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2011-08-02dm io: flush cpu cache with vmapped ioMikulas Patocka1-2/+27
For normal kernel pages, CPU cache is synchronized by the dma layer. However, this is not done for pages allocated with vmalloc. If we do I/O to/from vmallocated pages, we must synchronize CPU cache explicitly. Prior to doing I/O on vmallocated page we must call flush_kernel_vmap_range to flush dirty cache on the virtual address. After finished read we must call invalidate_kernel_vmap_range to invalidate cache on the virtual address, so that accesses to the virtual address return newly read data and not stale data from CPU cache. This patch fixes metadata corruption on dm-snapshots on PA-RISC and possibly other architectures with caches indexed by virtual address. Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm io: use fixed initial mempool sizeMikulas Patocka1-22/+5
Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size with a constant. The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4. This patch changes it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily. Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose. Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an arbitrary number of "struct io" structures. One structure is enough to process the whole request. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-10block: kill off REQ_UNPLUGJens Axboe1-1/+1
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just unplug at will. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dmTejun Heo1-16/+4
This patch converts bio-based dm to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER. * -EOPNOTSUPP handling logic dropped. * Preflush is handled as before but postflush is dropped and replaced with passing down REQ_FUA to member request_queues. This replaces one array wide cache flush w/ member specific FUA writes. * __split_and_process_bio() now calls __clone_and_map_flush() directly for flushes and guarantees all FLUSH bio's going to targets are zero ` length. * It's now guaranteed that all FLUSH bio's which are passed onto dm targets are zero length. bio_empty_barrier() tests are replaced with REQ_FLUSH tests. * Empty WRITE_BARRIERs are replaced with WRITE_FLUSHes. * Dropped unlikely() around REQ_FLUSH tests. Flushes are not unlikely enough to be marked with unlikely(). * Block layer now filters out REQ_FLUSH/FUA bio's if the request_queue doesn't support cache flushing. Advertise REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA capability. * Request based dm isn't converted yet. dm_init_request_based_queue() resets flush support to 0 for now. To avoid disturbing request based dm code, dm->flush_error is added for bio based dm while requested based dm continues to use dm->barrier_error. Lightly tested linear, stripe, raid1, snap and crypt targets. Please proceed with caution as I'm not familiar with the code base. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: unify flags for struct bio and struct requestChristoph Hellwig1-6/+6
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too. This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them. Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2009-12-10dm io: handle empty barriersMikulas Patocka1-3/+7
Accept empty barriers in dm-io. dm-io will process empty write barrier requests just like the other read/write requests. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm io: remove extra bi_io_vec region hackMikulas Patocka1-34/+55
Remove the hack where we allocate an extra bi_io_vec to store additional private data. This hack prevents us from supporting barriers in dm-raid1 without first making another little block layer change. Instead of doing that, this patch eliminates the bi_io_vec abuse by storing the region number directly in the low bits of bi_private. We need to store two things for each bio, the pointer to the main io structure and, if parallel writes were requested, an index indicating which of these writes this bio belongs to. There can be at most BITS_PER_LONG regions - 32 or 64. The index (region number) was stored in the last (hidden) bio vector and the pointer to struct io was stored in bi_private. This patch now aligns "struct io" on BITS_PER_LONG bytes and stores the region number in the low BITS_PER_LONG bits of bi_private. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-12-10dm io: use slab for struct ioMikulas Patocka1-1/+20
Allocate "struct io" from a slab. This patch changes dm-io, so that "struct io" is allocated from a slab cache. It used to be allocated with kmalloc. Allocating from a slab will be needed for the next patch, because it requires a special alignment of "struct io" and kmalloc cannot meet this alignment. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22dm io: retry after barrier errorMikulas Patocka1-0/+6
If -EOPNOTSUPP was returned and the request was a barrier request, retry it without barrier. Retry all regions for now. Barriers are submitted only for one-region requests, so it doesn't matter. (In the future, retries can be limited to the actual regions that failed.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22dm io: record eopnotsuppMikulas Patocka1-1/+7
Add another field, eopnotsupp_bits. It is subset of error_bits, representing regions that returned -EOPNOTSUPP. (The bit is set in both error_bits and eopnotsupp_bits). This value will be used in further patches. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm io: make sync_io uninterruptibleMikulas Patocka1-4/+1
If someone sends signal to a process performing synchronous dm-io call, the kernel may crash. The function sync_io attempts to exit with -EINTR if it has pending signal, however the structure "io" is allocated on stack, so already submitted io requests end up touching unallocated stack space and corrupting kernel memory. sync_io sets its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so the signal can't break out of io_schedule() --- however, if the signal was pending before sync_io entered while (1) loop, the corruption of kernel memory will happen. There is no way to cancel in-progress IOs, so the best solution is to ignore signals at this point. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-03-16dm io: respect BIO_MAX_PAGES limitMikulas Patocka1-0/+2
