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Jens Axboe cf43e6be86 block: add scalable completion tracking of requests
For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.

The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.

Add sysfs files to display the stats.

The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-10 13:53:26 -07:00
Hannes Reinecke 87caf97cf5 blk-sysfs: Add 'chunk_sectors' to sysfs attributes
The queue limits already have a 'chunk_sectors' setting, so
we should be presenting it via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

[Damien: Updated Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block]

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-10-18 10:02:02 -06:00
Damien Le Moal 797476b88b block: Add 'zoned' queue limit
Add the zoned queue limit to indicate the zoning model of a block device.
Defined values are 0 (BLK_ZONED_NONE) for regular block devices,
1 (BLK_ZONED_HA) for host-aware zone block devices and 2 (BLK_ZONED_HM)
for host-managed zone block devices. The standards defined drive managed
model is not defined here since these block devices do not provide any
command for accessing zone information. Drive managed model devices will
be reported as BLK_ZONED_NONE.

The helper functions blk_queue_zoned_model and bdev_zoned_model return
the zoned limit and the functions blk_queue_is_zoned and bdev_is_zoned
return a boolean for callers to test if a block device is zoned.

The zoned attribute is also exported as a string to applications via
sysfs. BLK_ZONED_NONE shows as "none", BLK_ZONED_HA as "host-aware" and
BLK_ZONED_HM as "host-managed".

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-10-18 10:02:00 -06:00
Matias Bjørling b21d5b3017 blk-mq: register device instead of disk
Enable devices without a gendisk instance to register itself with blk-mq
and expose the associated multi-queue sysfs entries.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-21 07:56:16 -06:00
Yigal Korman ea6ca600eb block: expose QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in sysfs
Provides the ability to identify DAX enabled devices in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman <yigal@plexistor.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-20 21:01:08 -06:00
Jens Axboe 93e9d8e836 block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device
Add an internal helper and flag for setting whether a queue has
write back caching, or write through (or none). Add a sysfs file
to show this as well, and make it changeable from user space.

This will replace the (awkward) blk_queue_flush() interface that
drivers currently use to inform the block layer of write cache state
and capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2016-04-12 15:46:27 -06:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 09cbfeaf1a mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

 - <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
Alan 18f922d037 blk: fix overflow in queue_discard_max_hw_show
We get this right for queue_discard_max_show but not max_hw_show. Follow the
same pattern as queue_discard_max_show instead so that we don't truncate.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-02-17 10:20:42 -07:00
James Bottomley be9e2f775f Merge branch 'mkp-fixes' into fixes 2015-12-03 09:32:33 -08:00
Martin K. Petersen ca369d51b3 block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits
Commit 4f258a4634 ("sd: Fix maximum I/O size for BLOCK_PC requests")
had the unfortunate side-effect of removing an implicit clamp to
BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS for REQ_TYPE_FS requests in the block layer
code. This caused problems for some SMR drives.

Debugging this issue revealed a few problems with the existing
infrastructure since the block layer didn't know how to deal with
device-imposed limits, only limits set by the I/O controller.

 - Introduce a new queue limit, max_dev_sectors, which is used by the
   ULD to signal the maximum sectors for a REQ_TYPE_FS request.

 - Ensure that max_dev_sectors is correctly stacked and taken into
   account when overriding max_sectors through sysfs.

 - Rework sd_read_block_limits() so it saves the max_xfer and opt_xfer
   values for later processing.

 - In sd_revalidate() set the queue's max_dev_sectors based on the
   MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH value in the Block Limits VPD. If this value
   is not reported, fall back to a cap based on the CDB TRANSFER LENGTH
   field size.

 - In sd_revalidate(), use OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH from the Block Limits
   VPD--if reported and sane--to signal the preferred device transfer
   size for FS requests. Otherwise use BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.

 - blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() is no longer used and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93581
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: sweeneygj@gmx.com
Tested-by: Arzeets <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Eisner <david.eisner@oriel.oxon.org>
Tested-by: Mario Kicherer <dev@kicherer.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2015-11-25 21:38:58 -05:00
Jens Axboe 05229beedd block: add block polling support
Add basic support for polling for specific IO to complete. This uses
the cookie that blk-mq passes back, which enables the block layer
to pass this cookie to the driver to spin for a specific request.

This will be combined with request latency tracking, so we can make
qualified decisions about when to poll and when not to. For now, for
benchmark purposes, we add a sysfs file that controls whether polling
is enabled or not.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
2015-11-07 10:40:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 527d1529e3 Merge branch 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block integrity updates from Jens Axboe:
 ""This is the joint work of Dan and Martin, cleaning up and improving
  the support for block data integrity"

* 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile
  block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based drivers
  block: move blk_integrity to request_queue
  block: generic request_queue reference counting
  nvme: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md, dm, scsi, nvme, libnvdimm: drop blk_integrity_unregister() at shutdown
  block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk
  block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs
  block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity
  block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties
  block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk
2015-11-04 20:51:48 -08:00
Dan Williams 3ef28e83ab block: generic request_queue reference counting
Allow pmem, and other synchronous/bio-based block drivers, to fallback
on a per-cpu reference count managed by the core for tracking queue
live/dead state.

The existing per-cpu reference count for the blk_mq case is promoted to
be used in all block i/o scenarios.  This involves initializing it by
default, waiting for it to drop to zero at exit, and holding a live
reference over the invocation of q->make_request_fn() in
generic_make_request().  The blk_mq code continues to take its own
reference per blk_mq request and retains the ability to freeze the
queue, but the check that the queue is frozen is moved to
generic_make_request().

This fixes crash signatures like the following:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880140000000
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8145e8bf>] ? copy_user_handle_tail+0x5f/0x70
  [<ffffffffa004e1e0>] pmem_do_bvec.isra.11+0x70/0xf0 [nd_pmem]
  [<ffffffffa004e331>] pmem_make_request+0xd1/0x200 [nd_pmem]
  [<ffffffff811c3162>] ? mempool_alloc+0x72/0x1a0
  [<ffffffff8141f8b6>] generic_make_request+0xd6/0x110
  [<ffffffff8141f966>] submit_bio+0x76/0x170
  [<ffffffff81286dff>] submit_bh_wbc+0x12f/0x160
  [<ffffffff81286e62>] submit_bh+0x12/0x20
  [<ffffffff813395bd>] jbd2_write_superblock+0x8d/0x170
  [<ffffffff8133974d>] jbd2_mark_journal_empty+0x5d/0x90
  [<ffffffff813399cb>] jbd2_journal_destroy+0x24b/0x270
  [<ffffffff810bc4ca>] ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x2a/0x30
  [<ffffffff810bc6f5>] ? destroy_workqueue+0x225/0x250
  [<ffffffff81303494>] ext4_put_super+0x64/0x360
  [<ffffffff8124ab1a>] generic_shutdown_super+0x6a/0xf0

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-21 14:43:41 -06:00
Tejun Heo b02176f30c block: don't release bdi while request_queue has live references
bdi's are initialized in two steps, bdi_init() and bdi_register(), but
destroyed in a single step by bdi_destroy() which, for a bdi embedded
in a request_queue, is called during blk_cleanup_queue() which makes
the queue invisible and starts the draining of remaining usages.

A request_queue's user can access the congestion state of the embedded
bdi as long as it holds a reference to the queue.  As such, it may
access the congested state of a queue which finished
blk_cleanup_queue() but hasn't reached blk_release_queue() yet.
Because the congested state was embedded in backing_dev_info which in
turn is embedded in request_queue, accessing the congested state after
bdi_destroy() was called was fine.  The bdi was destroyed but the
memory region for the congested state remained accessible till the
queue got released.

a13f35e871 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in
bdi_writeback") changed the situation.  Now, the root congested state
which is expected to be pinned while request_queue remains accessible
is separately reference counted and the base ref is put during
bdi_destroy().  This means that the root congested state may go away
prematurely while the queue is between bdi_dstroy() and
blk_cleanup_queue(), which was detected by Andrey's KASAN tests.

The root cause of this problem is that bdi doesn't distinguish the two
steps of destruction, unregistration and release, and now the root
congested state actually requires a separate release step.  To fix the
issue, this patch separates out bdi_unregister() and bdi_exit() from
bdi_destroy().  bdi_unregister() is called from blk_cleanup_queue()
and bdi_exit() from blk_release_queue().  bdi_destroy() is now just a
simple wrapper calling the two steps back-to-back.

While at it, the prototype of bdi_destroy() is moved right below
bdi_setup_and_register() so that the counterpart operations are
located together.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: a13f35e871 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAAeHK+zUJ74Zn17=rOyxacHU18SgCfC6bsYW=6kCY5GXJBwGfQ@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-15 09:53:28 -06:00
Kent Overstreet 54efd50bfd block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
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>
2015-08-13 12:31:33 -06:00
Jens Axboe 0034af0365 block: make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable
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>
2015-07-17 08:41:53 -06:00
Linus Torvalds e4bc13adfd Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
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
  ...
2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo 66114cad64 writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
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>
2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
Tejun Heo eea8f41cc5 blkcg: move block/blk-cgroup.h to include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
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>
2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
NeilBrown 6cd18e711d block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.
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 c4db59d31e
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: c4db59d31e
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>
2015-04-27 10:27:20 -06:00
Ming Lei e09aae7ede blk-mq: release mq's kobjects in blk_release_queue()
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>
2015-01-29 08:30:51 -08:00
Bart Van Assche 45a9c9d909 blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
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>
2014-12-09 09:07:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d3dc366bba Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
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
  ...
2014-10-18 11:53:51 -07:00
Ming Lei f70ced0917 blk-mq: support per-distpatch_queue flush machinery
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>
2014-09-25 15:22:45 -06:00
Ming Lei ba483388e3 block: remove blk_init_flush() and its pair
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>
2014-09-25 15:22:41 -06:00
Ming Lei f355265571 block: introduce blk_init_flush and its pair
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>
2014-09-25 15:22:35 -06:00
Tejun Heo 17497acbdc blk-mq, percpu_ref: start q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode
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 0a30288da1
("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 9eca80461a ("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: add703fda9 ("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>
2014-09-24 13:37:21 -04:00
Alan Stern df35c7c912 Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queue
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>
2014-09-09 10:44:24 -06:00
Tejun Heo 776687bce4 block, blk-mq: draining can't be skipped even if bypass_depth was non-zero
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>
2014-07-01 10:29:17 -06:00
Ming Lei 3d2936f457 block: only allocate/free mq_usage_counter in blk-mq
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>
2014-05-27 09:37:08 -06:00
Jens Axboe e3a2b3f931 blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfs
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>
2014-05-20 11:49:02 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig 18741986a4 blk-mq: rework flush sequencing logic
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>
2014-02-10 09:29:00 -07:00
Ming Lei 3edcc0ce85 block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
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>
2013-12-31 09:53:05 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 0a06ff068f kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so
remove the new useless config variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Jens Axboe 320ae51fee blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism
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>
2013-10-25 11:56:00 +01:00
Jingoo Han ed751e683c block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
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>
2013-09-11 15:56:56 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann c678ef5286 block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store
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>
2013-04-03 21:53:57 +02:00
Tejun Heo 548bc8e1b3 block: RCU free request_queue
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>
2013-01-09 08:05:13 -08:00
Bart Van Assche 3f3299d5c0 block: Rename queue dead flag
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>
2012-12-06 14:30:58 +01:00
Tejun Heo 749fefe677 block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of 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>
2012-09-21 15:32:57 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen 4363ac7c13 block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
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>
2012-09-20 14:31:45 +02:00
Dave Reisner b1f3b64d76 block: reject invalid queue attribute values
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>
2012-09-09 10:39:18 +02:00
Tejun Heo a051661ca6 blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation
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>
2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5b788ce3e2 block: prepare for multiple request_lists
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>
2012-06-25 11:53:52 +02:00
Tejun Heo e8989fae38 blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policies
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>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 5efd611351 blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue()
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>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 7e5a879449 block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo a73f730d01 block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->id
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 34f6055c80 block: add blk_queue_dead()
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo c9a929dde3 block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() 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>
2011-10-19 14:42:16 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5c04b426f2 Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:30:42 +02:00
Hannes Reinecke 777eb1bf15 block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()
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>
2011-09-28 08:07:01 -06:00
Andrew Morton 499337bb65 block/blk-sysfs.c: fix kerneldoc references
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>
2011-09-21 10:01:22 +02:00
Eric Seppanen e8037d4983 block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1
Commit 5757a6d76c 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>
2011-08-24 08:51:34 +02:00
Dan Williams 5757a6d76c block: strict rq_affinity
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>
2011-07-23 20:44:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 698567f3fa Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/core
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>
2011-05-20 20:33:15 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen a934a00a69 block: Fix discard topology stacking and reporting
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>
2011-05-18 10:37:35 +02:00
Tao Ma 60735b6362 block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_store
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>
2011-04-19 13:51:53 +02:00
Liu Yuan ed5302d3c2 block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()
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>
2011-04-19 13:51:53 +02:00
Liu Yuan 80656b67b3 block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
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>
2011-04-13 22:14:54 +02:00
Vivek Goyal da52777000 block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()
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 7ad58c0286
        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>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Martin K. Petersen e692cb668f block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
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>
2010-12-17 08:35:53 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7ad58c0286 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code
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>
2010-10-23 20:40:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e9dd2b6837 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* '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
2010-10-22 17:00:32 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen 13f05c8d8e block/scsi: Provide a limit on the number of integrity segments
Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.

Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.

Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
2010-09-10 20:50:10 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng c87ffbb812 block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path
kernel needs to kobject_put on dev->kobj if elv_register_queue fails.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:30:29 +02:00
Jens Axboe 956bcb7c1a block: add helpers for the trivial queue flag sysfs show/store entries
The code for nonrot, random, and io stats are completely identical.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:13:50 +02:00
Jens Axboe e2e1a148bc block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions
There are two reasons for doing this:

- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
  are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
  should contribute to the random pool in the first place.

- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:13:00 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 2f4084209a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch
  loop: Update mtime when writing using aops
  block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup
  backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
  Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error
  drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL
  cciss: unlock on error path
  cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes
  cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging
  i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro
  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits
  cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression
  block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible
  Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS
  block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
  block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions
  block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib
  vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()
  paride: fix off-by-one test
  drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size
  ...
2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jens Axboe b4b7a4ef09 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	block/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-19 08:05:10 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen c77a5710b7 block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs
These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum
I/O size.  Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15 12:48:00 +01:00
Emese Revfy 52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Alan D. Brunelle 488991e28e block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/O
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_
merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache).

The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of
a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system.

nomerges        Throughput      %System         Improvement (tput / %sys)
--------        ------------    -----------     -------------------------
0               12.45 MB/sec    0.669365609
1               12.50 MB/sec    0.641519199     0.40% / 2.71%
2               12.52 MB/sec    0.639849750     0.56% / 2.96%

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-29 09:04:08 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen 98262f2762 block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroed
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device
prior to putting metadata down.  However, not all devices return zeroed
blocks after a discard.  Some drives return stale data, potentially
containing old superblocks.  It is therefore important to know whether
discarded blocks are properly zeroed.

Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether
zeroes are returned after a discard operation.  Implement a block level
interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and
queried via a new block device ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03 09:24:48 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen 86b3728141 block: Expose discard granularity
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10 11:50:21 +01:00
Zdenek Kabelac 48c0d4d4c0 Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9.
Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL.

Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were
note properly destroyed during  device removal:

unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80):
  comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff  .........e......
    90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff  .f........S.....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60
    [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0
    [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120
    [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0
    [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0
    [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
    [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20
    [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0
    [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160
    [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod]
    [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0
    [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe b8a9ae779f block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later
we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling
reasons.

This fixes

5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309

and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan c295fc0578 block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512
The patch "block: Use accessor functions for queue limits"
(ae03bf639a) changed queue_max_sectors_store()
to use blk_queue_max_sectors() instead of directly assigning the value.

But blk_queue_max_sectors() differs a bit
1. It sets both max_sectors_kb, and max_hw_sectors_kb
2. Never allows one to change max_sectors_kb above BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS. If one
specifies a value greater then max_hw_sectors is set to that value but
max_sectors is set to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS

I am not sure whether blk_queue_max_sectors() should be changed, as it seems
to be that way for a long time. And there may be callers dependent on that
behaviour.

This patch simply reverts to the older way of directly assigning the value to
max_sectors as it was before.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-01 22:40:15 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng 9cb308ce8d block: sysfs fix mismatched queue_var_{store,show} in 64bit kernel
In blk-sysfs.c, queue_var_store uses unsigned long to store data,
but queue_var_show uses unsigned int to show data.  This causes,

	# echo 70000000000 > /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb
	# cat /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb => get wrong value

Fix it by using unsigned long.

While at it, convert queue_rq_affinity_show() such that it uses bool
variable instead of explicit != 0 testing.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-07-17 16:54:15 +09:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

  physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write
  without incurring a read-modify-write penalty.

  The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by
  the device.  In many cases this is the same as the physical block
  size.  However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking
  (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size).

  The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by
  the device.  This is usually the stripe width for arrays.

  The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start
  of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment.
  Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets
  so filesystems start on proper boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen cd43e26f07 block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs.
However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum
request size, etc. are queue properties.

This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices.  The elevator
code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen ae03bf639a block: Use accessor functions for queue limits
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Jerome Marchand 42dad7647a block: simplify I/O stat accounting
This simplifies I/O stat accounting switching code and separates it
completely from I/O scheduler switch code.

Requests are accounted according to the state of their request queue
at the time of the request allocation. There is no need anymore to
flush the request queue when switching I/O accounting state.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-24 08:54:21 +02:00
Li Zefan 1d54ad6da9 blktrace: add trace/ to /sys/block/sda
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices

To trace a single partition:
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable

To trace the whole sda instead:
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable

Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace
can't be used to trace device-mapper devices.

Now:

  # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable
  echo: write error: No such device or address
  # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt
  # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable
  # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer

Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42665.6020506@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16 10:10:59 +02:00
Jens Axboe f600abe2de block: fix bad spelling of quiesce
Credit goes to Andrew Morton for spotting this one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:09 +02:00
Jerome Marchand 26308eab69 block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
accounting is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1faa16d228 block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead
of doing the split on writes vs reads.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
Jens Axboe bc58ba9468 block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases
where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:38 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 1308835fff block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs
For some devices (i.e. CFA ATA) we can't reliably detect whether
the device is of rotational or non-rotational type so we need to
leave the final decision about this setting to the user-space.

As a bonus do a minor CodingStyle fixup in queue_nomerges_store().

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Wu Fengguang 7c239517d9 block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Jens Axboe c7c22e4d5c block: add support for IO CPU affinity
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of
either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export
a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions
of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper
(bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask
for completion on that specific CPU.

In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much
as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired.

This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only
work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp
helper infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo ed9e198234 block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()
Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device
instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev.  To make sure no
user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev.

This is in preparation of unifying partition 0 handling with other
partitions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Jens Axboe bf0f97025c block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*()
Concurrency isn't a big deal here since we have requests in flight
at this point, but do the locked variant to set a better example.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:09:39 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle ac9fafa124 block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
Akinobu Mita fb19974630 block: fix blk_register_queue() return value
blk_register_queue() returns -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL.  But there
are some block drivers that call blk_register_queue() via add_disk() with
queue->request_fn == NULL.  (For example, brd, loop)

Although no one checks return value of blk_register_queue(), this patch makes
it return 0 instead of -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL,

Also this patch adds warning when blk_register_queue() and
blk_unregister_queue() are called with queue == NULL rather than ignore
invalid usage silently.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21 09:51:06 +02:00
Jens Axboe 6728cb0e63 block: make core bits checkpatch compliant
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01 09:26:33 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen e68b903c6b Expose hardware sector size
Expose hardware sector size in sysfs queue directory.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:17 +01:00
Jens Axboe 8324aa91d1 block: split tag and sysfs handling from blk-core.c
Seperates the tag and sysfs handling from ll_rw_blk.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29 21:55:07 +01:00