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Shaohua Li 4cff729f62 blk-throttle: output some debug info in trace
These info are important to understand what's happening and help debug.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-05-22 14:47:12 -06:00
Shaohua Li 5b81fc3cc6 blk-throttle: add hierarchy support for latency target and idle time
For idle time, children's setting should not be bigger than parent's.
For latency target, children's setting should not be smaller than
parent's. The leaf nodes will adjust their settings according to the
hierarchy and compare their IO with the settings and do
upgrade/downgrade. parents nodes don't need to track their IO
latency/idle time.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-05-22 14:47:12 -06:00
Jens Axboe 2bc19cd5fd blk-throttle: fix unused variable warning with BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW=n
We trigger this warning:

block/blk-throttle.c: In function ‘blk_throtl_bio’:
block/blk-throttle.c:2042:6: warning: variable ‘ret’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  int ret;
      ^~~

since we only assign 'ret' if BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is off, we never
check it.

Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 09:41:36 -06:00
Shaohua Li 53696b8d21 blk-throttle: add latency target support
One hard problem adding .low limit is to detect idle cgroup. If one
cgroup doesn't dispatch enough IO against its low limit, we must have a
mechanism to determine if other cgroups dispatch more IO. We added the
think time detection mechanism before, but it doesn't work for all
workloads. Here we add a latency based approach.

We already have mechanism to calculate latency threshold for each IO
size. For every IO dispatched from a cgorup, we compare its latency
against its threshold and record the info. If most IO latency is below
threshold (in the code I use 75%), the cgroup could be treated idle and
other cgroups can dispatch more IO.

Currently this latency target check is only for SSD as we can't
calcualte the latency target for hard disk. And this is only for cgroup
leaf node so far.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li b9147dd1ba blk-throttle: add a mechanism to estimate IO latency
User configures latency target, but the latency threshold for each
request size isn't fixed. For a SSD, the IO latency highly depends on
request size. To calculate latency threshold, we sample some data, eg,
average latency for request size 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k .. 1M. The latency
threshold of each request size will be the sample latency (I'll call it
base latency) plus latency target. For example, the base latency for
request size 4k is 80us and user configures latency target 60us. The 4k
latency threshold will be 80 + 60 = 140us.

To sample data, we calculate the order base 2 of rounded up IO sectors.
If the IO size is bigger than 1M, it will be accounted as 1M. Since the
calculation does round up, the base latency will be slightly smaller
than actual value. Also if there isn't any IO dispatched for a specific
IO size, we will use the base latency of smaller IO size for this IO
size.

But we shouldn't sample data at any time. The base latency is supposed
to be latency where disk isn't congested, because we use latency
threshold to schedule IOs between cgroups. If disk is congested, the
latency is higher, using it for scheduling is meaningless. Hence we only
do the sampling when block throttling is in the LOW limit, with
assumption disk isn't congested in such state. If the assumption isn't
true, eg, low limit is too high, calculated latency threshold will be
higher.

Hard disk is completely different. Latency depends on spindle seek
instead of request size. Currently this feature is SSD only, we probably
can use a fixed threshold like 4ms for hard disk though.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li ec80991d6f blk-throttle: add interface for per-cgroup target latency
Here we introduce per-cgroup latency target. The target determines how a
cgroup can afford latency increasement. We will use the target latency
to calculate a threshold and use it to schedule IO for cgroups. If a
cgroup's bandwidth is below its low limit but its average latency is
below the threshold, other cgroups can safely dispatch more IO even
their bandwidth is higher than their low limits. On the other hand, if
the first cgroup's latency is higher than the threshold, other cgroups
are throttled to their low limits. So the target latency determines how
we efficiently utilize free disk resource without sacifice of worload's
IO latency.

For example, assume 4k IO average latency is 50us when disk isn't
congested. A cgroup sets the target latency to 30us. Then the cgroup can
accept 50+30=80us IO latency. If the cgroupt's average IO latency is
90us and its bandwidth is below low limit, other cgroups are throttled
to their low limit. If the cgroup's average IO latency is 60us, other
cgroups are allowed to dispatch more IO. When other cgroups dispatch
more IO, the first cgroup's IO latency will increase. If it increases to
81us, we then throttle other cgroups.

