When called under queue_lock, current_io_context() triggers lockdep
warning if it hits allocation path. This is because io_context
installation is protected by task_lock which is not IRQ safe, so it
triggers irq-unsafe-lock -> irq -> irq-safe-lock -> irq-unsafe-lock
deadlock warning.
Given the restriction, accessor + creator rolled into one doesn't work
too well. Drop current_io_context() and let the users access
task->io_context directly inside queue_lock combined with explicit
creation using create_io_context().
Future ioc updates will further consolidate ioc access and the create
interface will be unexported.
While at it, relocate ioc internal interface declarations in blk.h and
add section comments before and after.
This patch does not introduce functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* blk_get_queue() is peculiar in that it returns 0 on success and 1 on
failure instead of 0 / -errno or boolean. Update it such that it
returns %true on success and %false on failure.
* Make sure the caller checks for the return value.
* Separate out __blk_get_queue() which doesn't check whether @q is
dead and put it in blk.h. This will be used later.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
blk_insert_cloned_request(), blk_execute_rq_nowait() and
blk_flush_plug_list() either didn't check whether the queue was dead
or did it without holding queue_lock. Update them so that dead state
is checked while holding queue_lock.
AFAICS, this plugs all holes (requeue doesn't matter as the request is
transitioning atomically from in_flight to queued).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When trying to drain all requests, blk_drain_queue() checked only
q->rq.count[]; however, this only tracks REQ_ALLOCED requests. This
patch updates blk_drain_queue() such that it looks at all the counters
and queues so that request_queue is actually empty on completion.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
The only user left for blk_insert_request() is sx8 and it can be
trivially switched to use blk_execute_rq_nowait() - special requests
aren't included in io stat and sx8 doesn't use block layer tagging.
Switch sx8 and kill blk_insert_requeset().
This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Only compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
struct request_queue is allocated with __GFP_ZERO so its "node" field is
zero before initialization. This causes an oops if node 0 is offline in
the page allocator because its zonelists are not initialized. From Dave
Young's dmesg:
SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 0-d0000000
SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 100000000-330000000
SRAT: Node 0 PXM 1 330000000-630000000
Initmem setup node 1 0000000000000000-000000000affb000
...
Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.
...
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001c08
IP: [<ffffffff8111c355>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb5/0x870
and __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xb5 translates to a NULL pointer on
zonelist->_zonerefs.
The fix is to initialize q->node at the time of allocation so the correct
node is passed to the slab allocator later.
Since blk_init_allocated_queue_node() is no longer needed, merge it with
blk_init_allocated_queue().
[rientjes@google.com: changelog, initializing q->node]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [2.6.37+]
Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
After flush plug list, the list has no request, so we need to add a
trace_block_plug().
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
get_request_wait() could sleep and flush the plug list. If the list is
already flushed, don't flush again.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_cleanup_queue() may be called before elevator is set up on a
queue which triggers the following oops.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
...
Pid: 830, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.1.0-next-20111025_64+ #1590
Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8125a69c>] [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8125da92>] blk_drain_queue+0x42/0x70
[<ffffffff8125db90>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xd0/0x1c0
[<ffffffff81469640>] md_free+0x50/0x70
[<ffffffff8126f43b>] kobject_release+0x8b/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81270d56>] kref_put+0x36/0xa0
[<ffffffff8126f2b7>] kobject_put+0x27/0x60
[<ffffffff814693af>] mddev_delayed_delete+0x2f/0x40
[<ffffffff81083450>] process_one_work+0x100/0x3b0
[<ffffffff8108527f>] worker_thread+0x15f/0x3a0
[<ffffffff81089937>] kthread+0x87/0x90
[<ffffffff81621834>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
Fix it by making blk_cleanup_queue() check whether q->elevator is set
up before invoking blk_drain_queue.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot
a kernel with commit 4853abaae7
(block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring
flush flags) applied. It turns out that an empty flush request
can be sent into blk_insert_flush. When the BUG_ON was fixed
to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall. The
reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue.
In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to
kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did
not require a flush. A better solution is to push the queue
kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request.
This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes
the issue reported.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html
Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Stable note: 3.1
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bio originally has the functionality to set the complete cpu, but
it is broken.
Chirstoph said that "This code is unused, and from the all the
discussions lately pretty obviously broken. The only thing keeping
it serves is creating more confusion and possibly more bugs."
And Jens replied with "We can kill bio_set_completion_cpu(). I'm fine
with leaving cpu control to the request based drivers, they are the
only ones that can toggle the setting anyway".
