Return if the function ended up sending an uevent or not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.9
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
All remaining callers of bdget() outside of fs/block_dev.c want to get a
reference to the struct block_device for a given struct hd_struct. Add
a helper just for that and then mark bdget static.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
No need to go through the hd_struct to find the partition number.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Use blkdev_get_by_dev instead of open coding it using bdget_disk +
blkdev_get, and split the code to read the partition table into a
separate helper to make it a little more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We can only scan for partitions on the whole disk, so move the flag
from struct block_device to struct gendisk.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Like check_disk_changed, except that it does not call ->revalidate_disk
but leaves that to the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Only virtio_blk and xen-blkfront set the revalidate argument to true,
and both do not implement the ->revalidate_disk method. So switch
to the helper that just updates the size instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace bd_invalidate with a new BDEV_NEED_PART_SCAN flag in a bd_flags
variable to better describe the condition.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Use early returns and goto-based unwinding to simplify the flow a bit.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Drop the repeated word "to" in multiple places.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In order to improve consistency and usability in cgroup stat accounting,
we would like to support the root cgroup's io.stat.
Since the root cgroup has processes doing io even if the system has no
explicitly created cgroups, we need to be careful to avoid overhead in
that case. For that reason, the rstat algorithms don't handle the root
cgroup, so just turning the file on wouldn't give correct statistics.
To get around this, we simulate flushing the iostat struct by filling it
out directly from global disk stats. The result is a root cgroup io.stat
file consistent with both /proc/diskstats and io.stat.
Note that in order to collect the disk stats, we needed to iterate over
devices. To facilitate that, we had to change the linkage of a disk_type
to external so that it can be used from blk-cgroup.c to iterate over
disks.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
md is the last driver using the legacy media_changed method. Switch
it over to (not so) new ->clear_events approach, which also removes the
need for the ->revalidate_disk method.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[axboe: remove unused 'bdops' variable in disk_clear_events()]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Commit dc9edc44de ("block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression") merged on
v4.12 moved the work behind blk_release_queue() into a workqueue after a
splat floated around which indicated some work on blk_release_queue()
could sleep in blk_exit_rl(). This splat would be possible when a driver
called blk_put_queue() or blk_cleanup_queue() (which calls blk_put_queue()
as its final call) from an atomic context.
blk_put_queue() decrements the refcount for the request_queue kobject, and
upon reaching 0 blk_release_queue() is called. Although blk_exit_rl() is
now removed through commit db6d995235 ("block: remove request_list code")
on v5.0, we reserve the right to be able to sleep within
blk_release_queue() context.
The last reference for the request_queue must not be called from atomic
context. *When* the last reference to the request_queue reaches 0 varies,
and so let's take the opportunity to document when that is expected to
happen and also document the context of the related calls as best as
possible so we can avoid future issues, and with the hopes that the
synchronous request_queue removal sticks.
We revert back to synchronous request_queue removal because asynchronous
removal creates a regression with expected userspace interaction with
several drivers. An example is when removing the loopback driver, one
uses ioctls from userspace to do so, but upon return and if successful,
one expects the device to be removed. Likewise if one races to add another
device the new one may not be added as it is still being removed. This was
expected behavior before and it now fails as the device is still present
and busy still. Moving to asynchronous request_queue removal could have
broken many scripts which relied on the removal to have been completed if
there was no error. Document this expectation as well so that this
doesn't regress userspace again.
Using asynchronous request_queue removal however has helped us find
other bugs. In the future we can test what could break with this
arrangement by enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE.
While at it, update the docs with the context expectations for the
request_queue / gendisk refcount decrement, and make these
expectations explicit by using might_sleep().
Fixes: dc9edc44de ("block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression")
Suggested-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: yu kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Let us clarify the context under which the helpers to increment the
refcount for the gendisk and request_queue can be called under. We
make this explicit on the places where we may sleep with might_sleep().
We don't address the decrement context yet, as that needs some extra
work and fixes, but will be addressed in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This adds documentation for the gendisk / request_queue refcount
helpers.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The RCU lock is required only in disk_map_sector_rcu() to lookup the
partition. After that request holds reference to related hd_struct.
Replace get_cpu() with preempt_disable() - returned cpu index is unused.
