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Tejun Heo 29e2b09ab5 block: collapse blk_alloc_request() into get_request()
Allocation failure handling in get_request() is about to be updated.
To ease the update, collapse blk_alloc_request() into get_request().

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-20 10:06:40 +02:00
Tejun Heo b82d4b197c blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation
With the previous change to guarantee bypass visiblity for RCU read
lock regions, entering bypass mode involves non-trivial overhead and
future changes are scheduled to make use of bypass mode during init
path.  Combined it may end up adding noticeable delay during boot.

This patch makes request_queue start its life in bypass mode, which is
ended on queue init completion at the end of
blk_init_allocated_queue(), and updates blk_queue_bypass_start() such
that draining and RCU synchronization are performed only when the
queue actually enters bypass mode.

This avoids unnecessarily switching in and out of bypass mode during
init avoiding the overhead and any nasty surprises which may step from
leaving bypass mode on half-initialized queues.

The boot time overhead was pointed out by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-20 10:06:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo 80fd99792b blkcg: make sure blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassing
Currently, blkg_lookup() doesn't check @q bypass state.  This patch
updates blk_queue_bypass_start() to do synchronize_rcu() before
returning and updates blkg_lookup() to check blk_queue_bypass() and
return %NULL if bypassing.  This ensures blkg_lookup() returns %NULL
if @q is bypassing.

This is to guarantee that nobody is accessing policy data while @q is
bypassing, which is necessary to allow replacing blkio_cgroup->pd[] in
place on policy [de]activation.

v2: Added more comments explaining bypass guarantees as suggested by
    Vivek.

v3: Added more comments explaining why there's no synchronize_rcu() in
    blk_cleanup_queue() as suggested by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-20 10:06:06 +02:00
Shaohua Li 1b2e19f17e block: make auto block plug flush threshold per-disk based
We do auto block plug flush to reduce latency, the threshold is 16
requests. This works well if the task is accessing one or two drives.
The problem is if the task is accessing a raid 0 device and the raid
disk number is big, say 8 or 16, 16/8 = 2 or 16/16=1, we will have
heavy lock contention.

This patch makes the threshold per-disk based. The latency should be
still ok accessing one or two drives. The setup with application
accessing a lot of drives in the meantime uaually is big machine,
avoiding lock contention is more important, because any contention
will actually increase latency.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-06 11:37:47 -06:00
Dan Carpenter 00380a404f block: blk_alloc_queue_node(): use caller's GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNEL
We should use the GFP flags that the caller specified instead of picking
our own.  All the callers specify GFP_KERNEL so this doesn't make a
difference to how the kernel runs, it's just a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-23 09:58:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo 852c788f83 block: implement bio_associate_current()
IO scheduling and cgroup are tied to the issuing task via io_context
and cgroup of %current.  Unfortunately, there are cases where IOs need
to be routed via a different task which makes scheduling and cgroup
limit enforcement applied completely incorrectly.

For example, all bios delayed by blk-throttle end up being issued by a
delayed work item and get assigned the io_context of the worker task
which happens to serve the work item and dumped to the default block
cgroup.  This is double confusing as bios which aren't delayed end up
in the correct cgroup and makes using blk-throttle and cfq propio
together impossible.

Any code which punts IO issuing to another task is affected which is
getting more and more common (e.g. btrfs).  As both io_context and
cgroup are firmly tied to task including userland visible APIs to
manipulate them, it makes a lot of sense to match up tasks to bios.

This patch implements bio_associate_current() which associates the
specified bio with %current.  The bio will record the associated ioc
and blkcg at that point and block layer will use the recorded ones
regardless of which task actually ends up issuing the bio.  bio
release puts the associated ioc and blkcg.

It grabs and remembers ioc and blkcg instead of the task itself
because task may already be dead by the time the bio is issued making
ioc and blkcg inaccessible and those are all block layer cares about.

elevator_set_req_fn() is updated such that the bio elvdata is being
allocated for is available to the elevator.

This doesn't update block cgroup policies yet.  Further patches will
implement the support.

-v2: #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP added around bio->bi_ioc dereference in
     rq_ioc() to fix build breakage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo 24acfc34fb block: interface update for ioc/icq creation functions
Make the following interface updates to prepare for future ioc related
changes.

* create_io_context() returning ioc only works for %current because it
  doesn't increment ref on the ioc.  Drop @task parameter from it and
  always assume %current.

* Make create_io_context_slowpath() return 0 or -errno and rename it
  to create_task_io_context().

* Make ioc_create_icq() take @ioc as parameter instead of assuming
  that of %current.  The caller, get_request(), is updated to create
  ioc explicitly and then pass it into ioc_create_icq().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo b679281a64 block: restructure get_request()
get_request() is structured a bit unusually in that failure path is
inlined in the usual flow with goto labels atop and inside it.
Relocate the error path to the end of the function.

This is to prepare for icq handling changes in get_request() and
doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Tejun Heo e8989fae38 blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policies
Currently, blkg is per cgroup-queue-policy combination.  This is
unnatural and leads to various convolutions in partially used
duplicate fields in blkg, config / stat access, and general management
of blkgs.

This patch make blkg's per cgroup-queue and let them serve all
policies.  blkgs are now created and destroyed by blkcg core proper.
This will allow further consolidation of common management logic into
blkcg core and API with better defined semantics and layering.

As a transitional step to untangle blkg management, elvswitch and
policy [de]registration, all blkgs except the root blkg are being shot
down during elvswitch and bypass.  This patch adds blkg_root_update()
to update root blkg in place on policy change.  This is hacky and racy
but should be good enough as interim step until we get locking
simplified and switch over to proper in-place update for all blkgs.

-v2: Root blkgs need to be updated on elvswitch too and blkg_alloc()
     comment wasn't updated according to the function change.  Fixed.
     Both pointed out by Vivek.

-v3: v2 updated blkg_destroy_all() to invoke update_root_blkg_pd() for
     all policies.  This freed root pd during elvswitch before the
     last queue finished exiting and led to oops.  Directly invoke
     update_root_blkg_pd() only on BLKIO_POLICY_PROP from
     cfq_exit_queue().  This also is closer to what will be done with
     proper in-place blkg update.  Reported by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 4eef304998 blkcg: move per-queue blkg list heads and counters to queue and blkg
Currently, specific policy implementations are responsible for
maintaining list and number of blkgs.  This duplicates code
unnecessarily, and hinders factoring common code and providing blkcg
API with better defined semantics.

After this patch, request_queue hosts list heads and counters and blkg
has list nodes for both policies.  This patch only relocates the
necessary fields and the next patch will actually move management code
into blkcg core.

Note that request_queue->blkg_list[] and ->nr_blkgs[] are hardcoded to
have 2 elements.  This is to avoid include dependency and will be
removed by the next patch.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

-v2: Now unnecessary conditional on CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_MODULE removed
     as pointed out by Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo 5efd611351 blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue()
Currently block core calls directly into blk-throttle for init, drain
and exit.  This patch adds blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue() which wraps
the blk-throttle functions.  This is to give more control and
visiblity to blkcg core layer for proper layering.  Further patches
will add logic common to blkcg policies to the functions.

While at it, collapse blk_throtl_release() into blk_throtl_exit().
There's no reason to keep them separate.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:23 +01:00
Tejun Heo f51b802c17 blkcg: use the usual get blkg path for root blkio_group
For root blkg, blk_throtl_init() was using throtl_alloc_tg()
explicitly and cfq_init_queue() was manually initializing embedded
cfqd->root_group, adding unnecessarily different code paths to blkg
handling.

Make both use the usual blkio_group get functions - throtl_get_tg()
and cfq_get_cfqg() - for the root blkio_group too.  Note that
blk_throtl_init() callsite is pushed downwards in
blk_alloc_queue_node() so that @q is sufficiently initialized for
throtl_get_tg().

This simplifies root blkg handling noticeably for cfq and will allow
further modularization of blkcg API.

-v2: Vivek pointed out that using cfq_get_cfqg() won't work if
     CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED is disabled.  Fix it by factoring out
     initialization of base part of cfqg into cfq_init_cfqg_base() and
     alloc/init/free explicitly if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:22 +01:00
Tejun Heo 6ecf23afab block: extend queue bypassing to cover blkcg policies
Extend queue bypassing such that dying queue is always bypassing and
blk-throttle is drained on bypass.  With blkcg policies updated to
test blk_queue_bypass() instead of blk_queue_dead(), this ensures that
no bio or request is held by or going through blkcg policies on a
bypassing queue.

This will be used to implement blkg cleanup on elevator switches and
policy changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:22 +01:00
Tejun Heo d732580b4e block: implement blk_queue_bypass_start/end()
Rename and extend elv_queisce_start/end() to
blk_queue_bypass_start/end() which are exported and supports nesting
via @q->bypass_depth.  Also add blk_queue_bypass() to test bypass
state.

This will be further extended and used for blkio_group management.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Tejun Heo b855b04a0b block: blk-throttle should be drained regardless of q->elevator
Currently, blk_cleanup_queue() doesn't call elv_drain_elevator() if
q->elevator doesn't exist; however, bio based drivers don't have
elevator initialized but can still use blk-throttle.  This patch moves
q->elevator test inside blk_drain_queue() such that only
elv_drain_elevator() is skipped if !q->elevator.

-v2: loop can have registered queue which has NULL request_fn.  Make
     sure we don't call into __blk_run_queue() in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Fold in bug fix from Vivek.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:24:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo 07c2bd3735 block: don't call elevator callbacks for plug merges
Plug merge calls two elevator callbacks outside queue lock -
elevator_allow_merge_fn() and elevator_bio_merged_fn().  Although
attempt_plug_merge() suggests that elevator is guaranteed to be there
through the existing request on the plug list, nothing prevents plug
merge from calling into dying or initializing elevator.

