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Ingo Molnar 0881e7bd34 sched/headers: Prepare to move the get_task_struct()/put_task_struct() and related APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h>
But first update usage sites with the new header dependency.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:40 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 7a771ceac7 - Fix dm-raid transient device failure processing and other smaller
tweaks.
 
 - Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole' on
   raid 4/5/6.
 
 - Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.
 
 - Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
   from other cache metadata.  This improves speed of shutting down
   a large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).
 
 - Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.
 
 - Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
   that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.
 
 - Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
   deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
   conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
   manage recursion in generic_make_request().  A more comprehensive fix
   to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
   but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it has
   been to make progress on a generic fix.
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Merge tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Fix dm-raid transient device failure processing and other smaller
   tweaks.

 - Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole'
   on raid 4/5/6.

 - Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.

 - Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
   from other cache metadata. This improves speed of shutting down a
   large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).

 - Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.

 - Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
   that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.

 - Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
   deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
   conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
   manage recursion in generic_make_request(). A more comprehensive fix
   to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
   but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it
   has been to make progress on a generic fix.

* tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (22 commits)
  dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock
  dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'"
  dm stats: fix a leaked s->histogram_boundaries array
  dm space map metadata: constify dm_space_map structures
  dm cache metadata: use cursor api in blocks_are_clean_separate_dirty()
  dm persistent data: add cursor skip functions to the cursor APIs
  dm cache metadata: use dm_bitset_new() to create the dirty bitset in format 2
  dm bitset: add dm_bitset_new()
  dm cache metadata: name the cache block that couldn't be loaded
  dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature
  dm cache metadata: use bitset cursor api to load discard bitset
  dm bitset: introduce cursor api
  dm btree: use GFP_NOFS in dm_btree_del()
  dm space map common: memcpy the disk root to ensure it's arch aligned
  dm block manager: add unlikely() annotations on dm_bufio error paths
  dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB
  dm raid: cleanup awkward branching in raid_message() option processing
  dm raid: use mddev rather than rdev->mddev
  dm raid: use read_disk_sb() throughout
  dm raid: add raid4/5/6 journaling support
  ...
2017-02-21 12:11:41 -08:00
Joe Thornber 602548bdd5 dm block manager: add unlikely() annotations on dm_bufio error paths
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-02-16 13:01:07 -05:00
Davidlohr Bueso 642fa448ae sched/core: Remove set_task_state()
This is a nasty interface and setting the state of a foreign task must
not be done. As of the following commit:

  be628be095 ("bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()")

... everyone in the kernel calls set_task_state() with current, allowing
the helper to be removed.

However, as the comment indicates, it is still around for those archs
where computing current is more expensive than using a pointer, at least
in theory. An important arch that is affected is arm64, however this has
been addressed now [1] and performance is up to par making no difference
with either calls.

Of all the callers, if any, it's the locking bits that would care most
about this -- ie: we end up passing a tsk pointer to a lot of the lock
slowpath, and setting ->state on that. The following numbers are based
on two tests: a custom ad-hoc microbenchmark that just measures
latencies (for ~65 million calls) between get_task_state() vs
get_current_state().

Secondly for a higher overview, an unlink microbenchmark was used,
which pounds on a single file with open, close,unlink combos with
increasing thread counts (up to 4x ncpus). While the workload is quite
unrealistic, it does contend a lot on the inode mutex or now rwsem.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483468021-8237-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com

== 1. x86-64 ==

Avg runtime set_task_state():    601 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state(): 552 msecs

                                            vanilla                 dirty
Hmean    unlink1-processes-2      36089.26 (  0.00%)    38977.33 (  8.00%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-5      28555.01 (  0.00%)    29832.55 (  4.28%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-8      37323.75 (  0.00%)    44974.57 ( 20.50%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-12     43571.88 (  0.00%)    44283.01 (  1.63%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-21     34431.52 (  0.00%)    38284.45 ( 11.19%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-30     34813.26 (  0.00%)    37975.17 (  9.08%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-48     37048.90 (  0.00%)    39862.78 (  7.59%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-79     35630.01 (  0.00%)    36855.30 (  3.44%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-110    36115.85 (  0.00%)    39843.91 ( 10.32%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-141    32546.96 (  0.00%)    35418.52 (  8.82%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-172    34674.79 (  0.00%)    36899.21 (  6.42%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-203    37303.11 (  0.00%)    36393.04 ( -2.44%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-224    35712.13 (  0.00%)    36685.96 (  2.73%)

== 2. ppc64le ==

Avg runtime set_task_state():  938 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state: 940 msecs

