Replace llist_for_each_entry_safe with a while loop.
llist_for_each_entry_safe can trigger a bug in GCC 4.1, so it's best
to remove it and use a while loop and do the deletion manually.
Specifically this bug can be triggered by hot-unplugging a disk, either
by doing xm block-detach or by save/restore cycle.
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
IP: [<ffffffffa0047223>] blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
The crash call trace is:
...
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x20
do_page_fault+0x25e/0x4b0
page_fault+0x25/0x30
? blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
blkfront_resume+0x46/0xa0 [xen_blkfront]
xenbus_dev_resume+0x6c/0x140
pm_op+0x192/0x1b0
device_resume+0x82/0x1e0
dpm_resume+0xc9/0x1a0
dpm_resume_end+0x15/0x30
do_suspend+0x117/0x1e0
When drilling down to the assembler code, on newer GCC it does
.L29:
cmpq $-16, %r12 #, persistent_gnt check
je .L30 #, out of the loop
.L25:
... code in the loop
testq %r13, %r13 # n
je .L29 #, back to the top of the loop
cmpq $-16, %r12 #, persistent_gnt check
movq 16(%r12), %r13 # <variable>.node.next, n
jne .L25 #, back to the top of the loop
.L30:
While on GCC 4.1, it is:
L78:
... code in the loop
testq %r13, %r13 # n
je .L78 #, back to the top of the loop
movq 16(%rbx), %r13 # <variable>.node.next, n
jmp .L78 #, back to the top of the loop
Which basically means that the exit loop condition instead of
being:
&(pos)->member != NULL;
is:
;
which makes the loop unbound.
Since xen-blkfront is the only user of the llist_for_each_entry_safe
macro remove it from llist.h.
Orabug: 16263164
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The 'handle' is the device that the request is from. For the life-time
of the ring we copy it from a request to a response so that the frontend
is not surprised by it. But we do not need it - when we start processing
I/Os we have our own 'struct phys_req' which has only most essential
information about the request. In fact the 'vbd_translate' ends up
over-writing the preq.dev with a value from the backend.
This assignment of preq.dev with the 'handle' value is superfluous
so lets not do it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
"be->mode" is obtained from xenbus_read(), which does a kmalloc() for
the message body. The short string is never released, so do it along
with freeing "be" itself, and make sure the string isn't kept when
backend_changed() doesn't complete successfully (which made it
desirable to slightly re-structure that function, so that the error
cleanup can be done in one place).
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"I've got a few bits pending for 3.8 final, that I better get sent out.
It's all been sitting for a while, I consider it safe.
It contains:
- Two bug fixes for mtip32xx, fixing a driver hang and a crash.
- A few-liner protocol error fix for drbd.
- A few fixes for the xen block front/back driver, fixing a potential
data corruption issue.
- A race fix for disk_clear_events(), causing spurious warnings. Out
of the Chrome OS base.
- A deadlock fix for disk_clear_events(), moving it to the a
unfreezable workqueue. Also from the Chrome OS base."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
drbd: fix potential protocol error and resulting disconnect/reconnect
mtip32xx: fix for crash when the device surprise removed during rebuild
mtip32xx: fix for driver hang after a command timeout
block: prevent race/cleanup
block: remove deadlock in disk_clear_events
xen-blkfront: handle bvecs with partial data
llist/xen-blkfront: implement safe version of llist_for_each_entry
xen-blkback: implement safe iterator for the list of persistent grants
When we notice a disk failure on the receiving side,
we stop sending it new incoming writes.
Depending on exact timing of various events, the same transfer log epoch
could end up containing both replicated (before we noticed the failure)
and local-only requests (after we noticed the failure).
The sanity checks in tl_release(), called when receiving a
P_BARRIER_ACK, check that the ack'ed transfer log epoch matches
the expected epoch, and the number of contained writes matches
the number of ack'ed writes.
In this case, they counted both replicated and local-only writes,
but the peer only acknowledges those it has seen. We get a mismatch,
resulting in a protocol error and disconnect/reconnect cycle.
Messages logged are
"BAD! BarrierAck #%u received with n_writes=%u, expected n_writes=%u!\n"
A similar issue can also be triggered when starting a resync while
having a healthy replication link, by invalidating one side, forcing a
full sync, or attaching to a diskless node.
Fix this by closing the current epoch if the state changes in a way
that would cause the replication intent of the next write.
Epochs now contain either only non-replicated,
or only replicated writes.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
problem introduced recently by kvm id changes.
