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Jerome Marchand 09e099d4ba block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
/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>
2011-01-05 16:57:38 +01:00
Yang Zhang e61eb2e93f fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 09:00:18 +01:00
Yang Zhang b9f985b6e0 block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17 08:58:36 +01:00
Jens Axboe f253b86b4a Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges"
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>
2010-10-24 22:06:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b9da057105 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (31 commits)
  driver core: Display error codes when class suspend fails
  Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct
  Driver core: Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks
  Driver core: Move find_memory_block routine
  hpilo: Despecificate driver from iLO generation
  driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted.
  driver core: Introduce find_memory_block_hinted which utilizes kset_find_obj_hinted.
  kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted.
  driver core: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
  driver-core: base: change to new flag variable
  sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock
  sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented.
  FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUG
  uio: Statically allocate uio_class and use class .dev_attrs.
  uio: Support 2^MINOR_BITS minors
  uio: Cleanup irq handling.
  uio: Don't clear driver data
  uio: Fix lack of locking in init_uio_class
  SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
  driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devices
  ...
2010-10-22 19:36:42 -07:00
Andi Kleen e52eec13cd SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.

This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.

The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.

Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.

v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.

Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22 10:16:43 -07:00
Yasuaki Ishimatsu 7681bfeecc block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
/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.

When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.

Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-19 09:07:02 +02:00
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 01ea50638b block: Fix race during disk initialization
When a new disk is being discovered, add_disk() first ties the bdev to gendisk
(via register_disk()->blkdev_get()) and only after that calls
bdi_register_bdev(). Because register_disk() also creates disk's kobject, it
can happen that userspace manages to open and modify the device's data (or
inode) before its BDI is properly initialized leading to a warning in
__mark_inode_dirty().

Fix the problem by registering BDI early enough.

This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16 20:36:36 +02:00
Will Drewry b5af921ec0 init: add support for root devices specified by partition UUID
This is the third patch in a series which adds support for
storing partition metadata, optionally, off of the hd_struct.

One major use for that data is being able to resolve partition
by other identities than just the index on a block device.  Device
enumeration varies by platform and there's a benefit to being able
to use something like EFI GPT's GUIDs to determine the correct
block device and partition to mount as the root.

This change adds that support to root= by adding support for
the following syntax:

  root=PARTUUID=hex-uuid

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-15 16:14:03 +02:00
Will Drewry 6d1d8050b4 block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct
I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a127
(2.6.36-rc3).

Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?

This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.

This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-15 16:13:18 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney f1ac2502e1 block: remove all rcu head initializations
Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 20:01:02 +02:00
Divyesh Shah b6ac23af2c blkio: fix for modular blk-cgroup build
After merging the block tree, 20100414's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:

ERROR: "get_gendisk" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "sched_clock" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!

This happens because the two symbols aren't exported and hence not available
when blk-cgroup code is built as a module. I've tried to stay consistent with
the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with the other symbols in the
respective files.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-15 08:54:59 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen dd3d145d49 block: Fix discard alignment calculation and printing
Discard alignment reporting for partitions was incorrect.  Update to
match the algorithm used elsewhere.

The alignment can be negative (misaligned).  Fix format string
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-01-11 14:29:19 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen 86b3728141 block: Expose discard granularity
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often
have allocation blocks that are bigger.  Allow the discard granularity
and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to
handle them.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10 11:50:21 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan 316d315bff block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
Commit a9327cac44 added seperate read
and write statistics of in_flight requests. And exported the number
of read and write requests in progress seperately through sysfs.

But  Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reported getting strange
output from "iostat -kx 2". Global values for service time and
utilization were garbage. For interval values, utilization was always
100%, and service time is higher than normal.

So this was reverted by commit 0f78ab9899

The problem was in part_round_stats_single(), I missed the following:
        if (now == part->stamp)
                return;

-       if (part->in_flight) {
+       if (part_in_flight(part)) {
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, time_in_queue,
                                part_in_flight(part) * (now - part->stamp));
                __part_stat_add(cpu, part, io_ticks, (now - part->stamp));

With this chunk included, the reported regression gets fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

--
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-06 20:16:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0f78ab9899 Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
This reverts commit a9327cac44.

Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> reports:

"with 2.6.32-rc1 I started getting the following strange output from
"iostat -kx 2":
Linux 2.6.31bisect (et2) 	04/10/2009 	_i686_	(2 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          10,70    0,00    3,16   15,75    0,00   70,38

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda              18,22     0,00    0,67    0,01    14,77     0,02
43,94     0,01   10,53 39043915,03 2629219,87
sdb              60,89     9,68   50,79    3,04  1724,43    50,52
65,95     0,70   13,06 488437,47 2629219,87

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           2,72    0,00    0,74    0,00    0,00   96,53

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           6,68    0,00    0,99    0,00    0,00   92,33

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4,40    0,00    0,73    1,47    0,00   93,40

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0,00     0,00    0,00    0,00     0,00     0,00
0,00     0,00    0,00   0,00 100,00
sdb               0,00     4,00    0,00    3,00     0,00    28,00
18,67     0,06   19,50 333,33 100,00

Global values for service time and utilization are garbage. For
interval values, utilization is always 100%, and service time is
higher than normal.

I bisected it down to:
[a9327cac44] Seperate read and write
statistics of in_flight requests
and verified that reverting just that commit indeed solves the issue
on 2.6.32-rc1."

So until this is debugged, revert the bad commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-04 21:04:38 +02:00
Kay Sievers e454cea20b Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
David Brownell a4dbd6740d driver model: constify attribute groups
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan a9327cac44 Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
Currently, there is a single in_flight counter measuring the number of
requests in the request_queue. But some monitoring tools would like to
know how many read requests and write requests are in progress. Split the
current in_flight counter into two seperate counters for read and write.

This information is exported as a sysfs attribute, as changing the
currently available stat files would break the existing tools.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:52 +02:00
Hannes Reinecke e3264a4d7d Send uevents for write_protect changes
Whenever a block device changes it's read-only attribute
notify the userspace about it.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Kay Sievers b03f38b685 Driver Core: block: add nodename support for block drivers.
This adds support for block drivers to report their requested nodename
to userspace.  It also updates a number of block drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:25 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we
need to ensure proper alignment.  This patch adds support for exposing
I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked.

  logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address.

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Tejun Heo 71982a409f block: include empty disks in /proc/diskstats
/proc/diskstats used to show stats for all disks whether they're
zero-sized or not and their non-zero partitions.  Commit
074a7aca7a accidentally changed the
behavior such that it doesn't print out zero sized disks.  This patch
implements DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY_PART0 flag to partition iterator and
uses it in diskstats_show() such that empty part0 is shown in
/proc/diskstats.

Reported and bisectd by Dianel Collins.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Daniel Collins <solemnwarning@solemnwarning.no-ip.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-22 08:35:10 +02:00
Márton Németh 9e8c0bccdc block: add documentation for register_blkdev()
Add documentation for register_blkdev() function and for the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-26 10:45:48 +01:00
Neil Brown 41b8c853a4 block: fix booting from partitioned md array
Hi Tejun,

 it looks like your commit:

   block: don't depend on consecutive minor space
   f331c0296f

 broke a particular case for booting from partitioned md/raid devices.
 That is the second time this has been broken recently.  The previous
 time was fixed by

   block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
   30f2f0eb4b

 Because the data isn't available when an md device is first created
 (we add disks and set it up after creation), the initial partition
 scan finds nothing.  It is not until the device is opened that
 another partition scan happens and finds something.

 So at the point where the kernel parameter "root=/dev/md_d0p1" is
 being parsed, md_d0 exists, but md_d0p1 does not.
 However if we let blk_lookup_devt return the correct device number
 even though the device doesn't exist, then the attempt to mount it
 will successfully find the partition.

 I have tried in the past to find a way to get the partition table to
 be read as soon as the array is assembled but that proved impossible
 (at the time).  I don't remember the details, and could possibly
 revisit it.  However it would be really nice if blk_lookup_devt
 could be adjusted to again accept non existant partitions.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-18 10:33:59 +01:00
Kay Sievers 3ada8b7e98 block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:43 -08:00
Jens Axboe a6f23657d3 block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
disk_map_sector_rcu() returns a partition from a sector offset,
which we use for IO statistics on a per-partition basis. The
lookup itself is an O(N) list lookup, where N is the number of
partitions. This actually hurts performance quite a bit, even
on the lower end partitions. On higher numbered partitions,
it can get pretty bad.

Solve this by adding a one-hit cache for partition lookup.
This makes the lookup O(1) for the case where we do most IO to
one partition. Even for mixed partition workloads, amortized cost
is pretty close to O(1) since the natural IO batching makes the
one-hit cache last for lots of IOs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Cheng Renquan bf91db18ac block: set disk->node_id before it's being used
disk->node_id will be refered in allocating in disk_expand_part_tbl, so we
should set it before disk->node_id is refered.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:20 +01:00
Zhang, Yanmin 561ec68e4d block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a
couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another
HPC NX6325 notebook.  All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9.
With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail.

