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2015-08-13block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized biosKent Overstreet1-0/+3
The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page()) checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create bios that don't need to be split. But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the (potentially multiple) devices underneath them. In the future this will let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code. We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing affecting segment merging. Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are: * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c) * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c) * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c) * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c) * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c) * loop_make_request * null_queue_bio * bcache's make_request fns Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left for future patches. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com> Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com> Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md/md.c' bits) Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> [dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-17block: make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeableJens Axboe1-1/+39
Lots of devices support huge discard sizes these days. Depending on how the device handles them internally, huge discards can introduce massive latencies (hundreds of msec) on the device side. We have a sysfs file, discard_max_bytes, that advertises the max hardware supported discard size. Make this writeable, and split the settings into a soft and hard limit. This can be set from 'discard_granularity' and up to the hardware limit. Add a new sysfs file, 'discard_max_hw_bytes', that shows the hw set limit. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-25Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+2
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe: "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support. This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too. This is one of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it. Also see last weeks writeup on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/" * 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits) writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init() bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create() buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb() writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested() writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb() mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes writeback: implement memcg wb_domain writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations ...
2015-06-02writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.hTejun Heo1-0/+1
With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup; unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h makes cyclic include dependency quite likely. This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it. c files which need access to more backing-dev details now include backing-dev.h directly. This takes backing-dev.h off the common include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block and cgroup. v2: fs/fat build failure fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02blkcg: move block/blk-cgroup.h to include/linux/blk-cgroup.hTejun Heo1-1/+1
cgroup aware writeback support will require exposing some of blkcg details. In preprataion, move block/blk-cgroup.h to include/linux/blk-cgroup.h. This patch is pure file move. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-04-27block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.NeilBrown1-2/+0
Because of the peculiar way that md devices are created (automatically when the device node is opened), a new device can be created and registered immediately after the blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors); call in del_gendisk(). Therefore it is important that all visible artifacts of the previous device are removed before this call. In particular, the 'bdi'. Since: commit c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info moved the device_unregister(bdi->dev); call from bdi_unregister() to bdi_destroy() it has been quite easy to lose a race and have a new (e.g.) "md127" be created after the blk_unregister_region() call and before bdi_destroy() is ultimately called by the final 'put_disk', which must come after del_gendisk(). The new device finds that the bdi name is already registered in sysfs and complains > [ 9627.630029] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 3330 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x5a/0x70() > [ 9627.630032] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/9:127' We can fix this by moving the bdi_destroy() call out of blk_release_queue() (which can happen very late when a refcount reaches zero) and into blk_cleanup_queue() - which happens exactly when the md device driver calls it. Then it is only necessary for md to call blk_cleanup_queue() before del_gendisk(). As loop.c devices are also created on demand by opening the device node, we make the same change there. Fixes: c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37 Reported-by: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-01-29blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue()Ming Lei1-0/+2
The kobject memory inside blk-mq hctx/ctx shouldn't have been freed before the kobject is released because driver core can access it freely before its release. We can't do that in all ctx/hctx/mq_kobj's release handler because it can be run before blk_cleanup_queue(). Given mq_kobj shouldn't have been introduced, this patch simply moves mq's release into blk_release_queue(). Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-12-09blk-mq: Fix a use-after-freeBart Van Assche1-8/+4
