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The use of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is
obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull block IO driver bits from Jens Axboe:
"As I mentioned in the core block pull request, due to real life
circumstances the driver pull request would be late. Now it looks
like -rc2 late... On the plus side, apart form the rsxx update, these
are all things that I could argue could go in later in the cycle as
they are fixes and not features. So even though things are late, it's
not ALL bad.
The pull request contains:
- Updates to bcache, all bug fixes, from Kent.
- A pile of drbd bug fixes (no big features this time!).
- xen blk front/back fixes.
- rsxx driver updates, some of them deferred form 3.10. So should be
well cooked by now"
* 'for-3.11/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (63 commits)
bcache: Allocation kthread fixes
bcache: Fix GC_SECTORS_USED() calculation
bcache: Journal replay fix
bcache: Shutdown fix
bcache: Fix a sysfs splat on shutdown
bcache: Advertise that flushes are supported
bcache: check for allocation failures
bcache: Fix a dumb race
bcache: Use standard utility code
bcache: Update email address
bcache: Delete fuzz tester
bcache: Document shrinker reserve better
bcache: FUA fixes
drbd: Allow online change of al-stripes and al-stripe-size
drbd: Constants should be UPPERCASE
drbd: Ignore the exit code of a fence-peer handler if it returns too late
drbd: Fix rcu_read_lock balance on error path
drbd: fix error return code in drbd_init()
drbd: Do not sleep inside rcu
bcache: Refresh usage docs
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Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string
content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With the introduction of indirect segments we can receive requests
with a number of segments bigger than the maximum number of allowed
iovecs in a bios, so make sure that blkback doesn't try to allocate a
bios with more iovecs than BIO_MAX_PAGES
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The code generat with gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
creates an unbound loop for the second foreach_grant_safe loop in
purge_persistent_gnt.
The workaround is to avoid having this second loop and instead
perform all the work inside the first loop by adding a new variable,
clean_used, that will be set when all the desired persistent grants
have been removed and we need to iterate over the remaining ones to
remove the WAS_ACTIVE flag.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Tom O'Neill <toneill@vmem.com>
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Check that the ring does not have an insane amount of requests
(more than there could fit on the ring).
If we detect this case we will stop processing the requests
and wait until the XenBus disconnects the ring.
The existing check RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW which checks for how
many responses we have created in the past (rsp_prod_pvt) vs
requests consumed (req_cons) and whether said difference is greater or
equal to the size of the ring, does not catch this case.
Wha the condition does check if there is a need to process more
as we still have a backlog of responses to finish. Note that both
of those values (rsp_prod_pvt and req_cons) are not exposed on the
shared ring.
To understand this problem a mini crash course in ring protocol
response/request updates is in place.
There are four entries: req_prod and rsp_prod; req_event and rsp_event
to track the ring entries. We are only concerned about the first two -
which set the tone of this bug.
The req_prod is a value incremented by frontend for each request put
on the ring. Conversely the rsp_prod is a value incremented by the backend
for each response put on the ring (rsp_prod gets set by rsp_prod_pvt when
pushing the responses on the ring). Both values can
wrap and are modulo the size of the ring (in block case that is 32).
Please see RING_GET_REQUEST and RING_GET_RESPONSE for the more details.
The culprit here is that if the difference between the
req_prod and req_cons is greater than the ring size we have a problem.
Fortunately for us, the '__do_block_io_op' loop:
rc = blk_rings->common.req_cons;
rp = blk_rings->common.sring->req_prod;
while (rc != rp) {
..
blk_rings->common.req_cons = ++rc; /* before make_response() */
}
will loop up to the point when rc == rp. The macros inside of the
loop (RING_GET_REQUEST) is smart and is indexing based on the modulo
of the ring size. If the frontend has provided a bogus req_prod value
we will loop until the 'rc == rp' - which means we could be processing
already processed requests (or responses) often.
The reason the RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW is not helping here is
b/c it only tracks how many responses we have internally produced
and whether we would should process more. The astute reader will
notice that the macro RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW provides two
arguments - more on this later.
