This is in preparation for having another tag set available. Cleanup
the parameters, and allow passing in of tags for blk_mq_put_tag().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
[hch: even more cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (ncr5380,
lpfc, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, ufs, ibmvscsis, mpt3sas). There's also
an assortment of minor fixes, mostly in error legs or other not very
user visible stuff. The major change is the pci_alloc_irq_vectors
replacement for the old pci_msix_.. calls; this effectively makes IRQ
mapping generic for the drivers and allows blk_mq to use the
information.
Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This update includes the usual round of major driver updates (ncr5380,
lpfc, hisi_sas, megaraid_sas, ufs, ibmvscsis, mpt3sas).
There's also an assortment of minor fixes, mostly in error legs or
other not very user visible stuff. The major change is the
pci_alloc_irq_vectors replacement for the old pci_msix_.. calls; this
effectively makes IRQ mapping generic for the drivers and allows
blk_mq to use the information"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (256 commits)
scsi: qla4xxx: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw
scsi: megaraid_sas: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
scsi: scsi_devinfo: remove synchronous ALUA for NETAPP devices
scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
scsi: be2iscsi: set errno on error path
scsi: hpsa: fallback to use legacy REPORT PHYS command
scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix RCU annotations
scsi: hpsa: use %phN for short hex dumps
scsi: hisi_sas: fix free'ing in probe and remove
scsi: isci: switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
scsi: ipr: Fix runaway IRQs when falling back from MSI to LSI
scsi: dpt_i2o: double free on error path
scsi: cxlflash: Migrate scsi command pointer to AFU command
scsi: cxlflash: Migrate IOARRIN specific routines to function pointers
scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup queuecommand()
scsi: cxlflash: Cleanup send_tmf()
scsi: cxlflash: Remove AFU command lock
scsi: cxlflash: Wait for active AFU commands to timeout upon tear down
scsi: cxlflash: Remove private command pool
...
Takes a list of requests, and dispatches it. Moves any residual
requests to the dispatch list.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
For legacy block, we simply track them in the request queue. For
blk-mq, we track them on a per-sw queue basis, which we can then
sum up through the hardware queues and finally to a per device
state.
The stats are tracked in, roughly, 0.1s interval windows.
Add sysfs files to display the stats.
The feature is off by default, to avoid any extra overhead. In-kernel
users of it can turn it on by setting QUEUE_FLAG_STATS in the queue
flags. We currently don't turn it on if someone just reads any of
the stats files, that is something we could add as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This will allow SCSI to have a single blk_mq_ops structure that either
lets the LLDD map the queues to PCIe MSIx vectors or use the default.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Multiple functions test the BLK_MQ_S_STOPPED bit so introduce
a helper function that performs this test.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine"
* 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine"
blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine
blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
box"
* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
nvme: remove the post_scan callout
nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
blk-mq: remove ->map_queue
blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
Replace the block-mq notifier list management with the multi instance
facility in the cpu hotplug state machine.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Christoph Hellwing <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Allocating your own per-cpu allocation hint separately makes for an
awkward API. Instead, allocate the per-cpu hint as part of the struct
sbitmap_queue. There's no point for a struct sbitmap_queue without the
cache, but you can still use a bare struct sbitmap.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This is a generally useful data structure, so make it available to
anyone else who might want to use it. It's also a nice cleanup
separating the allocation logic from the rest of the tag handling logic.
The code is behind a new Kconfig option, CONFIG_SBITMAP, which is only
selected by CONFIG_BLOCK for now.
This should be a complete noop functionality-wise.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
This allows drivers specify their own queue mapping by overriding the
setup-time function that builds the mq_map. This can be used for
example to build the map based on the MSI-X vector mapping provided
by the core interrupt layer for PCI devices.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it. If we
ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back,
although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup
code.
This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The hardware's provided queue count may change at runtime with resource
provisioning. This patch allows a block driver to alter the number of
h/w queues available when its resource count changes.
The main part is a new blk-mq API to request a new number of h/w queues
for a given live tag set. The new API freezes all queues using that set,
then adjusts the allocated count prior to remapping these to CPUs.
The bulk of the rest just shifts where h/w contexts and all their
artifacts are allocated and freed.
The number of max h/w contexts is capped to the number of possible cpus
since there is no use for more than that. As such, all pre-allocated
memory for pointers need to account for the max possible rather than
the initial number of queues.
A side effect of this is that the blk-mq will proceed successfully as
long as it can allocate at least one h/w context. Previously it would
fail request queue initialization if less than the requested number
was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
We already have the reserved flag, and a nowait flag awkwardly encoded as
a gfp_t. Add a real flags argument to make the scheme more extensible and
allow for a nicer calling convention.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Notifier callbacks for CPU_ONLINE action can be run on the other CPU
than the CPU which was just onlined. So it is possible for the
process running on the just onlined CPU to insert request and run
hw queue before establishing new mapping which is done by
blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify().