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Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module fixes and a virtio block fix from Rusty Russell:
"Various minor fixes, but a slightly more complex one to fix the
per-cpu overload problem introduced recently by kvm id changes."
* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
module: put modules in list much earlier.
module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.
module: prevent warning when finit_module a 0 sized file
virtio-blk: Don't free ida when disk is in use
When rebuild is in progress, disk->queue is yet to be created. Surprise
removing the device will call remove()-> del_gendisk(). del_gendisk()
expect disk->queue be not NULL. Fix is to call put_disk() when disk_queue
is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If an I/O command times out when a PIO command is active,
MTIP_PF_EH_ACTIVE_BIT is not cleared. This results in I/O
hang in the driver. Fix is to clear this bit.
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.
This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from these drivers.
Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Chirag Kantharia <chirag.kantharia@hp.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tao Guo <Tao.Guo@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When a file system is mounted on a virtio-blk disk, we then remove it
and then reattach it, the reattached disk gets the same disk name and
ids as the hot removed one.
This leads to very nasty effects - mostly rendering the newly attached
device completely unusable.
Trying what happens when I do the same thing with a USB device, I saw
that the sd node simply doesn't get free'd when a device gets forcefully
removed.
Imitate the same behavior for vd devices. This way broken vd devices
simply are never free'd and newly attached ones keep working just fine.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Pull Ceph update from Sage Weil:
"There are a few different groups of commits here. The largest is
Alex's ongoing work to enable the coming RBD features (cloning,
striping). There is some cleanup in libceph that goes along with it.
Cyril and David have fixed some problems with NFS reexport (leaking
dentries and page locks), and there is a batch of patches from Yan
fixing problems with the fs client when running against a clustered
MDS. There are a few bug fixes mixed in for good measure, many of
which will be going to the stable trees once they're upstream.
My apologies for the late pull. There is still a gremlin in the rbd
map/unmap code and I was hoping to include the fix for that as well,
but we haven't been able to confirm the fix is correct yet; I'll send
that in a separate pull once it's nailed down."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (68 commits)
rbd: get rid of rbd_{get,put}_dev()
libceph: register request before unregister linger
libceph: don't use rb_init_node() in ceph_osdc_alloc_request()
libceph: init event->node in ceph_osdc_create_event()
libceph: init osd->o_node in create_osd()
libceph: report connection fault with warning
libceph: socket can close in any connection state
rbd: don't use ENOTSUPP
rbd: remove linger unconditionally
rbd: get rid of RBD_MAX_SEG_NAME_LEN
libceph: avoid using freed osd in __kick_osd_requests()
ceph: don't reference req after put
rbd: do not allow remove of mounted-on image
libceph: Unlock unprocessed pages in start_read() error path
ceph: call handle_cap_grant() for cap import message
ceph: Fix __ceph_do_pending_vmtruncate
ceph: Don't add dirty inode to dirty list if caps is in migration
ceph: Fix infinite loop in __wake_requests
ceph: Don't update i_max_size when handling non-auth cap
bdi_register: add __printf verification, fix arg mismatch
...
The functions rbd_get_dev() and rbd_put_dev() are trivial wrappers
that add no value, and their existence suggests they may do more
than what they do.
Get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Mick <dan.mick@inktank.com>
Konrad writes:
Please git pull the following branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.8
which has a bug-fix to the xen-blkfront and xen-blkback driver
when using the persistent mode. An issue was discovered where LVM
disks could not be read correctly and this fixes it. There
is also a change in llist.h which has been blessed by akpm.
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
"Incoming:
- lots of misc stuff
- backlight tree updates
- lib/ updates
- Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes
- checkpatch
- rtc
- aoe
- more checkpoint/restart support
I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
later today after which that is good to go. A number of other things
are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits)
scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output
fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output
fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
ubifs: use prandom_bytes
mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
...
Currently blkfront fails to handle cases in blkif_completion like the
following:
1st loop in rq_for_each_segment
* bv_offset: 3584
* bv_len: 512
* offset += bv_len
* i: 0
2nd loop:
* bv_offset: 0
* bv_len: 512
* i: 0
In the second loop i should be 1, since we assume we only wanted to
read a part of the previous page. This patches fixes this cases where
only a part of the shared page is read, and blkif_completion assumes
that if the bv_offset of a bvec is less than the previous bv_offset
plus the bv_size we have to switch to the next shared page.