For example, if we were to enter this function with these values:
blk_rings->common.sring->req_prod = X+31415 (X is the value from
the last time __do_block_io_op was called).
blk_rings->common.req_cons = X
blk_rings->common.rsp_prod_pvt = X
The RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW(&blk_rings->common, blk_rings->common.req_cons)
is doing:
req_cons - rsp_prod_pvt >= 32
Which is,
X - X >= 32 or 0 >= 32
And that is false, so we continue on looping (this bug).
If we re-use said macro RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW and pass in the rp
instead (sring->req_prod) of rc, the this macro can do the check:
req_prod - rsp_prov_pvt >= 32
Which is,
X + 31415 - X >= 32 , or 31415 >= 32
which is true, so we can error out and break out of the function.
Unfortunatly the difference between rsp_prov_pvt and req_prod can be
at 32 (which would error out in the macro). This condition exists when
the backend is lagging behind with the responses and still has not finished
responding to all of them (so make_response has not been called), and
the rsp_prov_pvt + 32 == req_cons. This ends up with us not being able
to use said macro.
Hence introducing a new macro called RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW which does
a simple check of:
req_prod - rsp_prod_pvt > RING_SIZE
And with the X values from above:
X + 31415 - X > 32
Returns true. Also not that if the ring is full (which is where
the RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW triggered), we would not hit the
same condition:
X + 32 - X > 32
Which is false.
Lets use that macro.
Note that in v5 of this patchset the macro was different - we used an
earlier version.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[v1: Move the check outside the loop]
[v2: Add a pr_warn as suggested by David]
[v3: Use RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW as suggested by Jan]
[v4: Move wake_up after kthread_stop as suggested by Jan]
[v5: Use RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW instead]
[v6: Use RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW - Jan's version]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
gadsa
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We need to make sure that the device is not RO or that
the request is not past the number of sectors we want to
issue the DISCARD operation for.
This fixes CVE-2013-2140.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
[v1: Made it pr_warn instead of pr_debug]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Currently xen-blkback passes the logical sector size over xenbus and
xen-blkfront sets up the paravirt disk with that logical block size.
But newer drives usually have the logical sector size set to 512 for
compatibility reasons and would show the actual sector size only in
physical sector size.
This results in the device being partitioned and accessed in dom0 with
the correct sector size, but the guest thinks 512 bytes is the correct
block size. And that results in poor performance.
To fix this, blkback gets modified to pass also physical-sector-size
over xenbus and blkfront to use both values to set up the paravirt
disk. I did not just change the passed in sector-size because I am
not sure having a bigger logical sector size than the physical one
is valid (and that would happen if a newer dom0 kernel hits an older
domU kernel). Also this way a domU set up before should still be
accessible (just some tools might detect the unaligned setup).
[v2: Make xenbus write failure non-fatal]
[v3: Use xenbus_scanf instead of xenbus_gather]
[v4: Rebased against segment changes]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Allocate pending requests in smaller chunks instead of allocating them
all at the same time.
This change also removes the global array of pending_reqs, it is no
longer necessay.
Variables related to the grant mapping have been grouped into a struct
called "grant_page", this allows to allocate them in smaller chunks,
and also improves memory locality.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation
(BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments
in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of
blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a
request.
The proposed implementation sets the maximum number of indirect grefs
(frames filled with blkif_request_segment_aligned) to 256 in the
backend and 32 in the frontend. The value in the frontend has been
chosen experimentally, and the backend value has been set to a sane
value that allows expanding the maximum number of indirect descriptors
in the frontend if needed.
The migration code has changed from the previous implementation, in
which we simply remapped the segments on the shared ring. Now the
maximum number of segments allowed in a request can change depending
on the backend, so we have to requeue all the requests in the ring and
in the queue and split the bios in them if they are bigger than the
new maximum number of segments.
[v2: Fixed minor comments by Konrad.
[v1: Added padding to make the indirect request 64bit aligned.