blk-mq users are allowed to free the memory request_queue.tag_set points at after blk_cleanup_queue() has finished but before blk_release_queue() has started. This can happen e.g. in the SCSI core. The SCSI core namely embeds the tag_set structure in a SCSI host structure. The SCSI host structure is freed by scsi_host_dev_release(). This function is called after blk_cleanup_queue() finished but can be called before blk_release_queue(). This means that it is not safe to access request_queue.tag_set from inside blk_release_queue(). Hence remove the blk_sync_queue() call from blk_release_queue(). This call is not necessary - outstanding requests must have finished before blk_release_queue() is called. Additionally, move the blk_mq_free_queue() call from blk_release_queue() to blk_cleanup_queue() to avoid that struct request_queue.tag_set gets accessed after it has been freed. This patch avoids that the following kernel oops can be triggered when deleting a SCSI host for which scsi-mq was enabled: Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109a7c4>] lock_acquire+0xc4/0x270 [<ffffffff814ce111>] mutex_lock_nested+0x61/0x380 [<ffffffff812575f0>] blk_mq_free_queue+0x30/0x180 [<ffffffff8124d654>] blk_release_queue+0x84/0xd0 [<ffffffff8126c29b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8126c140>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70 [<ffffffff81245895>] blk_put_queue+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff8125c409>] disk_release+0x99/0xd0 [<ffffffff8133d056>] device_release+0x36/0xb0 [<ffffffff8126c29b>] kobject_cleanup+0x7b/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8126c140>] kobject_put+0x30/0x70 [<ffffffff8125a78a>] put_disk+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff811d4cb5>] __blkdev_put+0x135/0x1b0 [<ffffffff811d56a0>] blkdev_put+0x50/0x160 [<ffffffff81199eb4>] kill_block_super+0x44/0x70 [<ffffffff8119a2a4>] deactivate_locked_super+0x44/0x60 [<ffffffff8119a87e>] deactivate_super+0x4e/0x70 [<ffffffff811b9833>] cleanup_mnt+0x43/0x90 [<ffffffff811b98d2>] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff8107252c>] task_work_run+0xac/0xe0 [<ffffffff81002c01>] do_notify_resume+0x61/0xa0 [<ffffffff814d2c58>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.13+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-10-18Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe: "This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18. Apart from the new and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes and cleanups. - blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph. - Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph. We pass it through the ->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request bits. The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used. - blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng. - Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei. Now we have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq. - Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott. - Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun. - Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes. - Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing. From Joe Lawrence. - Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm devices from Junichi Nomura. This allows creating clone bio sets without preallocating a lot of memory. - Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and hardware queues from me. - Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI shared tag setups). We now just use a single queue and limited depth for that" * 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits) block: Remove REQ_KERNEL blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating block: include func name in __get_request prints block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2 blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high block: add bioset_create_nobvec() block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone() block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp block: Add T10 Protection Information functions block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ block: Integrity checksum flag block: Relocate bio integrity flags block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags ...
2014-09-25blk-mq: support per-distpatch_queue flush machineryMing Lei1-2/+2
This patch supports to run one single flush machinery for each blk-mq dispatch queue, so that: - current init_request and exit_request callbacks can cover flush request too, then the buggy copying way of initializing flush request's pdu can be fixed - flushing performance gets improved in case of multi hw-queue In fio sync write test over virtio-blk(4 hw queues, ioengine=sync, iodepth=64, numjobs=4, bs=4K), it is observed that througput gets increased a lot over my test environment: - throughput: +70% in case of virtio-blk over null_blk - throughput: +30% in case of virtio-blk over SSD image The multi virtqueue feature isn't merged to QEMU yet, and patches for the feature can be found in below tree: git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ming/qemu.git v2.1.0-mq.4 And simply passing 'num_queues=4 vectors=5' should be enough to enable multi queue(quad queue) feature for QEMU virtio-blk. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-25block: remove blk_init_flush() and its pairMing Lei1-1/+1
Now mission of the two helpers is over, and just call blk_alloc_flush_queue() and blk_free_flush_queue() directly. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-25block: introduce blk_init_flush and its pairMing Lei1-2/+2
These two temporary functions are introduced for holding flush initialization and de-initialization, so that we can introduce 'flush queue' easier in the following patch. And once 'flush queue' and its allocation/free functions are ready, they will be removed for sake of code readability. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-09-24blk-mq, percpu_ref: start q->mq_usage_counter in atomic modeTejun Heo1-2/+9
blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on freeze. percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it involves a sched RCU grace period. This means that draining a blk-mq takes measureable wallclock time. One would think that this shouldn't matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place asynchronously w.r.t. userland. Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent LUNs. This means that SCSI probing may take above ten seconds when scsi-mq is used. [ 0.949892] scsi host0: Virtio SCSI HBA [ 1.007864] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 1.021299] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 1.1. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 1.520356] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2491.910 MHz <stall> [ 16.186549] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 16.190478] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 16.194099] osd: LOADED open-osd 0.2.1 [ 16.203202] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB) [ 16.208478] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 16.211439] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 16.218771] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 31457280 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB) [ 16.223264] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 16.225682] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA This is also the reason why request_queues start in bypass mode which is ended on blk_register_queue() as shutting down a fully functional queue also involves a RCU grace period and the queues for non-existent SCSI devices never reach registration. blk-mq basically needs to do the same thing - start the mq in a degraded mode which is faster to shut down and then make it fully functional only after the queue reaches registration. percpu_ref recently grew facilities to force atomic operation until explicitly switched to percpu mode, which can be used for this purpose. This patch makes blk-mq initialize q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode and switch it to percpu mode only once blk_register_queue() is reached. Note that this issue was previously worked around by 0a30288da1ae ("blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe") for v3.17. The temp fix was reverted in preparation of adding persistent atomic mode to percpu_ref by 9eca80461a45 ("Revert "blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe""). This patch and the prerequisite percpu_ref changes will be merged during v3.18 devel cycle. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de Fixes: add703fda981 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count") Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-09-09Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queueAlan Stern1-2/+4
When a queue is registered, the block layer turns off the bypass setting (because bypass is enabled when the queue is created). This doesn't work well for queues that are unregistered and then registered again; we get a WARNING because of the unbalanced calls to blk_queue_bypass_end(). This patch fixes the problem by making blk_register_queue() call blk_queue_bypass_end() only the first time the queue is registered. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-07-01block, blk-mq: draining can't be skipped even if bypass_depth was non-zeroTejun Heo1-1/+1
Currently, both blk_queue_bypass_start() and blk_mq_freeze_queue() skip queue draining if bypass_depth was already above zero. The assumption is that the one which bumped the bypass_depth should have performed draining already; however, there's nothing which prevents a new instance of bypassing/freezing from starting before the previous one finishes draining. The current code may allow the later bypassing/freezing instances to complete while there still are in-flight requests which haven't finished draining. Fix it by draining regardless of bypass_depth. We still skip draining from blk_queue_bypass_start() while the queue is initializing to avoid introducing excessive delays during boot. INIT_DONE setting is moved above the initial blk_queue_bypass_end() so that bypassing attempts can't slip inbetween. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-27block: only allocate/free mq_usage_counter in blk-mqMing Lei1-2/+0
The percpu counter is only used for blk-mq, so move its allocation and free inside blk-mq, and don't allocate it for legacy queue device. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-20blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfsJens Axboe1-36/+9
For request_fn based devices, the block layer exports a 'nr_requests' file through sysfs to allow adjusting of queue depth on the fly. Currently this returns -EINVAL for blk-mq, since it's not wired up. Wire this up for blk-mq, so that it now also always dynamic adjustments of the allowed queue depth for any given block device managed by blk-mq. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-10blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logicChristoph Hellwig1-0/+2
Witch to using a preallocated flush_rq for blk-mq similar to what's done with the old request path. This allows us to set up the request properly with a tag from the actually allowed range and ->rq_disk as needed by some drivers. To make life easier we also switch to dynamic allocation of ->flush_rq for the old path. This effectively reverts most of "blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock" and "blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request" Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2013-12-31block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()Ming Lei1-0/+1
blk_mq_free_queue() is called from release handler of queue kobject, so it needn't be called from drivers. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-15kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERSChristoph Hellwig1-1/+1
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so remove the new useless config variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-25blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanismJens Axboe1-0/+13
Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-11block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han1-1/+1
The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-03block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_storeArnd Bergmann1-0/+2
As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether that value was set or not. block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot': block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive, writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has an undefined result, rather than returning an error. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-09block: RCU free request_queueTejun Heo1-1/+8