For regular merges, bypass ensures elvpriv count to reach zero, which
in turn prevents merges as all !ELVPRIV requests get REQ_SOFTBARRIER
from forced back insertion.  Plug merge doesn't check ELVPRIV, and, as
the requests haven't gone through elevator insertion yet, it doesn't
have SOFTBARRIER set allowing merges on a bypassed queue.

This, for example, leads to the following crash during elevator
switch.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
 IP: [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
 PGD 112cbc067 PUD 115d5c067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 1
 Modules linked in: deadline_iosched

 Pid: 819, comm: dd Not tainted 3.3.0-rc2-work+ #76 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813b34e9>]  [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
 RSP: 0018:ffff8801143a38f8  EFLAGS: 00010297
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88011817ce28 RCX: ffff880116eb6cc0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880118056e20 RDI: ffff8801199512f8
 RBP: ffff8801143a3908 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880118195708
 R13: ffff880118052aa0 R14: ffff8801143a3d50 R15: ffff880118195708
 FS:  00007f19f82cb700(0000) GS:ffff88011fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000112c6a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process dd (pid: 819, threadinfo ffff8801143a2000, task ffff880116eb6cc0)
 Stack:
  ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3928 ffffffff81391bba
  ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3948 ffffffff81391bf1
  ffff88011817ce28 0000000000000000 ffff8801143a39a8 ffffffff81398e3e
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81391bba>] elv_rq_merge_ok+0x4a/0x60
  [<ffffffff81391bf1>] elv_try_merge+0x21/0x40
  [<ffffffff81398e3e>] blk_queue_bio+0x8e/0x390
  [<ffffffff81396a5a>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100
  [<ffffffff81396b04>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100
  [<ffffffff811d45c2>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x1ce2/0x3450
  [<ffffffff811d0dc7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60
  [<ffffffff811460b5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760
  [<ffffffff811986b2>] do_sync_read+0xe2/0x120
  [<ffffffff81199345>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180
  [<ffffffff81199501>] sys_read+0x51/0x90
  [<ffffffff81aeac12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

There are multiple ways to fix this including making plug merge check
ELVPRIV; however,

* Calling into elevator outside queue lock is confusing and
  error-prone.

* Requests on plug list aren't known to the elevator.  They aren't on
  the elevator yet, so there's no elevator specific state to update.

* Given the nature of plug merges - collecting bio's for the same
  purpose from the same issuer - elevator specific restrictions aren't
  applicable.

So, simply don't call into elevator methods from plug merge by moving
elv_bio_merged() from bio_attempt_*_merge() to blk_queue_bio(), and
using blk_try_merge() in attempt_plug_merge().

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.

Note that this makes per-cgroup merged stats skip plug merging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-08 09:19:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo 050c8ea80e block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions
blk_rq_merge_ok() is the elevator-neutral part of merge eligibility
test.  blk_try_merge() determines merge direction and expects the
caller to have tested elv_rq_merge_ok() previously.

elv_rq_merge_ok() now wraps blk_rq_merge_ok() and then calls
elv_iosched_allow_merge().  elv_try_merge() is removed and the two
callers are updated to call elv_rq_merge_ok() explicitly followed by
blk_try_merge().  While at it, make rq_merge_ok() functions return
bool.

This is to prepare for plug merge update and doesn't introduce any
behavior change.

This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-08 09:19:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo 11a3122f6c block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid
deferring ioc release to workqueue.  It was also broken on UP because
trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced
preemption count.

While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most
pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit
loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the
optimization.  Strip it out.  If there turns out to be workloads which
are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion
thread can be applied later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-07 07:51:30 +01:00
Shaohua Li 05c30b9551 block: fix NULL icq_cache reference
Vivek reported a kernel crash:
[   94.217015] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c
[   94.218004] IP: [<ffffffff81142fae>] kmem_cache_free+0x5e/0x200
[   94.218004] PGD 13abda067 PUD 137d52067 PMD 0
[   94.218004] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[   94.218004] CPU 0
[   94.218004] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[   94.218004]
[   94.218004] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.0+ #16 Hewlett-Packard HP xw6600 Workstation/0A9Ch
[   94.218004] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81142fae>]  [<ffffffff81142fae>] kmem_cache_free+0x5e/0x200
[   94.218004] RSP: 0018:ffff88013fc03de0  EFLAGS: 00010006
[   94.218004] RAX: ffffffff81e0d020 RBX: ffff880138b3c680 RCX: 00000001801c001b
[   94.218004] RDX: 00000000003aac1d RSI: ffff880138b3c680 RDI: ffffffff81142fae
[   94.218004] RBP: ffff88013fc03e10 R08: ffff880137830238 R09: 0000000000000001
[   94.218004] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   94.218004] R13: ffffea0004e2cf00 R14: ffffffff812f6eb6 R15: 0000000000000246
[   94.218004] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   94.218004] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   94.218004] CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 00000001395ab000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   94.218004] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   94.218004] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   94.218004] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81e00000, task ffffffff81e0d020)
[   94.218004] Stack:
[   94.218004]  0000000000000102 ffff88013fc0db20 ffffffff81e22700 ffff880139500f00
[   94.218004]  0000000000000001 000000000000000a ffff88013fc03e20 ffffffff812f6eb6
[   94.218004]  ffff88013fc03e90 ffffffff810c8da2 ffffffff81e01fd8 ffff880137830240
[   94.218004] Call Trace:
[   94.218004]  <IRQ>
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff812f6eb6>] icq_free_icq_rcu+0x16/0x20
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810c8da2>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1c2/0x420
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810c9038>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x38/0x250
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff810405ee>] __do_softirq+0xce/0x3e0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8108ed04>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x74/0x100
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff81090104>] ? tick_program_event+0x24/0x30
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183ed1c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8100422d>] do_softirq+0x8d/0xc0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff81040c3e>] irq_exit+0xae/0xe0
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183f4be>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x99
[   94.218004]  [<ffffffff8183e330>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80

Once a queue is quiesced, it's not supposed to have any elvpriv data or
icq's, and elevator switching depends on that.  Request alloc path
followed the rule for elvpriv data but forgot apply it to icq's
leading to the following crash during elevator switch. Fix it by not
allocating icq's if ELVPRIV is not set for the request.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-01-19 09:20:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b3c9dd182e Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (37 commits)
  Revert "block: recursive merge requests"
  block: Stop using macro stubs for the bio data integrity calls
  blockdev: convert some macros to static inlines
  fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages()
  block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
  block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function
  block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context()
  block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context
  block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported
  block: recursive merge requests
  block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge
  block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
  block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface cleanup
  block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
  block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
  block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts
  block: remove elevator_queue->ops
  block: reorder elevator switch sequence
  ...

Fix up conflicts in:
 - block/blk-cgroup.c
	Switch from can_attach_task to can_attach
 - block/cfq-iosched.c
	conflict with now removed cic index changes (we now use q->id instead)
2012-01-15 12:24:45 -08:00
Tejun Heo 4eabc94125 block: don't kick empty queue in blk_drain_queue()
While probing, fd sets up queue, probes hardware and tears down the
queue if probing fails.  In the process, blk_drain_queue() kicks the
queue which failed to finish initialization and fd is unhappy about
that.

  floppy0: no floppy controllers found
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at drivers/block/floppy.c:2929 do_fd_request+0xbf/0xd0()
  Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  VFS: do_fd_request called on non-open device
  Modules linked in:
  Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.2.0-rc4-00077-g5983fe2 #2
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81039a6a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
   [<ffffffff81039b41>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
   [<ffffffff813d657f>] do_fd_request+0xbf/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81322b95>] blk_drain_queue+0x65/0x80
   [<ffffffff81322c93>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xe3/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff818a809d>] floppy_init+0xdeb/0xe28
   [<ffffffff818a72b2>] ? daring+0x6b/0x6b
   [<ffffffff810002af>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
   [<ffffffff81884b34>] kernel_init+0x9d/0x11e
   [<ffffffff810317c2>] ? schedule_tail+0x22/0xa0
   [<ffffffff815dbb14>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
   [<ffffffff81884a97>] ? start_kernel+0x2be/0x2be
   [<ffffffff815dbb10>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb

Avoid it by making blk_drain_queue() kick queue iff dispatch queue has
something on it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-15 20:03:04 +01:00
Tejun Heo f1f8cc9465 block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
Now block layer knows everything necessary to create and associate
icq's with requests.  Move ioc_create_icq() to blk-ioc.c and update
get_request() such that, if elevator_type->icq_size is set, requests
are automatically associated with their matching icq's before
elv_set_request().  io_context reference is also managed by block core
on request alloc/free.

* Only ioprio/cgroup changed handling remains from cfq_get_cic().
  Collapsed into cfq_set_request().

* This removes queue kicking on icq allocation failure (for now).  As
  icq allocation failure is rare and the only effect of queue kicking
  achieved was possibily accelerating queue processing, this change
  shouldn't be noticeable.

  There is a larger underlying problem.  Unlike request allocation,
  icq allocation is not guaranteed to succeed eventually after
  retries.  The number of icq is unbound and thus mempool can't be the
  solution either.  This effectively adds allocation dependency on
  memory free path and thus possibility of deadlock.

  This usually wouldn't happen because icq allocation is not a hot
  path and, even when the condition triggers, it's highly unlikely
  that none of the writeback workers already has icq.

  However, this is still possible especially if elevator is being
  switched under high memory pressure, so we better get it fixed.
  Probably the only solution is just bypassing elevator and appending
  to dispatch queue on any elevator allocation failure.

* Comment added to explain how icq's are managed and synchronized.

This completes cleanup of io_context interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:42 +01:00
Tejun Heo a612fddf0d block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
Most of icq management is about to be moved out of cfq into blk-ioc.
This patch prepares for it.

* Move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue->icq_list

* Make request explicitly point to icq instead of through elevator
  private data.  ->elevator_private[3] is replaced with sub struct elv
  which contains icq pointer and priv[2].  cfq is updated accordingly.

* Meaningless clearing of ->elevator_private[0] removed from
  elv_set_request().  At that point in code, the field was guaranteed
  to be %NULL anyway.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:41 +01:00
Tejun Heo f2dbd76a0a block, cfq: replace current_io_context() with create_io_context()
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:40 +01:00
Tejun Heo 09ac46c429 block: misc updates to blk_get_queue()
* 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>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo a73f730d01 block, cfq: move cfqd->cic_index to q->id
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 8ba61435d7 block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 481a7d6479 block: fix drain_all condition in blk_drain_queue()
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 34f6055c80 block: add blk_queue_dead()
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Tejun Heo 1ba64edef6 block, sx8: kill blk_insert_request()
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>
2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
Mike Snitzer 5151412dd4 block: initialize request_queue's numa node during
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>
2011-11-23 10:59:13 +01:00
Shaohua Li 019ceb7d5d block: add missed trace_block_plug
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>
2011-11-16 09:21:50 +01:00
Shaohua Li 3540d5e89b block: avoid unnecessary plug list flush
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>
2011-11-16 09:21:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo 6dd9ad7df2 block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
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>
2011-11-03 18:52:11 +01:00
Jens Axboe 83157223de Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-3.2/core 2011-10-24 16:24:38 +02:00
Jeff Moyer e67b77c791 blk-flush: move the queue kick into
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>
2011-10-24 16:24:31 +02:00
Tao Ma 9562ad9ab3 block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio.
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>
2011-10-24 16:11:30 +02:00
Tejun Heo c9a929dde3 block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
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>
2011-10-19 14:42:16 +02:00
Tejun Heo bd87b5898a block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
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>
2011-10-19 14:33:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo da8303c63b block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
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>
2011-10-19 14:33:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo bc16a4f933 block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
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>
2011-10-19 14:33:01 +02:00
Tejun Heo e3c78ca524 block: reorganize queue draining
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>
2011-10-19 14:32:38 +02:00
Tejun Heo 75eb6c372d block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free
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>
2011-10-19 14:31:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe 5c04b426f2 Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-10-19 14:30:42 +02:00
Hannes Reinecke 777eb1bf15 block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()
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>
2011-09-28 08:07:01 -06:00
Suresh Jayaraman 75df713627 block: document blk-plug
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>
2011-09-21 10:00:16 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 27a84d54c0 block: refactor generic_make_request
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>
2011-09-15 14:01:40 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 5a7bbad27a block: remove support for bio remapping from ->make_request
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>
2011-09-12 12:12:01 +02:00
Jens Axboe c20e8de27f block: rename __make_request() to blk_queue_bio()
Now that it's exported, lets put it in a more sane namespace.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-09-12 12:08:31 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 166e1f901b block: export __make_request
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>
2011-09-12 12:08:27 +02:00
Shaohua Li 56ebdaf2fa block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit
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>
2011-08-24 16:04:34 +02:00
Shaohua Li a632716275 block: change force plug flush call order
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>
2011-08-24 16:04:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* '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
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Jeff Moyer 4853abaae7 block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
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>
2011-08-15 21:37:25 +02:00
Akinobu Mita dd48c085c1 fault-injection: add ability to export fault_attr in arbitrary directory
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>
2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
Akinobu Mita b2c9cd3793 fail_make_request: cleanup should_fail_request
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>
2011-07-26 16:49:46 -07:00
Jens Axboe 11ccf116d0 block: fix warning with calling smp_processor_id() in preemptible section
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>
2011-07-26 15:01:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* '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
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Dan Williams 5757a6d76c block: strict rq_affinity
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>
2011-07-23 20:44:25 +02:00
James Bottomley bfe159a512 [SCSI] fix crash in scsi_dispatch_cmd()
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>
2011-07-21 14:21:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li 55c022bbdd block: avoid building too big plug list
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>
2011-07-08 08:19:20 +02:00
Jens Axboe d86e0e83b3 block: export blk_{get,put}_queue()
We need them in SCSI to fix a bug, but currently they are not
exported to modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-27 07:45:45 +02:00
Luca Tettamanti 700c4f3325 block: remove unused variable in bio_attempt_front_merge()
sector is never read inside the function.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-26 21:07:26 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 95cf3dd9db block: call elv_bio_merged() when merged
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>
2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
Jens Axboe 771949d03b block: get rid of on-stack plugging debug checks
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>
2011-05-20 20:52:16 +02:00
Vivek Goyal f469a7b4d5 blk-cgroup: Allow sleeping while dynamically allocating a group
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>
2011-05-20 20:34:52 +02:00
Shaohua Li 3ec717b7ca block: don't delay blk_run_queue_async
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>
2011-05-18 12:24:03 +02:00
Jens Axboe d350e6b6e8 block: remove stale kerneldoc member from __blk_run_queue()
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>
2011-04-19 13:34:14 +02:00
Jens Axboe c21e6beba8 block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER
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>
2011-04-19 13:32:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe bd900d4580 block: kill blk_flush_plug_list() export
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>
2011-04-18 22:06:57 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 24ecfbe27f block: add blk_run_queue_async
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>
2011-04-18 11:41:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe 4521cc4ed5 block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 11:36:39 +02:00
Jens Axboe 99e22598e9 block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
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>
2011-04-18 09:59:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe b4cb290e0a Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
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>
2011-04-18 09:54:05 +02:00
NeilBrown 048c9374a7 block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks
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>
2011-04-18 09:52:22 +02:00
Jens Axboe 49cac01e1f block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
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>
2011-04-16 13:51:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe f6603783f9 block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
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>
2011-04-15 15:49:07 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 88b996cd06 block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
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>
2011-04-15 15:20:10 +02:00
Jens Axboe f4af3c3d07 block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
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>
2011-04-12 14:58:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe cf82c79839 block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
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>
2011-04-12 10:30:53 +02:00
Jens Axboe dc6d36c971 block: readd plug trace event
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>
2011-04-12 10:28:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe f75664570d block: add callback function for unplug notification
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>
2011-04-12 10:17:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 188112722c block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
It's done at the top to avoid doing it for every queue we unplug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:29 +02:00
Jens Axboe 94b5eb28b4 block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
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>
2011-04-12 10:12:19 +02:00
NeilBrown 109b81296c block: splice plug list to local context
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>
2011-04-11 14:13:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov f83e826181 block: fix request sorting at unplug
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>
2011-04-05 23:52:49 +02:00
Jens Axboe 8182924bc5 block: dump request state on seeing a corrupted request completion
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>
2011-04-05 23:51:37 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Jens Axboe ad3d9d7ede block: fix issue with calling blk_stop_queue() from the request_fn handler
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>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe 401a18e92c block: fix bug with inserting flush requests as sort/merge
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>
2011-03-25 17:04:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* '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}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Jens Axboe 5e84ea3a9c block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
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>
2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c55d267de2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* 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}
2011-03-17 17:54:40 -07:00
Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 721a9602e6 block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG
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>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
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>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
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>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Jens Axboe 3cca6dc1c8 block: add API for delaying work/request_fn a little bit
Currently we use plugging for that, but as plugging is going away,
we need an alternative mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo e83a46bbb1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/core
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>
2011-03-04 19:09:02 +01:00
Vivek Goyal da52777000 block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()
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>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Vivek Goyal c94a96ac93 block: Initialize ->queue_lock to internal lock at queue allocation time
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>
2011-03-02 19:06:49 -05:00
Tejun Heo 1654e7411a block: add @force_kblockd to __blk_run_queue()
__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>
2011-03-02 08:48:05 -05:00
Jens Axboe 6fae9c2513 Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc6' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/cfq-iosched.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01 15:04:39 -05:00
Vivek Goyal 450adcbe51 blk-throttle: Do not use kblockd workqueue for throtl work
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>
2011-03-01 13:41:53 -05:00
Hannes Reinecke 79775567e0 [SCSI] block: improve detail in I/O error messages
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>
2011-02-12 10:33:37 -06:00
Mike Snitzer 9d5a4e946c block: skip elevator data initialization for flush requests
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>
2011-02-11 11:05:46 +01:00
Tejun Heo ae1b153962 block: reimplement FLUSH/FUA to support merge
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>
2011-01-25 12:43:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo 143a87f4c9 block: improve flush bio completion
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>
2011-01-25 12:43:52 +01:00
Tejun Heo 414b4ff5ee block: add REQ_FLUSH_SEQ
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>
2011-01-25 12:43:49 +01:00
Jens Axboe 6c23a9681c block: add internal hd part table references
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>
2011-01-07 08:43:37 +01:00
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
Tejun Heo 89b90be2d8 block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
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>
2011-01-03 15:01:47 +01:00
Mike Snitzer d07335e51d block: Rename "block_remap" tracepoint to "block_bio_remap" to clarify the event.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-16 12:53:39 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 02e031cbc8 block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
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>
2010-11-10 14:54:09 +01:00
Mike Snitzer 77304d2aba block: read i_size with i_size_read()
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>
2010-11-10 14:40:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8e775167d5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges"
2010-10-25 07:45:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 229aebb873 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue => configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation => configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
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
Jens Axboe 7ad58c0286 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code
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>
2010-10-23 20:40:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a2887097f2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* '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
  ...
2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e9dd2b6837 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* '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
2010-10-22 17:00:32 -07:00
Jens Axboe fa251f8990 Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	drivers/block/loop.c
	mm/swapfile.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-19 09:13:04 +02:00
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
Vivek Goyal e43473b7f2 blkio: Core implementation of throttle policy
o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
  implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
  comes in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-16 08:42:52 +02:00
San Mehat 8dcbdc742f block: block_dump: Add number of sectors to debug output
Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-14 08:48:01 +02:00
Tejun Heo 3a2edd0d6d block: make __blk_rq_prep_clone() copy most command flags
Currently __blk_rq_prep_clone() copies only REQ_WRITE and REQ_DISCARD.
There's no reason to omit other command flags and REQ_FUA needs to be
copied to implement FUA support in request-based dm.