Added some BUGs, comments; fixed number of indirect pages in
blkif_get_x86_{32/64}_req. Added description about the indirect operation
in blkif.h]
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v3: Fixed spaces and tabs mix ups]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Preparatory change for implementing indirect descriptors. Change
xen_blkbk_{map/unmap} in order to be able to map/unmap a random amount
of grants (previously it was limited to
BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST). Also, remove the usage of pending_req
in the map/unmap functions, so we can map/unmap grants without needing
to pass a pending_req.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Remove the last dependency from blkbk by moving the list of free
requests to blkif. This change reduces the contention on the list of
available requests.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Moving grant ref handles from blkbk to pending_req will allow us to
get rid of the shared blkbk structure.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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This mechanism allows blkback to change the number of grants
persistently mapped at run time.
The algorithm uses a simple LRU mechanism that removes (if needed) the
persistent grants that have not been used since the last LRU run, or
if all grants have been used it removes the first grants in the list
(that are not in use).
The algorithm allows the user to change the maximum number of
persistent grants, by changing max_persistent_grants in sysfs.
Since we are storing the persistent grants used inside the request
struct (to be able to mark them as "unused" when unmapping), we no
longer need the bitmap (unmap_seg).
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Using balloon pages for all granted pages allows us to simplify the
logic in blkback, especially in the xen_blkbk_map function, since now
we can decide if we want to map a grant persistently or not after we
have actually mapped it. This could not be done before because
persistent grants used ballooned pages, whereas non-persistent grants
used pages from the kernel.
This patch also introduces several changes, the first one is that the
list of free pages is no longer global, now each blkback instance has
it's own list of free pages that can be used to map grants. Also, a
run time parameter (max_buffer_pages) has been added in order to tune
the maximum number of free pages each blkback instance will keep in
it's buffer.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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dev_bus_addr returned in the grant ref map operation is the mfn of the
passed page, there's no need to store it in the persistent grant
entry, since we can always get it provided that we have the page.
This reduces the memory overhead of persistent grants in blkback.
While at it, rename the 'seg[i].buf' to be 'seg[i].offset' as
it makes much more sense - as we use that value in bio_add_page
which as the fourth argument expects the offset.
We hadn't used the physical address as part of this at all.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
[v1: s/buf/offset/]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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We may use foreach_grant_safe in the future with empty lists, so make
sure we can handle them.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio
submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write,
neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1
up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually
drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions).
Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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These values shouldn't be negative, but after an overflow their value
can turn into negative, if they are signed. xentop can show bogus
values in this case.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Ichiro Ogino <ichiro.ogino@citrix.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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If the frontend is using a non-native protocol (e.g., a 64-bit
frontend with a 32-bit backend) and it sent an unrecognized request,
the request was not translated and the response would have the
incorrect ID. This may cause the frontend driver to behave
incorrectly or crash.
Since the ID field in the request is always in the same place,
regardless of the request type we can get the correct ID and make a
valid response (which will report BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP).
This bug affected 64-bit SLES 11 guests when using a 32-bit backend.
This guest does a BLKIF_OP_RESERVED_1 (BLKIF_OP_PACKET in the SLES
source) and would crash in blkif_int() as the ID in the response would
be invalid.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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If call xen_vbd_translate failed, the preq.dev will be not initialized.
Use blkif->vbd.pdevice instead (still better to print relative info).
Note that before commit 01c681d4c70d64cb72142a2823f27c4146a02e63
(xen/blkback: Don't trust the handle from the frontend.)
the value bogus, as it was the guest provided value from req->u.rw.handle
rather than the actual device.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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With current persistent grants implementation we are not freeing the
persistent grants after we disconnect the device. Since grant map
operations change the mfn of the allocated page, and we can no longer
pass it to __free_page without setting the mfn to a sane value, use
balloon grant pages instead, as the gntdev device does.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The 'handle' is the device that the request is from. For the life-time
of the ring we copy it from a request to a response so that the frontend
is not surprised by it. But we do not need it - when we start processing
I/Os we have our own 'struct phys_req' which has only most essential
information about the request. In fact the 'vbd_translate' ends up
over-writing the preq.dev with a value from the backend.