User will configure the interface in this way:
echo "8:16 rbps=2097152 wbps=max latency=100 idle=200" > io.low

latency is in microsecond unit

By default, latency target is 0, which means to guarantee IO latency.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li fa6fb5aab8 blk-throttle: ignore idle cgroup limit
Last patch introduces a way to detect idle cgroup. We use it to make
upgrade/downgrade decision. And the new algorithm can detect completely
idle cgroup too, so we can delete the corresponding code.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li ada75b6e5b blk-throttle: add interface to configure idle time threshold
Add interface to configure the threshold. The io.low interface will
like:
echo "8:16 rbps=2097152 wbps=max idle=2000" > io.low

idle is in microsecond unit.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 9e234eeafb blk-throttle: add a simple idle detection
A cgroup gets assigned a low limit, but the cgroup could never dispatch
enough IO to cross the low limit. In such case, the queue state machine
will remain in LIMIT_LOW state and all other cgroups will be throttled
according to low limit. This is unfair for other cgroups. We should
treat the cgroup idle and upgrade the state machine to lower state.

We also have a downgrade logic. If the state machine upgrades because of
cgroup idle (real idle), the state machine will downgrade soon as the
cgroup is below its low limit. This isn't what we want. A more
complicated case is cgroup isn't idle when queue is in LIMIT_LOW. But
when queue gets upgraded to lower state, other cgroups could dispatch
more IO and this cgroup can't dispatch enough IO, so the cgroup is below
its low limit and looks like idle (fake idle). In this case, the queue
should downgrade soon. The key to determine if we should do downgrade is
to detect if cgroup is truely idle.

Unfortunately it's very hard to determine if a cgroup is real idle. This
patch uses the 'think time check' idea from CFQ for the purpose. Please
note, the idea doesn't work for all workloads. For example, a workload
with io depth 8 has disk utilization 100%, hence think time is 0, eg,
not idle. But the workload can run higher bandwidth with io depth 16.
Compared to io depth 16, the io depth 8 workload is idle. We use the
idea to roughly determine if a cgroup is idle.

We treat a cgroup idle if its think time is above a threshold (by
default 1ms for SSD and 100ms for HD). The idea is think time above the
threshold will start to harm performance. HD is much slower so a longer
think time is ok.

The patch (and the latter patches) uses 'unsigned long' to track time.
We convert 'ns' to 'us' with 'ns >> 10'. This is fast but loses
precision, should not a big deal.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 7394e31fa4 blk-throttle: make bandwidth change smooth
When cgroups all reach low limit, cgroups can dispatch more IO. This
could make some cgroups dispatch more IO but others not, and even some
cgroups could dispatch less IO than their low limit. For example, cg1
low limit 10MB/s, cg2 limit 80MB/s, assume disk maximum bandwidth is
120M/s for the workload. Their bps could something like this:

cg1/cg2 bps: T1: 10/80 -> T2: 60/60 -> T3: 10/80

At T1, all cgroups reach low limit, so they can dispatch more IO later.
Then cg1 dispatch more IO and cg2 has no room to dispatch enough IO. At
T2, cg2 only dispatches 60M/s. Since We detect cg2 dispatches less IO
than its low limit 80M/s, we downgrade the queue from LIMIT_MAX to
LIMIT_LOW, then all cgroups are throttled to their low limit (T3). cg2
will have bandwidth below its low limit at most time.

The big problem here is we don't know the maximum bandwidth of the
workload, so we can't make smart decision to avoid the situation. This
patch makes cgroup bandwidth change smooth. After disk upgrades from
LIMIT_LOW to LIMIT_MAX, we don't allow cgroups use all bandwidth upto
their max limit immediately. Their bandwidth limit will be increased
gradually to avoid above situation. So above example will became
something like:

cg1/cg2 bps: 10/80 -> 15/105 -> 20/100 -> 25/95 -> 30/90 -> 35/85 -> 40/80
-> 45/75 -> 22/98

In this way cgroups bandwidth will be above their limit in majority
time, this still doesn't fully utilize disk bandwidth, but that's
something we pay for sharing.

Scale up is linear. The limit scales up 1/2 .low limit every
throtl_slice after upgrade. The scale up will stop if the adjusted limit
hits .max limit. Scale down is exponential. We cut the scale value half
if a cgroup doesn't hit its .low limit. If the scale becomes 0, we then
fully downgrade the queue to LIMIT_LOW state.

