights this
low. I'd like to adjust the minimum so that any other changes can take
these values into account.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-08 19:45:00 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
de701c74a3 blk-throttle: Some cleanups and race fixes in limit update code
When throttle group limits are updated through cgroups, a thread is
woken up to process these updates. While reviewing that code, oleg noted
couple of race conditions existed in the code and he also suggested that
code can be simplified.

This patch fixes the races simplifies the code based on Oleg's suggestions:

	- Use xchg().
	- Introduced a common function throtl_update_blkio_group_common()
          which is shared now by all iops/bps update functions.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Fixed a merge issue, throtl_schedule_delayed_work() takes throtl_data
as the argument now, not the queue.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 21:09:32 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
231d704b4a blk-throttle: process limit change only through one function
With the help of cgroup interface one can go and upate the bps/iops
limits of existing group. Once the limits are udpated, a thread is
woken up to see if some blocked group needs recalculation based on new
limits and needs to be requeued.

There was also a piece of code where I was checking for group limit
update when a fresh bio comes in. This patch gets rid of that piece of
code and keeps processing the limit change at one place
throtl_process_limit_change().  It just keeps the code simple and easy
to understand.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 21:05:14 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b873c5d692 Merge branch 'block-for-2.6.39-core' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into for-2.6.39/core 2011-03-07 09:40:21 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
a60327107b cfq-iosched: Fix update_vdisktime logic
The update_vdisktime logic is broken since commit
b54ce60eb7, st->min_vdisktime never makes
a progress. Fix it.

Thanks Vivek for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 09:28:09 +01:00
Shaohua Li
ef8a41df8c cfq-iosched: give busy sync queue no dispatch limit
If there are a sync and an async queue and the sync queue's think time
is small, we can ignore the sync queue's dispatch quantum. Because the
sync queue will always preempt the async queue, we don't need to care
about async's latency.  This can fix a performance regression of
aiostress test, which is introduced by commit f8ae6e3eb8. The issue
should exist even without the commit, but the commit amplifies the
impact.

The initial post does the same optimization for RT queue too, but since
I have no real workload for it, Vivek suggests to drop it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 09:26:29 +01:00
Jens Axboe
93803e0140 cfq-iosched: fix race in cfq_set_request()
We need to hold the queue lock over the reference increment,
it's not atomic anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-07 08:59:06 +01:00
Tejun Heo
e83a46bbb1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/core
This merge creates two set of conflicts.  One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.

The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core.  The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.

* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
  should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.

* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
  %ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.

Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-03-04 19:09:02 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
da52777000 block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()
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 7ad58c0286
        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>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Vivek Goyal
c94a96ac93 block: Initialize ->queue_lock to internal lock at queue allocation time
There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.

In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.

Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.

      - If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
        blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
	driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
	then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
	initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
	noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
	exist in other drivers too.

      - If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
        before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.

So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.

block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Liu Yuan
53f22956ef block/genhd: Change some numerals into macros
Rename the numerals in the diskstats_show() into the macros.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 11:00:15 -05:00
Tejun Heo
255bb490c8 block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()
blk-flush decomposes a flush into sequence of multiple requests.  On
completion of a request, the next one is queued; however, block layer
must not implicitly call into q->request_fn() directly from completion
path.  This makes the queue behave unexpectedly when seen from the
drivers and violates the assumption that q->request_fn() is called
with process context + queue_lock.

This patch makes blk-flush the following two changes to make sure
q->request_fn() is not called directly from request completion path.

- blk_flush_complete_seq_end_io() now asks __blk_run_queue() to always
  use kblockd instead of calling directly into q->request_fn().

- queue_next_fseq() uses ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE instead of
  ELEVATOR_INSERT_FRONT so that elv_insert() doesn't try to unplug the
  request queue directly.

Reported by Jan in the following threads.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48778
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/48786

stable: applicable to v2.6.37.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 08:48:06 -05:00
Tejun Heo
1654e7411a block: add @force_kblockd to __blk_run_queue()
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd.  Add @force_kblockd.

All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
        blk-flush implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02 08:48:05 -05:00
Justin TerAvest
0bbfeb8320 cfq-iosched: Always provide group isolation.
Effectively, make group_isolation=1 the default and remove the tunable.
The setting group_isolation=0 was because by default we idle on
sync-noidle tree and on fast devices, this can be very harmful for
throughput.

However, this problem can also be addressed by tuning slice_idle and
possibly group_idle on faster storage devices.

