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2013-10-25blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanismJens Axboe
Linux currently has two models for block devices: - The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag management, timeout handling, queueing, etc. - The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack, driver generally have to manage everything themselves. With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands per device. The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent everything, and along with that we get all the problems again that the shared approach solved. This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues. We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports. blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include: - Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed tags, to enable cache hot reuse. - Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification, if a request happens to fail. - Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the desired location. - Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need to associate a request structure with some driver private command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time, and then any request handed to the driver will have the required size of memory associated with it. - Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus increases bandwidth. For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md devices (as it was originally intended). Contributions in this patch from the following people: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25block: remove request ref_countChristoph Hellwig
This reference count has been around since before git history, but the only place where it's used is in blk_execute_rq, and ther it is entirely useless as it is incremented before submitting the request and decremented in the end_io handler before waking up the submitter thread. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-10-25block: make rq->cmd_flags be 64-bitJens Axboe
We have officially run out of flags in a 32-bit space. Extend it to 64-bit even on 32-bit archs. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-30block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsingPaul Gortmaker
Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot arg processing, when it really is block specific. Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_ prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it is block specific. In addition, fix up the following less critical items: - help text was not really at all helpful. - index file for Documentation was not updated - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - clarify wording in source comments Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-22Merge branch 'for-3.12/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block IO fixes from Jens Axboe: "After merge window, no new stuff this time only a collection of neatly confined and simple fixes" * 'for-3.12/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit arguments block: Add nr_bios to block_rq_remap tracepoint If the queue is dying then we only call the rq->end_io callout. This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that the rq->bios have been cleaned up. bio-integrity: Fix use of bs->bio_integrity_pool after free blkcg: relocate root_blkg setting and clearing block: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) block: trace all devices plug operation
2013-09-22cfq: explicitly use 64bit divide operation for 64bit argumentsAnatol Pomozov
'samples' is 64bit operant, but do_div() second parameter is 32. do_div silently truncates high 32 bits and calculated result is invalid. In case if low 32bit of 'samples' are zeros then do_div() produces kernel crash. Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-18If the queue is dying then we only call the rq->end_io callout.Mike Christie
This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that the rq->bios have been cleaned up. This patch has blk_execute_rq_nowait use __blk_end_request_all to free bios and also call rq->end_io. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-15partitions/efi: loosen check fot pmbr size in lbaDavidlohr Bueso
Matt found that commit 27a7c642174e ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba") caused his GPT formatted eMMC device not to boot. The reason is that this commit enforced Linux to always check the lesser of the whole disk or 2Tib for the pMBR size in LBA. While most disk partitioning tools out there create a pMBR with these characteristics, Microsoft does not, as it always sets the entry to the maximum 32-bit limitation - even though a drive may be smaller than that[1]. Loosen this check and only verify that the size is either the whole disk or 0xFFFFFFFF. No tool in its right mind would set it to any value other than these. [1] http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/GPT.htm#GPTPT Reported-and-tested-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interruptJan Kara
With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is one such possible user), the following race can happen: radix_tree_preload() ... radix_tree_insert() radix_tree_node_alloc() if (rtp->nr) { ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1]; <interrupt> ... radix_tree_preload() ... radix_tree_insert() radix_tree_node_alloc() if (rtp->nr) { ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1]; And we give out one radix tree node twice. That clearly results in radix tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which two users of radix tree race. We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh radix tree nodes when in interrupt. Using preloading when in interrupt doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload(). in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for all preload users. Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting. Again, preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes. However, some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert() to succeed. To avoid unexpected effects for these users, radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11block/partitions/efi.c: consistently use pr_foo()Andrew Morton
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: some style cleanupsDavidlohr Bueso
Trivial coding style cleanups - still plenty left. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: delete annoying emacs style commentsDavidlohr Bueso
I love emacs, but these settings for coding style are annoying when trying to open the efi.h file. More important, we already have checkpatch for that. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: compare first and last usable LBAsDavidlohr Bueso
When verifying GPT header integrity, make sure that first usable LBA is smaller than last usable LBA. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lbaDavidlohr Bueso
