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2012-10-25block: Add blk_rq_pos(rq) to sort rq when plushingJianpeng Ma
My workload is a raid5 which had 16 disks. And used our filesystem to write using direct-io mode. I used the blktrace to find those message: 8,16 0 6647 2.453665504 2579 M W 7493152 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6648 2.453672411 2579 Q W 7493160 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6649 2.453672606 2579 M W 7493160 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6650 2.453679255 2579 Q W 7493168 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6651 2.453679441 2579 M W 7493168 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6652 2.453685948 2579 Q W 7493176 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6653 2.453686149 2579 M W 7493176 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6654 2.453693074 2579 Q W 7493184 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6655 2.453693254 2579 M W 7493184 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6656 2.453704290 2579 Q W 7493192 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6657 2.453704482 2579 M W 7493192 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6658 2.453715016 2579 Q W 7493200 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6659 2.453715247 2579 M W 7493200 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6660 2.453721730 2579 Q W 7493208 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6661 2.453721974 2579 M W 7493208 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6662 2.453728202 2579 Q W 7493216 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6663 2.453728436 2579 M W 7493216 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6664 2.453734782 2579 Q W 7493224 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6665 2.453735019 2579 M W 7493224 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6666 2.453741401 2579 Q W 7493232 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6667 2.453741632 2579 M W 7493232 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6668 2.453748148 2579 Q W 7493240 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6669 2.453748386 2579 M W 7493240 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6670 2.453851843 2579 I W 7493144 + 104 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 0 2.453853661 0 m N cfq2579 insert_request 8,16 0 6671 2.453854064 2579 I W 7493120 + 24 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 0 2.453854439 0 m N cfq2579 insert_request 8,16 0 6672 2.453854793 2579 U N [md0_raid5] 2 8,16 0 0 2.453855513 0 m N cfq2579 Not idling.st->count:1 8,16 0 0 2.453855927 0 m N cfq2579 dispatch_insert 8,16 0 0 2.453861771 0 m N cfq2579 dispatched a request 8,16 0 0 2.453862248 0 m N cfq2579 activate rq,drv=1 8,16 0 6673 2.453862332 2579 D W 7493120 + 24 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 0 2.453865957 0 m N cfq2579 Not idling.st->count:1 8,16 0 0 2.453866269 0 m N cfq2579 dispatch_insert 8,16 0 0 2.453866707 0 m N cfq2579 dispatched a request 8,16 0 0 2.453867061 0 m N cfq2579 activate rq,drv=2 8,16 0 6674 2.453867145 2579 D W 7493144 + 104 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6675 2.454147608 0 C W 7493120 + 24 [0] 8,16 0 0 2.454149357 0 m N cfq2579 complete rqnoidle 0 8,16 0 6676 2.454791505 0 C W 7493144 + 104 [0] 8,16 0 0 2.454794803 0 m N cfq2579 complete rqnoidle 0 8,16 0 0 2.454795160 0 m N cfq schedule dispatch From above messages,we can find rq[W 7493144 + 104] and rq[W 7493120 + 24] do not merge. Because the bio order is: 8,16 0 6638 2.453619407 2579 Q W 7493144 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6639 2.453620460 2579 G W 7493144 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6640 2.453639311 2579 Q W 7493120 + 8 [md0_raid5] 8,16 0 6641 2.453639842 2579 G W 7493120 + 8 [md0_raid5] The bio(7493144) first and bio(7493120) later.So the subsequent bios will be divided into two parts. When flushing plug-list,because elv_attempt_insert_merge only support backmerge,not supporting frontmerge. So rq[7493120 + 24] can't merge with rq[7493144 + 104]. From my test,i found those situation can count 25% in our system. Using this patch, there is no this situation. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> CC:Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-10-11Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe: "Core block IO bits for 3.7. Not a huge round this time, it contains: - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation and freeing. - WRITE_SAME support from Martin. - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes the block size of a device. - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards). - A few other minor fixups." Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew Morton. It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit 6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree"). So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the internal VM knowledge that has changed. * 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits) block: makes bio_split support bio without data scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents scatterlist: add sg_nents fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time block: fix request_queue->flags initialization block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue() block: ioctl to zero block ranges block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME block: Implement support for WRITE SAME block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges block: Clean up special command handling logic block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold block: reject invalid queue attribute values block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc() block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc() ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this round including considerable API and behavior cleanups. * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as expected. * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added. These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface and behave like timer which is executed with process context. * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario the overhead isn't too high. All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished execution of any previous queueing on return. * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU hotplug handling significantly. * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU hotplug. There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them." Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts. Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits) workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active() workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues() workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight() workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback() workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work() workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() ...