REQ_COMMON_MASK which specifies flags to be copied from bio to request
already identifies all the command flags.  Define REQ_CLONE_MASK to be
the same as REQ_COMMON_MASK for clarity and make __blk_rq_prep_clone()
copy all flags in the mask.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1e87901e18 block: filter flush bio's in __generic_make_request()
There are a number of make_request based drivers which don't support
cache flushes.  Filter out flush bio's in __generic_make_request() so
that they don't have to worry about them.  All FLUSH/FUA requests with
data are converted to regular IO requests and empty ones are completed
immediately.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4fed947cb3 block: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA based interface for FLUSH/FUA requests
Now that the backend conversion is complete, export sequenced
FLUSH/FUA capability through REQ_FLUSH/FUA flags.  REQ_FLUSH means the
device cache should be flushed before executing the request.  REQ_FUA
means that the data in the request should be on non-volatile media on
completion.

Block layer will choose the correct way of implementing the semantics
and execute it.  The request may be passed to the device directly if
the device can handle it; otherwise, it will be sequenced using one or
more proxy requests.  Devices will never see REQ_FLUSH and/or FUA
which it doesn't support.

Also, unlike the original REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA requests are
never failed with -EOPNOTSUPP.  If the underlying device doesn't
support FLUSH/FUA, the block layer simply make those noop.  IOW, it no
longer distinguishes between writeback cache which doesn't support
cache flush and writethrough/no cache.  Devices which have WB cache
w/o flush are very difficult to come by these days and there's nothing
much we can do anyway, so it doesn't make sense to require everyone to
implement -EOPNOTSUPP handling.  This will simplify filesystems and
block drivers as they can drop -EOPNOTSUPP retry logic for barriers.

* QUEUE_ORDERED_* are removed and QUEUE_FSEQ_* are moved into
  blk-flush.c.

* REQ_FLUSH w/o data can also be directly passed to drivers without
  sequencing but some drivers assume that zero length requests don't
  have rq->bio which isn't true for these requests requiring the use
  of proxy requests.

* REQ_COMMON_MASK now includes REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA so that they are
  copied from bio to request.

* WRITE_BARRIER is marked deprecated and WRITE_FLUSH, WRITE_FUA and
  WRITE_FLUSH_FUA are added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:37 +02:00
Tejun Heo dd4c133f38 block: rename barrier/ordered to flush
With ordering requirements dropped, barrier and ordered are misnomers.
Now all block layer does is sequencing FLUSH and FUA.  Rename them to
flush.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 28e7d18452 block: drop barrier ordering by queue draining
Filesystems will take all the responsibilities for ordering requests
around commit writes and will only indicate how the commit writes
themselves should be handled by block layers.  This patch drops
barrier ordering by queue draining from block layer.  Ordering by
draining implementation was somewhat invasive to request handling.
List of notable changes follow.

* Each queue has 1 bit color which is flipped on each barrier issue.
  This is used to track whether a given request is issued before the
  current barrier or not.  REQ_ORDERED_COLOR flag and coloring
  implementation in __elv_add_request() are removed.

* Requests which shouldn't be processed yet for draining were stalled
  by returning -EAGAIN from blk_do_ordered() according to the test
  result between blk_ordered_req_seq() and blk_blk_ordered_cur_seq().
  This logic is removed.

* Draining completion logic in elv_completed_request() removed.

* All barrier sequence requests were queued to request queue and then
  trckled to lower layer according to progress and thus maintaining
  request orders during requeue was necessary.  This is replaced by
  queueing the next request in the barrier sequence only after the
  current one is complete from blk_ordered_complete_seq(), which
  removes the need for multiple proxy requests in struct request_queue
  and the request sorting logic in the ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE path of
  elv_insert().

* As barriers no longer have ordering constraints, there's no need to
  dump the whole elevator onto the dispatch queue on each barrier.
  Insert barriers at the front instead.

* If other barrier requests come to the front of the dispatch queue
  while one is already in progress, they are stored in
  q->pending_barriers and restored to dispatch queue one-by-one after
  each barrier completion from blk_ordered_complete_seq().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo dd831006d5 block: misc cleanups in barrier code
Make the following cleanups in preparation of barrier/flush update.

* blk_do_ordered() declaration is moved from include/linux/blkdev.h to
  block/blk.h.

* blk_do_ordered() now returns pointer to struct request, with %NULL
  meaning "try the next request" and ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) "try again
  later".  The third case will be dropped with further changes.

* In the initialization of proxy barrier request, data direction is
  already set by init_request_from_bio().  Drop unnecessary explicit
  REQ_WRITE setting and move init_request_from_bio() above REQ_FUA
  flag setting.

* add_request() is collapsed into __make_request().

These changes don't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4913efe456 block: deprecate barrier and replace blk_queue_ordered() with blk_queue_flush()
Barrier is deemed too heavy and will soon be replaced by FLUSH/FUA
requests.  Deprecate barrier.  All REQ_HARDBARRIERs are failed with
-EOPNOTSUPP and blk_queue_ordered() is replaced with simpler
blk_queue_flush().

blk_queue_flush() takes combinations of REQ_FLUSH and FUA.  If a
device has write cache and can flush it, it should set REQ_FLUSH.  If
the device can handle FUA writes, it should also set REQ_FUA.

All blk_queue_ordered() users are converted.

* ORDERED_DRAIN is mapped to 0 which is the default value.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH is mapped to REQ_FLUSH.
* ORDERED_DRAIN_FLUSH_FUA is mapped to REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 5e00d1b5b4 BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling
Return of the bi_rw tests is no longer bool after commit 74450be1. But
results of such tests are stored in bools. This doesn't fit in there
for some compilers (gcc 4.5 here), so either use !! magic to get real
bools or use ulong where the result is assigned somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23 12:33:10 +02:00
Adrian Hunter 8d57a98ccd block: add secure discard
Secure discard is the same as discard except that all copies of the
discarded sectors (perhaps created by garbage collection) must also be
erased.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
Jiri Kosina 6396fc3b3f Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	fs/exofs/inode.c
2010-08-11 09:36:51 +02:00
Stefan Weil eef35c2d41 Fix spelling fuction -> function in comments
To avoid more patches, I also fixed other spelling
and grammar bugs when they were in the same or
following line:

successfull -> successful
parse -> parses
controler -> controller
controlers -> controllers

Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-09 11:22:49 +02:00
ike Snitzer 3383977fad block: update request stacking methods to support discards
Propagate REQ_DISCARD in cmd_flags when cloning a discard request.
Skip blk_rq_check_limits's existing checks for discard requests because
discard limits will have already been checked in blkdev_issue_discard.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-08 12:11:33 -04:00
James Bottomley 28018c242a block: implement an unprep function corresponding directly to prep
Reviewed-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:23:47 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3ffb52e73b block: fixup missing conversion from BIO_RW_DISCARD to REQ_DISCARD
Didn't cause a merge conflict, so fixed this one up manually
post merge.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:23:41 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 66ac028019 block: don't allocate a payload for discard request
Allocating a fixed payload for discard requests always was a horrible hack,
and it's not coming to byte us when adding support for discard in DM/MD.

So change the code to leave the allocation of a payload to the lowlevel
driver.  Unfortunately that means we'll need another hack, which allows
us to update the various block layer length fields indicating that we
have a payload.  Instead of hiding this in sd.c, which we already partially
do for UNMAP support add a documented helper in the core block layer for it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:23:08 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 33659ebbae block: remove wrappers for request type/flags
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:17:56 +02:00
Jens Axboe e2e1a148bc block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions
There are two reasons for doing this:

- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
  are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
  should contribute to the random pool in the first place.

- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.

This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:13:00 +02:00
Tao Ma 1b99973f1c block: Don't count_vm_events for discard bio in submit_bio.
In submit_bio, we count vm events by check READ/WRITE.
But actually DISCARD_NOBARRIER also has the WRITE flag set.
It looks as if in blkdev_issue_discard, we also add a
page as the payload and the bio_has_data check isn't enough.
So add another check for discard bio.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-24 08:14:22 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig fbbf055692 block: fix DISCARD_BARRIER requests
Filesystems assume that DISCARD_BARRIER are full barriers, so that they
don't have to track in-progress discard operation when submitting new I/O.
But currently we only treat them as elevator barriers, which don't
actually do the nessecary queue drains.

Also remove the unlikely around both the DISCARD and BARRIER requests -
the happen far too often for a static mispredict.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-17 10:10:53 +02:00
Mike Snitzer 1abec4fdbb block: make blk_init_free_list and elevator_init idempotent
blk_init_allocated_queue_node may fail and the caller _could_ retry.
Accommodate the unlikely event that blk_init_allocated_queue_node is
called on an already initialized (possibly partially) request_queue.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-04 13:47:06 +02:00
Mike Snitzer c86d1b8ae6 block: avoid unconditionally freeing previously allocated request_queue
On blk_init_allocated_queue_node failure, only free the request_queue if
it is wasn't previously allocated outside the block layer
(e.g. blk_init_queue_node was blk_init_allocated_queue_node caller).

This addresses an interface bug introduced by the following commit:
01effb0 block: allow initialization of previously allocated
request_queue

Otherwise the request_queue may be free'd out from underneath a caller
that is managing the request_queue directly (e.g. caller uses
blk_alloc_queue + blk_init_allocated_queue_node).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-04 13:47:06 +02:00
Mike Snitzer 01effb0dc1 block: allow initialization of previously allocated request_queue
blk_init_queue() allocates the request_queue structure and then
initializes it as needed (request_fn, elevator, etc).

Split initialization out to blk_init_allocated_queue_node.
Introduce blk_init_allocated_queue wrapper function to model existing
blk_init_queue and blk_init_queue_node interfaces.

Export elv_register_queue to allow a newly added elevator to be
registered with sysfs.  Export elv_unregister_queue for symmetry.

These changes allow DM to initialize a device's request_queue with more
precision.  In particular, DM no longer unconditionally initializes a
full request_queue (elevator et al).  It only does so for a
request-based DM device.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-11 08:57:42 +02:00
Divyesh Shah 812d402648 blkio: Add io_merged stat
This includes both the number of bios merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup as well as the number of requests merged together.
In the past, we've observed different merging behavior across upstream kernels,
some by design some actual bugs. This stat helps a lot in debugging such
problems when applications report decreased throughput with a new kernel
version.

This needed adding an extra elevator function to capture bios being merged as I
did not want to pollute elevator code with blkiocg knowledge and hence needed
the accounting invocation to come from CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-09 08:36:07 +02:00
Matthew Garrett 31373d09da laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device
One of the features of laptop-mode is that it forces a writeout of dirty
pages if something else triggers a physical read or write from a device.
The current implementation flushes pages on all devices, rather than only
the one that triggered the flush. This patch alters the behaviour so that
only the recently accessed block device is flushed, preventing other
disks being spun up for no terribly good reason.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-06 14:25:14 +02:00
Divyesh Shah 9195291e5f blkio: Increment the blkio cgroup stats for real now
We also add start_time_ns and io_start_time_ns fields to struct request
here to record the time when a request is created and when it is
dispatched to device. We use ns uints here as ms and jiffies are
not very useful for non-rotational media.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah<dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-02 08:44:37 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen 8a78362c4e block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7f03292ee1 Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.34
Conflicts:
	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-25 08:48:05 +01:00
Akinobu Mita bddd87c7e6 blk-core: use BIO list management functions
Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert
generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio
list implementation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-23 08:55:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe 79da0644a8 Revert "block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths"
This reverts commit fb1e75389b.

"Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question
causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from
200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec.

Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the
offending commit.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/blkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-23 08:40:43 +01:00
Ilya Loginov 2d4dc890b5 block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.

The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.

See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-26 09:16:19 +01:00
Mark McLoughlin 6cafb12dc8 block: silently error unsupported empty barriers too
With 2.6.32-rc5 in a KVM guest using dm and virtio_blk, we see the
following errors:

  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0
  end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 0

The errors go away if dm stops submitting empty barriers, by reverting:

  commit 52b1fd5a27
  Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm: send empty barriers to targets in dm_flush

We should silently error all barriers, even empty barriers, on devices
like virtio_blk which don't support them.

See also:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/514901

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-24 14:14:31 +02:00
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 23e018a1b0 block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()
It was briefly introduced to allow CFQ to to delayed scheduling,
but we ended up removing that feature again. So lets kill the
function and export, and just switch CFQ back to the normal work
schedule since it is now passing in a '0' delay from all call
sites.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-05 11:03:58 +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
Jens Axboe 8e29675555 cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
This slowly ramps up the async queue depth based on the time
passed since the sync IO, and doesn't allow async at all until
a sync slice period has passed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-03 16:27:13 +02:00
Jun'ichi Nomura b0da3f0dad Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 67efc92580 block: allow large discard requests
Currently we set the bio size to the byte equivalent of the blocks to
be trimmed when submitting the initial DISCARD ioctl.  That means it
is subject to the max_hw_sectors limitation of the HBA which is
much lower than the size of a DISCARD request we can support.
Add a separate max_discard_sectors tunable to limit the size for discard
requests.

We limit the max discard request size in bytes to 32bit as that is the
limit for bio->bi_size.  This could be much larger if we had a way to pass
that information through the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig c15227de13 block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
prepare_discard_fn() was being called in a place where memory allocation
was effectively impossible.  This makes it inappropriate for all but
the most trivial translations of Linux's DISCARD operation to the block
command set.  Additionally adding a payload there makes the ownership
of the bio backing unclear as it's now allocated by the device driver
and not the submitter as usual.

It is replaced with QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD which is used to indicate whether
the queue supports discard operations or not.  blkdev_issue_discard now
allocates a one-page, sector-length payload which is the right thing
for the common ATA and SCSI implementations.

The mtd implementation of prepare_discard_fn() is replaced with simply
checking for the request being a discard.

Largely based on a previous patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
which did the prepare_discard_fn but not the different payload allocation
yet.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -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
Minchan Kim 01edede41e block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
If BIO is discarded or cross over end of device,
BIO queueing trial doesn't occur.

Actually the trace was called just before make_request at first:
[PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
      2056a782f8e7e65fd4bfd027506b4ce1c5e9ccd4

And then 2 patches added some checks between them:
[PATCH] md: check bio address after mapping through partitions
        5ddfe9691c91a244e8d1be597b6428fcefd58103,
[BLOCK] Don't allow empty barriers to be passed down to
queues that don't grok them
        51fd77bd9f512ab6cc9df0733ba1caaab89eb957

It breaks original goal.
Let's trace it only when it happens.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:34:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe fb1e75389b block: improve queue_should_plug() by looking at IO depths
Instead of just checking whether this device uses block layer
tagging, we can improve the detection by looking at the maximum
queue depth it has reached. If that crosses 4, then deem it a
queuing device.

This is important on high IOPS devices, since plugging hurts
the performance there (it can be as much as 10-15% of the sys
time).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1f98a13f62 bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Tejun Heo 80a761fd33 block: implement mixed merge of different failfast requests
Failfast has characteristics from other attributes.  When issuing,
executing and successuflly completing requests, failfast doesn't make
any difference.  It only affects how a request is handled on failure.
Allowing requests with different failfast settings to be merged cause
normal IOs to fail prematurely while not allowing has performance
penalties as failfast is used for read aheads which are likely to be
located near in-flight or to-be-issued normal IOs.

This patch introduces the concept of 'mixed merge'.  A request is a
mixed merge if it is merge of segments which require different
handling on failure.  Currently the only mixable attributes are
failfast ones (or lack thereof).

When a bio with different failfast settings is added to an existing
request or requests of different failfast settings are merged, the
merged request is marked mixed.  Each bio carries failfast settings
and the request always tracks failfast state of the first bio.  When
the request fails, blk_rq_err_bytes() can be used to determine how
many bytes can be safely failed without crossing into an area which
requires further retrials.

This allows request merging regardless of failfast settings while
keeping the failure handling correct.

This patch only implements mixed merge but doesn't enable it.  The
next one will update SCSI to make use of mixed merge.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:30 +02:00
Tejun Heo a82afdfcb8 block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request
bio and request use the same set of failfast bits.  This patch makes
the following changes to simplify things.

* enumify BIO_RW* bits and reorder bits such that BIOS_RW_FAILFAST_*
  bits coincide with __REQ_FAILFAST_* bits.

* The above pushes BIO_RW_AHEAD out of sync with __REQ_FAILFAST_DEV
  but the matching is useless anyway.  init_request_from_bio() is
  responsible for setting FAILFAST bits on FS requests and non-FS
  requests never use BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Drop the code and comment from
  blk_rq_bio_prep().

* Define REQ_FAILFAST_MASK which is OR of all FAILFAST bits and
  simplify FAILFAST flags handling in init_request_from_bio().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:27 +02:00
Jens Axboe d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe 56ad1740d9 block: make the end_io functions be non-GPL exports
Prior to the change for more sane end_io functions, we exported
the helpers with the normal EXPORT_SYMBOL(). That got changed
to _GPL() for the new interface. Revert that particular change,
on the basis that this is basic functionality and doesn't dip
into internal structures. If these exports can't be non-GPL,
then we may as well make EXPORT_SYMBOL() imply GPL for
everything.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-28 22:11:24 +02:00
Jens Axboe a4e7d46407 block: always assign default lock to queues
Move the assignment of a default lock below blk_init_queue() to
blk_queue_make_request(), so we also get to set the default lock
for ->make_request_fn() based drivers. This is important since the
queue flag locking requires a lock to be in place.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-28 09:07:29 +02:00
NeilBrown db64f680ba blocK: Restore barrier support for md and probably other virtual devices.
The next_ordered flag is only meaningful for devices that use __make_request.
So move the test against next_ordered out of generic code and in to
__make_request

Since this test was added, barriers have not worked on md or any
devices that don't use __make_request and so don't bother to set
next_ordered.  (dm explicitly sets something other than
QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE since
  commit 99360b4c18
but notes in the comments that it is otherwise meaningless).

Cc: Ken Milmore <ken.milmore@googlemail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-01 10:56:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe 018e044689 block: get rid of queue-private command filter
The initial patches to support this through sysfs export were broken
and have been if 0'ed out in any release. So lets just kill the code
and reclaim some space in struct request_queue, if anyone would later
like to fixup the sysfs bits, the git history can easily restore
the removed bits.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-01 10:56:26 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen 7878cba9f0 block: Create bip slabs with embedded integrity vectors
This patch restores stacking ability to the block layer integrity
infrastructure by creating a set of dedicated bip slabs.  Each bip slab
has an embedded bio_vec array at the end.  This cuts down on memory
allocations and also simplifies the code compared to the original bvec
version.  Only the largest bip slab is backed by a mempool.  The pool is
contained in the bio_set so stacking drivers can ensure forward
progress.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.(none)>
2009-07-01 10:56:25 +02:00
Li Zefan e212d6f250 block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h
When porting blktrace to tracepoints, we changed to trace/block.h
for trace prober declarations.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0989a025d2 block: don't overwrite bdi->state after bdi_init() has been run
Move the defaults to where we do the init of the backing_dev_info.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-16 08:21:03 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 8ebf975608 block: fix kernel-doc in recent block/ changes
Fix kernel-doc warnings in recently changed block/ source code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-11 20:14:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 27951daa71 Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (28 commits)
  ide-tape: fix debug call
  alim15x3: Remove historical hacks, re-enable init_hwif for PowerPC
  ide-dma: don't reset request fields on dma_timeout_retry()
  ide: drop rq->data handling from ide_map_sg()
  ide-atapi: kill unused fields and callbacks
  ide-tape: simplify read/write functions
  ide-tape: use byte size instead of sectors on rw issue functions
  ide-tape: unify r/w init paths
  ide-tape: kill idetape_bh
  ide-tape: use standard data transfer mechanism
  ide-tape: use single continuous buffer
  ide-atapi,tape,floppy: allow ->pc_callback() to change rq->data_len
  ide-tape,floppy: fix failed command completion after request sense
  ide-pm: don't abuse rq->data
  ide-cd,atapi: use bio for internal commands
  ide-atapi: convert ide-{floppy,tape} to using preallocated sense buffer
  ide-cd: convert to using generic sense request
  ide: add helpers for preparing sense requests
  ide-cd: don't abuse rq->buffer
  ide-atapi: don't abuse rq->buffer
  ...
2009-06-11 10:00:03 -07:00
Kiyoshi Ueda b0fd271d5f block: add request clone interface (v2)
This patch adds the following 2 interfaces for request-stacking drivers:

  - blk_rq_prep_clone(struct request *clone, struct request *orig,
		      struct bio_set *bs, gfp_t gfp_mask,
		      int (*bio_ctr)(struct bio *, struct bio*, void *),
		      void *data)
      * Clones bios in the original request to the clone request
        (bio_ctr is called for each cloned bios.)
      * Copies attributes of the original request to the clone request.
        The actual data parts (e.g. ->cmd, ->buffer, ->sense) are not
        copied.

  - blk_rq_unprep_clone(struct request *clone)
      * Frees cloned bios from the clone request.

Request stacking drivers (e.g. request-based dm) need to make a clone
request for a submitted request and dispatch it to other devices.

To allocate request for the clone, request stacking drivers may not
be able to use blk_get_request() because the allocation may be done
in an irq-disabled context.
So blk_rq_prep_clone() takes a request allocated by the caller
as an argument.

For each clone bio in the clone request, request stacking drivers
should be able to set up their own completion handler.
So blk_rq_prep_clone() takes a callback function which is called
for each clone bio, and a pointer for private data which is passed
to the callback.

NOTE:
blk_rq_prep_clone() doesn't copy any actual data of the original
request.  Pages are shared between original bios and cloned bios.
So caller must not complete the original request before the clone
request.

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-11 13:11:05 +02:00
Li Zefan 55782138e4 tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -> v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -> v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq->cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 12:34:23 -04:00
FUJITA Tomonori dbb66c4be0 block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Tejun's "block: set rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes() on issue" patch
seems to be incomplete; It doesn't set rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes()
for a bidi request (req->next_rq). As a result, all bidi users are
broken.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-09 05:47:10 +02:00
James Bottomley c143dc903d block: fix an oops on BLKPREP_KILL
Doing a bit of torture testing, I ran across a BUG in the block
subsystem (at blk-core.c:2048): the test for if the request is queued.

It turns out the trigger was a BLKPREP_KILL coming out of the SCSI prep
function.  Currently for BLKPREP_KILL requests, we send them straight
into __blk_end_request_all() with an error, but they've never been
dequeued, so they trip the bug.  Fix this by starting requests before
killing them.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-30 06:43:49 +02:00
James Bottomley ba396a6c10 block: fix oops with block tag queueing
commit e8939a50466fd963eb1ba9118c34b9ffb7ff6aa6
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri May 8 11:54:16 2009 +0900

    block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch

Added a BUG_ON(blk_queued_rq(req)) to the top of blk_finish_req().
Unfortunately, this checks whether req->queuelist is empty.  This list
is doing double duty both as the queue list and the tag list, so tagged
requests come in here with this not empty and boom (the tag list is
emptied by blk_queue_end_tag() lower down).

Fix this by moving the BUG_ON to below the end tag we also seem
vulnerable to this in blk_requeue_request() as well.  I think all uses
of blk_queued_rq() need auditing because the check is clearly wrong in
the tagged case.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-27 14:17:08 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen ae03bf639a block: Use accessor functions for queue limits
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe e4b636366c Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31
Conflicts:
	drivers/block/hd.c
	drivers/block/mg_disk.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 20:25:34 +02:00
Jens Axboe 0a7ae2ff0d block: change the tag sync vs async restriction logic
Make them fully share the tag space, but disallow async requests using
the last any two slots.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-20 08:54:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe 53674ac5a9 block: add warning to blk_make_request()
Add a note about how one needs to be careful when setting up these bio
chains.

Extracted from Boaz's updated patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-19 19:52:35 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh 79eb63e9e5 block: Add blk_make_request(), takes bio, returns a request
New block API:
given a struct bio allocates a new request. This is the parallel of
generic_make_request for BLOCK_PC commands users.

The passed bio may be a chained-bio. The bio is bounced if needed
inside the call to this member.

This is in the effort of un-exporting blk_rq_append_bio().

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-19 12:14:56 +02:00
Tejun Heo 5f49f63178 block: set rq->resid_len to blk_rq_bytes() on issue
In commit c3a4d78c58, while introducing
rq->resid_len, the default value of residue count was changed from
full count to zero.  The conversion was done under the assumption that
when a request fails residue count wasn't defined.  However, Boaz and
James pointed out that this wasn't true and the residue count should
be preserved for failed requests too.

This patchset restores the original behavior by setting rq->resid_len
to blk_rq_bytes(rq) on request start and restoring explicit clearing
in affected drivers.  While at it, take advantage of the fact that
rq->resid_len is set to full count where applicable.

* ide-cd: rq->resid_len cleared on pc success

* mptsas: req->resid_len cleared on success

* sas_expander: rsp/req->resid_len cleared on success

* mpt2sas_transport: req->resid_len cleared on success

* ide-cd, ide-tape, mptsas, sas_host_smp, mpt2sas_transport, ub: take
  advantage of initial full count to simplify code

Boaz Harrosh spotted bug in resid_len initialization.  Fixed as
suggested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-19 11:36:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1079cac0f4 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into tracing/core
Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:15:35 +02:00
Kazuhisa Ichikawa af498d7fa3 block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
Current bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test within
__end_that_request_first() does not seem correct.
It checks bio->bi_idx against bio->bi_vcnt, but the subsequent code
uses idx (which is, bio->bi_idx + next_idx) as the array index into
bio_vec array. This means that the test really make sense only at
the first iteration of !(nr_bytes >=bio->bi_size) case (when next_idx
== zero). Fix this by replacing bio->bi_idx with idx.
(This patch applies to 2.6.30-rc4.)

Signed-off-by: Kazuhisa Ichikawa <ki@epsilou.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-12 13:27:45 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori b1f744937f block: move completion related functions back to blk-core.c
Let's put the completion related functions back to block/blk-core.c
where they have lived. We can also unexport blk_end_bidi_request() and
__blk_end_bidi_request(), which nobody uses.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 11:06:48 +02:00
Tejun Heo 9934c8c045 block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:52:18 +02:00
Tejun Heo a2dec7b363 block: hide request sector and data_len
Block low level drivers for some reason have been pretty good at
abusing block layer API.  Especially struct request's fields tend to
get violated in all possible ways.  Make it clear that low level
drivers MUST NOT access or manipulate rq->sector and rq->data_len
directly by prefixing them with double underscores.

This change is also necessary to break build of out-of-tree codes
which assume the previous block API where internal fields can be
manipulated and rq->data_len carries residual count on completion.

[ Impact: hide internal fields, block API change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:55 +02:00
Tejun Heo 2e46e8b27a block: drop request->hard_* and *nr_sectors
struct request has had a few different ways to represent some
properties of a request.  ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the
request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix
are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated
as necessary by the low level drivers.  The thing is that as block
layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't
necessary and only cause confusion.  In addition, manual management of
request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at
the very least.

Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and
rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and
rq->bio->bi_size.  This is more convoluted than the hard_ case.

rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but
blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests.  rq->data_len is
initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc
requests.  This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer
and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of
black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and
what the specific LLD is actually doing.

rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in
the contiguous data area at the front.  This is mainly used by drivers
which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment.  This
value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9.  However, data length for
pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field
becomes a bit confusing.