I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517

As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs.

1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times
and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return
value 0.  Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes,
0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for
exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are
available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting
other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related.  I work
out a patch for nash to fix it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858

2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports
switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting:
    (1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop)
    (2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line
	"8 sd";
    (3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK)
	type for the device and add it to its own list;
    (4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem
	labels; scsi register "8 sd" always.

When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up
for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK)
type.

To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for
kernel.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837

Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new
block device in proc/devices.

With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for
dozens of times without failure.

Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 31d85ab28e proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-23 17:57:37 +04:00
Alexey Dobriyan f500975a3f proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-23 15:07:31 +04:00
Randy Dunlap 496aa8a98f block: fix current kernel-doc warnings
Fix block kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//fs/block_dev.c:1272): No description found for parameter 'path'
Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'cpu'
Warning(linux-2.6.27-git4//block/blk-core.c:1021): No description found for parameter 'part'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.27-git4//block/genhd.c:544): No description found for parameter 'partno'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
Li Zefan e6d63840ba block: fix kernel-doc for blk_alloc_devt()
No argument 'gfp_mask' for blk_alloc_devt().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe 581d4e28d9 block: add fault injection mechanism for faking request timeouts
Only works for the generic request timer handling. Allows one to
sporadically ignore request completions, thus exercising the timeout
handling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:17 +02:00
Tejun Heo 243294dae0 block: fix duplicate headers for /proc/partitions
seqf can be started multiple times for a read and the header should be
printed only for the initial one.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo 2bbedcb4c1 block: don't test for partition size in bdget_disk() and blk_lookup_devt()
bdget_disk() and blk_lookup_devt() never cared whether the specified
partition (or disk) is zero sized or not.  I got confused while
converting those not to depend on consecutive minor numbers in commit
5a6411b1178baf534aa9138052864dfa89d3eada and later when dev0 was added
it broke callers which expected to get valid return for zero sized
disk devices.

So, they never needed nr_sects checks in the first place.  Kill them.

This problem was spotted and debugged by Bartlmoiej Zolnierkiewicz.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:11 +02:00
Harvey Harrison aeb3d3a81e block: kmalloc args reversed, small function definition fixes
Noticed by sparse:
block/blk-softirq.c:156:12: warning: symbol 'blk_softirq_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
block/genhd.c:583:28: warning: function 'bdget_disk' with external linkage has definition
block/genhd.c:659:17: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
block/genhd.c:659:17:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] size
block/genhd.c:659:17:    got restricted gfp_t
block/genhd.c:659:29: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
block/genhd.c:659:29:    expected restricted gfp_t [usertype] flags
block/genhd.c:659:29:    got unsigned int
block: kmalloc args reversed

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 3e1a7ff8a0 block: allow disk to have extended device number
Now that disk and partition handlings are mostly unified, it's easy to
allow disk to have extended device number.  This patch makes
add_disk() use extended device number if disk->minors is zero.  Both
sd and ide-disk are updated to use this.

* sd_format_disk_name() is implemented which can generically determine
  the drive name.  This removes disk number restriction stemming from
  limited device names.

* If sd index goes over SD_MAX_DISKS (which can be increased now BTW),
  sd simply doesn't initialize minors letting block layer choose
  extended device number.

* If CONFIG_DEBUG_EXT_DEVT is set, both sd and ide-disk always set
  minors to 0 and use extended device numbers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 689d6fac40 block: replace @ext_minors with GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT
With previous changes, it's meaningless to limit the number of
partitions.  Replace @ext_minors with GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT such that
setting the flag allows the disk to have maximum number of allowed
partitions (only limited by the number of entries in parsed_partitions
as determined by MAX_PART constant).

This kills not-too-pretty alloc_disk_ext[_node]() functions and makes
@minors parameter to alloc_disk[_node]() unnecessary.  The parameter
is left alone to avoid disturbing the users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 540eed5637 block: make partition array dynamic
disk->__part used to be statically allocated to the maximum possible
number of partitions.  This patch makes partition array allocation
dynamic.  The added overhead is minimal as only real change is one
memory dereference changed to RCU one.  This saves both a bit of
memory and cpu cycles iterating through unoccupied slots and makes
increasing partition limit easier.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 074a7aca7a block: move stats from disk to part0
Move stats related fields - stamp, in_flight, dkstats - from disk to
part0 and unify stat handling such that...