2012-09-21block: fix request_queue->flags initializationTejun Heo
A queue newly allocated with blk_alloc_queue_node() has only QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS set. For request-based drivers, blk_init_allocated_queue() is called and q->queue_flags is overwritten with QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT which doesn't include BYPASS even though the initial bypass is still in effect. In blk_init_allocated_queue(), or QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT to q->queue_flags instead of overwriting. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-21block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of ↵Tejun Heo
blk_init_allocated_queue() b82d4b197c ("blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation") made request_queues bypassed on allocation to avoid switching on and off bypass mode on a queue being initialized. Some drivers allocate and then destroy a lot of queues without fully initializing them and incurring bypass latency overhead on each of them could add upto significant overhead. Unfortunately, blk_init_allocated_queue() is never used by queues of bio-based drivers, which means that all bio-based driver queues are in bypass mode even after initialization and registration complete successfully. Due to the limited way request_queues are used by bio drivers, this problem is hidden pretty well but it shows up when blk-throttle is used in combination with a bio-based driver. Trying to configure (echoing to cgroupfs file) blk-throttle for a bio-based driver hangs indefinitely in blkg_conf_prep() waiting for bypass mode to end. This patch moves the initial blk_queue_bypass_end() call from blk_init_allocated_queue() to blk_register_queue() which is called for any userland-visible queues regardless of its type. I believe this is correct because I don't think there is any block driver which needs or wants working elevator and blk-cgroup on a queue which isn't visible to userland. If there are such users, we need a different solution. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20block: Implement support for WRITE SAMEMartin K. Petersen
The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O. This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for mergesMartin K. Petersen
- blk_check_merge_flags() verifies that cmd_flags / bi_rw are compatible. This function is called for both req-req and req-bio merging. - blk_rq_get_max_sectors() and blk_queue_get_max_sectors() can be used to query the maximum sector count for a given request or queue. The calls will return the right value from the queue limits given the type of command (RW, discard, write same, etc.) Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-20block: Clean up special command handling logicMartin K. Petersen
Remove special-casing of non-rw fs style requests (discard). The nomerge flags are consolidated in blk_types.h, and rq_mergeable() and bio_mergeable() have been modified to use them. bio_is_rw() is used in place of bio_has_data() a few places. This is done to to distinguish true reads and writes from other fs type requests that carry a payload (e.g. write same). Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_thresholdJaehoon Chung
Before call the blk_queue_congestion_threshold(), the blk_queue_congestion_threshold() is already called at blk_queue_make_rquest(). Because this code is the duplicated, it has removed. Signed-off-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()Kent Overstreet
Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio set; as a result various users were open coding it and using __bio_clone(). This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of the functionality the last patch adedd. This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: Kill bi_destructorKent Overstreet
Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio pools, this isn't needed anymore. This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else. bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant bio->bi_next = NULL. v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymore Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-09block: Ues bi_pool for bio_integrity_alloc()Kent Overstreet
Now that bios keep track of where they were allocated from, bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() becomes redundant. Remove bio_integrity_alloc_bioset() and drop bio_set argument from the related functions and make them use bio->bi_pool. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-30block: rate-limit the error message from failing commandsYi Zou
When performing a cable pull test w/ active stress I/O using fio over a dual port Intel 82599 FCoE CNA, w/ 256LUNs on one port and about 32LUNs on the other, it is observed that the system becomes not usable due to scsi-ml being busy printing the error messages for all the failing commands. I don't believe this problem is specific to FCoE and these commands are anyway failing due to link being down (DID_NO_CONNECT), just rate-limit the messages here to solve this issue. v2->v1: use __ratelimit() as Tomas Henzl mentioned as the proper way for rate-limit per function. However, in this case, the failed i/o gets to blk_end_request_err() and then blk_update_request(), which also has to be rate-limited, as added in the v2 of this patch. v3-v2: resolved conflict to apply on current 3.6-rc3 upstream tip. Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org <devel@open-fcoe.org> Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-21workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()Tejun Heo
Now that cancel_delayed_work() can be safely called from IRQ handlers, there's no reason to use __cancel_delayed_work(). Use cancel_delayed_work() instead of __cancel_delayed_work() and mark the latter deprecated. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
2012-08-21workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queueTejun Heo
Now that mod_delayed_work() is safe to call from IRQ handlers, __cancel_delayed_work() followed by queue_delayed_work() can be replaced with mod_delayed_work(). Most conversions are straight-forward except for the following. * net/core/link_watch.c: linkwatch_schedule_work() was doing a quite elaborate dancing around its delayed_work. Collapse it such that linkwatch_work is queued for immediate execution if LW_URGENT and existing timer is kept otherwise. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
2012-07-31blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.NeilBrown
This will allow md/raid to know why the unplug was called, and will be able to act according - if !from_schedule it is safe to perform tasks which could themselves schedule. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-07-31block: stack unplugShaohua Li
MD raid1 prepares to dispatch request in unplug callback. If make_request in low level queue also uses unplug callback to dispatch request, the low level queue's unplug callback will not be called. Recheck the callback list helps this case. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-07-31blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.NeilBrown
Both md and umem has similar code for getting notified on an blk_finish_plug event. Centralize this code in block/ and allow each driver to provide its distinctive difference. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-26blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocationTejun Heo
Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued. When the unified request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless - whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless of the configured weights. This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup. As soon as the request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes. This patch implements per-blkg request_list. Each blkg has its own request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation. * Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue, which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq. While making blkcg rl handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root blkcg. * Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root blkcg. As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals. It's better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but needs to be improved with future changes. * After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making resource consumption of each cgroup higher. This makes allowing non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not hierarchical). v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested by Vivek. v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure. Fix it by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures. This problem was spotted by Rakesh Iyer <rni@google.com>. v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue". blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all blkg->rl on the target queue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: prepare for multiple request_listsTejun Heo
Request allocation is about to be made per-blkg meaning that there'll be multiple request lists. * Make queue full state per request_list. blk_*queue_full() functions are renamed to blk_*rl_full() and takes @rl instead of @q. * Rename blk_init_free_list() to blk_init_rl() and make it take @rl instead of @q. Also add @gfp_mask parameter. * Add blk_exit_rl() instead of destroying rl directly from blk_release_queue(). * Add request_list->q and make request alloc/free functions - blk_free_request(), [__]freed_request(), __get_request() - take @rl instead of @q. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: add q->nr_rqs[] and move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvprivTejun Heo
Add q->nr_rqs[] which currently behaves the same as q->rq.count[] and move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvpriv. blk_drain_queue() is updated to use q->nr_rqs[] instead of q->rq.count[]. These counters separates queue-wide request statistics from the request list and allow implementation of per-queue request allocation. While at it, properly indent fields of struct request_list. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: allocate io_context upfrontTejun Heo