[hch: rebased]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
percpu variables have a perfectly fine working stub implementation
for UP kernels, so use that.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
part_inc_in_flight and part_dec_in_flight only have one caller each, and
those callers are purely for bio based drivers. Merge each function into
the only caller, and remove the superflous blk-mq checks.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Don't bother to call part_in_flight / part_in_flight_rw on blk-mq
devices, just call the blk-mq versions directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
gendisk can't be gone when there is IO activity, so not hold
part0's refcount in IO path.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The seqcount of 'nr_sects_seq' is only needed in case of 32bit SMP,
so define it just for 32bit SMP.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
delete_partition() clears the cached last_lookup partition. However the
.last_lookup cache may be overwritten by one IO path after it is cleared
from delete_partition(). Then another IO path may use the cached deleting
partition after hd_struct_free() is called, then use-after-free is triggered
on the cached partition.
Fixes the issue by the following approach:
1) always get the partition's refcount via hd_struct_try_get() before
setting .last_lookup
2) move clearing .last_lookup from delete_partition() to hd_struct_free()
which is the release handle of the partition's percpu-refcount, so that no
IO path can cache deleteing partition via .last_lookup.
It is one candidate approach of Yufen's patch[1] which adds overhead
in fast path by indirect lookup which may introduce one extra cacheline
in IO path. Also this patch relies on percpu-refcount's protection, and
it is easier to understand and verify.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20200109013551.GB9655@ming.t460p/T/#t
Reported-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Split out a new bdi_set_owner helper to set the owner, and move the policy
for creating the bdi name back into genhd.c, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
invalidate_partition and bdev_unhash_inode are always paired, and
invalidate_partition already does an icache lookup for the block device
inode. Piggy back on that to remove the inode from the hash.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
invalidate_partition is only used in genhd.c, so mark it static. Also
drop the return value given that is is always ignored.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
All callers have the hd_struct at hand, so pass it instead of performing
another lookup.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'for-5.7/block-2020-03-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Online capacity resizing (Balbir)
- Number of hardware queue change fixes (Bart)
- null_blk fault injection addition (Bart)
- Cleanup of queue allocation, unifying the node/no-node API
(Christoph)
- Cleanup of genhd, moving code to where it makes sense (Christoph)
- Cleanup of the partition handling code (Christoph)
- disk stat fixes/improvements (Konstantin)
- BFQ improvements (Paolo)
- Various fixes and improvements
* tag 'for-5.7/block-2020-03-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (72 commits)
block: return NULL in blk_alloc_queue() on error
block: move bio_map_* to blk-map.c
Revert "blkdev: check for valid request queue before issuing flush"
block: simplify queue allocation
bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request
null_blk: use blk_mq_init_queue_data
block: add a blk_mq_init_queue_data helper
block: move the ->devnode callback to struct block_device_operations
block: move the part_stat* helpers from genhd.h to a new header
block: move block layer internals out of include/linux/genhd.h
block: move guard_bio_eod to bio.c
block: unexport get_gendisk
block: unexport disk_map_sector_rcu
block: unexport disk_get_part
block: mark part_in_flight and part_in_flight_rw static
block: mark block_depr static
block: factor out requeue handling from dispatch code
block/diskstats: replace time_in_queue with sum of request times
block/diskstats: accumulate all per-cpu counters in one pass
block/diskstats: more accurate approximation of io_ticks for slow disks
...
There really isn't any good reason to stash a method directly into
struct gendisk. Move it together with the other block device
operations.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Column "time_in_queue" in diskstats is supposed to show total waiting time
of all requests. I.e. value should be equal to the sum of times from other
columns. But this is not true, because column "time_in_queue" is counted
separately in jiffies rather than in nanoseconds as other times.
This patch removes redundant counter for "time_in_queue" and shows total
time of read, write, discard and flush requests.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move the sysfs _show methods that are used both on the full disk and
partition nodes to genhd.c instead of hiding them in the partitioning
code. Also move the declaration for these methods to block/blk.h so
that we don't expose them to drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thes functions aren't really related to partition support, so move them
to a more suitable place.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This function is only used by init/do_mounts.c, which can't be modular.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Allow block/genhd to notify user space (via udev) about disk size changes
using a new helper set_capacity_revalidate_and_notify(), which is a wrapper
on top of set_capacity(). set_capacity_revalidate_and_notify() will only
notify via udev if the current capacity or the target capacity is not zero
and iff the capacity changes.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Someswarudu Sangaraju <ssomesh@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Commit b72053072c ("block: allow partitions on host aware zone
devices") introduced the helper function disk_has_partitions() to check
if a given disk has valid partitions. However, since this function result
directly depends on the disk partition table length rather than the
actual existence of valid partitions in the table, it returns true even
after all partitions are removed from the disk. For host aware zoned
block devices, this results in zone management support to be kept
disabled even after removing all partitions.