This can cause a problem when the CPU has just been onlined first time
since the request queue was initialized. At this time ctx->index_hw
for the CPU, which is the index in hctx->ctxs[] for this ctx, is still
zero before blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify() is called by notifier
callbacks for CPU_ONLINE action.
For example, there is a single hw queue (hctx) and two CPU queues
(ctx0 for CPU0, and ctx1 for CPU1). Now CPU1 is just onlined and
a request is inserted into ctx1->rq_list and set bit0 in pending
bitmap as ctx1->index_hw is still zero.
And then while running hw queue, flush_busy_ctxs() finds bit0 is set
in pending bitmap and tries to retrieve requests in
hctx->ctxs[0]->rq_list. But htx->ctxs[0] is a pointer to ctx0, so the
request in ctx1->rq_list is ignored.
Fix it by ensuring that new mapping is established before onlined cpu
starts running.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The kobject memory inside blk-mq hctx/ctx shouldn't have been freed
before the kobject is released because driver core can access it freely
before its release.
We can't do that in all ctx/hctx/mq_kobj's release handler because
it can be run before blk_cleanup_queue().
Given mq_kobj shouldn't have been introduced, this patch simply moves
mq's release into blk_release_queue().
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If it's dying, we can't expect new request to complete and come
in an wake up other tasks waiting for requests. So after we
have marked it as dying, wake up everybody currently waiting
for a request. Once they wake, they will retry their allocation
and fail appropriately due to the state of the queue.
Tested-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When one hardware queue has no mapped software queues, it
shouldn't have been scheduled. Otherwise WARNING or OOPS
can triggered.
blk_mq_hw_queue_mapped() helper is introduce for fixing
the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
These two temporary functions are introduced for holding flush
initialization and de-initialization, so that we can
introduce 'flush queue' easier in the following patch. And
once 'flush queue' and its allocation/free functions are ready,
they will be removed for sake of code readability.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It is reasonable to allocate flush req in blk_mq_init_flush().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Moved blk_mq_rq_timed_out() definition to the private blk-mq.h header.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq freezing is entangled with generic bypassing which bypasses
blkcg and io scheduler and lets IO requests fall through the block
layer to the drivers in FIFO order. This allows forward progress on
IOs with the advanced features disabled so that those features can be
configured or altered without worrying about stalling IO which may
lead to deadlock through memory allocation.
However, generic bypassing doesn't quite fit blk-mq. blk-mq currently
doesn't make use of blkcg or ioscheds and it maps bypssing to
freezing, which blocks request processing and drains all the in-flight
ones. This causes problems as bypassing assumes that request
processing is online. blk-mq works around this by conditionally
allowing request processing for the problem case - during queue
initialization.
Another weirdity is that except for during queue cleanup, bypassing
started on the generic side prevents blk-mq from processing new
requests but doesn't drain the in-flight ones. This shouldn't break
anything but again highlights that something isn't quite right here.
The root cause is conflating blk-mq freezing and generic bypassing
which are two different mechanisms. The only intersecting purpose
that they serve is during queue cleanup. Let's properly separate
blk-mq freezing from generic bypassing and simply use it where
necessary.
* request_queue->mq_freeze_depth is added and
blk_mq_[un]freeze_queue() now operate on this counter instead of
->bypass_depth. The replacement for QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS isn't added
but the counter is tested directly. This will be further updated by
later changes.
* blk_mq_drain_queue() is dropped and "__" prefix is dropped from
blk_mq_freeze_queue(). Queue cleanup path now calls
blk_mq_freeze_queue() directly.
* blk_queue_enter()'s fast path condition is simplified to simply
check @q->mq_freeze_depth. Previously, the condition was
!blk_queue_dying(q) &&
(!blk_queue_bypass(q) || !blk_queue_init_done(q))
mq_freeze_depth is incremented right after dying is set and
blk_queue_init_done() exception isn't necessary as blk-mq doesn't
start frozen, which only leaves the blk_queue_bypass() test which
can be replaced by @q->mq_freeze_depth test.
This change simplifies the code and reduces confusion in the area.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk_mq_put_ctx() has to be called before io_schedule() in
bt_get().
This patch fixes the problem by taking similar approach from
percpu_ida allocation for the situation.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Currently blk-mq registers all the hardware queues in sysfs,
regardless of whether it uses them (e.g. they have CPU mappings)
or not. The unused hardware queues lack the cpux/ directories,
and the other sysfs entries (like active, pending, etc) are all
zeroes.
Change this so that sysfs correctly reflects the current mappings
of the hardware queues.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers currently have to figure this out on their own, and they
are missing information to do it properly. The ones that did
attempt to do it, do it wrong.
So just pass in the suggested node directly to the alloc
function.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Prepare this for the next patch which adds more smarts in the
plugging logic, so that we can save some memory.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For request_fn based devices, the block layer exports a 'nr_requests'
file through sysfs to allow adjusting of queue depth on the fly.
Currently this returns -EINVAL for blk-mq, since it's not wired up.
