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2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-29smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_dataYing Huang1-1/+1
struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between CPUs. Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than cache line size. Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment requirements. This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines that need to be transferred among CPUs. This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the power of 2. If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2 as well. Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes. To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used. To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt). The test will create multiple threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping memory. In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5% compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> [ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
<linux/sched/topology.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/topology.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/topology.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-15Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-10latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropyEmese Revfy1-1/+1
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields. These specific functions have been selected because they are init functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of latent entropy. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: expanded commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-09-19block/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machineSebastian Andrzej Siewior1-17/+10
Install the callbacks via the state machine. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906170457.32393-9-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-04-09block: fix regression with block enabled taggingJens Axboe1-11/+6
Martin reported that his test system would not boot with current git, it oopsed with this: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88046c6c9e80 IP: [<ffffffff812971e0>] blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150 PGD 1ddf067 PUD 1de2067 PMD 47fc7d067 PTE 800000046c6c9060 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: sd_mod lpfc(+) scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt oracleasm rpcsec_gss_krb5 ipv6 igb dca i2c_algo_bit i2c_core hwmon CPU: 3 PID: 87 Comm: kworker/u17:1 Not tainted 3.14.0+ #246 Hardware name: Supermicro X9DRX+-F/X9DRX+-F, BIOS 3.00 07/09/2013 Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn task: ffff8802743c2150 ti: ffff880273d02000 task.ti: ffff880273d02000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812971e0>] [<ffffffff812971e0>] blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150 RSP: 0018:ffff880273d03a58 EFLAGS: 00010092 RAX: ffff88046c6c9e78 RBX: ffff880077208e78 RCX: 00000000fffc8da6 RDX: 00000000fffc186d RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00000000fffc8d9d RBP: ffff880273d03a88 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8800021c2410 R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 0000000000015b30 R12: ffff88046c5bb8a0 R13: ffff88046c5c0890 R14: 000000000000001e R15: 000000000000001e FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880277b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff88046c6c9e80 CR3: 00000000018f6000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 Stack: ffff880273d03a98 ffff880474b18800 0000000000000000 ffff880474157000 ffff88046c5c0890 ffff880077208e78 ffff880273d03ae8 ffffffff813b9e62 ffff880200000010 ffff880474b18968 ffff880474b18848 ffff88046c5c0cd8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff813b9e62>] scsi_request_fn+0xf2/0x510 [<ffffffff81293167>] __blk_run_queue+0x37/0x50 [<ffffffff8129ac43>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0xb3/0x130 [<ffffffff8129ad24>] blk_execute_rq+0x64/0xf0 [<ffffffff8108d2b0>] ? bit_waitqueue+0xd0/0xd0 [<ffffffff813bba35>] scsi_execute+0xe5/0x180 [<ffffffff813bbe4a>] scsi_execute_req_flags+0x9a/0x110 [<ffffffffa01b1304>] sd_spinup_disk+0x94/0x460 [sd_mod] [<ffffffff81160000>] ? __unmap_hugepage_range+0x200/0x2f0 [<ffffffffa01b2b9a>] sd_revalidate_disk+0xaa/0x3f0 [sd_mod] [<ffffffffa01b2fb8>] sd_probe_async+0xd8/0x200 [sd_mod] [<ffffffff8107703f>] async_run_entry_fn+0x3f/0x140 [<ffffffff8106a1c5>] process_one_work+0x175/0x410 [<ffffffff8106b373>] worker_thread+0x123/0x400 [<ffffffff8106b250>] ? manage_workers+0x160/0x160 [<ffffffff8107104e>] kthread+0xce/0xf0 [<ffffffff81070f80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff815f0bac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81070f80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 Code: 48 0f ab 11 72 db 48 81 4b 40 00 00 10 00 89 83 08 01 00 00 48 89 df 49 8b 04 24 48 89 1c d0 e8 f7 a8 ff ff 49 8b 85 28 05 00 00 <48> 89 58 08 48 89 03 49 8d 85 28 05 00 00 48 89 43 08 49 89 9d RIP [<ffffffff812971e0>] blk_queue_start_tag+0x90/0x150 RSP <ffff880273d03a58> CR2: ffff88046c6c9e80 Martin bisected and found this to be the problem patch; commit 6d113398dcf4dfcd9787a4ead738b186f7b7ff0f Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Date: Mon Feb 24 16:39:54 2014 +0100 block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirq and the problem was immediately apparent. The patch states that it is safe to reuse queuelist at completion time, since it is no longer used. However, that is not true if a device is using block enabled tagging. If that is the case, then the queuelist is reused to keep track of busy tags. If a device also ended up using softirq completions, we'd reuse ->queuelist for the IPI handling while block tagging was still using it. Boom. Fix this by adding a new ipi_list list head, and share the memory used with the request hash table. The hash table is never used after the request is moved to the dispatch list, which happens long before any potential completion of the request. Add a new request bit for this, so we don't have cases that check rq->hash while it could potentially have been reused for the IPI completion. Reported-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-24smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()Frederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
The name __smp_call_function_single() doesn't tell much about the properties of this function, especially when compared to smp_call_function_single(). The comments above the implementation are also misleading. The main point of this function is actually not to be able to embed the csd in an object. This is actually a requirement that result from the purpose of this function which is to raise an IPI asynchronously. As such it can be called with interrupts disabled. And this feature comes at the cost of the caller who then needs to serialize the IPIs on this csd. Lets rename the function and enhance the comments so that they reflect these properties. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-24smp: Remove wait argument from __smp_call_function_single()Frederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
The main point of calling __smp_call_function_single() is to send an IPI in a pure asynchronous way. By embedding a csd in an object, a caller can send the IPI without waiting for a previous one to complete as is required by smp_call_function_single() for example. As such, sending this kind of IPI can be safe even when irqs are disabled. This flexibility comes at the expense of the caller who then needs to synchronize the csd lifecycle by himself and make sure that IPIs on a single csd are serialized. This is how __smp_call_function_single() works when wait = 0 and this usecase is relevant. Now there don't seem to be any usecase with wait = 1 that can't be covered by smp_call_function_single() instead, which is safer. Lets look at the two possible scenario: 1) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd embedded in an object. It looks like a nice and convenient pattern at the first sight because we can then retrieve the object from the IPI handler easily. But actually it is a waste of memory space in the object since the csd can be allocated from the stack by smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) and the object can be passed an the IPI argument. Besides that, embedding the csd in an object is more error prone because the caller must take care of the serialization of the IPIs for this csd. 2) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd that is allocated on the stack. It's ok but smp_call_function_single() can do it as well and it already takes care of the allocation on the stack. Again it's more simple and less error prone. Therefore, using the underscore prepend API version with wait = 1 is a bad pattern and a sign that the caller can do safer and more simple. There was a single user of that which has just been converted. So lets remove this option to discourage further users. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-24block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirqJan Kara1-6/+11
Abusing rq->csd.list for a list of requests to complete is rather ugly. We use rq->queuelist instead which is much cleaner. It is safe because queuelist is used by the block layer only for requests waiting to be submitted to a device. Thus it is unused when irq reports the request IO is finished. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2013-11-15kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERSChristoph Hellwig1-2/+2
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so remove the new useless config variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-08block: Replace __get_cpu_var usesChristoph Lameter1-4/+4
__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset. Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when writing data or on the right side of an assignment. __get_cpu_var() is defined as : #define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var))) __get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on other platforms) to avoid the address calculation. this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu variables. This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers are used when code is generated. At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too. The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86 arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global register that may be set to the per cpu base. Transformations done to __get_cpu_var() 1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y); 2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]); int *x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y); 3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu variable. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int x = __get_cpu_var(y) Converts to int x = __this_cpu_read(y); 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y); struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x)); 5. Assignment to a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y) __get_cpu_var(y) = x; Converts to this_cpu_write(y, x); 6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); __get_cpu_var(y)++ Converts to this_cpu_inc(y) Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-07-14block: delete __cpuinit usage from all block filesPaul Gortmaker1-3/+3
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the drivers/block uses of the __cpuinit macros from all C files. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-01-27sched, block: Unify cache detectionPeter Zijlstra1-8/+8
The block layer has some code trying to determine if two CPUs share a cache, the scheduler has a similar function. Expose the function used by the scheduler and make the block layer use it, thereby removing the block layers usage of CONFIG_SCHED* and topology bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327579450.2446.95.camel@twins
2011-09-14block: Don't check QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP in __blk_complete_requestTao Ma1-1/+1
In __blk_complete_request, we check both QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP and req->cpu to decide whether we should use req->cpu. Actually the user can also select the complete cpu by either setting BIO_CPU_AFFINE or by calling bio_set_completion_cpu. Current solution makes these 2 ways don't work any more. So we'd better just check req->cpu. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-08-11block: improve rq_affinity placementShaohua Li1-3/+13
This patch reverts commit 35ae66e0a09ab70ed(block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected). The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary IPI. Let's take an example. My test box has cpu 0-7, one socket. Say request is added from CPU 1, blk_complete_request() occurs at CPU 7. Without the reverted patch, softirq will be done at CPU 7. With it, an IPI will be directed to CPU 0, and softirq will be done at CPU 0. In this case, doing softirq at CPU 0 and CPU 7 have no difference from cache sharing point view and we can avoid an ipi if doing it in CPU 7. An immediate concern is this is just like QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, but actually not. blk_complete_request() is running in interrupt handler, and currently I/O controller doesn't support multiple interrupts (I checked several LSI cards and AHCI), so only one CPU can run blk_complete_request(). This is still quite different as QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE. Since only one CPU runs softirq, the only difference with below patch is softirq not always runs at the first CPU of a group. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-05block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expectedTao Ma1-5/+3
Commit 5757a6d76c introduced a new rq_affinity = 2 so as to make the request completed in the __make_request cpu. But it makes the old rq_affinity = 1 not work any more. The root cause is that if the 'cpu' and 'req->cpu' is in the same group and cpu != req->cpu, ccpu will be the same as group_cpu, so the completion will be excuted in the 'cpu' not 'group_cpu'. This patch fix problem by simpling removing group_cpu and the codes are more explicit now. If ccpu == cpu, we complete in cpu, otherwise we raise_blk_irq to ccpu. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23block: strict rq_affinityDan Williams1-4/+7
Some systems benefit from completions always being steered to the strict requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering that blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default. This is because the first CPU in the group mask ends up being completely overloaded with work, while the others (including the original submitter) has power left to spare. Allow the strict mode to be set by writing '2' to the sysfs control file. This is identical to the scheme used for the nomerges file, where '2' is a more aggressive setting than just being turned on. echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAITPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29block: make blk_softirq_init() staticRoel Kluin1-1/+1
Sparse asked whether these could be static. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeoutsJens Axboe1-0/+2
Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout handling. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: unify request timeout handlingJens Axboe1-12/+18
Right now SCSI and others do their own command timeout handling. Move those bits to the block layer. Instead of having a timer per command, we try to be a bit more clever and simply have one per-queue. This avoids the overhead of having to tear down and setup a timer for each command, so it will result in a lot less timer fiddling. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: add support for IO CPU affinityJens Axboe1-31/+95
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper (bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask for completion on that specific CPU. In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired. This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp helper infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: split softirq handling into blk-softirq.cJens Axboe1-0/+103
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>