dm-io calls bio_get_nr_vecs to get the maximum number of pages to use for a given device. It allocates one additional bio_vec to use internally but failed to respect BIO_MAX_PAGES, so fix this. This was the likely cause of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173153 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-02-18block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNCJens Axboe1-1/+1
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before 213d9417fec62ef4c3675621b9364a667954d4dd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_setJens Axboe1-1/+1
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes. This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio. Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now possible. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-21dm: remove dm header from targetsMikulas Patocka1-1/+1
Change #include "dm.h" to #include <linux/device-mapper.h> in all targets. Targets should not need direct access to internal DM structures. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm: unplug queues in threadsMikulas Patocka1-3/+8
Remove an avoidable 3ms delay on some dm-raid1 and kcopyd I/O. It is specified that any submitted bio without BIO_RW_SYNC flag may plug the queue (i.e. block the requests from being dispatched to the physical device). The queue is unplugged when the caller calls blk_unplug() function. Usually, the sequence is that someone calls submit_bh to submit IO on a buffer. The IO plugs the queue and waits (to be possibly joined with other adjacent bios). Then, when the caller calls wait_on_buffer(), it unplugs the queue and submits the IOs to the disk. This was happenning: When doing O_SYNC writes, function fsync_buffers_list() submits a list of bios to dm_raid1, the bios are added to dm_raid1 write queue and kmirrord is woken up. fsync_buffers_list() calls wait_on_buffer(). That unplugs the queue, but there are no bios on the device queue as they are still in the dm_raid1 queue. wait_on_buffer() starts waiting until the IO is finished. kmirrord is scheduled, kmirrord takes bios and submits them to the devices. The submitted bio plugs the harddisk queue but there is no one to unplug it. (The process that called wait_on_buffer() is already sleeping.) So there is a 3ms timeout, after which the queues on the harddisks are unplugged and requests are processed. This 3ms timeout meant that in certain workloads (e.g. O_SYNC, 8kb writes), dm-raid1 is 10 times slower than md raid1. Every time we submit something asynchronously via dm_io, we must unplug the queue actually to send the request to the device. This patch adds an unplug call to kmirrord - while processing requests, it keeps the queue plugged (so that adjacent bios can be merged); when it finishes processing all the bios, it unplugs the queue to submit the bios. It also fixes kcopyd which has the same potential problem. All kcopyd requests are submitted with BIO_RW_SYNC. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-25dm: move include filesAlasdair G Kergon1-1/+1
Publish the dm-io, dm-log and dm-kcopyd headers in include/linux. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm io: clean interfaceHeinz Mauelshagen1-5/+6
Clean up the dm-io interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm io: rename error to error_bitsAlasdair G Kergon1-7/+7
Rename 'error' to 'error_bits' for clarity. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-03-28dm io: write error bits form long not intAlasdair G Kergon1-1/+1
write_err is an unsigned long used with set_bit() so should not be passed around as unsigned int. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10271 Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_ioNeilBrown1-7/+1
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete, the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it. Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed from bi_size. So don't do that either. While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-12dm io: fix panic on large requestJun'ichi Nomura1-1/+4
bio_alloc_bioset() will return NULL if 'num_vecs' is too large. Use bio_get_nr_vecs() to get estimation of maximum number. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09dm io: remove old interfaceMilan Broz1-127/+4
Remove old dm-io interface. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09dm io: new interfaceHeinz Mauelshagen1-0/+122
Add a new API to dm-io.c that uses a private mempool and bio_set for each client. The new functions to use are dm_io_client_create(), dm_io_client_destroy(), dm_io_client_resize() and dm_io(). Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09dm io: prepare for new interfaceHeinz Mauelshagen1-17/+44
Introduce struct dm_io_client to prepare for per-client mempools and bio_sets. Temporary functions bios() and io_pool() choose between the per-client structures and the global ones so the old and new interfaces can co-exist. Make error_bits optional. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09dm io: delay dec_countHeinz Mauelshagen1-2/+10
Delay decrementing the 'struct io' reference count until after the bio has been freed so that a bio destructor function may reference it. Required by a later patch. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-30[BLOCK] Don't pin lots of memory in mempoolsJens Axboe1-1/+1
Currently we scale the mempool sizes depending on memory installed in the machine, except for the bio pool itself which sits at a fixed 256 entry pre-allocation. There's really no point in "optimizing" this OOM path, we just need enough preallocated to make progress. A single unit is enough, lets scale it down to 2 just to be on the safe side. This patch saves ~150kb of pinned kernel memory on a 32-bit box. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-12-08[PATCH] dm io: fix bi_max_vecsHeinz Mauelshagen1-6/+9
The existing code allocates an extra slot in bi_io_vec[] and uses it to store the region number. This patch hides the extra slot from bio_add_page() so the region number can't get overwritten. Also remove a hard-coded SECTOR_SHIFT and fix a typo in a comment. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocatorMatthew Dobson1-11/+2
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro1-1/+1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kill bio->bi_setPeter Osterlund1-0/+6
Jens: ->bi_set is totally unnecessary bloat of struct bio. Just define a proper destructor for the bio and it already knows what bio_set it belongs too. Peter: Fixed the bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+426
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!