                                            vanilla                 dirty
Hmean    unlink1-processes-2      19269.19 (  0.00%)    30704.50 ( 59.35%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-5      20106.15 (  0.00%)    21804.15 (  8.45%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-8      17496.97 (  0.00%)    17243.28 ( -1.45%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-12     14224.15 (  0.00%)    17240.21 ( 21.20%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-21     14155.66 (  0.00%)    15681.23 ( 10.78%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-30     14450.70 (  0.00%)    15995.83 ( 10.69%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-48     16945.57 (  0.00%)    16370.42 ( -3.39%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-79     15788.39 (  0.00%)    14639.27 ( -7.28%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-110    14268.48 (  0.00%)    14377.40 (  0.76%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-141    14023.65 (  0.00%)    16271.69 ( 16.03%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-172    13417.62 (  0.00%)    16067.55 ( 19.75%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-203    15293.08 (  0.00%)    15440.40 (  0.96%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-234    13719.32 (  0.00%)    16190.74 ( 18.01%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-265    16400.97 (  0.00%)    16115.22 ( -1.74%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-296    14388.60 (  0.00%)    16216.13 ( 12.70%)
Hmean    unlink1-processes-320    15771.85 (  0.00%)    15905.96 (  0.85%)

x86-64 (known to be fast for get_current()/this_cpu_read_stable() caching)
and ppc64 (with paca) show similar improvements in the unlink microbenches.
The small delta for ppc64 (2ms), does not represent the gains on the unlink
runs. In the case of x86, there was a decent amount of variation in the
latency runs, but always within a 20 to 50ms increase), ppc was more constant.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483479794-14013-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-14 11:14:16 +01:00
Joe Thornber 2e8ed71102 dm block manager: make block locking optional
The block manager's locking is useful for catching cycles that may
result from certain btree metadata corruption.  But in general it serves
as a developer tool to catch bugs in code.  Unless you're finding that
DM thin provisioning is hanging due to infinite loops within the block
manager's access to btree nodes you can safely disable this feature.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> # do/while(0) macro fix
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-11-14 15:17:47 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka 313c9b9736 dm block manager: cleanup code that prints stacktrace
There is no need to record stack trace and immediately print it.  Just
use dump_stack() to print the current stack.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-12-10 10:38:56 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka 4c7da06f5a dm persistent data: eliminate unnecessary return values
dm_bm_unlock and dm_tm_unlock return an integer value but the returned
value is always 0.  The calling code sometimes checks the return value
and sometimes doesn't.

Eliminate these unnecessary return values and also the checks for them.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-10-31 19:06:02 -04:00
viresh kumar fc0a446152 dm: remove unlikely() before IS_ERR()
IS_ERR() already contains an 'unlikely' compiler flag so there is no
need to do that again from IS_ERR() callers.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-08-12 11:32:21 -04:00
Mike Snitzer 49f154c732 dm thin metadata: remove in-core 'read_only' flag
Leverage the block manager's read_only flag instead of duplicating it;
access with new dm_bm_is_read_only() method.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 14:18:59 -04:00
Joe Thornber a9d45396f5 dm transaction manager: fix corruption due to non-atomic transaction commit
The persistent-data library used by dm-thin, dm-cache, etc is
transactional.  If anything goes wrong, such as an io error when writing
new metadata or a power failure, then we roll back to the last
transaction.

Atomicity when committing a transaction is achieved by:

a) Never overwriting data from the previous transaction.
b) Writing the superblock last, after all other metadata has hit the
   disk.

This commit and the following commit ("dm: take care to copy the space
map roots before locking the superblock") fix a bug associated with (b).
When committing it was possible for the superblock to still be written
in spite of an io error occurring during the preceeding metadata flush.
With these commits we're careful not to take the write lock out on the
superblock until after the metadata flush has completed.

Change the transaction manager's semantics for dm_tm_commit() to assume
all data has been flushed _before_ the single superblock that is passed
in.

As a prerequisite, split the block manager's block unlocking and
flushing by simplifying dm_bm_flush_and_unlock() to dm_bm_flush().  Now
the unlocking must be done separately.