This change simplifies the CFQ code by removing the feature entirely.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 15:05:08 -05:00
Jens Axboe
6fae9c2513 Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc6' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 15:04:39 -05:00
Ben Hutchings
291d24f6d9 block: fix kernel-doc format for blkdev_issue_zeroout
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 13:45:24 -05:00
Vivek Goyal
450adcbe51 blk-throttle: Do not use kblockd workqueue for throtl work
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio
  throttling testing.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173

o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as
  queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening
  because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling
  work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not
  finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request
  descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep.

o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and
  throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for
  such cases.

o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and
  does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Dominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 13:41:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
638691a7a4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Fix - again - partition detection when array becomes active
  Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
  md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
  md: correctly handle probe of an 'mdp' device.
  md: don't set_capacity before array is active.
  md: Fix raid1->raid0 takeover
2011-02-25 11:13:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
3c522cedb5 block: fix refcounting in BLKBSZSET
Adam Kovari and others reported that disconnecting an USB drive with
an ntfs-3g filesystem would cause "kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1421!" to
be triggered.

The BUG could be traced back to ioctl(BLKBSZSET), which would
erroneously decrement the refcount on the bdev.  This is because
blkdev_get() expects the refcount to be already incremented and either
returns success or decrements the refcount and returns an error.

The bug was introduced by e525fd89 (block: make blkdev_get/put()
handle exclusive access), which didn't take into account this behavior
of blkdev_get().

This fixes
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29202
(and likely 29792 too)

Reported-by: Adam Kovari <kovariadam@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-24 08:54:21 -08:00
NeilBrown
93b270f76e Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.

In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.

In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data.  In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.

flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.

invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.

invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.

So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.

flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.

dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.

md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.

This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-24 17:25:47 +11:00
Hannes Reinecke
79775567e0 [SCSI] block: improve detail in I/O error messages
Classify severity of I/O errors for target, nexus, and
transport errors.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-02-12 10:33:37 -06:00
Mike Snitzer
c186794dbb block: share request flush fields with elevator_private
Flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler.  Convert request
structure's elevator_private* into an array and have the flush fields
share a union with it.

Reclaim the space lost in 'struct request' by moving 'completion_data'
back in the union with 'rb_node'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-11 11:08:00 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
9d5a4e946c block: skip elevator data initialization for flush requests
Skip elevator initialization for flush requests by passing priv=0 to
blk_alloc_request() in get_request().  As such elv_set_request() is
never called for flush requests.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-11 11:05:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
aceb91cd35 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed
  cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
  blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
  cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
  cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily.
  drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
  drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
  blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
2011-02-09 11:45:21 -08:00
Justin TerAvest
02a8f01b5a cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests.
Commit 7667aa0630 added logic to wait for
the last queue of the group to become busy (have at least one request),
so that the group does not lose out for not being continuously
backlogged. The commit did not check for the condition that the last
queue already has some requests. As a result, if the queue already has
requests, wait_busy is set. Later on, cfq_select_queue() checks the
flag, and decides that since the queue has a request now and wait_busy
is set, the queue is expired.  This results in early expiration of the
queue.

This patch fixes the problem by adding a check to see if queue already
has requests. If it does, wait_busy is not set. As a result, time slices
do not expire early.

The queues with more than one request are usually buffered writers.
Testing shows improvement in isolation between buffered writers.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-09 14:22:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo
ae1b153962 block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge
The current FLUSH/FUA support has evolved from the implementation
which had to perform queue draining.  As such, sequencing is done
queue-wide one flush request after another.  However, with the
draining requirement gone, there's no reason to keep the queue-wide
sequential approach.

This patch reimplements FLUSH/FUA support such that each FLUSH/FUA
request is sequenced individually.  The actual FLUSH execution is
double buffered and whenever a request wants to execute one for either
PRE or POSTFLUSH, it queues on the pending queue.  Once certain
conditions are met, a flush request is issued and on its completion
all pending requests proceed to the next sequence.

This allows arbitrary merging of different type of flushes.  How they
are merged can be primarily controlled and tuned by adjusting the
above said 'conditions' used to determine when to issue the next
flush.

This is inspired by Darrick's patches to merge multiple zero-data
flushes which helps workloads with highly concurrent fsync requests.

* As flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler, request fields
  used for flush share space with rq->rb_node.  rq->completion_data is
  moved out of the union.  This increases the request size by one
  pointer.

  As rq->elevator_private* are used only by the iosched too, it is
  possible to reduce the request size further.  However, to do that,
  we need to modify request allocation path such that iosched data is
  not allocated for flush requests.