Wire this up for blk-mq, so that it now also always dynamic
adjustments of the allowed queue depth for any given block device
managed by blk-mq.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
blk-mq currently uses percpu_ida for tag allocation. But that only
works well if the ratio between tag space and number of CPUs is
sufficiently high. For most devices and systems, that is not the
case. The end result if that we either only utilize the tag space
partially, or we end up attempting to fully exhaust it and run
into lots of lock contention with stealing between CPUs. This is
not optimal.
This new tagging scheme is a hybrid bitmap allocator. It uses
two tricks to both be SMP friendly and allow full exhaustion
of the space:
1) We cache the last allocated (or freed) tag on a per blk-mq
software context basis. This allows us to limit the space
we have to search. The key element here is not caching it
in the shared tag structure, otherwise we end up dirtying
more shared cache lines on each allocate/free operation.
2) The tag space is split into cache line sized groups, and
each context will start off randomly in that space. Even up
to full utilization of the space, this divides the tag users
efficiently into cache line groups, avoiding dirtying the same
one both between allocators and between allocator and freeer.
This scheme shows drastically better behaviour, both on small
tag spaces but on large ones as well. It has been tested extensively
to show better performance for all the cases blk-mq cares about.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The blk-mq code is using it's own version of the I/O completion affinity
tunables, which causes a few issues:
- the rq_affinity sysfs file doesn't work for blk-mq devices, even if it
still is present, thus breaking existing tuning setups.
- the rq_affinity = 1 mode, which is the defauly for legacy request based
drivers isn't implemented at all.
- blk-mq drivers don't implement any completion affinity with the default
flag settings.
This patches removes the blk-mq ipi_redirect flag and sysfs file, as well
as the internal BLK_MQ_F_SHOULD_IPI flag and replaces it with code that
respects the queue-wide rq_affinity flags and also implements the
rq_affinity = 1 mode.
This means I/O completion affinity can now only be tuned block-queue wide
instead of per context, which seems more sensible to me anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If a requeue event races with a timeout, we can get into the
situation where we attempt to complete a request from the
timeout handler when it's not start anymore. This causes a crash.
So have the timeout handler check that REQ_ATOM_STARTED is still
set on the request - if not, we ignore the event. If this happens,
the request has now been marked as complete. As a consequence, we
need to ensure to clear REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE in blk_mq_start_request(),
as to maintain proper request state.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Add a new blk_mq_tag_set structure that gets set up before we initialize
the queue. A single blk_mq_tag_set structure can be shared by multiple
queues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Modular export of blk_mq_{alloc,free}_tagset added by me.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers shouldn't have to care about the block layer setting aside a
request to implement the flush state machine. We already override the
mq context and tag to make it more transparent, but so far haven't deal
with the driver private data in the request. Make sure to override this
as well, and while we're at it add a proper helper sitting in blk-mq.c
that implements the full impersonation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Drivers can reach their private data easily using the blk_mq_rq_to_pdu
helper and don't need req->special. By not initializing it code can
be simplified nicely, and we also shave off a few more instructions from
the I/O path.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
It's almost identical to blk_mq_insert_request, so fold the two into one
slightly more generic function by making the flush special case a bit
smarted.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we are out of initial debug/bringup mode, remove
the verbose dump of the mapping table.
Provide the mapping table in sysfs, under the hardware queue
directory, in the cpu_list file.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Witch to using a preallocated flush_rq for blk-mq similar to what's done
with the old request path. This allows us to set up the request properly
with a tag from the actually allowed range and ->rq_disk as needed by
some drivers. To make life easier we also switch to dynamic allocation
of ->flush_rq for the old path.
This effectively reverts most of
"blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock"
and
"blk-mq: Don't reserve a tag for flush request"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Rework I/O completions to work more like the old code path. blk_mq_end_io
now stays out of the business of deferring completions to others CPUs
and calling blk_mark_rq_complete. The latter is very important to allow
completing requests that have timed out and thus are already marked completed,
the former allows using the IPI callout even for driver specific completions
instead of having to reimplement them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
__smp_call_function_single already avoids multiple IPIs by internally
queing up the items, and now also is available for non-SMP builds as
a trivially correct stub, so there is no need to wrap it. If the
additional lock roundtrip cause problems my patch to convert the
generic IPI code to llists is waiting to get merged will fix it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_mq_free_queue() is called from release handler of
queue kobject, so it needn't be called from drivers.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_mq_drain_queue() is introduced so that we can drain
mq queue inside blk_cleanup_queue().
Also don't accept new requests any more if queue is marked
as dying.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux currently has two models for block devices:
- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.
- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
driver generally have to manage everything themselves.
With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.
The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.
This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.
blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:
- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
tags, to enable cache hot reuse.
- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
if a request happens to fail.
- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
desired location.
- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
to associate a request structure with some driver private
command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
and then any request handed to the driver will have the
required size of memory associated with it.
- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
increases bandwidth.
For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).
Contributions in this patch from the following people:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe