It's often inconvenient to use BIO_MAX_PAGES due to min() requiring the
sign to be the same. Introduce bio_max_segs() and change BIO_MAX_PAGES to
be unsigned to make it easier for the users.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The function uses a goto-based loop, which may lead to an earlier error
getting discarded by a later iteration. Exit this ad-hoc loop when an
error was encountered.
The out-of-memory error path additionally fails to fill a structure
field looked at by xen_blkbk_unmap_prepare() before inspecting the
handle which does get properly set (to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE).
Since the earlier exiting from the ad-hoc loop requires the same field
filling (invalidation) as that on the out-of-memory path, fold both
paths. While doing so, drop the pr_alert(), as extra log messages aren't
going to help the situation (the kernel will log oom conditions already
anyway).
This is XSA-365.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
In particular -ENOMEM may come back here, from set_foreign_p2m_mapping().
Don't make problems worse, the more that handling elsewhere (together
with map's status fields now indicating whether a mapping wasn't even
attempted, and hence has to be considered failed) doesn't require this
odd way of dealing with errors.
This is part of XSA-362.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Instead of having similar helpers in multiple backend drivers use
common helpers for caching pages allocated via gnttab_alloc_pages().
Make use of those helpers in blkback and scsiback.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovksy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
In order to reduce the chance for the system becoming unresponsive due
to event storms triggered by a misbehaving blkfront use the lateeoi
irq binding for blkback and unmask the event channel only after
processing all pending requests.
As the thread processing requests is used to do purging work in regular
intervals an EOI may be sent only after having received an event. If
there was no pending I/O request flag the EOI as spurious.
This is part of XSA-332.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
A few of static variables in blkback have 'xen_blkif_' prefix, though it
is unnecessary for static variables. This commit removes such prefixes.
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Each `blkif` has a free pages pool for the grant mapping. The size of
the pool starts from zero and is increased on demand while processing
the I/O requests. If current I/O requests handling is finished or 100
milliseconds has passed since last I/O requests handling, it checks and
shrinks the pool to not exceed the size limit, `max_buffer_pages`.
Therefore, host administrators can cause memory pressure in blkback by
attaching a large number of block devices and inducing I/O. Such
problematic situations can be avoided by limiting the maximum number of
devices that can be attached, but finding the optimal limit is not so
easy. Improper set of the limit can results in memory pressure or a
resource underutilization. This commit avoids such problematic
situations by squeezing the pools (returns every free page in the pool
to the system) for a while (users can set this duration via a module
parameter) if memory pressure is detected.
Discussions
===========
The `blkback`'s original shrinking mechanism returns only pages in the
pool which are not currently be used by `blkback` to the system. In
other words, the pages that are not mapped with granted pages. Because
this commit is changing only the shrink limit but still uses the same
freeing mechanism it does not touch pages which are currently mapping
grants.
Once memory pressure is detected, this commit keeps the squeezing limit
for a user-specified time duration. The duration should be neither too
long nor too short. If it is too long, the squeezing incurring overhead
can reduce the I/O performance. If it is too short, `blkback` will not
free enough pages to reduce the memory pressure. This commit sets the
value as `10 milliseconds` by default because it is a short time in
terms of I/O while it is a long time in terms of memory operations.
Also, as the original shrinking mechanism works for at least every 100
milliseconds, this could be a somewhat reasonable choice. I also tested
other durations (refer to the below section for more details) and
confirmed that 10 milliseconds is the one that works best with the test.
That said, the proper duration depends on actual configurations and
workloads. That's why this commit allows users to set the duration as a
module parameter.
Memory Pressure Test
====================
To show how this commit fixes the memory pressure situation well, I
configured a test environment on a xen-running virtualization system.
On the `blkfront` running guest instances, I attach a large number of
network-backed volume devices and induce I/O to those. Meanwhile, I
measure the number of pages that swapped in (pswpin) and out (pswpout)
on the `blkback` running guest. The test ran twice, once for the
`blkback` before this commit and once for that after this commit. As
shown below, this commit has dramatically reduced the memory pressure:
pswpin pswpout
before 76,672 185,799
after 867 3,967
Optimal Aggressive Shrinking Duration
-------------------------------------
To find a best squeezing duration, I repeated the test with three
different durations (1ms, 10ms, and 100ms). The results are as below:
duration pswpin pswpout
1 707 5,095
10 867 3,967
100 362 3,348
As expected, the memory pressure decreases as the duration increases,
but the reduction become slow from the `10ms`. Based on this results, I
chose the default duration as 10ms.