This issue was discovered by forcing io errors at the crucial time
using dm-flakey.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
Mike Snitzer 10343180f5 dm persistent data: cleanup dm-thin specific references in text
DM's persistent-data library is now used my multiple targets so
exclusive references to "pool" or "thin provisioning" need to be
cleaned up.  Adjust Kconfig's DM_DEBUG_BLOCK_STACK_TRACING text
and remove "pool" from a block manager error message.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
2014-01-07 10:11:54 -05:00
Joe Thornber 9b7aaa64f9 dm thin: allow pool in read-only mode to transition to read-write mode
A thin-pool may be in read-only mode because the pool's data or metadata
space was exhausted.  To allow for recovery, by adding more space to the
pool, we must allow a pool to transition from PM_READ_ONLY to PM_WRITE
mode.  Otherwise, running out of space will render the pool permanently
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-12-10 16:35:13 -05:00
Joe Thornber 04f17c802f dm btree: prefetch child nodes when walking tree for a dm_btree_del
dm-btree now takes advantage of dm-bufio's ability to prefetch data via
dm_bm_prefetch().  Prior to this change many btree node visits were
causing a synchronous read.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-08-23 09:02:14 -04:00
Joe Thornber c6b4fcbad0 dm: add cache target
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.

A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules.  The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch.  Other modules are
under development.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:51 +00:00
Linus Torvalds b49249d103 Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance improvements.
Of particular note:
 - Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and striped.
   Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
 - Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the bio's new
   front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
 - Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
 - Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
   use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
 - Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm

Pull dm update from Alasdair G Kergon:
 "Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance
  improvements.

  Of particular note:
   - Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and
     striped.  Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
   - Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the
     bio's new front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
   - Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
   - Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
     use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
   - Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails."

* tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (36 commits)
  dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support
  dm: remove map_info
  dm snapshot: do not use map_context
  dm thin: dont use map_context
  dm raid1: dont use map_context
  dm flakey: dont use map_context
  dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record
  dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io
  dm snapshot: use per_bio_data
  dm verity: use per_bio_data
  dm raid1: use per_bio_data
  dm: introduce per_bio_data
  dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
  dm linear: add WRITE SAME support
  dm: add WRITE SAME support
  dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME
  dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible
  dm ioctl: remove PF_MEMALLOC
  dm persistent data: improve improve space map block alloc failure message
  dm thin: use DMERR_LIMIT for errors
  ...
2012-12-21 17:08:06 -08:00
Mike Snitzer 89ddeb8cb1 dm persistent data: use DMERR_LIMIT for errors
Nearly all of persistent-data is in the IO path so throttle error
messages with DMERR_LIMIT to limit the amount logged when
something has gone wrong.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21 20:23:34 +00:00
Mike Snitzer a5bd968aeb dm block manager: reinstate message when validator fails
Reinstate a useful error message when the block manager buffer validator fails.
This was mistakenly eliminated when the block manager was converted to use
dm-bufio.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21 20:23:34 +00:00
Masanari Iida 83f0d77a7f md: Fix typo in drivers/md
Correct spelling typo in drivers/md.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-29 22:57:50 +01:00
Joe Thornber 310975573b dm persistent data: introduce dm_bm_set_read_only
Introduce dm_bm_set_read_only to switch the block manager into a
read-only mode.  To be used when dm-thin degrades due to io errors on
the metadata device.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:08:15 +01:00
Joe Thornber 3c9ad9bd87 dm persistent data: stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in tm
Stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in the transaction
manager as an optimisation and remove the function as it is then no
longer used.

Some code, such as the space maps, keeps using on-disk data structures
from the previous transaction.  It can do this because blocks won't
be reallocated until the subsequent transaction.  Using
dm_bm_unlock_move to copy blocks sounds like a win, but it forces a
synchronous read should the old block be accessed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:08:09 +01:00
Joe Thornber 384ef0e62e dm persistent data: tidy transaction manager creation fns
Tidy the transaction manager creation functions.

They no longer lock the superblock.  Superblock locking is pulled out to
the caller.

Also export dm_bm_write_lock_zero.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:08:09 +01:00
Joe Thornber 51a0f659c0 dm persistent data: create new dm_block_manager struct
This patch introduces a separate struct for the block_manager.
It also uses IS_ERR to check the return value of dm_bufio_client_create
instead of testing incorrectly for NULL.

Prior to this patch a struct dm_block_manager was really an alias for
a struct dm_bufio_client.  We want to add some functionality to the
block manager that will require extra fields, so this one to one
mapping is no longer valid.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:08:08 +01:00
Joe Thornber 8d44c98aac dm persistent data: always unlock superblock in dm_bm_flush_and_unlock
Unlock the superblock even if initial dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers fails.

Also, remove redundant flush calls.  dm_bm_flush_and_unlock's calls to
dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers already result in dm_bufio_issue_flush
being called.

This avoids warnings about unflushed dirty buffers from bufio.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:08:06 +01:00
Joe Thornber 3241b1d3e0 dm: add persistent data library
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.

It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.

For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:11 +00:00