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Implement a safe version of llist_for_each_entry, and use it in
blkif_free. Previously grants where freed while iterating the list,
which lead to dereferences when trying to fetch the next item.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v2: Move the llist_for_each_entry_safe in llist.h]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We should return NULL on failure instead of returning a freed pointer.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version number is printed to the console on module initialization
and is available in sysfs, which is where the userland aoe-version tool
looks for it.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
This change only affects experimental AoE storage networks.
It modifies the console message about runt packets detected so that the
AoE major and minor addresses of the AoE target that generated the runt
are mentioned.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
By default, the aoe driver uses any ethernet interface for AoE, but the
aoe_iflist module parameter provides a convenient way to limit AoE
traffic to a specific list of local network interfaces.
This change allows a list to be specified using the comma character as a
separator. For example,
modprobe aoe aoe_iflist=eth2,eth3
Before, it was inconvenient to get the quoting right in shell scripts
when setting aoe_iflist to have more than one network interface.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
With this change, the aoe driver treats the value zero as special for
the aoe_deadsecs module parameter. Normally, this value specifies the
number of seconds during which the driver will continue to attempt
retransmits to an unresponsive AoE target. After aoe_deadsecs has
elapsed, the aoe driver marks the aoe device as "down" and fails all
I/O.
The new meaning of an aoe_deadsecs of zero is for the driver to
retransmit commands indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
Many AoE targets have four or fewer network ports, but some existing
storage devices have many, and the AoE protocol sets no limit.
This patch allows the use of more than eight remote MAC addresses per AoE
target, while reducing the amount of memory used by the aoe driver in
cases where there are many AoE targets with fewer than eight MAC addresses
each.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
This change avoids a race that could result in a NULL pointer derference
following a WARNing from kobject_add_internal, "don't try to register
things with the same name in the same directory."
The problem was found with a test that forgets and discovers an
aoe device in a loop:
while test ! -r /tmp/stop; do
aoe-flush -a
aoe-discover
done
The race was between aoedev_flush taking aoedevs out of the devlist,
allowing a new discovery of the same AoE target to take place before the
driver gets around to calling sysfs_remove_group. Fixing that one
revealed another race between do_open and add_disk, and this patch avoids
that, too.
The fix required some care, because for flushing (forgetting) an aoedev,
some of the steps must be performed under lock and some must be able to
sleep. Also, for discovering a new aoedev, some steps might sleep.
The check for a bad aoedev pointer remains from a time when about half of
this patch was done, and it was possible for the
bdev->bd_disk->private_data to become corrupted. The check should be
removed eventually, but it is not expected to add significant overhead,
occurring in the aoeblk_open routine.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
An AoE target can have multiple network ports used for AoE, and in the
aoe driver, those are tracked by the aoetgt struct. These changes allow
the aoe driver to handle network paths, or aoetgts, that are not working
well, compared to the others.
Paths that do not get responses despite the retransmission of AoE
commands are marked as "tainted", and non-tainted paths are preferred.
Meanwhile, the aoe driver attempts to "probe" the tainted path in the
background by issuing reads of LBA 0 that are padded out to full
(possibly jumbo-frame) size. If the probes get responses, then the path
is "redeemed", and its taint is removed.
This mechanism has been shown to be helpful in transparently handling
and recovering from real-world network "brown outs" in ways that the
earlier "shoot the help-needing target in the head" mechanism could not.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.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>
The value returned by the static minor device number number allocator is
the real minor number, so it must be multiplied by the supported number
of partitions per aoedev.
Without this fix the support for systems without udev is incomplete, and
the few users of aoe on such systems will have surprising results when
device nodes names do not match the AoE target.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Because the minor_get and related functions use the return values for
errors, the compiler doesn't know that sysminor will always either 1) be
initialized in aoedev_by_aoeaddr by the call to minor_get, or 2) be
unused as the "goto out" is executed.
This patch avoids the compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For some special-purpose systems where udev isn't present, static
allocation of minor numbers is desirable. This update distinguishes
different failure scenarios, to help the user understand what went
wrong.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need to call the request handler function in the I/O
completion routine. The user impact of not doing it is a more "nice" aoe
driver that is less susceptible to causing soft lockups.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A misplaced comment was attached to the nout member of the aoetgt. This
change corrects the comment.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The aoe driver will never be waiting for more than aoe_maxout AoE
commands from a given remote network port on an AoE target. Increasing
the cap increases performance. Users can tighten the setting to reduce
the amount of memory used for handling AoE traffic or the network
bandwidth used for AoE.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Before the aoe driver was an I/O request handler, it was a
make_request-style block driver. Even so, there was a problem where
sysfs expected a request queue to exist, so one was provided in commit
7135a71b19 ("aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs").
During the transition to the request-handler style, a patch was merged
that was based on a driver without the noop queue, and the noop queue
remained in place after the patch was merged, even though a new
functional queue was introduced by the patch, allocated through
blk_init_queue.
The user impact is a memory leak proportional to the number of AoE
targets discovered. This patch removes the memory leak and cleans up
vestiges of the old do-nothing queue from the aoeblk_gdalloc function.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit f3b8e07af774 ("aoe: commands in retransmit queue use new
destination on failure") omits the copying of the coarse-grained time
when an AoE command was sent during the failover from one destination
MAC address on the AoE target to another.
The coarse-grained timing is only used when the system time changes or
an unlikely length of time has passed since the sending of the AoE
command. Users will not be impacted unless their system clock is very
inaccurate or something unusual (e.g., 10 GbE link reset) happens during
the period when the aoe driver is handling the failure of a port on the
AoE target. Being effected will mean that an AoE target could be
considered "down" too eagerly.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When one remote MAC address isn't working as a destination for AoE
commands, the frames used to track information associated with the AoE
commands are moved to a new aoetgt (defined by the tuple of {AoE major,
AoE minor, target MAC address}).
This patch makes sure that the frames on the queue for retransmits that
need to be done are updated to use the new destination, so that
retransmits will be sent through a working network path.
Without this change, packets on the retransmit queue will be needlessly
retransmitted to the unresponsive destination MAC, possibly causing
premature target failure before there's time for the retransmit timer to
run again, decide to retransmit again, and finally update the destination
to a working MAC address on the AoE target.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These changes improve the accuracy of the decision about whether it's time
to retransmit an AoE command by using the microsecond-resolution
gettimeofday instead of jiffies.
Because the system time can jump suddenly, the decision reverts to using
jiffies if the high-resolution time difference is relatively large.
Otherwise the AoE targets could be considered failed inappropriately.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With this bugfix in place the calculation of the criterion for "lateness"
is performed under lock. Without the lock, there is a chance that one of
the non-atomic operations performed on the round trip time statistics
could be incomplete, such that an incorrect lateness criterion would be
calculated.
Without this change, the effect of the bug would be rare unecessary but
benign retransmissions.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The /dev/etherd/err character device provides low-level information about
normal but sometimes interesting AoE command retransmits and "unexpected
responses", i.e., responses for packets that have already been
retransmitted.
This change adds MAC addresses to the messages about unexpected responses,
so that when they occur, it's more easy to determine the network paths to
which they belong.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The aoe driver already had some congestion handling, but it was limited in
its ability to cope with the kind of congestion that can arise on more
complex networks such as those involving paths through multiple ethernet
switches.
Some of the lessons from TCP's history of development can be applied to
improving the congestion control and avoidance on AoE storage networks.
These changes use familar concepts from Van Jacobson's "Congestion
Avoidance and Control" paper from '88, without adding significant
overhead.
This patch depends on an upcoming patch that covers the failover case when
AoE commands being retransmitted are transferred from one retransmit queue
to another. Another upcoming patch increases the timing accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the aoe driver follow expected behavior when the user uses ioctl to
get the ATA device identify information, allowing access to model, serial
number, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The userland aoetools package includes an "aoe-stat" command that can
display a "payload size" column when the aoe driver exports this
information. Users can quickly see what amount of user data is
transferred inside each AoE command on the network, network headers
excluded.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The GPFS filesystem is an example of an aoe user that requires the aoe
driver to support I/O request sizes larger than the default. Most users
will not need large I/O request sizes, because they would need to be split
up into multiple AoE commands anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Users sometimes want to cause the aoe driver to forget a particular
previously discovered device when it is no longer online. The aoetools
provide an "aoe-flush" command that users run to perform this
administrative task. The changes below provide the support needed in the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ATA over Ethernet config query response contains a "buffer count"
field reflecting the AoE target's capacity to buffer incoming AoE
commands.
By taking the current value of this field into accound, we increase
performance throughput or avoid network congestion, when the value
has increased or decreased, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropped transmits are not common, but when they do occur, increasing
the transmit queue length often helps.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The
branch contains:
- A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
situation on individual pulls can be improved.
- A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.
- Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a
generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
also using it.
- A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.
- Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
to be used as an identifier."
* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
drbd: Remove obsolete check
drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
xen-blkfront: free allocated page
xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
cciss: use check_signature()
cciss: cleanup bitops usage
drbd: use copy_highpage
drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
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