* FLUSH/FUA processing happens on insertion now instead of dispatch.

- Comments updated as per Vivek and Mike.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo
143a87f4c9 block: improve flush bio completion
bio's for flush are completed twice - once during the data phase and
one more time after the whole sequence is complete.  The first
completion shouldn't notify completion to the issuer.

This was achieved by skipping all bio completion steps in
req_bio_endio() for the first completion; however, this has two
drawbacks.

* Error is not recorded in bio and must be tracked somewhere else.

* Partial completion is not supported.

Both don't cause problems for the current users; however, they make
further improvements difficult.  Change req_bio_endio() such that it
only skips the actual notification part for the first completion.  bio
completion is implemented with partial completions on mind anyway so
this is as simple as moving the REQ_FLUSH_SEQ conditional such that
only calling of bio_endio() is skipped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:52 +01:00
Tejun Heo
414b4ff5ee block: add REQ_FLUSH_SEQ
rq == &q->flush_rq was used to determine whether a rq is part of a
flush sequence, which worked because all requests in a flush sequence
were sequenced using the single dedicated request.  This is about to
change, so introduce REQ_FLUSH_SEQ flag to distinguish flush sequence
requests.

This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-25 12:43:49 +01:00
David Rientjes
6a108a14fa kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Vivek Goyal
be2c6b1990 blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group
o Jeff Moyer was doing some testing on a RAM backed disk and
  blkiocg_lookup_group() showed up high overhead after memcpy(). Similarly
  somebody else reported that blkiocg_lookup_group() is eating 6% extra
  cpu. Though looking at the code I can't think why the overhead of
  this function is so high. One thing is that it is called with very high
  frequency (once for every IO).

o For lot of folks blkio controller will be compiled in but they might
  not have actually created cgroups. Hence optimize the case of root
  cgroup where we can avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() if IO is happening
  in root group (common case).

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19 08:25:02 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
ba5bd520f6 cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name
o Rename a function to give it more approprate name. We are calculating
  cfq queue slice and function name gives the impression as if cfq group
  slice length is being calculated.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-19 08:25:02 -07:00
Shaohua Li
c553f8e335 block cfq: compensate preempted queue even if it has no slice assigned
If a queue is preempted before it gets slice assigned, the queue doesn't get
compensation, which looks unfair. For such queue, we compensate it for a whole
slice.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-14 08:41:03 +01:00
Shaohua Li
f8ae6e3eb8 block cfq: make queue preempt work for queues from different workload
I got this:
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724514:   8,32   m   N cfq874 preempt
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724519:   8,32   m   N cfq830 slice expired t=1
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724520:   8,32   m   N cfq830 sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=1 iops=0 sect=0
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724521:   8,32   m   N cfq830 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:0
             fio-874   [007]  2157.724522:   8,32   m   N cfq830 Not idling. st->count:1

cfq830 is an async queue, and preempted by a sync queue cfq874. But since we
have cfqg->saved_workload_slice mechanism, the preempt is a nop.
Looks currently our preempt is totally broken if the two queues are not from
the same workload type.
Below patch fixes it. This will might make async queue starvation, but it's
what our old code does before cgroup is added.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-14 08:41:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
275220f0fc Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
  blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
  block: trace event block fix unassigned field
  block: add internal hd part table references
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  kref: add kref_test_and_get
  bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
  block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
  Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
  block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
  Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
  fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
  block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
  cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
  fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
  cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
  sd: implement sd_check_events()
  sr: implement sr_check_events()
  ...
2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
Jens Axboe
81c5e2ae33 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/event-handling' into for-2.6.38/core 2011-01-13 14:47:54 +01:00
Shaohua Li
329a67815b block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
cfq_group->ref is used with queue_lock hold, the only exception is
cfq_set_request, which looks like a bug to me, so ref doesn't need
to be an atomic and atomic operation is slower.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:48:28 +01:00
Shaohua Li
30d7b9448f block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
cfq_queue->ref is used with queue_lock hold, so ref doesn't need to be an atomic
and atomic operation is slower.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:46:59 +01:00
Jens Axboe
6c23a9681c block: add internal hd part table references
We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.

This reverts commit e4a683c8.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-07 08:43:37 +01:00
Jerome Marchand
09e099d4ba block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.

$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
   8       0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
   8       1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
                                                ~~~~~~~~~~
   8       2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
   8       3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
   8       4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   8       5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137

Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.

The detailed root cause is as follows.

Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.

1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
   is 0 and sda2's one is 1.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
   step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
   from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
   hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
   sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |         -1
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.