Note this doesn't completely avoid cgroup running under its low limit.
The best way to guarantee cgroup doesn't run under its limit is to set
max limit. For example, if we set cg1 max limit to 40, cg2 will never
run under its low limit.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li aec242468c blk-throttle: detect completed idle cgroup
cgroup could be assigned a limit, but doesn't dispatch enough IO, eg the
cgroup is idle. When this happens, the cgroup doesn't hit its limit, so
we can't move the state machine to higher level and all cgroups will be
throttled to their lower limit, so we waste bandwidth. Detecting idle
cgroup is hard. This patch handles a simple case, a cgroup doesn't
dispatch any IO. We ignore such cgroup's limit, so other cgroups can use
the bandwidth.

Please note this will be replaced with a more sophisticated algorithm
later, but this demonstrates the idea how we handle idle cgroups, so I
leave it here.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li d61fcfa4bb blk-throttle: choose a small throtl_slice for SSD
The throtl_slice is 100ms by default. This is a long time for SSD, a lot
of IO can run. To make cgroups have smoother throughput, we choose a
small value (20ms) for SSD.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 297e3d8547 blk-throttle: make throtl_slice tunable
throtl_slice is important for blk-throttling. It's called slice
internally but it really is a time window blk-throttling samples data.
blk-throttling will make decision based on the samplings. An example is
bandwidth measurement. A cgroup's bandwidth is measured in the time
interval of throtl_slice.

A small throtl_slice meanse cgroups have smoother throughput but burn
more CPUs. It has 100ms default value, which is not appropriate for all
disks. A fast SSD can dispatch a lot of IOs in 100ms. This patch makes
it tunable.

Since throtl_slice isn't a time slice, the sysfs name
'throttle_sample_time' reflects its character better.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 06cceedcca blk-throttle: make sure expire time isn't too big
cgroup could be throttled to a limit but when all cgroups cross high
limit, queue enters a higher state and so the group should be throttled
to a higher limit. It's possible the cgroup is sleeping because of
throttle and other cgroups don't dispatch IO any more. In this case,
nobody can trigger current downgrade/upgrade logic. To fix this issue,
we could either set up a timer to wakeup the cgroup if other cgroups are
idle or make sure this cgroup doesn't sleep too long. Setting up a timer
means we must change the timer very frequently. This patch chooses the
latter. Making cgroup sleep time not too big wouldn't change cgroup
bps/iops, but could make it wakeup more frequently, which isn't a big
issue because throtl_slice * 8 is already quite big.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 3f0abd8066 blk-throttle: add downgrade logic
When queue state machine is in LIMIT_MAX state, but a cgroup is below
its low limit for some time, the queue should be downgraded to lower
state as one cgroup's low limit isn't met.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li c79892c557 blk-throttle: add upgrade logic for LIMIT_LOW state
When queue is in LIMIT_LOW state and all cgroups with low limit cross
the bps/iops limitation, we will upgrade queue's state to
LIMIT_MAX. To determine if a cgroup exceeds its limitation, we check if
the cgroup has pending request. Since cgroup is throttled according to
the limit, pending request means the cgroup reaches the limit.

If a cgroup has limit set for both read and write, we consider the
combination of them for upgrade. The reason is read IO and write IO can
interfere with each other. If we do the upgrade based in one direction
IO, the other direction IO could be severly harmed.

For a cgroup hierarchy, there are two cases. Children has lower low
limit than parent. Parent's low limit is meaningless. If children's
bps/iops cross low limit, we can upgrade queue state. The other case is
children has higher low limit than parent. Children's low limit is
meaningless. As long as parent's bps/iops (which is a sum of childrens
bps/iops) cross low limit, we can upgrade queue state.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li b22c417c88 blk-throttle: configure bps/iops limit for cgroup in low limit
each queue will have a state machine. Initially queue is in LIMIT_LOW
state, which means all cgroups will be throttled according to their low
limit. After all cgroups with low limit cross the limit, the queue state
gets upgraded to LIMIT_MAX state.
For max limit, cgroup will use the limit configured by user.
For low limit, cgroup will use the minimal value between low limit and
max limit configured by user. If the minimal value is 0, which means the
cgroup doesn't configure low limit, we will use max limit to throttle
the cgroup and the cgroup is ready to upgrade to LIMIT_MAX

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li cd5ab1b0fc blk-throttle: add .low interface
Add low limit for cgroup and corresponding cgroup interface. To be
consistent with memcg, we allow users configure .low limit higher than
.max limit. But the internal logic always assumes .low limit is lower
than .max limit. So we add extra bps/iops_conf fields in throtl_grp for
userspace configuration. Old bps/iops fields in throtl_grp will be the
actual limit we use for throttling.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 9f626e372a blk-throttle: prepare support multiple limits
We are going to support low/max limit, each cgroup will have 2 limits
after that. This patch prepares for the multiple limits change.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Shaohua Li 2ab5492de5 blk-throttle: use U64_MAX/UINT_MAX to replace -1
clean up the code to avoid using -1

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-28 08:02:20 -06:00
Masahiro Yamada b43daedc0e scripts/spelling.txt: add "embeded" pattern and fix typo instances
Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  embeded||embedded

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-12-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
Markus Elfring d609af3a13 blk-throttle: Adjust two function calls together with a variable assignment
The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.

ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition

Thus fix the affected source code places.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-01-23 08:32:15 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 8d2bbd4c82 block: replace REQ_THROTTLED with a bio flag
It's the last bio-only REQ_* flag, and we have space for it in the bio
bi_flags field.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-10-28 08:45:17 -06:00
Vivek Goyal 164c80ed84 blk-throttle: Extend slice if throttle group is not empty
Right now, if slice is expired, we start a new slice. If a bio is
queued, we keep on extending slice by throtle_slice interval (100ms).

This worked well as long as pending timer function got executed with-in
few milli seconds of scheduled time. But looks like with recent changes
in timer subsystem, slack can be much longer depending on the expiry time
of the scheduled timer.

commit 500462a9de ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")

This means, by the time timer function gets executed, it is possible the
delay from scheduled time is more than 100ms. That means current code
will conclude that existing slice has expired and a new one needs to
be started. New slice will be 100ms by default and that will not be
sufficient to meet rate requirement of group given the bio size and
bio will not be dispatched and we will start a new timer function to
wait. And when that timer expires, same process will repeat and we
will wait again and this can easily be an infinite loop.

Solve this issue by starting a new slice only if throttle gropup is
empty. If it is not empty, that means there should be an active slice
going on. Ideally it should not be expired but given the slack, it is
possible that it has expired.

Reported-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-19 15:12:41 -06:00
Jens Axboe 1eff9d322a block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf
Since commit 63a4cc2486, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-07 14:41:02 -06:00
Hou Tao bfd279a868 blkcg: kill unused field nr_undestroyed_grps
'nr_undestroyed_grps' in struct throtl_data was used to count
the number of throtl_grp related with throtl_data, but now
throtl_grp is tracked by blkcg_gq, so it is useless anymore.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-04 14:19:16 -06:00
Shaohua Li 59fa0224cf blk-throttle: don't parse cgroup path if trace isn't enabled
if trace isn't enabled, parsing cgroup path just wastes cpu

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-05-10 08:41:37 -06:00
Tejun Heo 9e10a130d9 cgroup: replace cgroup_on_dfl() tests in controllers with cgroup_subsys_on_dfl()
cgroup_on_dfl() tests whether the cgroup's root is the default
hierarchy; however, an individual controller is only interested in
whether the controller is attached to the default hierarchy and never
tests a cgroup which doesn't belong to the hierarchy that the
controller is attached to.

This patch replaces cgroup_on_dfl() tests in controllers with faster
static_key based cgroup_subsys_on_dfl().  This leaves cgroup core as
the only user of cgroup_on_dfl() and the function is moved from the
header file to cgroup.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
2015-09-18 11:56:28 -04:00
Tejun Heo 2ee867dcfa blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
blkcg interface grew to be the biggest of all controllers and
unfortunately most inconsistent too.  The interface files are
inconsistent with a number of cloes duplicates.  Some files have
recursive variants while others don't.  There's distinction between
normal and leaf weights which isn't intuitive and there are a lot of
stat knobs which don't make much sense outside of debugging and expose
too much implementation details to userland.

In the unified hierarchy, everything is always hierarchical and
internal nodes can't have tasks rendering the two structural issues
twisting the current interface.  The interface has to be updated in a
significant anyway and this is a good chance to revamp it as a whole.
This patch implements blkcg interface for the unified hierarchy.