This assignment of preq.dev with the 'handle' value is superfluous
so lets not do it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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"be->mode" is obtained from xenbus_read(), which does a kmalloc() for
the message body. The short string is never released, so do it along
with freeing "be" itself, and make sure the string isn't kept when
backend_changed() doesn't complete successfully (which made it
desirable to slightly re-structure that function, so that the error
cleanup can be done in one place).
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus
Konrad writes:
Please git pull the following branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/for-jens-3.8
which has a bug-fix to the xen-blkfront and xen-blkback driver
when using the persistent mode. An issue was discovered where LVM
disks could not be read correctly and this fixes it. There
is also a change in llist.h which has been blessed by akpm.
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Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The
branch contains:
- A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
situation on individual pulls can be improved.
- A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.
- Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a
generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
also using it.
- A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.
- Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
to be used as an identifier."
* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
drbd: Remove obsolete check
drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
xen-blkfront: free allocated page
xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
cciss: use check_signature()
cciss: cleanup bitops usage
drbd: use copy_highpage
drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
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Change foreach_grant iterator to a safe version, that allows freeing
the element while iterating. Also move the free code in
free_persistent_gnts to prevent freeing the element before the rb_next
call.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Move the code that frees persistent grants from the red-black tree
to a function. This will make it easier for other consumers to move
this to a common place.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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This patch contains fixes for persistent grants implementation v2:
* handle == 0 is a valid handle, so initialize grants in blkback
setting the handle to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE instead of 0. Reported
by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
* new_map is a boolean, use "true" or "false" instead of 1 and 0.
Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
* blkfront announces the persistent-grants feature as
feature-persistent-grants, use feature-persistent instead which is
consistent with blkback and the public Xen headers.
* Add a consistency check in blkfront to make sure we don't try to
access segments that have not been set.
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v1: The new_map int->bool had already been changed]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
are performing I/O.
Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
queue. This was granted to dom0; dom0 performed the I/O and wrote
directly into the grant-mapped memory and unmapped it; blkfront then
removed foreign access for that grant. The cost of unmapping scales
badly with the number of CPUs in Dom0. An experiment showed that when
Dom0 has 24 VCPUs, and guests are performing parallel I/O to a
ramdisk, the IPIs from performing unmap's is a bottleneck at 5 guests
(at which point 650,000 IOPS are being performed in total). If more
than 5 guests are used, the performance declines. By 10 guests, only
400,000 IOPS are being performed.
This patch improves performance by only unmapping when the connection
between blkfront and back is broken.
On startup blkfront notifies blkback that it is using persistent
grants, and blkback will do the same. If blkback is not capable of
persistent mapping, blkfront will still use the same grants, since it
is compatible with the previous protocol, and simplifies the code
complexity in blkfront.
To perform a read, in persistent mode, blkfront uses a separate pool
of pages that it maps to dom0. When a request comes in, blkfront
transmutes the request so that blkback will write into one of these
free pages. Blkback keeps note of which grefs it has already
mapped. When a new ring request comes to blkback, it looks to see if
it has already mapped that page. If so, it will not map it again. If
the page hasn't been previously mapped, it is mapped now, and a record
is kept of this mapping. Blkback proceeds as usual. When blkfront is
notified that blkback has completed a request, it memcpy's from the
shared memory, into the bvec supplied. A record that the {gref, page}
tuple is mapped, and not inflight is kept.
Writes are similar, except that the memcpy is peformed from the
supplied bvecs, into the shared pages, before the request is put onto
the ring.
Blkback stores a mapping of grefs=>{page mapped to by gref} in
a red-black tree. As the grefs are not known apriori, and provide no
guarantees on their ordering, we have to perform a search
through this tree to find the page, for every gref we receive. This
operation takes O(log n) time in the worst case. In blkfront grants
are stored using a single linked list.