So this patch tries to remove all the work of controling complete cpu
from a bio.
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
attempt_plug_merge() accesses elevator without holding queue_lock and
may call into ->elevator_bio_merge_fn(). The elvator is guaranteed to
be valid because it's accessed iff the plugged list has requests and
elevator is never exited with live requests, so as long as the
elevator method can deal with unlocked access, this is safe.
Explain the sync rules around attempt_plug_merge() and drop the
unnecessary @tsk parameter.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently get_request[_wait]() allocates request whether queue is dead
or not. This patch makes get_request[_wait]() return NULL if @q is
dead. blk_queue_bio() is updated to fail the submitted bio if request
allocation fails. While at it, add docbook comments for
get_request[_wait]().
Note that the current code has rather unclear (there are spurious DEAD
tests scattered around) assumption that the owner of a queue
guarantees that no request travels block layer if the queue is dead
and this patch in itself doesn't change much; however, this will allow
fixing the broken assumption in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_throtl_bio() and throtl_get_tg() have rather unusual interface.
* throtl_get_tg() returns pointer to a valid tg or ERR_PTR(-ENODEV),
and drops queue_lock in the latter case. Different locking context
depending on return value is error-prone and DEAD state is scheduled
to be protected by queue_lock anyway. Move DEAD check inside
queue_lock and return valid tg or NULL.
* blk_throtl_bio() indicates return status both with its return value
and in/out param **@bio. The former is used to indicate whether
queue is found to be dead during throtl processing. The latter
whether the bio is throttled.
There's no point in returning DEAD check result from
blk_throtl_bio(). The queue can die after blk_throtl_bio() is
finished but before make_request_fn() grabs queue lock.
Make it take *@bio instead and return boolean result indicating
whether the request is throttled or not.
This patch doesn't cause any visible functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reorganize queue draining related code in preparation of queue exit
changes.
* Factor out actual draining from elv_quiesce_start() to
blk_drain_queue().
* Make elv_quiesce_start/end() responsible for their own locking.
* Replace open-coded ELVSWITCH clearing in elevator_switch() with
elv_quiesce_end().
This patch doesn't cause any visible functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_alloc_request() and freed_request() take different combinations of
REQ_* @flags, @priv and @is_sync when @flags is superset of the latter
two. Make them take @flags only. This cleans up the code a bit and
will ease updating allocation related REQ_* flags.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
Thus spake Andrew Morton:
"And I have the usual maintainability whine. If someone comes up to
vmscan.c and sees it calling blk_start_plug(), how are they supposed to
work out why that call is there? They go look at the blk_start_plug()
definition and it is undocumented. I think we can do better than this?"
Adapted from the LWN article - http://lwn.net/Articles/438256/ by Jens
Axboe and from an earlier attempt by Shaohua Li to document blk-plug.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: grammatical and spelling tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move all the checks performed on a bio into a new helper, and call it as
soon as bio is submitted even if it is a re-submission from ->make_request.
We explicitly mark the new helper as beeing non-inlined as the stack
usage for printing the block device name in the failure case is quite
high and this a patch where we have to be extremely conservative about
stack usage.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request
instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in
__generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling
generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in
generic_make_request handle it.
Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and
returned non-zero values for errors.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Avoid the hacks need for request based device mappers currently by simply
exporting the symbol instead of trying to get it through the back door.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cleaning up the code a little bit. attempt_plug_merge() traverses the plug
list anyway, we can do the request counting there, so stack size is reduced
a little bit.
The motivation here is I suspect if we should count the requests for each
queue (task could handle multiple disks in the meantime), but my test doesn't
show it's worthy doing. If somebody proves we should do it, below change
will make that more easier.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Do blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request aDo blk_flush_plug_list() first and then add new request at the tail. New
request can't be merged to existing requests, but later new requests might
be merged with this new one. If blk_flush_plug_list() is done later, the
merge doesn't happen.
Believe it or not, this fixes a 10% regression running sysbench workload.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
Commit ae1b153962, block: reimplement
FLUSH/FUA to support merge, introduced a performance regression when
running any sort of fsyncing workload using dm-multipath and certain
storage (in our case, an HP EVA). The test I ran was fs_mark, and it
dropped from ~800 files/sec on ext4 to ~100 files/sec. It turns out
that dm-multipath always advertised flush+fua support, and passed
commands on down the stack, where those flags used to get stripped off.
The above commit changed that behavior:
static inline struct request *__elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q)
{
struct request *rq;
while (1) {
- while (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
+ if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
rq = list_entry_rq(q->queue_head.next);
- if (!(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) ||
- (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ))
- return rq;
- rq = blk_do_flush(q, rq);
- if (rq)
- return rq;
+ return rq;
}
Note that previously, a command would come in here, have
REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA set, and then get handed off to blk_do_flush:
struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
{
unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache it */
bool has_flush = fflags & REQ_FLUSH, has_fua = fflags & REQ_FUA;
bool do_preflush = has_flush && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH);
bool do_postflush = has_flush && !has_fua && (rq->cmd_flags &
REQ_FUA);
unsigned skip = 0;
...
if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) && !do_preflush && !do_postflush) {
rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH;
if (!has_fua)
rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA;
return rq;
}
So, the flush machinery was bypassed in such cases (q->flush_flags == 0
&& rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)).
Now, however, we don't get into the flush machinery at all. Instead,
__elv_next_request just hands a request with flush and fua bits set to
the scsi_request_fn, even if the underlying request_queue does not
support flush or fua.
The agreed upon approach is to fix the flush machinery to allow
stacking. While this isn't used in practice (since there is only one
request-based dm target, and that target will now reflect the flush
flags of the underlying device), it does future-proof the solution, and
make it function as designed.
In order to make this work, I had to add a field to the struct request,
inside the flush structure (to store the original req->end_io). Shaohua
had suggested overloading the union with rb_node and completion_data,
but the completion data is used by device mapper and can also be used by
other drivers. So, I didn't see a way around the additional field.
I tested this patch on an HP EVA with both ext4 and xfs, and it recovers
the lost performance. Comments and other testers, as always, are
appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
init_fault_attr_dentries() is used to export fault_attr via debugfs.
But it can only export it in debugfs root directory.
Per Forlin is working on mmc_fail_request which adds support to inject
data errors after a completed host transfer in MMC subsystem.
The fault_attr for mmc_fail_request should be defined per mmc host and
export it in debugfs directory per mmc host like
/sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/mmc_fail_request.
init_fault_attr_dentries() doesn't help for mmc_fail_request. So this
introduces fault_create_debugfs_attr() which is able to create a
directory in the arbitrary directory and replace
init_fault_attr_dentries().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: extraneous semicolon, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This changes should_fail_request() to more usable wrapper function of
should_fail(). It can avoid putting #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST in
the middle of a function.
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After commit 5757a6d7 introduced an unsafe calling of
smp_processor_id(), with preempt debuggin turned on we spew a lot of:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kjournald/514
caller is __make_request+0x1b8/0x308
[<c0019f44>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xe8) from [<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0)
[<c024b4cc>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) from [<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308)
[<c0223d14>] (__make_request+0x1b8/0x308) from [<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558)
[<c02215ac>] (generic_make_request+0x4dc/0x558) from [<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138)
[<c022173c>] (submit_bio+0x114/0x138) from [<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c)
[<c011f504>] (submit_bh+0x148/0x16c) from [<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8)
[<c0121ed8>] (__sync_dirty_buffer+0x88/0xd8) from [<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688)
[<c01aff78>] (journal_commit_transaction+0x1198/0x1688) from [<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224)
[<c01b4034>] (kjournald+0xb4/0x224) from [<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94)
[<c0069ea0>] (kthread+0x8c/0x94) from [<c00137f8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
Fix this by just using raw_smp_processor_id(), it's just a hint
after all. There's no pinning of the CPU or accessing per-cpu
structures involved.
Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
block: strict rq_affinity
backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
CFQ: add think time check for group
CFQ: add think time check for service tree
CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
block: document blk_plug list access
block: avoid building too big plug list
compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
...
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>
USB surprise removal of sr is triggering an oops in
scsi_dispatch_command(). What seems to be happening is that USB is
hanging on to a queue reference until the last close of the upper
device, so the crash is caused by surprise remove of a mounted CD
followed by attempted unmount.
The problem is that USB doesn't issue its final commands as part of
the SCSI teardown path, but on last close when the block queue is long
gone. The long term fix is probably to make sr do the teardown in the
same way as sd (so remove all the lower bits on ejection, but keep the
upper disk alive until last close of user space). However, the
current oops can be simply fixed by not allowing any commands to be
sent to a dead queue.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
When I test fio script with big I/O depth, I found the total throughput drops
compared to some relative small I/O depth. The reason is the thread accumulates
big requests in its plug list and causes some delays (surely this depends
on CPU speed).
I thought we'd better have a threshold for requests. When a threshold reaches,
this means there is no request merge and queue lock contention isn't severe
when pushing per-task requests to queue, so the main advantages of blk plug
don't exist. We can force a plug list flush in this case.
With this, my test throughput actually increases and almost equals to small
I/O depth. Another side effect is irq off time decreases in blk_flush_plug_list()
for big I/O depth.
The BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT is choosen arbitarily, but 16 is efficiently to
reduce lock contention to me. But I'm open here, 32 is ok in my test too.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Commit 73c1010119 ("block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging")
removed calls to elv_bio_merged() when @bio merged with @req. Re-add them.
This in turn will update merged stats in associated group. That
should be safe as long as request has got reference to the blkio_group.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We don't need them anymore, so kill:
- REQ_ON_PLUG checks in various places
- !rq_mergeable() check in plug merging
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently, all the cfq_group or throtl_group allocations happen while
we are holding ->queue_lock and sleeping is not allowed.
Soon, we will move to per cpu stats and also need to allocate the
per group stats. As one can not call alloc_percpu() from atomic
context as it can sleep, we need to drop ->queue_lock, allocate the
group, retake the lock and continue processing.
In throttling code, I check the queue DEAD flag again to make sure
that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() in the mean time.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Let's check a scenario:
1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY);
2. blk_run_queue_async();
the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has
WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after
SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed
work runs immediately.
Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work
before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We don't pass in a 'force_kblockd' anymore, get rid of the
stsale comment.
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe
to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd.
But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to
kblockd, which hurts performance.
The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export
the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's
room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async
call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that
up in due time.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
With all drivers and file systems converted, we only have
in-core use of this function. So remove the export.
Reporteed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.
This reverts commit f75664570d.
Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.
So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.
So get rid of some of the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
There are worries that we are now consuming a lot more stack in
some cases, since we potentially call into IO dispatch from
schedule() or io_schedule(). We can reduce this problem by moving
the running of the queue to kblockd, like the old plugging scheme
did as well.
This may or may not be a good idea from a performance perspective,
depending on how many tasks have queue plugs running at the same
time. For even the slightly contended case, doing just a single
queue run from kblockd instead of multiple runs directly from the
unpluggers will be faster.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The original use for this dates back to when we had to track write
requests for serializing around barriers. That's not needed anymore,
so kill it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This was removed with the queue plug state. But we can easily readd
by checking if this is the first request going to this queue. It's
good information to have when tracing to see how effective the
plugging is.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
MD would like to know when a queue is unplugged, so it can flush
it's bitmap writes. Add such a callback.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
If the request_fn ends up blocking, we could be re-entering
the plug flush. Since the list is protected by explicitly
not allowing schedule events, this isn't a terribly good idea.
Additionally, it can cause us to recurse. As request_fn called by
__blk_run_queue is allowed to 'schedule()' (after dropping the queue
lock of course), it is possible to get a recursive call:
schedule -> blk_flush_plug -> __blk_finish_plug -> flush_plug_list
-> __blk_run_queue -> request_fn -> schedule
We must make sure that the second schedule does not call into
blk_flush_plug again. So instead of leaving the list of requests on
blk_plug->list, move them to a separate list leaving blk_plug->list
empty.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Comparison function for list_sort() must be anticommutative,
otherwise it is not sorting in ordinary meaning.
But fortunately list_sort() always check ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0)
it not distinguish negative and zero, so comparison function can
implement only less-or-equal instead of full three-way comparison.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Currently we just dump a non-informative 'request botched' message.
Lets actually try and print something sane to help debug issues
around this.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When the queue work handler was converted to delayed work, the
stopping was inadvertently made sync as well. Change this back
to being async stop, using __cancel_delayed_work() instead of
cancel_delayed_work().
Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
With the introduction of the on-stack plugging, we would assume
that any request being inserted was a normal file system request.
As flush/fua requires a special insert mode, this caused problems.
Fix this up by checking for this in flush_plug_list() and use
the appropriate insert mechanism.
Big thanks goes to Markus Tripplesdorf for tirelessly testing
patches, and to Sergey Senozhatsky for helping find the real
issue.
Reported-by: Markus Tripplesdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.
Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).
This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.
Thanks to Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
[SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
[SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
[SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
[SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
[SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
[SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
[SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
[SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
[SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
[SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
[SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
[SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
[SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
[SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
[SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.
The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.
The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This merge creates two set of conflicts. One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.
The other is caused by commit 255bb490c8 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core. The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.
* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.
* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
%ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.
Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490c8.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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>
There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.
In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.
Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.
- If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
exist in other drivers too.
- If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.
So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.
block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd. Add @force_kblockd.
All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.
stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
blk-flush implementation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio
throttling testing.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173
o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as
queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening
because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling
work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not
finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request
descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep.
o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and
throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for
such cases.
o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and
does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Dominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Classify severity of I/O errors for target, nexus, and
transport errors.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Skip elevator initialization for flush requests by passing priv=0 to
blk_alloc_request() in get_request(). As such elv_set_request() is
never called for flush requests.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The current FLUSH/FUA support has evolved from the implementation
which had to perform queue draining. As such, sequencing is done
queue-wide one flush request after another. However, with the
draining requirement gone, there's no reason to keep the queue-wide
sequential approach.
This patch reimplements FLUSH/FUA support such that each FLUSH/FUA
request is sequenced individually. The actual FLUSH execution is
double buffered and whenever a request wants to execute one for either
PRE or POSTFLUSH, it queues on the pending queue. Once certain
conditions are met, a flush request is issued and on its completion
all pending requests proceed to the next sequence.
This allows arbitrary merging of different type of flushes. How they
are merged can be primarily controlled and tuned by adjusting the
above said 'conditions' used to determine when to issue the next
flush.
This is inspired by Darrick's patches to merge multiple zero-data
flushes which helps workloads with highly concurrent fsync requests.
* As flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler, request fields
used for flush share space with rq->rb_node. rq->completion_data is
moved out of the union. This increases the request size by one
pointer.
As rq->elevator_private* are used only by the iosched too, it is
possible to reduce the request size further. However, to do that,
we need to modify request allocation path such that iosched data is
not allocated for flush requests.
* FLUSH/FUA processing happens on insertion now instead of dispatch.
- Comments updated as per Vivek and Mike.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
bio's for flush are completed twice - once during the data phase and
one more time after the whole sequence is complete. The first
completion shouldn't notify completion to the issuer.
This was achieved by skipping all bio completion steps in
req_bio_endio() for the first completion; however, this has two
drawbacks.
* Error is not recorded in bio and must be tracked somewhere else.
* Partial completion is not supported.
Both don't cause problems for the current users; however, they make
further improvements difficult. Change req_bio_endio() such that it
only skips the actual notification part for the first completion. bio
completion is implemented with partial completions on mind anyway so
this is as simple as moving the REQ_FLUSH_SEQ conditional such that
only calling of bio_endio() is skipped.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
rq == &q->flush_rq was used to determine whether a rq is part of a
flush sequence, which worked because all requests in a flush sequence
were sequenced using the single dedicated request. This is about to
change, so introduce REQ_FLUSH_SEQ flag to distinguish flush sequence
requests.
This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.
This reverts commit e4a683c8.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.
$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
8 0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
8 1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
~~~~~~~~~~
8 2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
8 3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
8 4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137
Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.
The detailed root cause is as follows.
Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.
1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
is 0 and sda2's one is 1.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | 0
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.
| hd_struct->in_flight
---------------------------
sda1 | -1
sda2 | 1
---------------------------
The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.
Also add a refcount to struct hd_struct to keep the partition in
memory as long as users exist. We use kref_test_and_get() to ensure
we don't add a reference to a partition which is going away.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
kblockd is used for unplugging and may affect IO latency and
throughput and the max number of concurrent work items are bound by
the number of block devices. Make it HIGHPRI workqueue w/ default max
concurrency.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left
at this point is:
- various checks inside the block layer.
- sanity checks in bio based drivers.
- now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
- Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
- setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
drivers.
- scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
- blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace
better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Convert direct reads of an inode's i_size to using i_size_read().
i_size_{read,write} use a seqcount to protect reads from accessing
incomple writes. Concurrent i_size_write()s require mutual exclussion
to protect the seqcount that is used by i_size_{read,write}. But
i_size_read() callers do not need to use additional locking.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
This reverts commit 7681bfeecc.
Conflicts:
include/linux/genhd.h
It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator
devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean
version without rushing things.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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>
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
swap: do not send discards as barriers
fat: do not send discards as barriers
ext4: do not send discards as barriers
jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
...
* '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