Also add a refcount to struct hd_struct to keep the partition in
memory as long as users exist. We use kref_test_and_get() to ensure
we don't add a reference to a partition which is going away.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-05 16:57:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
89b90be2d8 block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
kblockd is used for unplugging and may affect IO latency and
throughput and the max number of concurrent work items are bound by
the number of block devices.  Make it HIGHPRI workqueue w/ default max
concurrency.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-03 15:01:47 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Bart Van Assche
27667c996f block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
This patch fixes a spelling error in a source code comment and removes
superfluous braces in the function exit_io_context().

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-21 15:07:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7f8635cc9e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
2010-12-20 09:19:46 -08:00
Yang Zhang
e61eb2e93f fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 09:00:18 +01:00
Yang Zhang
b9f985b6e0 block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:58:36 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
7278c9c19b cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
When cfq_choose_cfqg() is called in select_queue(), there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ queue waiting for dispatching, hence there must be at least one
backlogged CFQ group on service tree. So we never call choose_service_tree()
with cfqg == NULL.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:57:14 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
72d4cd9f38 block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
Implement blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() and make
blk_queue_max_hw_sectors() a wrapper around it.

DM needs this to avoid setting queue_limits' max_hw_sectors and
max_sectors directly.  dm_set_device_limits() now leverages
blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() logic to establish the appropriate
max_hw_sectors minimum (PAGE_SIZE).  Fixes issue where DM was
incorrectly setting max_sectors rather than max_hw_sectors (which
caused dm_merge_bvec()'s max_hw_sectors check to be ineffective).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:36:01 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
e692cb668f block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
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>
2010-12-17 08:35:53 +01:00
Tejun Heo
77ea887e43 implement in-kernel gendisk events handling
Currently, media presence polling for removeable block devices is done
from userland.  There are several issues with this.

* Polling is done by periodically opening the device.  For SCSI
  devices, the command sequence generated by such action involves a
  few different commands including TEST_UNIT_READY.  This behavior,
  while perfectly legal, is different from Windows which only issues
  single command, GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION.  Unfortunately, some
  ATAPI devices lock up after being periodically queried such command
  sequences.

* There is no reliable and unintrusive way for a userland program to
  tell whether the target device is safe for media presence polling.
  For example, polling for media presence during an on-going burning
  session can make it fail.  The polling program can avoid this by
  opening the device with O_EXCL but then it risks making a valid
  exclusive user of the device fail w/ -EBUSY.

* Userland polling is unnecessarily heavy and in-kernel implementation
  is lighter and better coordinated (workqueue, timer slack).

This patch implements framework for in-kernel disk event handling,
which includes media presence polling.

* bdops->check_events() is added, which supercedes ->media_changed().
  It should check whether there's any pending event and return if so.
  Currently, two events are defined - DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE and
  DISK_EVENT_EJECT_REQUEST.  ->check_events() is guaranteed not to be
  called parallelly.

* gendisk->events and ->async_events are added.  These should be
  initialized by block driver before passing the device to add_disk().
  The former contains the mask of all supported events and the latter
  the mask of all events which the device can report without polling.
  /sys/block/*/events[_async] export these to userland.

* Kernel parameter block.events_dfl_poll_msecs controls the system
  polling interval (default is 0 which means disable) and
  /sys/block/*/events_poll_msecs control polling intervals for
  individual devices (default is -1 meaning use system setting).  Note
  that if a device can report all supported events asynchronously and
  its polling interval isn't explicitly set, the device won't be
  polled regardless of the system polling interval.

* If a device is opened exclusively with write access, event checking
  is automatically disabled until all write exclusive accesses are
  released.

* There are event 'clearing' events.  For example, both of currently
  defined events are cleared after the device has been successfully
  opened.  This information is passed to ->check_events() callback
  using @clearing argument as a hint.

* Event checking is always performed from system_nrt_wq and timer
  slack is set to 25% for polling.