RCU free request_queue so that blkcg_gq->q can be dereferenced under RCU lock. This will be used to implement hierarchical stats. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2012-12-06block: Rename queue dead flagBart Van Assche1-2/+2
QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is used to indicate that queuing new requests must stop. After this flag has been set queue draining starts. However, during the queue draining phase it is still safe to invoke the queue's request_fn, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is a better name for this flag. This patch has been generated by running the following command over the kernel source tree: git grep -lEw 'blk_queue_dead|QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD' | xargs sed -i.tmp -e 's/blk_queue_dead/blk_queue_dying/g' \ -e 's/QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING/g'; \ sed -i.tmp -e "s/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)*5/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)5/g" \ include/linux/blkdev.h; \ sed -i.tmp -e 's/ DEAD/ DYING/g' -e 's/dead queue/a dying queue/' \ -e 's/Dead queue/A dying queue/' block/blk-core.c Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-21block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+6
blk_init_allocated_queue() b82d4b197c ("blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation") made request_queues bypassed on allocation to avoid switching on and off bypass mode on a queue being initialized. Some drivers allocate and then destroy a lot of queues without fully initializing them and incurring bypass latency overhead on each of them could add upto significant overhead. Unfortunately, blk_init_allocated_queue() is never used by queues of bio-based drivers, which means that all bio-based driver queues are in bypass mode even after initialization and registration complete successfully. Due to the limited way request_queues are used by bio drivers, this problem is hidden pretty well but it shows up when blk-throttle is used in combination with a bio-based driver. Trying to configure (echoing to cgroupfs file) blk-throttle for a bio-based driver hangs indefinitely in blkg_conf_prep() waiting for bypass mode to end. This patch moves the initial blk_queue_bypass_end() call from blk_init_allocated_queue() to blk_register_queue() which is called for any userland-visible queues regardless of its type. I believe this is correct because I don't think there is any block driver which needs or wants working elevator and blk-cgroup on a queue which isn't visible to userland. If there are such users, we need a different solution. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20block: Implement support for WRITE SAMEMartin K. Petersen1-0/+13
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O. This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: reject invalid queue attribute valuesDave Reisner1-2/+23
Instead of using simple_strtoul which "converts" invalid numbers to 0, use strict_strtoul and perform error checking to ensure that userspace passes us a valid unsigned long. This addresses problems with functions such as writev, which might want to write a trailing newline -- the newline should rightfully be rejected, but the value preceeding it should be preserved. Fixes BZ#46981. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-26blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocationTejun Heo1-13/+19
Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued. When the unified request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless - whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless of the configured weights. This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup. As soon as the request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes. This patch implements per-blkg request_list. Each blkg has its own request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation. * Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue, which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq. While making blkcg rl handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root blkcg. * Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root blkcg. As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals. It's better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but needs to be improved with future changes. * After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making resource consumption of each cgroup higher. This makes allowing non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not hierarchical). v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested by Vivek. v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure. Fix it by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures. This problem was spotted by Rakesh Iyer <rni@google.com>. v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue". blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all blkg->rl on the target queue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: prepare for multiple request_listsTejun Heo1-7/+5
Request allocation is about to be made per-blkg meaning that there'll be multiple request lists. * Make queue full state per request_list. blk_*queue_full() functions are renamed to blk_*rl_full() and takes @rl instead of @q. * Rename blk_init_free_list() to blk_init_rl() and make it take @rl instead of @q. Also add @gfp_mask parameter. * Add blk_exit_rl() instead of destroying rl directly from blk_release_queue(). * Add request_list->q and make request alloc/free functions - blk_free_request(), [__]freed_request(), __get_request() - take @rl instead of @q. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policiesTejun Heo1-2/+2