* part_stat_*() now updates part0 together if the specified partition
  is not part0.  ie. part_stat_*() are now essentially all_stat_*().

* {disk|all}_stat_*() are gone.

* part_round_stats() is updated similary.  It handles part0 stats
  automatically and disk_round_stats() is killed.

* part_{inc|dec}_in_fligh() is implemented which automatically updates
  part0 stats for parts other than part0.

* disk_map_sector_rcu() is updated to return part0 if no part matches.
  Combined with the above changes, this makes NULL special case
  handling in callers unnecessary.

* Separate stats show code paths for disk are collapsed into part
  stats show code paths.

* Rename disk_stat_lock/unlock() to part_stat_lock/unlock()

While at it, reposition stat handling macros a bit and add missing
parentheses around macro parameters.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo eddb2e26b5 block: kill GENHD_FL_FAIL and use part0->make_it_fail
GENHD_FL_FAIL for disk is what make_it_fail is for parts.  Kill it and
use part0->make_it_fail.  Sysfs node handling is unified too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo b7db9956e5 block: move policy from disk to part0
Move disk->policy to part0->policy.  Implement and use get_disk_ro().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Tejun Heo e561052149 block: unify sysfs size node handling
Now that capacity and __dev are moved to part0, part0 and others can
share the same method.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Tejun Heo 548b10eb29 block: move __dev from disk to part0
Move disk->__dev to part0->__dev.  This simplifies bdget_disk() and
lookup_devt() and allows common sysfs attributes to be unified.
part_to_disk() is updated to handle part0 -> disk.

Updated to include a fix from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
he writes:

"part0 is a "special" partition and doesn't need to have capacity set - this
fixes regression caused by "block: move __dev from disk to part0" commit."

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Tejun Heo b5d0b9df0b block: introduce partition 0
genhd and partition code handled disk and partitions separately.  All
information about the whole disk was in struct genhd and partitions in
struct hd_struct.  However, the whole disk (part0) and other
partitions have a lot in common and the data structures end up having
good number of common fields and thus separate code paths doing the
same thing.  Also, the partition array was indexed by partno - 1 which
gets pretty confusing at times.

This patch introduces partition 0 and makes the partition array
indexed by partno.  Following patches will unify the handling of disk
and parts piece-by-piece.

This patch also implements disk_partitionable() which tests whether a
disk is partitionable.  With coming dynamic partition array change,
the most common usage of disk_max_parts() will be testing whether a
disk is partitionable and the number of max partitions will become
much less important.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Tejun Heo ed9e198234 block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()
Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device
instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev.  To make sure no
user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev.

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

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:07 +02:00
Tejun Heo 870d665612 block: implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
Extended devt introduces non-contiguos device numbers.  This patch
implements a debug option which forces most devt allocations to be
from the extended area and spreads them out.  This is enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is set and achieves...

1. Detects code paths in kernel or userland which expect predetermined
   consecutive device numbers.

2. When something goes wrong, avoid corruption as adding to the minor
   of earlier partition won't lead to the wrong but valid device.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1f0142905d block: adjust formatting for large minors and add ext_range sysfs attr
With extended minors and the soon-to-follow debug feature, large minor
numbers for block devices will be common.  This patch does the
followings to make printouts pretty.

* Adapt print formats such that large minors don't break the
  formatting.

* For extended MAJ:MIN, %02x%02x for MAJ:MIN used in
  printk_all_partitions() doesn't cut it anymore.  Update it such that
  %03x:%05x is used if either MAJ or MIN doesn't fit in %02x.

* Implement ext_range sysfs attribute which shows total minors the
  device can use including both conventional minor space and the
  extended one.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo bcce3de1be block: implement extended dev numbers
Implement extended device numbers.  A block driver can tell block
layer that it wants to use extended device numbers.  After the usual
minor space is used up, block layer automatically allocates devt's
from EXT_BLOCK_MAJOR.

Currently only one major number is allocated for this but as the
allocation is strictly on-demand, ~1mil minor space under it should
suffice unless the system actually has more than ~1mil partitions and
if that ever happens adding more majors to the extended devt area is
easy.

Due to internal implementation issues, the first partition can't be
allocated on the extended area.  In other words, genhd->minors should
at least be 1.  This limitation will be lifted by later changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:06 +02:00