Block layer very lazy allocation of ioc. It waits until the moment ioc is absolutely necessary; unfortunately, that time could be inside queue lock and __get_request() performs unlock - try alloc - retry dancing. Just allocate it up-front on entry to block layer. We're not saving the rain forest by deferring it to the last possible moment and complicating things unnecessarily. This patch is to prepare for further updates to request allocation path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25block: refactor get_request[_wait]()Tejun Heo
Currently, there are two request allocation functions - get_request() and get_request_wait(). The former tries to allocate a request once and the latter keeps retrying until it succeeds. The latter wraps the former and keeps retrying until allocation succeeds. The combination of two functions deliver fallible non-wait allocation, fallible wait allocation and unfailing wait allocation. However, given that forward progress is guaranteed, fallible wait allocation isn't all that useful and in fact nobody uses it. This patch simplifies the interface as follows. * get_request() is renamed to __get_request() and is only used by the wrapper function. * get_request_wait() is renamed to get_request(). It now takes @gfp_mask and retries iff it contains %__GFP_WAIT. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change and is to prepare for further updates to request allocation path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-25mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node()Tejun Heo
mempool_create_node() currently assumes %GFP_KERNEL. Its only user, blk_init_free_list(), is about to be updated to use other allocation flags - add @gfp_mask argument to the function. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-15block: Mitigate lock unbalance caused by lock switchingAsias He
Commit 777eb1bf15b8532c396821774bf6451e563438f5 disconnects externally supplied queue_lock before blk_drain_queue(). Switching the lock would introduce lock unbalance because theads which have taken the external lock might unlock the internal lock in the during the queue drain. This patch mitigate this by disconnecting the lock after the queue draining since queue draining makes a lot of request_queue users go away. However, please note, this patch only makes the problem less likely to happen. Anyone who still holds a ref might try to issue a new request on a dead queue after the blk_cleanup_queue() finishes draining, the lock unbalance might still happen in this case. ===================================== [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] 3.4.0+ #288 Not tainted ------------------------------------- fio/17706 is trying to release lock (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock) at: [<ffffffff81329372>] blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380 but there are no more locks to release! other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by fio/17706: #0: (&(&vblk->lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<ffffffff81327f1a>] get_request_wait+0x19a/0x250 stack backtrace: Pid: 17706, comm: fio Not tainted 3.4.0+ #288 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81329372>] ? blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380 [<ffffffff810dea49>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xf9/0x100 [<ffffffff810dfe4f>] lock_release_non_nested+0x1df/0x330 [<ffffffff811dae24>] ? dio_bio_end_aio+0x34/0xc0 [<ffffffff811d6935>] ? bio_check_pages_dirty+0x85/0xe0 [<ffffffff811daea1>] ? dio_bio_end_aio+0xb1/0xc0 [<ffffffff81329372>] ? blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380 [<ffffffff81329372>] ? blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380 [<ffffffff810e0079>] lock_release+0xd9/0x250 [<ffffffff81a74553>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x23/0x40 [<ffffffff81329372>] blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380 [<ffffffff81328faa>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100 [<ffffffff81329056>] submit_bio+0x76/0xf0 [<ffffffff8115470c>] ? set_page_dirty_lock+0x3c/0x60 [<ffffffff811d69e1>] ? bio_set_pages_dirty+0x51/0x70 [<ffffffff811dd1a8>] do_blockdev_direct_IO+0xbf8/0xee0 [<ffffffff811d8620>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff811dd4e5>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x55/0x60 [<ffffffff811d8620>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff811d92e7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60 [<ffffffff811d8620>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff8114c6ae>] generic_file_aio_read+0x70e/0x760 [<ffffffff810df7c5>] ? __lock_acquire+0x215/0x5a0 [<ffffffff811e9924>] ? aio_run_iocb+0x54/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8114bfa0>] ? grab_cache_page_nowait+0xc0/0xc0 [<ffffffff811e82cc>] aio_rw_vect_retry+0x7c/0x1e0 [<ffffffff811e8250>] ? aio_fsync+0x30/0x30 [<ffffffff811e9936>] aio_run_iocb+0x66/0x1a0 [<ffffffff811ea9b0>] do_io_submit+0x6f0/0xb80 [<ffffffff8134de2e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff811eae50>] sys_io_submit+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff81a7c9e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Changes since v2: Update commit log to explain how the code is still broken even if we delay the lock switching after the drain. Changes since v1: Update commit log as Tejun suggested. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-06-15block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueueAsias He