* (from a previous patch) blkcg is identified by "io" instead of
  "blkio" on the unified hierarchy.  Given that the whole interface is
  updated anyway, the rename shouldn't carry noticeable conversion
  overhead.

* The original interface consisted of 27 files is replaced with the
  following three files.

  blkio.stat	: per-blkcg stats
  blkio.weight	: per-cgroup and per-cgroup-queue weight settings
  blkio.max	: per-cgroup-queue bps and iops max limits

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt updated accordingly.

v2: blkcg_policy->dfl_cftypes wasn't removed on
    blkcg_policy_unregister() corrupting the cftypes list.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:35 -07:00
Tejun Heo 69948b070e blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
tg_set_conf() is largely consisted of parsing and setting the new
config and the follow-up application and propagation.  This patch
separates out the latter part into tg_conf_updated().  This will be
used to implement interface for the unified hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo 36aa9e5f59 blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
Currently, blkg_conf_prep() expects input to be of the following form

 MAJ:MIN NUM

and reads the NUM part into blkg_conf_ctx->v.  This is quite
restrictive and gets in the way in implementing blkcg interface for
the unified hierarchy.  This patch updates blkg_conf_prep() so that it
expects

 MAJ:MIN BODY_STR

where BODY_STR is an arbitrary string.  blkg_conf_ctx->v is replaced
with ->body which is a char pointer pointing to the start of BODY_STR.
Parsing of the body is moved to blkg_conf_prep()'s callers.

To allow using, for example, strsep() on blkg_conf_ctx->val, it is a
non-const pointer and to accommodate that const is dropped from @input
too.

This doesn't cause any behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo 880f50e228 blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
blkcg is about to grow interface for the unified hierarchy.  Add
legacy to existing cftypes.

* blkcg_policy->cftypes -> blkcg_policy->legacy_cftypes
* blk-cgroup.c:blkcg_files -> blkcg_legacy_files
* cfq-iosched.c:cfq_blkcg_files -> cfq_blkcg_legacy_files
* blk-throttle.c:throtl_files -> throtl_legacy_files

Pure renames.  No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:18 -07:00
Tejun Heo 77ea733884 blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
Currently, both cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of
io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats.  While keeping track of them
separately may be useful during development, it doesn't make much
sense otherwise.  Also, blk-throttle was counting bio's as IOs while
cfq-iosched request's, which is more confusing than informative.

This patch adds ->stat_bytes and ->stat_ios to blkg (blkcg_gq),
removes the counterparts from cfq-iosched and blk-throttle and let
them print from the common blkg counters.  The common counters are
incremented during bio issue in blkcg_bio_issue_check().

The outputs are still filtered by whether the policy has
blkg_policy_data on a given blkg, so cfq's output won't show up if it
has never been used for a given blkg.  The only times when the outputs
would differ significantly are when policies are attached on the fly
or elevators are switched back and forth.  Those are quite exceptional
operations and I don't think they warrant keeping separate counters.

v3: Update blkio-controller.txt accordingly.

v2: Account IOs during bio issues instead of request completions so
    that bio-based drivers can be handled the same way.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo 24bdb8ef06 blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
blkcg_[rw]stat are used as stat counters for blkcg policies.  It isn't
per-cpu by itself and blk-throttle makes it per-cpu by wrapping around
it.  This patch makes blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu and drop the ad-hoc
per-cpu wrapping in blk-throttle.

* blkg_[rw]stat->cnt is replaced with cpu_cnt which is struct
  percpu_counter.  This makes syncp unnecessary as remote accesses are
  handled by percpu_counter itself.

* blkg_[rw]stat_init() can now fail due to percpu allocation failure
  and thus are updated to return int.

* percpu_counters need explicit freeing.  blkg_[rw]stat_exit() added.

* As blkg_rwstat->cpu_cnt[] can't be read directly anymore, reading
  and summing results are stored in ->aux_cnt[] instead.

* Custom per-cpu stat implementation in blk-throttle is removed.

This makes all blkcg stat counters per-cpu without complicating policy
implmentations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo ae11889636 blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
blkg (blkcg_gq) currently is created by blkcg policies invoking
blkg_lookup_create() which ends up repeating about the same code in
different policies.  Theoretically, this can avoid the overhead of
looking and/or creating blkg's if blkcg is enabled but no policy is in
use; however, the cost of blkg lookup / creation is very low
especially if only the root blkcg is in use which is highly likely if
no blkcg policy is in active use - it boils down to a single very
predictable conditional and surrounding RCU protection.