Performance Overhead Test
=========================
This commit could incur I/O performance degradation under severe memory
pressure because the squeezing will require more page allocations per
I/O. To show the overhead, I artificially made a worst-case squeezing
situation and measured the I/O performance of a `blkfront` running
guest.
For the artificial squeezing, I set the `blkback.max_buffer_pages` using
the `/sys/module/xen_blkback/parameters/max_buffer_pages` file. In this
test, I set the value to `1024` and `0`. The `1024` is the default
value. Setting the value as `0` is same to a situation doing the
squeezing always (worst-case).
If the underlying block device is slow enough, the squeezing overhead
could be hidden. For the reason, I use a fast block device, namely the
rbd[1]:
# xl block-attach guest phy:/dev/ram0 xvdb w
For the I/O performance measurement, I run a simple `dd` command 5 times
directly to the device as below and collect the 'MB/s' results.
$ for i in {1..5}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdb \
bs=4k count=$((256*512)); sync; done
The results are as below. 'max_pgs' represents the value of the
`blkback.max_buffer_pages` parameter.
max_pgs Min Max Median Avg Stddev
0 417 423 420 419.4 2.5099801
1024 414 425 416 417.8 4.4384682
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
In short, even worst case squeezing on ramdisk based fast block device
makes no visible performance degradation. Please note that this is just
a very simple and minimal test. On systems using super-fast block
devices and a special I/O workload, the results might be different. If
you have any doubt, test on your machine with your workload to find the
optimal squeezing duration for you.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.html
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.5b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- a patch to fix a build warning
- a cleanup of no longer needed code in the Xen event handling
- a small series for the Xen grant driver avoiding high order
allocations and replacing an insane global limit by a per-call one
- a small series fixing Xen frontend/backend module referencing
* tag 'for-linus-5.5b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen-blkback: allow module to be cleanly unloaded
xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules
xen/gntdev: switch from kcalloc() to kvcalloc()
xen/gntdev: replace global limit of mapped pages by limit per call
xen/gntdev: remove redundant non-zero check on ret
xen/events: remove event handling recursion detection
For each I/O request, blkback first maps the foreign pages for the
request to its local pages. If an allocation of a local page for the
mapping fails, it should unmap every mapping already made for the
request.
However, blkback's handling mechanism for the allocation failure does
not mark the remaining foreign pages as unmapped. Therefore, the unmap
function merely tries to unmap every valid grant page for the request,
including the pages not mapped due to the allocation failure. On a
system that fails the allocation frequently, this problem leads to
following kernel crash.
[ 372.012538] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000001
[ 372.012546] IP: [<ffffffff814071ac>] gnttab_unmap_refs.part.7+0x1c/0x40
[ 372.012557] PGD 16f3e9067 PUD 16426e067 PMD 0
[ 372.012562] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[ 372.012566] Modules linked in: act_police sch_ingress cls_u32
...
[ 372.012746] Call Trace:
[ 372.012752] [<ffffffff81407204>] gnttab_unmap_refs+0x34/0x40
[ 372.012759] [<ffffffffa0335ae3>] xen_blkbk_unmap+0x83/0x150 [xen_blkback]
...
[ 372.012802] [<ffffffffa0336c50>] dispatch_rw_block_io+0x970/0x980 [xen_blkback]
...
Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
This commit fixes this problem by marking the grant pages of the given
request that didn't mapped due to the allocation failure as invalid.
Fixes: c6cc142dac ("xen-blkback: use balloon pages for all mappings")
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The struct persistent_gnt flags member is meant to be a bitfield of
different flags. There is only PERSISTENT_GNT_ACTIVE flag left, so
convert it to a bool named "active".
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Persistent grants are allocated until a threshold per ring is being
reached. Those grants won't be freed until the ring is being destroyed
meaning there will be resources kept busy which might no longer be
used.
Instead of freeing only persistent grants until the threshold is
reached add a timestamp and remove all persistent grants not having
been in use for a minute.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as
using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
readable.
see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
Done with automated conversion via:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>
Miscellanea:
o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Avoid that smatch reports the following warning when building with
C=2 CHECK="smatch -p=kernel":
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c:710 xen_blkbk_unmap_prepare() warn: inconsistent indenting
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Roger Pau Monn303251 <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull in the fix for shared tags, as it conflicts with the pending
changes in for-4.13/block. We already pulled in v4.12-rc5 to solve
other conflicts or get fixes that went into 4.12, so not a lot
of changes in this merge.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Rather than constructing a local structure instance on the stack, fill
the fields directly on the shared ring, just like other backends do.