In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property
leads only to confusion and subtle bugs.  With recent block low level
driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these
duplicate fields directly.  Drop all the duplicates.  Now rq->sector
means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and
rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length.  Everything else is
defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors.

* blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and
  now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update.
  This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no
  in-kernel user yet tho).

* bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer
  now uses byte count as the primary data length.

* blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct.  In-block users
  converted.

* blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is
  blk_rq_sectors().  In-block users converted.

* blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9.
  More convenient one is used.

* blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const
  pointer to request.

[ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo 83096ebf12 block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo 5b93629b45 block: implement blk_rq_pos/[cur_]sectors() and convert obvious ones
Implement accessors - blk_rq_pos(), blk_rq_sectors() and
blk_rq_cur_sectors() which return rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors
and rq->hard_cur_sectors respectively and convert direct references of
the said fields to the accessors.

This is in preparation of request data length handling cleanup.

Geert	: suggested adding const to struct request * parameter to accessors
Sergei	: spotted error in patch description

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Ackec-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle 22a7c31a96 blktrace: from-sector redundant in trace_block_remap
Remove redundant from-sector parameter: it's /always/ the bio's sector
passed in.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FF517C.7000503@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06 14:13:01 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan 9eb55b030c block: catch trying to use more bits than request->cmd_flags has
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:37 +02:00
Jens Axboe c2553b5844 block: make blk_do_io_stat() do the full "is this rq accountable" checks
We currently check for file system requests outside of blk_do_io_stat(rq),
but we may as well just include it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:37 +02:00
Tejun Heo 731ec497e5 block: kill rq->data
Now that all block request data transfer is done via bio, rq->data
isn't used.  Kill it.

While at it, make the roles of rq->special and buffer clear.

[ Impact: drop now unncessary field from struct request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 40cbbb781d block: implement and use [__]blk_end_request_all()
There are many [__]blk_end_request() call sites which call it with
full request length and expect full completion.  Many of them ensure
that the request actually completes by doing BUG_ON() the return
value, which is awkward and error-prone.

This patch adds [__]blk_end_request_all() which takes @rq and @error
and fully completes the request.  BUG_ON() is added to to ensure that
this actually happens.

Most conversions are simple but there are a few noteworthy ones.

* cdrom/viocd: viocd_end_request() replaced with direct calls to
  __blk_end_request_all().

* s390/block/dasd: dasd_end_request() replaced with direct calls to
  __blk_end_request_all().

* s390/char/tape_block: tapeblock_end_request() replaced with direct
  calls to blk_end_request_all().

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:35 +02:00
Tejun Heo b243ddcbe9 block: move rq->start_time initialization to blk_rq_init()
rq->start_time was initialized in init_request_from_bio() so special
requests didn't have start_time set.  This has been okay as start_time
has been used only for fs requests; however, there is no indication of
this actually is the case or not.  Set rq->start_time in blk_rq_init()
and guarantee that all initialized rq's have its start_time set.  This
improves consistency at virtually no cost and future changes will make
use of the timestamp for !bio requests.

[ Impact: rq->start_time is valid for all requests ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:35 +02:00
Tejun Heo 2e60e02297 block: clean up request completion API
Request completion has gone through several changes and became a bit
messy over the time.  Clean it up.

1. end_that_request_data() is a thin wrapper around
   end_that_request_data_first() which checks whether bio is NULL
   before doing anything and handles bidi completion.
   blk_update_request() is a thin wrapper around
   end_that_request_data() which clears nr_sectors on the last
   iteration but doesn't use the bidi completion.

   Clean it up by moving the initial bio NULL check and nr_sectors
   clearing on the last iteration into end_that_request_data() and
   renaming it to blk_update_request(), which makes blk_end_io() the
   only user of end_that_request_data().  Collapse
   end_that_request_data() into blk_end_io().

2. There are four visible completion variants - blk_end_request(),
   __blk_end_request(), blk_end_bidi_request() and end_request().
   blk_end_request() and blk_end_bidi_request() uses blk_end_request()
   as the backend but __blk_end_request() and end_request() use
   separate implementation in __blk_end_request() due to different
   locking rules.

   blk_end_bidi_request() is identical to blk_end_io().  Collapse
   blk_end_io() into blk_end_bidi_request(), separate out request
   update into internal helper blk_update_bidi_request() and add
   __blk_end_bidi_request().  Redefine [__]blk_end_request() as thin
   inline wrappers around [__]blk_end_bidi_request().

3. As the whole request issue/completion usages are about to be
   modified and audited, it's a good chance to convert completion
   functions return bool which better indicates the intended meaning
   of return values.

4. The function name end_that_request_last() is from the days when it
   was a public interface and slighly confusing.  Give it a proper
   internal name - blk_finish_request().

5. Add description explaning that blk_end_bidi_request() can be safely
   used for uni requests as suggested by Boaz Harrosh.

The only visible behavior change is from #1.  nr_sectors counts are
cleared after the final iteration no matter which function is used to
complete the request.  I couldn't find any place where the code
assumes those nr_sectors counters contain the values for the last
segment and this change is good as it makes the API much more
consistent as the end result is now same whether a request is
completed using [__]blk_end_request() alone or in combination with
blk_update_request().

API further cleaned up per Christoph's suggestion.

[ Impact: cleanup, rq->*nr_sectors always updated after req completion ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:35 +02:00
Tejun Heo 0b302d5aa7 block: kill blk_end_request_callback()
With recent IDE updates, blk_end_request_callback() doesn't have any
user now.  Kill it.

[ Impact: removal of unused convoluted interface ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
Tejun Heo 158dbda006 block: reorganize request fetching functions
Impact: code reorganization

elv_next_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are public block layer
interface than actual elevator implementation.  They mostly deal with
how requests interact with block layer and low level drivers at the
beginning of rqeuest processing whereas __elv_next_request() is the
actual eleveator request fetching interface.

Move the two functions to blk-core.c.  This prepares for further
interface cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
Tejun Heo 5efccd17ce block: reorder request completion functions
Reorder request completion functions such that

* All request completion functions are located together.

* Functions which are used by only one caller is put right above the
  caller.

* end_request() is put after other completion functions but before
  blk_update_request().

This change is for completion function cleanup which will follow.

[ Impact: cleanup, code reorganization ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
Tejun Heo 10732f5661 block: cleanup REQ_SOFTBARRIER usages
blk_insert_request() doesn't need to worry about REQ_SOFTBARRIER.
Don't set it.  Combined with recent ide updates, REQ_SOFTBARRIER is
now only used in elevator proper and for discard requests.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:34 +02:00
Tejun Heo e4025f6c21 block: don't set REQ_NOMERGE unnecessarily
RQ_NOMERGE_FLAGS already clears defines which REQ flags aren't
mergeable.  There is no reason to specify it superflously.  It only
adds to confusion.  Don't set REQ_NOMERGE for barriers and requests
with specific queueing directive.  REQ_NOMERGE is now exclusively used
by the merging code.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:33 +02:00
Tejun Heo a7f5579234 block: kill blk_start_queueing()
blk_start_queueing() is identical to __blk_run_queue() except that it
doesn't check for recursion.  None of the current users depends on
blk_start_queueing() running request_fn directly.  Replace usages of
blk_start_queueing() with [__]blk_run_queue() and kill it.

[ Impact: removal of mostly duplicate interface function ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:33 +02:00
Tejun Heo a538cd03be block: merge blk_invoke_request_fn() into __blk_run_queue()
__blk_run_queue wraps blk_invoke_request_fn() such that it
additionally removes plug and bails out early if the queue is empty.
Both extra operations have their own pending mechanisms and don't
cause any harm correctness-wise when they are done superflously.

The only user of blk_invoke_request_fn() being blk_start_queue(),
there isn't much reason to keep both functions around.  Merge
blk_invoke_request_fn() into __blk_run_queue() and make
blk_start_queue() use __blk_run_queue() instead.

[ Impact: merge two subtly different internal functions ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-04-28 07:37:33 +02:00
Tejun Heo 924cec7789 block: clear req->errors on bio completion only for fs requests
Impact: subtle behavior change

For fs requests, rq is only carrier of bios and rq error status as a
whole doesn't mean much.  This is the reason why rq->errors is being
cleared on each partial completion of a request as on each partial
completion the error status is transferred to the respective bios.

For pc requests, rq->errors is used to carry error status to the
issuer and thus __end_that_request_first() doesn't clear it on such
cases.

The condition was fine till now as only fs and pc requests have used
bio and thus the bio completion path.  However, future changes will
unify data accesses to bio and all non fs users care about rq error
status.  Clear rq->errors on bio completion only for fs requests.

In general, the implicit clearing is a bit too subtle especially as
the meaning of rq->errors is completely dependent on low level
drivers.  Unifying / cleaning up rq->errors usage and letting llds
manage it would be better.  TODO comment added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-04-28 07:37:28 +02:00
Jerome Marchand 42dad7647a block: simplify I/O stat accounting
This simplifies I/O stat accounting switching code and separates it
completely from I/O scheduler switch code.

Requests are accounted according to the state of their request queue
at the time of the request allocation. There is no need anymore to
flush the request queue when switching I/O accounting state.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-24 08:54:21 +02:00
Tejun Heo 6f41469c62 block: clear req->errors on bio completion only for fs requests
Impact: subtle behavior change

For fs requests, rq is only carrier of bios and rq error status as a
whole doesn't mean much.  This is the reason why rq->errors is being
cleared on each partial completion of a request as on each partial
completion the error status is transferred to the respective bios.