This patch consolidates blkg creation to a new function
blkcg_bio_issue_check() which is called during bio issue from
generic_make_request_checks().  blkcg_bio_issue_check() is now the
only function which tries to create missing blkg's.  The subsequent
policy and request_list operations just perform blkg_lookup() and if
missing falls back to the root.

* blk_get_rl() no longer tries to create blkg.  It uses blkg_lookup()
  instead of blkg_lookup_create().

* blk_throtl_bio() is now called from blkcg_bio_issue_check() with rcu
  read locked and blkg already looked up.  Both throtl_lookup_tg() and
  throtl_lookup_create_tg() are dropped.

* cfq is similarly updated.  cfq_lookup_create_cfqg() is replaced with
  cfq_lookup_cfqg()which uses blkg_lookup().

This consolidates blkg handling and avoids unnecessary blkg creation
retries under memory pressure.  In addition, this provides a common
bio entry point into blkcg where things like common accounting can be
performed.

v2: Build fixes for !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED and
    !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo c9589f03e4 blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
If a queue is bypassing, all blkcg policies should become noops but
blk-throttle wasn't.  It only became noop if the queue was dying.
While this wouldn't lead to an oops as falling back to the root blkg
is safe in this case, this can be a bit surprising - a bypassing queue
could still be applying throttle limits.

Fix it by removing blk_queue_dying() test in throtl_lookup_create_tg()
and testing blk_queue_bypass() in blk_throtl_bio() and bypassing
before doing anything else.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo 85b6bc9db6 blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
Currently, both throttle and cfq policies implement their own root
blkg (blkcg_gq) lookup fast path.  This patch moves root blkg
optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup().  cfq-iosched
currently doesn't use blkg_lookup() but will be converted and drop the
optimization too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo a9520cd6f2 blkcg: make blkcg_policy methods take a pointer to blkcg_policy_data
The newly added ->pd_alloc_fn() and ->pd_free_fn() deal with pd
(blkg_policy_data) while the older ones use blkg (blkcg_gq).  As using
blkg doesn't make sense for ->pd_alloc_fn() and after allocation pd
can always be mapped to blkg and given that these are policy-specific
methods, it makes sense to converge on pd.

This patch makes all methods deal with pd instead of blkg.  Most
conversions are trivial.  In blk-cgroup.c, a couple method invocation
sites now test whether pd exists instead of policy state for
consistency.  This shouldn't cause any behavioral differences.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo b2ce2643cc blk-throttle: clean up blkg_policy_data alloc/init/exit/free methods
With the recent addition of alloc and free methods, things became
messier.  This patch reorganizes them according to the followings.

* ->pd_alloc_fn()

  Responsible for allocation and static initializations - the ones
  which can be done independent of where the pd might be attached.

* ->pd_init_fn()

  Initializations which require the knowledge of where the pd is
  attached.

* ->pd_free_fn()

  The counter part of pd_alloc_fn().  Static de-init and freeing.

This leaves ->pd_exit_fn() without any users.  Removed.

While at it, collapse an one liner function throtl_pd_exit(), which
has only one user, into its user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo 4fb72036fb blk-throttle: remove asynchrnous percpu stats allocation mechanism
Because percpu allocator couldn't do non-blocking allocations,
blk-throttle was forced to implement an ad-hoc asynchronous allocation
mechanism for its percpu stats for cases where blkg's (blkcg_gq's) are
allocated from an IO path without sleepable context.

Now that percpu allocator can handle gfp_mask and blkg_policy_data
alloc / free are handled by policy methods, the ad-hoc asynchronous
allocation mechanism can be replaced with direct allocation from
tg_stats_alloc_fn().  Rit it out.

This ensures that an active throtl_grp always has valid non-NULL
->stats_cpu.  Remove checks on it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:16 -07:00
Tejun Heo 001bea73e7 blkcg: replace blkcg_policy->pd_size with ->pd_alloc/free_fn() methods
A blkg (blkcg_gq) represents the relationship between a cgroup and
request_queue.  Each active policy has a pd (blkg_policy_data) on each
blkg.  The pd's were allocated by blkcg core and each policy could
request to allocate extra space at the end by setting
blkcg_policy->pd_size larger than the size of pd.