Build on the fact that all response structure flavors are actually
identical (the old code did make this assumption too).
This is XSA-216.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
There is no need to use xen_blkif_get()/xen_blkif_put() in the kthread
of xen-blkback. Thread stopping is synchronous and using the blkif
reference counting in the kthread will avoid to ever let the reference
count drop to zero at the end of an I/O running concurrent to
disconnecting and multiple rings.
Setting ring->xenblkd to NULL after stopping the kthread isn't needed
as the kthread does this already.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Remove the WRITE_* and READ_SYNC wrappers, and just use the flags
directly. Where applicable this also drops usage of the
bio_set_op_attrs wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have xen
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw
instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as
generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.
This pull request contains:
- A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
community, so it's about time that they got in.
- A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.
- A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
Peng.
- A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.
- A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.
- A null_blk division fix from Arnd"
* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of ->xbdev.
xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
...
Make st_* statistics per ring and the VBD sysfs would iterate over all the
rings.
Note: xenvbd_sysfs_delif() is called in xen_blkbk_remove() before all rings
are torn down, so it's safe.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
v2: Aligned the variables on the same column.
xen_blkif_schedule() kthread calls try_to_freeze() at the beginning of
every attempt to purge the LRU. This operation can't ever succeed though,
as the kthread hasn't marked itself as freezable.
Before (hopefully eventually) kthread freezing gets converted to fileystem
freezing, we'd rather mark xen_blkif_schedule() freezable (as it can
generate I/O during suspend).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue/ring instead of
per-device to get better scalability.
Test was done based on null_blk driver:
dom0: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB "modprobe null_blk"
domu: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB
[test]
rw=read
direct=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
time_based
runtime=30
filename=/dev/xvdb
numjobs=16
iodepth=64
iodepth_batch=64
iodepth_batch_complete=64
group_reporting
Results:
iops1: After patch "xen/blkfront: make persistent grants per-queue".
iops2: After this patch.
Queues: 1 4 8 16
Iops orig(k): 810 1064 780 700
Iops1(k): 810 1230(~20%) 1024(~20%) 850(~20%)
Iops2(k): 810 1410(~35%) 1354(~75%) 1440(~100%)
With 4 queues after this commit we can get ~75% increase in IOPS, and
performance won't drop if increasing queue numbers.
Please find the respective chart in this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/agrcy2pbzbsvmwv/iops.png?dl=0
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Backend advertises "multi-queue-max-queues" to front, also get the negotiated
number from "multi-queue-num-queues" written by blkfront.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Split per ring information to an new structure "xen_blkif_ring", so that one vbd
device can be associated with one or more rings/hardware queues.
Introduce 'pers_gnts_lock' to protect the pool of persistent grants since we
may have multi backend threads.
This patch is a preparation for supporting multi hardware queues/rings.
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
v2: Align the variables in the structure.
Since indirect descriptors are in memory shared with the frontend, the
frontend could alter the first_sect and last_sect values after they have
been validated but before they are recorded in the request. This may
result in I/O requests that overflow the foreign page, possibly
overwriting local pages when the I/O request is executed.
When parsing indirect descriptors, only read first_sect and last_sect
once.
This is part of XSA155.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Linux may use a different page size than the size of grant. So make
clear that the order is actually in number of grant.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
The PV block protocol is using 4KB page granularity. The goal of this
patch is to allow a Linux using 64KB page granularity behaving as a
block backend on a non-modified Xen.
It's only necessary to adapt the ring size and the number of request per
indirect frames. The rest of the code is relying on the grant table
code.
Note that the grant table code is allocating a Linux page per grant
which will result to waste 6OKB for every grant when Linux is using 64KB
page granularity. This could be improved by sharing the page between
multiple grants.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
"This first core part of the block IO changes contains:
- Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph. We used to
rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
store the error in the bio itself.
- Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.
- Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
from Jeff Moyer. This caused performance regressions in various
tests. Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
instead.
- Make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
when deleting files. Enable the admin to configure the size down.
We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
sectors.
- Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.
- Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
path). From Kent.
- Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
faster. From Ming Lei.
- Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
condition.
- Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
for a while, and testing them. Ming also did a few fixes around
that.
- Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
the bio->bi_error changes from Christoph.
- Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"
* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
block: simplify bio_add_page()
block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put()
block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
...
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Konrad writes:
"There are three bugs that have been found in the xen-blkfront (and
backend). Two of them have the stable tree CC-ed. They have been found
where an guest is migrating to a host that is missing
'feature-persistent' support (from one that has it enabled). We end up
hitting an BUG() in the driver code."