* Nothing changes for drivers which implement ->media_changed() but
  not ->check_events().  Going forward, all drivers will be converted
  to ->check_events() and ->media_change() will be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
d2bf1b6723 block: move register_disk() and del_gendisk() to block/genhd.c
There's no reason for register_disk() and del_gendisk() to be in
fs/partitions/check.c.  Move both to genhd.c.  While at it, collapse
unlink_gendisk(), which was artificially in a separate function due to
genhd.c / check.c split, into del_gendisk().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo
dddd9dc340 block: kill genhd_media_change_notify()
There's no user of the facility.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Shaohua Li writes
e4ea0c16a8 block cfq: select new workload if priority changed
If priority is changed, continuing to check workload_expires and service tree
count of the previous workload does not make sense. We should always choose
the workload with lowest key of new priority in such case.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-13 14:32:22 +01:00
James Smart
c7a841f3ac [SCSI] bsg: correct fault if queue object removed while dev_t open
This patch corrects an issue in bsg that results in a general protection
fault if an LLD is removed while an application is using an open file
handle to a bsg device, and the application issues an ioctl. The fault
occurs because the class_dev is NULL, having been cleared in
bsg_unregister_queue() when the driver was removed.  With this
patch, a check is made for the class_dev, and the application
will receive ENXIO if the related object is gone.

Signed-off-by: Carl Lajeunesse <carl.lajeunesse@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-12-09 09:41:14 -06:00
Vivek Goyal
04a6b516cd blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
o I was discussing what are the variable being updated without spin lock and
  why do we need barriers and Oleg pointed out that location of smp_rmb()
  should be between read of td->limits_changed and tg->limits_changed. This
  patch fixes it.

o Following is one possible sequence of events. Say cpu0 is executing
  throtl_update_blkio_group_read_bps() and cpu1 is executing
  throtl_process_limit_change().

 cpu0                                                cpu1

 tg->limits_changed = true;
 smp_mb__before_atomic_inc();
 atomic_inc(&td->limits_changed);

                                     if (!atomic_read(&td->limits_changed))
                                             return;

                                     if (tg->limits_changed)
                                             do_something;

 If cpu0 has updated tg->limits_changed and td->limits_changed, we want to
 make sure that if update to td->limits_changed is visible on cpu1, then
 update to tg->limits_changed should also be visible.

 Oleg pointed out to ensure that we need to insert an smp_rmb() between
 td->limits_changed read and tg->limits_changed read.

o I had erroneously put smp_rmb() before atomic_read(&td->limits_changed).
  This patch fixes it.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01 19:34:52 +01:00
Vivek Goyal
d1ae8ffdfa blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
o During some testing I did following and noticed throttling stops working.

        - Put a very low limit on a cgroup, say 1 byte per second.
        - Start some reads, this will set slice_end to a very high value.
        - Change the limit to higher value say 1MB/s
        - Now IO unthrottles and finishes as expected.
        - Try to do the read again but IO is not limited to 1MB/s as expected.

o What is happening.
        - Initially low value of limit sets slice_end to a very high value.
        - During updation of limit, slice_end is not being truncated.
        - Very high value of slice_end leads to keeping the existing slice
          valid for a very long time and new slice does not start.
        - tg_may_dispatch() is called in blk_throtle_bio(), and trim_slice()
          is not called in this path. So slice_start is some old value and
          practically we are able to do huge amount of IO.

o There are many ways it can be fixed. I have fixed it by trying to
  adjust/cleanup slice_end in trim_slice(). Generally we extend slices if bio
  is big and can't be dispatched in one slice. After dispatch of bio, readjust
  the slice_end to make sure we don't end up with huge values.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-01 19:34:46 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
760701bfe1 cfq-iosched: Get rid of on_st flag
It's able to check whether a CFQ group on a service tree by
checking "cfqg->rb_node". There's no need to maintain an
extra flag here.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-30 20:52:47 +01:00
Gui Jianfeng
b54ce60eb7 cfq-iosched: Get rid of st->active
When a cfq group is running, it won't be dequeued from service tree, so
there's no need to store the active one in st->active. Just gid rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-30 20:52:46 +01:00
Xiaotian Feng
5478755616 block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
commit 9284bcf checks for proper length of iov entries in
blk_rq_map_user_iov(). But if the map is unaligned, kernel
will break out the loop without checking for the proper length.
So we need to check the proper length before the unalign check.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-29 10:04:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe
f30195c502 Merge branch 'cleanup-bd_claim' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into for-2.6.38/core 2010-11-27 19:49:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
78daa87b1d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix build for PROC_FS disabled
  block: fix amiga and atari floppy driver compile warning
  blk-throttle: Fix calculation of max number of WRITES to be dispatched
  ioprio: grab rcu_read_lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}()
  xen/blkfront: cope with backend that fail empty BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER requests
  xen/blkfront: Implement FUA with BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER
  xen/blkfront: change blk_shadow.request to proper pointer
  xen/blkfront: map REQ_FLUSH into a full barrier
2010-11-27 07:17:50 +09:00
Arnd Bergmann
451a3c24b0 BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00