This is a bit unusual but was done this way mostly to simplify error
handling and all the existing use cases could be handled this way;
however, this is becoming too restrictive now that percpu memory can
be allocated without blocking.

This introduces two new mandatory blkcg_policy methods - pd_alloc_fn()
and pd_free_fn() - which are used to allocate and release pd for a
given policy.  As pd allocation is now done from policy side, it can
simply allocate a larger area which embeds pd at the beginning.  This
change makes ->pd_size pointless.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18 15:49:16 -07:00
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
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 045c47ca30 blk-throttle: check stats_cpu before reading it from sysfs
When reading blkio.throttle.io_serviced in a recently created blkio
cgroup, it's possible to race against the creation of a throttle policy,
which delays the allocation of stats_cpu.

Like other functions in the throttle code, just checking for a NULL
stats_cpu prevents the following oops caused by that race.

[ 1117.285199] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x7fb4d0020
[ 1117.285252] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000003efa2c
[ 1137.733921] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[ 1137.733945] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
[ 1137.734025] Modules linked in: bridge stp llc kvm_hv kvm binfmt_misc autofs4
[ 1137.734102] CPU: 3 PID: 5302 Comm: blkcgroup Not tainted 3.19.0 #5
[ 1137.734132] task: c000000f1d188b00 ti: c000000f1d210000 task.ti: c000000f1d210000
[ 1137.734167] NIP: c0000000003efa2c LR: c0000000003ef9f0 CTR: c0000000003ef980
[ 1137.734202] REGS: c000000f1d213500 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (3.19.0)
[ 1137.734230] MSR: 9000000000009032 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 42008884  XER: 20000000
[ 1137.734325] CFAR: 0000000000008458 DAR: 00000007fb4d0020 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0
GPR00: c0000000003ed3a0 c000000f1d213780 c000000000c59538 0000000000000000
GPR04: 0000000000000800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: ffffffffffffffff 00000007fb4d0020 00000007fb4d0000 c000000000780808
GPR12: 0000000022000888 c00000000fdc0d80 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 000001003e120200 c000000f1d5b0cc0 0000000000000200 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000001 c000000000c269e0 0000000000000020 c000000f1d5b0c80
GPR28: c000000000ca3a08 c000000000ca3dec c000000f1c667e00 c000000f1d213850
[ 1137.734886] NIP [c0000000003efa2c] .tg_prfill_cpu_rwstat+0xac/0x180
[ 1137.734915] LR [c0000000003ef9f0] .tg_prfill_cpu_rwstat+0x70/0x180
[ 1137.734943] Call Trace:
[ 1137.734952] [c000000f1d213780] [d000000005560520] 0xd000000005560520 (unreliable)
[ 1137.734996] [c000000f1d2138a0] [c0000000003ed3a0] .blkcg_print_blkgs+0xe0/0x1a0
[ 1137.735039] [c000000f1d213960] [c0000000003efb50] .tg_print_cpu_rwstat+0x50/0x70
[ 1137.735082] [c000000f1d2139e0] [c000000000104b48] .cgroup_seqfile_show+0x58/0x150
[ 1137.735125] [c000000f1d213a70] [c0000000002749dc] .kernfs_seq_show+0x3c/0x50
[ 1137.735161] [c000000f1d213ae0] [c000000000218630] .seq_read+0xe0/0x510
[ 1137.735197] [c000000f1d213bd0] [c000000000275b04] .kernfs_fop_read+0x164/0x200
[ 1137.735240] [c000000f1d213c80] [c0000000001eb8e0] .__vfs_read+0x30/0x80
[ 1137.735276] [c000000f1d213cf0] [c0000000001eb9c4] .vfs_read+0x94/0x1b0
[ 1137.735312] [c000000f1d213d90] [c0000000001ebb38] .SyS_read+0x58/0x100
[ 1137.735349] [c000000f1d213e30] [c000000000009218] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
[ 1137.735383] Instruction dump:
[ 1137.735405] 7c6307b4 7f891800 409d00b8 60000000 60420000 3d420004 392a63b0 786a1f24
[ 1137.735471] 7d49502a e93e01c8 7d495214 7d2ad214 <7cead02a> e9090008 e9490010 e9290018

And here is one code that allows to easily reproduce this, although this
has first been found by running docker.