After hot-unplug a stressed disk, I found that rl->wait[] is not empty while rl->count[] is empty and there are theads still sleeping on get_request after the queue cleanup. With simple debug code, I found there are exactly nr_sleep - nr_wakeup of theads in D state. So there are missed wakeup. $ dmesg | grep nr_sleep [ 52.917115] ---> nr_sleep=1046, nr_wakeup=873, delta=173 $ vmstat 1 1 173 0 712640 24292 96172 0 0 0 0 419 757 0 0 0 100 0 To quote Tejun: Ah, okay, freed_request() wakes up single waiter with the assumption that after the wakeup there will at least be one successful allocation which in turn will continue the wakeup chain until the wait list is empty - ie. waiter wakeup is dependent on successful request allocation happening after each wakeup. With queue marked dead, any woken up waiter fails the allocation path, so the wakeup chaining is lost and we're left with hung waiters. What we need is wake_up_all() after drain completion. This patch fixes the missed wakeup by waking up all the theads which are sleeping on wait queue after queue drain. Changes in v2: Drop waitqueue_active() optimization Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Fixed a bug by me, where stacked devices would oops on calling blk_drain_queue() since ->rq.wait[] do not get initialized unless it's a full queue setup. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-05-01Merge tag 'v3.4-rc5' into for-3.5/coreJens Axboe
The core branch is behind driver commits that we want to build on for 3.5, hence I'm pulling in a later -rc. Linux 3.4-rc5 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-20block: fix elvpriv allocation failure handlingTejun Heo
Request allocation is mempool backed to guarantee forward progress under memory pressure; unfortunately, this property got broken while adding elvpriv data. Failures during elvpriv allocation, including ioc and icq creation failures, currently make get_request() fail as whole. There's no forward progress guarantee for these allocations - they may fail indefinitely under memory pressure stalling IO and deadlocking the system. This patch updates get_request() such that elvpriv allocation failure doesn't make the whole function fail. If elvpriv allocation fails, the allocation is degraded into !ELVPRIV. This will force the request to ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK disturbing scheduling but elvpriv alloc failures should be rare (nothing is per-request) and anything is better than deadlocking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-04-20block: collapse blk_alloc_request() into get_request()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-04-20blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocationTejun Heo
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>
2012-04-20blkcg: make sure blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassingTejun Heo
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>
2012-04-06block: make auto block plug flush threshold per-disk basedShaohua Li
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>
2012-03-23block: blk_alloc_queue_node(): use caller's GFP flags instead of GFP_KERNELDan Carpenter
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>
2012-03-06block: implement bio_associate_current()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06block: interface update for ioc/icq creation functionsTejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06block: restructure get_request()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06blkcg: unify blkg's for blkcg policiesTejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06blkcg: move per-queue blkg list heads and counters to queue and blkgTejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06blkcg: add blkcg_{init|drain|exit}_queue()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06blkcg: use the usual get blkg path for root blkio_groupTejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06block: extend queue bypassing to cover blkcg policiesTejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06block: implement blk_queue_bypass_start/end()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-03-06block: blk-throttle should be drained regardless of q->elevatorTejun Heo
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>
2012-02-08block: don't call elevator callbacks for plug mergesTejun Heo
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>
2012-02-08block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator ↵Tejun Heo
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>
2012-02-07block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()Tejun Heo
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>
2012-01-19block: fix NULL icq_cache referenceShaohua Li
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>
2012-01-15Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* '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)
2011-12-15block: don't kick empty queue in blk_drain_queue()Tejun Heo
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>
2011-12-14block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block coreTejun Heo
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>