Fix this by changing disk_has_partitions() to walk through the partition
table entries and return true if and only if a valid non-zero size
partition is found.
Fixes: b72053072c ("block: allow partitions on host aware zone devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.5
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Requests that triggers flushing volatile writeback cache to disk (barriers)
have significant effect to overall performance.
Block layer has sophisticated engine for combining several flush requests
into one. But there is no statistics for actual flushes executed by disk.
Requests which trigger flushes usually are barriers - zero-size writes.
This patch adds two iostat counters into /sys/class/block/$dev/stat and
/proc/diskstats - count of completed flush requests and their total time.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When elevator_init_mq() is called from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(),
the only information known about the device is the number of hardware
queues as the block device scan by the device driver is not completed
yet for most drivers. The device type and elevator required features
are not set yet, preventing to correctly select the default elevator
most suitable for the device.
This currently affects all multi-queue zoned block devices which default
to the "none" elevator instead of the required "mq-deadline" elevator.
These drives currently include host-managed SMR disks connected to a
smartpqi HBA and null_blk block devices with zoned mode enabled.
Upcoming NVMe Zoned Namespace devices will also be affected.
Fix this by adding the boolean elevator_init argument to
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() to control the execution of
elevator_init_mq(). Two cases exist:
1) elevator_init = false is used for calls to
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() within blk_mq_init_queue(). In this
case, a call to elevator_init_mq() is added to __device_add_disk(),
resulting in the delayed initialization of the queue elevator
after the device driver finished probing the device information. This
effectively allows elevator_init_mq() access to more information
about the device.
2) elevator_init = true preserves the current behavior of initializing
the elevator directly from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(). This case
is used for the special request based DM devices where the device
gendisk is created before the queue initialization and device
information (e.g. queue limits) is already known when the queue
initialization is executed.
Additionally, to make sure that the elevator initialization is never
done while requests are in-flight (there should be none when the device
driver calls device_add_disk()), freeze and quiesce the device request
queue before calling blk_mq_init_sched() in elevator_init_mq().
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The runtime configurable module parameter files are located under
/sys/module/MODULENAME/parameters, not /sys/module/MODULENAME.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
in order to avoid any potential type mistakes, in particular in the
context in which this code is being used.
So, replace the following form:
sizeof(*new_ptbl) + target * sizeof(new_ptbl->part[0])
with:
struct_size(new_ptbl, part, target)
Also, notice that variable size is unnecessary, hence it is removed.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch avoids that the kernel-doc tool warns about this function
header when building with W=1.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chiatanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Various block layer files do not have any licensing information at all.
Add SPDX tags for the default kernel GPLv2 license to those.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
commit 2da78092dd "block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime"
specifically moved blk_free_devt(dev->devt) call to part_release()
to avoid reallocating device number before the device is fully
shutdown.
However, it can cause use-after-free on gendisk in get_gendisk().
We use md device as example to show the race scenes:
Process1 Worker Process2
md_free
blkdev_open
del_gendisk
add delete_partition_work_fn() to wq
__blkdev_get
get_gendisk
put_disk
disk_release
kfree(disk)
find part from ext_devt_idr
get_disk_and_module(disk)
cause use after free
delete_partition_work_fn
put_device(part)
part_release
remove part from ext_devt_idr
Before <devt, hd_struct pointer> is removed from ext_devt_idr by
delete_partition_work_fn(), we can find the devt and then access
gendisk by hd_struct pointer. But, if we access the gendisk after
it have been freed, it can cause in use-after-freeon gendisk in
get_gendisk().
We fix this by adding a new helper blk_invalidate_devt() in
delete_partition() and del_gendisk(). It replaces hd_struct
pointer in idr with value 'NULL', and deletes the entry from
idr in part_release() as we do now.
Thanks to Jan Kara for providing the solution and more clear comments
for the code.
Fixes: 2da78092dd ("block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime")
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Drivers now report to the block layer if they support media change
events. If this is not the case, there's no need to allocate the event
structure, and all event handling code can effectively be skipped. This
simplifies code flow in particular for non-removable sd devices.
This effectively reverts commit 75e3f3ee3c ("block: always allocate
genhd->ev if check_events is implemented").
The sysfs files for the events are kept in place even if no events are
supported, as user space may rely on them being present. The only
difference is that an error code is now returned if the user tries to
set poll_msecs.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Christoph Hellwig