For pc requests, rq->errors is used to carry error status to the
issuer and thus __end_that_request_first() doesn't clear it on such
cases.

The condition was fine till now as only fs and pc requests have used
bio and thus the bio completion path.  However, future changes will
unify data accesses to bio and all non fs users care about rq error
status.  Clear rq->errors on bio completion only for fs requests.

In general, the implicit clearing is a bit too subtle especially as
the meaning of rq->errors is completely dependent on low level
drivers.  Unifying / cleaning up rq->errors usage and letting llds
manage it would be better.  TODO comment added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2009-04-19 07:00:41 +09:00
Linus Torvalds c93f216b5b Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
  branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable
  ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output
  Update /debug/tracing/README
  tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
  tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include
  ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup
  function-graph: add proper initialization for init task
  tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
  tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
  tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer
  blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests
  blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write()
  blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages
  tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
2009-04-07 14:10:10 -07:00
Jens Axboe 2385327725 block: remove unused REQ_UNPLUG
The request inherits the unplug flag from the bio, but it isn't actually
used. The bio flag stops at __make_request(), which tells it to unplug
after submission. Passing it on to the request doesn't make any sense.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:59:11 +02:00
Jerome Marchand 26308eab69 block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
accounting is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07 08:12:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe aeb6fafb8f block: Add flag for telling the IO schedulers NOT to anticipate more IO
By default, CFQ will anticipate more IO from a given io context if the
previously completed IO was sync. This used to be fine, since the only
sync IO was reads and O_DIRECT writes. But with more "normal" sync writes
being used now, we don't want to anticipate for those.

Add a bio/request flag that informs the IO scheduler that this is a sync
request that we should not idle for. Introduce WRITE_ODIRECT specifically
for O_DIRECT writes, and make sure that the other sync writes set this
flag.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:54 -07:00
Jens Axboe 644b2d99b7 block: enabling plugging on SSD devices that don't do queuing
For the older SSD devices that don't do command queuing, we do want to
enable plugging to get better merging.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:54 -07:00
Jens Axboe 1faa16d228 block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead
of doing the split on writes vs reads.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
Li Zefan e2494e1b42 blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests
Impact: output all of packet commands - not just the first 4 / 8 bytes

Since commit d7e3c3249e ("block: add
large command support"), struct request->cmd has been changed from
unsinged char cmd[BLK_MAX_CDB] to unsigned char *cmd.

v1 -> v2: by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

- make sure rq->cmd_len is always intialized, and then we can use
  rq->cmd_len instead of BLK_MAX_CDB.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D4507E.2060602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 15:29:26 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh 1cd96c242a block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak
Put a WARN_ON in __blk_put_request if it is about to
leak bio(s). This is a serious bug that can happen in error
handling code paths.

For this to work I have fixed a couple of places in block/ where
request->bio != NULL ownership was not honored. And a small cleanup
at sg_io() while at it.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-26 11:01:23 +01:00
Jens Axboe 50e1749310 block: get rid of unused blkdev_free_rq() define
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-24 12:35:16 +01:00
Jens Axboe f3b144aa7f block: remove various blk_queue_*() setting functions in blk_init_queue_node()
It calls blk_queue_make_request(), which sets the identical set of limits.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-24 12:35:16 +01:00
Jens Axboe fb8ec18c31 block: fix oops in blk_queue_io_stat()
Some initial probe requests don't have disk->queue mapped yet, so we
can't rely on a non-NULL queue in blk_queue_io_stat(). Wrap it in
blk_do_io_stat().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-02 08:42:32 +01:00
Jens Axboe bc58ba9468 block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases
where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:38 +01:00
Jens Axboe cec0707e40 block: silently error an unsupported barrier bio
This fixes a "regression" from 2.6.28, where the barrier probes that file
systems may do would trigger additional end request warnings in dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe 213d9417fe block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bits
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30 12:34:37 +01:00
Jens Axboe a31a97381c block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
We just want to hand the first bits of IO to the device as fast
as possible. Gains a few percent on the IOPS rate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo a7384677b2 block: remove duplicate or unused barrier/discard error paths
* Because barrier mode can be changed dynamically, whether barrier is
  supported or not can be determined only when actually issuing the
  barrier and there is no point in checking it earlier.  Drop barrier
  support check in generic_make_request() and __make_request(), and
  update comment around the support check in blk_do_ordered().

* There is no reason to check discard support in both
  generic_make_request() and __make_request().  Drop the check in
  __make_request().  While at it, move error action block to the end
  of the function and add unlikely() to q existence test.

* Barrier request, be it empty or not, is never passed to low level
  driver and thus it's meaningless to try to copy back req->sector to
  bio->bi_sector on error.  In addition, the notion of failed sector
  doesn't make any sense for empty barrier to begin with.  Drop the
  code block from __end_that_request_first().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Cheng Renquan 64d01dc9e1 block: use cancel_work_sync() instead of kblockd_flush_work()
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to
cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested.

The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol,
so no non-GPL modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Keith Mannthey 08bafc0341 block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer.  The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.

This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.

During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.

My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd.  This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.

 I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue.  A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.

Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.

Submitted-by:  Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Jens Axboe 70ed28b92a block: leave the request timeout timer running even on an empty list
For sync IO, we'll often do them serialized. This means we'll be touching
the queue timer for every IO, as opposed to only occasionally like we
do for queued IO. Instead of deleting the timer when the last request
is removed, just let continue running. If a new request comes up soon
we then don't have to readd the timer again. If no new requests arrive,
the timer will expire without side effect later.

This improves high iops sync IO by ~1%.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 970987beb9 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-12-05 14:45:22 +01:00
Milan Broz 0e435ac26e block: fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask
Fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask for stacked md/dm
devices.

When stacking devices (LVM over MD over SCSI) some of the request queue
parameters are not set up correctly in some cases by default, namely
max_segment_size and and seg_boundary mask.

If you create MD device over SCSI, these attributes are zeroed.

Problem become when there is over this mapping next device-mapper mapping
- queue attributes are set in DM this way:

request_queue   max_segment_size  seg_boundary_mask
SCSI                65536             0xffffffff
MD RAID1                0                      0
LVM                 65536                 -1 (64bit)

Unfortunately bio_add_page (resp.  bio_phys_segments) calculates number of
physical segments according to these parameters.

During the generic_make_request() is segment cout recalculated and can
increase bio->bi_phys_segments count over the allowed limit.  (After
bio_clone() in stack operation.)

Thi is specially problem in CCISS driver, where it produce OOPS here

    BUG_ON(creq->nr_phys_segments > MAXSGENTRIES);

(MAXSEGENTRIES is 31 by default.)

Sometimes even this command is enough to cause oops:

  dd iflag=direct if=/dev/<vg>/<lv> of=/dev/null bs=128000 count=10

This command generates bios with 250 sectors, allocated in 32 4k-pages
(last page uses only 1024 bytes).

For LVM layer, it allocates bio with 31 segments (still OK for CCISS),
unfortunatelly on lower layer it is recalculated to 32 segments and this
violates CCISS restriction and triggers BUG_ON().

The patch tries to fix it by:

 * initializing attributes above in queue request constructor
   blk_queue_make_request()

 * make sure that blk_queue_stack_limits() inherits setting

 (DM uses its own function to set the limits because it
 blk_queue_stack_limits() was introduced later.  It should probably switch
 to use generic stack limit function too.)

 * sets the default seg_boundary value in one place (blkdev.h)

 * use this mask as default in DM (instead of -1, which differs in 64bit)

Bugs related to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471639
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8672

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:55:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo 53a08807c0 block: internal dequeue shouldn't start timer
blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and
both start the timeout timer.  Barrier code dequeues the original
barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level
driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original
barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is
started on it.  If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer
expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and
oops follows.

Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier
request as it never goes through actual IO.  This patch unexports
elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it
operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make
blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer.
Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code
and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use
elv_dequeue_request().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0bfc24559d blktrace: port to tracepoints, update
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE()
sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-26 13:04:35 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 5f3ea37c77 blktrace: port to tracepoints
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to
encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register
interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the
'what' parameter.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 12:13:34 +01:00
Mike Anderson e78042e5b8 blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
Move the calling  blk_delete_timer to later in end_that_request_last to
address an issue where blkdev_dequeue_request may have add a timer for the
request.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c53dbf5486 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: remove __generic_unplug_device() from exports
  block: move q->unplug_work initialization
  blktrace: pass zfcp driver data
  blktrace: add support for driver data
  block: fix current kernel-doc warnings
  block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped
  block: simplify string handling in elv_iosched_store()
  block: fix kernel-doc for blk_alloc_devt()
  block: fix nr_phys_segments miscalculation bug
  block: add partition attribute for partition number
  block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
  softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
2008-10-17 09:29:55 -07:00
Jens Axboe f73e2d13a1 block: remove __generic_unplug_device() from exports
The only out-of-core user is IDE, and that should be using
blk_start_queueing() instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 14:03:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 713ada9ba9 block: move q->unplug_work initialization
modprobe loop; rmmod loop effectively creates a blk_queue and destroys it
which results in q->unplug_work being canceled without it ever being
initialized.

Therefore, move the initialization of q->unplug_work from
blk_queue_make_request() to blk_alloc_queue*().

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00
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
Jens Axboe 80a4b58e36 block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped
Callers should use either blk_run_queue/__blk_run_queue, or
blk_start_queueing() to invoke request handling instead of calling
->request_fn() directly as that does not take the queue stopped
flag into account.

Also add appropriate comments on the above functions to detail
their usage.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:57 +02:00