Currently, blkg is per cgroup-queue-policy combination. This is unnatural and leads to various convolutions in partially used duplicate fields in blkg, config / stat access, and general management of blkgs. This patch make blkg's per cgroup-queue and let them serve all policies. blkgs are now created and destroyed by blkcg core proper. This will allow further consolidation of common management logic into blkcg core and API with better defined semantics and layering. As a transitional step to untangle blkg management, elvswitch and policy [de]registration, all blkgs except the root blkg are being shot down during elvswitch and bypass. This patch adds blkg_root_update() to update root blkg in place on policy change. This is hacky and racy but should be good enough as interim step until we get locking simplified and switch over to proper in-place update for all blkgs. -v2: Root blkgs need to be updated on elvswitch too and blkg_alloc() comment wasn't updated according to the function change. Fixed. Both pointed out by Vivek. -v3: v2 updated blkg_destroy_all() to invoke update_root_blkg_pd() for all policies. This freed root pd during elvswitch before the last queue finished exiting and led to oops. Directly invoke update_root_blkg_pd() only on BLKIO_POLICY_PROP from cfq_exit_queue(). This also is closer to what will be done with proper in-place blkg update. Reported by Vivek. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue()Tejun Heo1-2/+2
Currently block core calls directly into blk-throttle for init, drain and exit. This patch adds blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() which wraps the blk-throttle functions. This is to give more control and visiblity to blkcg core layer for proper layering. Further patches will add logic common to blkcg policies to the functions. While at it, collapse blk_throtl_release() into blk_throtl_exit(). There's no reason to keep them separate. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.cTejun Heo1-1/+5
With kmem_cache managed by blk-ioc, io_cq exit/release can be moved to blk-ioc too. The odd ->io_cq->exit/release() callbacks are replaced with elevator_ops->elevator_exit_icq_fn() with unlinking from both ioc and q, and freeing automatically handled by blk-ioc. The elevator operation only need to perform exit operation specific to the elevator - in cfq's case, exiting the cfqq's. Also, clearing of io_cq's on q detach is moved to block core and automatically performed on elevator switch and q release. Because the q io_cq points to might be freed before RCU callback for the io_cq runs, blk-ioc code should remember to which cache the io_cq needs to be freed when the io_cq is released. New field io_cq->__rcu_icq_cache is added for this purpose. As both the new field and rcu_head are used only after io_cq is released and the q/ioc_node fields aren't, they are put into unions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->idTejun Heo1-0/+2
cfq allocates per-queue id using ida and uses it to index cic radix tree from io_context. Move it to q->id and allocate on queue init and free on queue release. This simplifies cfq a bit and will allow for further improvements of io context life-cycle management. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block: add blk_queue_dead()Tejun Heo1-2/+2
There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests. Add blk_queue_dead() macro and use it. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+1
properly shutdown request_queue is refcounted but actually depdends on lifetime management from the queue owner - on blk_cleanup_queue(), block layer expects that there's no request passing through request_queue and no new one will. This is fundamentally broken. The queue owner (e.g. SCSI layer) doesn't have a way to know whether there are other active users before calling blk_cleanup_queue() and other users (e.g. bsg) don't have any guarantee that the queue is and would stay valid while it's holding a reference. With delay added in blk_queue_bio() before queue_lock is grabbed, the following oops can be easily triggered when a device is removed with in-flight IOs. sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Stopping disk ata1.01: disabled general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: Pid: 648, comm: test_rawio Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #56 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8137d651>] [<ffffffff8137d651>] elv_rqhash_find+0x61/0x100 ... Process test_rawio (pid: 648, threadinfo ffff880019efa000, task ffff880019ef8a80) ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8137d774>] elv_merge+0x84/0xe0 [<ffffffff81385b54>] blk_queue_bio+0xf4/0x400 [<ffffffff813838ea>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100 [<ffffffff81383994>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100 [<ffffffff811c53ec>] dio_bio_submit+0xbc/0xc0 [<ffffffff811c610e>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x92e/0xb40 [<ffffffff811c39f7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60 [<ffffffff8113b1c5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760 [<ffffffff8118c1ca>] do_sync_read+0xda/0x120 [<ffffffff8118ce55>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180 [<ffffffff8118cfaa>] sys_pread64+0x9a/0xb0 [<ffffffff81afaf6b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This happens because blk_queue_cleanup() destroys the queue and elevator whether IOs are in progress or not and DEAD tests are sprinkled in the request processing path without proper synchronization. Similar problem exists for blk-throtl. On queue cleanup, blk-throtl is shutdown whether it has requests in it or not. Depending on timing, it either oopses or throttled bios are lost putting tasks which are waiting for bio completion into eternal D state. The way it should work is having the usual clear distinction between shutdown and release. Shutdown drains all currently pending requests, marks the queue dead, and performs partial teardown of the now unnecessary part of the queue. Even after shutdown is complete, reference holders are still allowed to issue requests to the queue although they will be immmediately failed. The rest of teardown happens on release. This patch makes the following changes to make blk_queue_cleanup() behave as proper shutdown. * QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is now set while holding both q->exit_mutex and queue_lock. * Unsynchronized DEAD check in generic_make_request_checks() removed. This couldn't make any meaningful difference as the queue could die after the check. * blk_drain_queue() updated such that it can drain all requests and is now called during cleanup. * blk_throtl updated such that it checks DEAD on grabbing queue_lock, drains all throttled bios during cleanup and free td when queue is released. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/coreJens Axboe1-4/+11
Conflicts: block/blk-core.c include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-28block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()Hannes Reinecke1-0/+5
A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(), Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-09-21block/blk-sysfs.c: fix kerneldoc referencesAndrew Morton1-3/+3
The kerneldoc for blk_release_queue() is referring to blk_cleanup_queue(). Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-08-24block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1Eric Seppanen1-4/+6
Commit 5757a6d76cdf added the QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE flag, but fails to clear that flag when the current state is '2' (SAME_COMP + SAME_FORCE) and the new state is '1' (SAME_COMP). Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Seppanen <eric@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-23block: strict rq_affinityDan Williams1-4/+9
Some systems benefit from completions always being steered to the strict requester cpu rather than the looser "per-socket" steering that blk_cpu_to_group() attempts by default. This is because the first CPU in the group mask ends up being completely overloaded with work, while the others (including the original submitter) has power left to spare. Allow the strict mode to be set by writing '2' to the sysfs control file. This is identical to the scheme used for the nomerges file, where '2' is a more aggressive setting than just being turned on. echo 2 > /sys/block/<bdev>/queue/rq_affinity Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-20Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/coreJens Axboe1-3/+5
Since for-2.6.40/core was forked off the 2.6.39 devel tree, we've had churn in the core area that makes it difficult to handle patches for eg cfq or blk-throttle. Instead of requiring that they be based in older versions with bugs that have been fixed later in the rc cycle, merge in 2.6.39 final. Also fixes up conflicts in the below files. Conflicts: drivers/block/paride/pcd.c drivers/cdrom/viocd.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: Fix discard topology stacking and reportingMartin K. Petersen1-1/+2
In some cases we would end up stacking discard_zeroes_data incorrectly. Fix this by enabling the feature by default for stacking drivers and clearing it for low-level drivers. Incorporating a device that does not support dzd will then cause the feature to be disabled in the stacking driver. Also ensure that the maximum discard value does not overflow when exported in sysfs and return 0 in the alignment and dzd fields for devices that don't support discard. Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_storeTao Ma1-2/+2
In queue_requests_store, the code looks like if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC] >= q->nr_requests) { blk_set_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); } else if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests) { blk_clear_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); wake_up(&rl->wait[BLK_RW_SYNC]); } If we don't satify the situation of "if", we can get that rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC} < q->nr_quests. It is the same as rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests. All the "else" should satisfy the "else if" check so it isn't needed actually. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()Liu Yuan1-1/+3
We do not call blk_trace_remove_sysfs() in err return path if kobject_add() fails. This path fixes it. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-13block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function callLiu Yuan1-2/+1
In the function blk_register_queue(), var _dev_ is already assigned by disk_to_dev().So use it directly instead of calling disk_to_dev() again. Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Modified by me to delete an empty line in the same function while in there anyway. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()Vivek Goyal1-2/+0
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue() there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around. Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported one problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86 And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue(). commit 7ad58c028652753814054f4e3ac58f925e7343f4 Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Date: Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid the problem reported by Ingo. blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn() or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work. In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might never be dispatched. Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related data structures are cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits insteadMartin K. Petersen1-1/+1
When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a metadevice. There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver. The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing. We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking. Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD. Reported-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-23block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle codeJens Axboe1-0/+2
blk_throtl_exit() frees the throttle data hanging off the queue in blk_cleanup_queue(), but blk_put_queue() will indirectly dereference this data when calling blk_sync_queue() which in turns calls throtl_shutdown_timer_wq(). Fix this by moving the freeing of the throttle data to when the queue is truly being released, and post the call to blk_sync_queue(). Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+11
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386 blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O cfq: improve fsync performance for small files ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h