void run(pid_t pid)
{
	int n;
	int status;
	int fd;
	char *buffer;
	buffer = memalign(BUFFER_ALIGN, BUFFER_SIZE);
	n = snprintf(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, "%d\n", pid);
	fd = open(CGPATH "/test/tasks", O_WRONLY);
	write(fd, buffer, n);
	close(fd);
	if (fork() > 0) {
		fd = open("/dev/sda", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);
		read(fd, buffer, 512);
		close(fd);
		wait(&status);
	} else {
		fd = open(CGPATH "/test/blkio.throttle.io_serviced", O_RDONLY);
		n = read(fd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
		close(fd);
	}
	free(buffer);
	exit(0);
}

void test(void)
{
	int status;
	mkdir(CGPATH "/test", 0666);
	if (fork() > 0)
		wait(&status);
	else
		run(getpid());
	rmdir(CGPATH "/test");
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < NR_TESTS; i++)
		test();
	return 0;
}

Reported-by: Ricardo Marin Matinata <rmm@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-20 22:11:58 -08:00
Tejun Heo aa6ec29bee cgroup: remove sane_behavior support on non-default hierarchies
sane_behavior has been used as a development vehicle for the default
unified hierarchy.  Now that the default hierarchy is in place, the
flag became redundant and confusing as its usage is allowed on all
hierarchies.  There are gonna be either the default hierarchy or
legacy ones.  Let's make that clear by removing sane_behavior support
on non-default hierarchies.

This patch replaces cgroup_sane_behavior() with cgroup_on_dfl().  The
comment on top of CGRP_ROOT_SANE_BEHAVIOR is moved to on top of
cgroup_on_dfl() with sane_behavior specific part dropped.

On the default and legacy hierarchies w/o sane_behavior, this
shouldn't cause any behavior differences.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
2014-07-09 10:08:08 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 14208b0ec5 Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...
2014-06-09 15:03:33 -07:00
Tejun Heo 451af504df cgroup: replace cftype->write_string() with cftype->write()
Convert all cftype->write_string() users to the new cftype->write()
which maps directly to kernfs write operation and has full access to
kernfs and cgroup contexts.  The conversions are mostly mechanical.

* @css and @cft are accessed using of_css() and of_cft() accessors
  respectively instead of being specified as arguments.

* Should return @nbytes on success instead of 0.

* @buf is not trimmed automatically.  Trim if necessary.  Note that
  blkcg and netprio don't need this as the parsers already handle
  whitespaces.

cftype->write_string() has no user left after the conversions and
removed.

While at it, remove unnecessary local variable @p in
cgroup_subtree_control_write() and stale comment about
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE in cgroup_freezer.c.

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

v2: netprio was missing from conversion.  Converted.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-13 12:16:21 -04:00
Fabian Frederick 5cf8c22775 block/blk-throttle.c: fix return of 0/1 with return type bool
Fix 4 coccinelle warnings.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-02 11:38:03 -06:00
Fabian Frederick 8876e140ec block/blk-throttle.c: add static to blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn
blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn is only used in blk-throttle.c

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-04-21 19:30:28 -06:00
Tejun Heo 4d3bb511b5 cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string()
cftype->write_string() just passes on the writeable buffer from kernfs
and there's no reason to add const restriction on the buffer.  The
only thing const achieves is unnecessarily complicating parsing of the
buffer.  Drop const from @buffer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>                                           
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5f46990787 cgroup: update the meaning of cftype->max_write_len
cftype->max_write_len is used to extend the maximum size of writes.
It's interpreted in such a way that the actual maximum size is one
less than the specified value.  The default size is defined by
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE.  Its interpretation is quite confusing - its
value is decremented by 1 and then compared for equality with max
size, which means that the actual default size is
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE - 2, which is 62 chars.

There's no point in having a limit that low.  Update its definition so
that it means the actual string length sans termination and anything
below PAGE_SIZE-1 is treated as PAGE_SIZE-1.

.max_write_len for "release_agent" is updated to PATH_MAX-1 and
cgroup_release_agent_write() is updated so that the redundant strlen()
check is removed and it uses strlcpy() instead of strcpy().
.max_write_len initializations in blk-throttle.c and cfq-iosched.c are
no longer necessary and removed.  The one in cpuset is kept unchanged
as it's an approximated value to begin with.

This will also make transition to kernfs smoother.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2014-02-11 11:52:48 -05:00