The BUG_ON() in purge_persistent_gnt() will be triggered when previous purge
work haven't finished.
There is a work_pending() before this BUG_ON, but it doesn't account if the work
is still currently running.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
- Add "make xenconfig" to assist in generating configs for Xen guests.
- Preparatory cleanups necessary for supporting 64 KiB pages in ARM
guests.
- Automatically use hvc0 as the default console in ARM guests.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
"Xen features and cleanups for 4.2-rc0:
- add "make xenconfig" to assist in generating configs for Xen guests
- preparatory cleanups necessary for supporting 64 KiB pages in ARM
guests
- automatically use hvc0 as the default console in ARM guests"
* tag 'for-linus-4.2-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
block/xen-blkback: s/nr_pages/nr_segs/
block/xen-blkfront: Remove invalid comment
block/xen-blkfront: Remove unused macro MAXIMUM_OUTSTANDING_BLOCK_REQS
arm/xen: Drop duplicate define mfn_to_virt
xen/grant-table: Remove unused macro SPP
xen/xenbus: client: Fix call of virt_to_mfn in xenbus_grant_ring
xen: Include xen/page.h rather than asm/xen/page.h
kconfig: add xenconfig defconfig helper
kconfig: clarify kvmconfig is for kvm
xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval
xen/tmem: use BUILD_BUG_ON() in favor of BUG_ON()
hvc_xen: avoid uninitialized variable warning
xenbus: avoid uninitialized variable warning
xen/arm: allow console=hvc0 to be omitted for guests
arm,arm64/xen: move Xen initialization earlier
arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present
Make the code less confusing to read now that Linux may not have the
same page size as Xen.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Extend xen/block to support multi-page ring, so that more requests can be
issued by using more than one pages as the request ring between blkfront
and backend.
As a result, the performance can get improved significantly.
We got some impressive improvements on our highend iscsi storage cluster
backend. If using 64 pages as the ring, the IOPS increased about 15 times
for the throughput testing and above doubled for the latency testing.
The reason was the limit on outstanding requests is 32 if use only one-page
ring, but in our case the iscsi lun was spread across about 100 physical
drives, 32 was really not enough to keep them busy.
Changes in v2:
- Rebased to 4.0-rc6.
- Document on how multi-page ring feature working to linux io/blkif.h.
Changes in v3:
- Remove changes to linux io/blkif.h and follow the protocol defined
in io/blkif.h of XEN tree.
- Rebased to 4.1-rc3
Changes in v4:
- Turn to use 'ring-page-order' and 'max-ring-page-order'.
- A few comments from Roger.
Changes in v5:
- Clarify with 4k granularity to comment
- Address more comments from Roger
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
There are several place using gnttab async unmap and wait for
completion, so move the common code to a function
gnttab_unmap_refs_sync().
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Commit c43cf3ea83 ("xen-blkback: safely unmap grants in case they
are still in use") use gnttab_unmap_refs_async() to wait until the
mapped pages are no longer in use before unmapping them, but that
commit missed the persistent case. Purge persistent pages can't be
unmapped either unless no longer in use.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Define pr_fmt macro with {xen-blkback: } prefix, then remove all use
of DRV_PFX in the pr sentences. Replace all DPRINTK with pr sentences,
and get rid of DPRINTK macro. It will simplify the code.
And if the pr sentences miss a \n, add it in the end. If the DPRINTK
sentences have redundant \n, remove it. It will format the code.
These all make the readability of the code become better.
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Use gnttab_unmap_refs_async() to wait until the mapped pages are no
longer in use before unmapping them.
This allows blkback to use network storage which may retain refs to
pages in queued skbs after the block I/O has completed.
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.de>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Add gnttab_alloc_pages() and gnttab_free_pages() to allocate/free pages
suitable to for granted maps.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Fix leaking a page when a grant mapping has failed.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Initialize persistent_purge_work work_struct on xen_blkif_alloc (and
remove the previous initialization done in purge_persistent_gnt). This
prevents flush_work from complaining even if purge_persistent_gnt has
not been used.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Konrad writes:
Please git pull the following branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14
which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.
The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.
They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.
There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
This was wrongly introduced in commit 402b27f9, the only difference
between blkif_request_segment_aligned and blkif_request_segment is
that the former has a named padding, while both share the same
memory layout.
Also correct a few minor glitches in the description, including for it
to no longer assume PAGE_SIZE == 4096.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[Description fix by Jan Beulich]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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