The maximum number of grants that blkback will persistenly map is
currently set to RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, to
prevent a malicios guest from attempting a DoS, by supplying fresh
grefs, causing the Dom0 kernel to map excessively. If a guest
is using persistent grants and exceeds the maximum number of grants to
map persistenly the newly passed grefs will be mapped and unmaped.
Using this approach, we can have requests that mix persistent and
non-persistent grants, and we need to handle them correctly.
This allows us to set the maximum number of persistent grants to a
lower value than RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, although
setting it will lead to unpredictable performance.
In writing this patch, the question arrises as to if the additional
cost of performing memcpys in the guest (to/from the pool of granted
pages) outweigh the gains of not performing TLB shootdowns. The answer
to that question is `no'. There appears to be very little, if any
additional cost to the guest of using persistent grants. There is
perhaps a small saving, from the reduced number of hypercalls
performed in granting, and ending foreign access.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Fixed up the misuse of bool as int]
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unsigned int, rather than bool
Changing the type of bdev parameters to be unsigned int :1, rather than bool.
This is more consistent with the types of other features in the block drivers.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:260:5: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_addif' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:284:6: warning: symbol 'xenvbd_sysfs_delif' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
Pull ADM Xen support from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
Features:
* Allow a Linux guest to boot as initial domain and as normal guests
on Xen on ARM (specifically ARMv7 with virtualized extensions). PV
console, block and network frontend/backends are working.
Bug-fixes:
* Fix compile linux-next fallout.
* Fix PVHVM bootup crashing.
The Xen-unstable hypervisor (so will be 4.3 in a ~6 months), supports
ARMv7 platforms.
The goal in implementing this architecture is to exploit the hardware
as much as possible. That means use as little as possible of PV
operations (so no PV MMU) - and use existing PV drivers for I/Os
(network, block, console, etc). This is similar to how PVHVM guests
operate in X86 platform nowadays - except that on ARM there is no need
for QEMU. The end result is that we share a lot of the generic Xen
drivers and infrastructure.
Details on how to compile/boot/etc are available at this Wiki:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_ARMv7_with_Virtualization_Extensions
and this blog has links to a technical discussion/presentations on the
overall architecture:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/21/xensummit-sessions-new-pvh-virtualisation-mode-for-arm-cortex-a15arm-servers-and-x86/
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-arm-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (21 commits)
xen/xen_initial_domain: check that xen_start_info is initialized
xen: mark xen_init_IRQ __init
xen/Makefile: fix dom-y build
arm: introduce a DTS for Xen unprivileged virtual machines
MAINTAINERS: add myself as Xen ARM maintainer
xen/arm: compile netback
xen/arm: compile blkfront and blkback
xen/arm: implement alloc/free_xenballooned_pages with alloc_pages/kfree
xen/arm: receive Xen events on ARM
xen/arm: initialize grant_table on ARM
xen/arm: get privilege status
xen/arm: introduce CONFIG_XEN on ARM
xen: do not compile manage, balloon, pci, acpi, pcpu and cpu_hotplug on ARM
xen/arm: Introduce xen_ulong_t for unsigned long
xen/arm: Xen detection and shared_info page mapping
docs: Xen ARM DT bindings
xen/arm: empty implementation of grant_table arch specific functions
xen/arm: sync_bitops
xen/arm: page.h definitions
xen/arm: hypercalls
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If the caller passes a valid kmap_op to m2p_add_override, we use
kmap_op->dev_bus_addr to store the original mfn, but dev_bus_addr is
part of the interface with Xen and if we are batching the hypercalls it
might not have been written by the hypervisor yet. That means that later
on Xen will write to it and we'll think that the original mfn is
actually what Xen has written to it.
Rather than "stealing" struct members from kmap_op, keep using
page->index to store the original mfn and add another parameter to
m2p_remove_override to get the corresponding kmap_op instead.
It is now responsibility of the caller to keep track of which kmap_op
corresponds to a particular page in the m2p_override (gntdev, the only
user of this interface that passes a valid kmap_op, is already doing that).
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-By: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus
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We weren't copying the id field so when we sent the response
back to the frontend (especially with a 64-bit host and 32-bit
guest), we ended up using a random value. This lead to the
frontend crashing as it would try to pass to __blk_end_request_all
a NULL 'struct request' (b/c it would use the 'id' to find the
proper 'struct request' in its shadow array) and end up crashing:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000e4
IP: [<c0646d4c>] __blk_end_request_all+0xc/0x40
.. snip..
EIP is at __blk_end_request_all+0xc/0x40
.. snip..
[<ed95db72>] blkif_interrupt+0x172/0x330 [xen_blkfront]
This fixes the bug by passing in the proper id for the response.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824641
CC: stable@kernel.org
Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c: In function 'xen_blkbk_discard':
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:419:4: warning: passing argument 1 of 'dev_warn' makes pointer from integer without a cast
+[enabled by default]
include/linux/device.h:894:5: note: expected 'const struct device *' but argument is of type 'long int'
It is unclear how that mistake made it in. It surely is wrong.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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They were using the xenbus_dev_fatal() function which would
change the state of the connection immediately. Which is not
what we want when we advertise optional features.
So make 'feature-discard','feature-barrier','feature-flush-cache'
optional.
Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
[v1: Made the discard function void and static]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of
'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device), was to reach inside
the loopback device, find the underlaying file, and call fallocate on it.
Fortunately "xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on
loop devices" removes that use-case and we now based the discard
support based on blk_queue_discard(q) and extract all appropriate
parameters from the 'struct request_queue'.
CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
[v1: Dropping pointless initializer and keeping blank line]
[v2: Remove the kfree as it is not used anymore]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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* 'for-3.3/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
mtip32xx: do rebuild monitoring asynchronously
xen-blkfront: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
mtip32xx: uninitialized variable in mtip_quiesce_io()
mtip32xx: updates based on feedback
xen-blkback: convert hole punching to discard request on loop devices
xen/blkback: Move processing of BLKIF_OP_DISCARD from dispatch_rw_block_io
xen/blk[front|back]: Enhance discard support with secure erasing support.
xen/blk[front|back]: Squash blkif_request_rw and blkif_request_discard together
mtip32xx: update to new ->make_request() API
mtip32xx: add module.h include to avoid conflict with moduleh tree
mtip32xx: mark a few more items static
mtip32xx: ensure that all local functions are static
mtip32xx: cleanup compat ioctl handling
mtip32xx: fix warnings/errors on 32-bit compiles
block: Add driver for Micron RealSSD pcie flash cards
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (37 commits)
xen/pciback: Expand the warning message to include domain id.
xen/pciback: Fix "device has been assigned to X domain!" warning
xen/pciback: Move the PCI_DEV_FLAGS_ASSIGNED ops to the "[un|]bind"
xen/xenbus: don't reimplement kvasprintf via a fixed size buffer
xenbus: maximum buffer size is XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX
xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.
Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
xen-gntalloc: introduce missing kfree
xen/xenbus: Fix compile error - missing header for xen_initial_domain()
xen/netback: Enable netback on HVM guests
xen/grant-table: Support mappings required by blkback
xenbus: Use grant-table wrapper functions
xenbus: Support HVM backends
xen/xenbus-frontend: Fix compile error with randconfig
xen/xenbus-frontend: Make error message more clear
xen/privcmd: Remove unused support for arch specific privcmp mmap
xen: Add xenbus_backend device
xen: Add xenbus device driver
xen: Add privcmd device driver
xen/gntalloc: fix reference counts on multi-page mappings
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The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.
Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).
Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.
v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The below patch fixes some typos in various parts of the kernel, as well as fixes some comments.
Please let me know if I missed anything, and I will try to get it changed and resent.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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As of dfaa2ef68e80c378e610e3c8c536f1c239e8d3ef, loop devices support
discard request now. We could just issue a discard request, and
the loop driver will punch the hole for us, so we don't need to touch
the internals of loop device and punch the hole ourselves, Thanks.
V0->V1: rebased on devel/for-jens-3.3
Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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.. and move it to its own function that will deal with the
discard operation.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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