The partition that has the 0xEE (GPT protective), must have the size in lba field set to the lesser of the size of the disk minus one or 0xFFFFFFFF for larger disks. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: detect hybrid MBRsDavidlohr Bueso
One of the biggest problems with GPT is compatibility with older, non-GPT systems. The problem is addressed by creating hybrid mbrs, an extension, or variant, of the traditional protective mbr. This contains, apart from the 0xEE partition, up three additional primary partitions that point to the same space marked by up to three GPT partitions. The result is that legacy OSs can see the three required MBR partitions and at the same time ignore the GPT-aware partitions that protect the GPT structures. While hybrid MBRs are hacks, workarounds and simply not part of the GPT standard, they do exist and we have no way around them. For instance, by default, OSX creates a hybrid scheme when using multi-OS booting. In order for Linux to properly discover protective MBRs, it must be made aware of devices that have hybrid MBRs. No functionality is changed by this patch, just a debug message informing the user of the MBR scheme that is being used. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: do not require gpt partition to begin at sector 1Davidlohr Bueso
When detecting a valid protective MBR, the Linux kernel isn't picky about the partition (1-4) the 0xEE is at, but, unlike other operating systems, it does require it to begin at the second sector (sector 1). This check, apart from it not being enforced by UEFI, and causing Linux to potentially fail to detect any *valid* partitions on the disk, can present problems when dealing with hybrid MBRs[1]. For compatibility reasons, if the first partition is hybridized, the 0xEE partition must be small enough to ensure that it only protects the GPT data structures - as opposed to the the whole disk in a protective MBR. This problem is very well described by Rod Smith[1]: where MBR-only partitioning programs (such as older versions of fdisk) can see some of the disk space as unallocated, thus loosing the purpose of the 0xEE partition's protection of GPT data structures. By dropping this check, this patch enables Linux to be more flexible when probing for GPT disklabels. [1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html#reactions Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: check pmbr record's starting lbaDavidlohr Bueso
Per the UEFI Specs 2.4, June 2013, the starting lba of the partition that has the EFI GPT (0xEE) must be set to 0x00000001 - this is obviously the LBA of the GPT Partition Header. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11partitions/efi: use lba-aware partition recordsDavidlohr Bueso
The kernel's GPT implementation currently uses the generic 'struct partition' type for dealing with legacy MBR partition records. While this is is useful for disklabels that we designed for CHS addressing, such as msdos, it doesn't adapt well to newer standards that use LBA instead, such as GUID partition tables. Furthermore, these generic partition structures do not have all the required fields to properly follow the UEFI specs. While a CHS address can be translated to LBA, it's much simpler and cleaner to just replace the partition type. This patch adds a new 'gpt_record' type that is fully compliant with EFI and will allow, in the next patches, to add more checks to properly verify a protective MBR, which is paramount to probing a device that makes use of GPT. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11kernel-wide: fix missing validations on __get/__put/__copy_to/__copy_from_user()Mathieu Desnoyers
I found the following pattern that leads in to interesting findings: grep -r "ret.*|=.*__put_user" * grep -r "ret.*|=.*__get_user" * grep -r "ret.*|=.*__copy" * The __put_user() calls in compat_ioctl.c, ptrace compat, signal compat, since those appear in compat code, we could probably expect the kernel addresses not to be reachable in the lower 32-bit range, so I think they might not be exploitable. For the "__get_user" cases, I don't think those are exploitable: the worse that can happen is that the kernel will copy kernel memory into in-kernel buffers, and will fail immediately afterward. The alpha csum_partial_copy_from_user() seems to be missing the access_ok() check entirely. The fix is inspired from x86. This could lead to information leak on alpha. I also noticed that many architectures map csum_partial_copy_from_user() to csum_partial_copy_generic(), but I wonder if the latter is performing the access checks on every architectures. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11block: support embedded device command line partitionCai Zhiyong
Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition. This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c" About the partition verbose reference "Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt" [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text] [yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()] Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com> Cc: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11block/blk-sysfs.c: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han
The usage 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>
2013-09-11blkcg: relocate root_blkg setting and clearingTejun Heo
Hello, Jens. The original thread can be read from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8937 While it leads to oops, given that it only triggers under specific configurations which aren't common. I don't think it's necessary to backport it through -stable and merging it during the coming merge window should be enough. Thanks! ----- 8< ----- Currently, q->root_blkg and q->root_rl.blkg are set from blkcg_activate_policy() and cleared from blkg_destroy_all(). This doesn't necessarily coincide with the lifetime of the root blkcg_gq leading to the following oops when blkcg is enabled but no policy is activated because __blk_queue_next_rl() malfunctions expecting the root_blkg pointers to be set. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff810c58cb>] __wake_up_common+0x2b/0x90 PGD 60f7a9067 PUD 60f4c9067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason 0x03 Modules linked in: act_mirred cls_tcindex cls_prioshift sch_dsmark xt_multiport iptable_mangle sata_mv elephant elephant_dev_num cdc_acm uhci_hcd ehci_hcd i2c_d CPU: 9 PID: 41382 Comm: iSCSI-write- Not tainted 3.11.0-dbg-DEV #19 Hardware name: Intel XXX task: ffff88060d16eec0 ti: ffff88060d170000 task.ti: ffff88060d170000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c58cb>] [<ffffffff810c58cb>] __wake_up_common+0x2b/0x90 RSP: 0000:ffff88060d171818 EFLAGS: 00010096 RAX: 0000000000000082 RBX: ffff880baa3dee60 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff880baa3dee60 RBP: ffff88060d171858 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff880baa3dee98 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003 FS: 00007f977cba6700(0000) GS:ffff880c79c60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000060f7a5000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 Stack: 0000000000000082 0000000000000000 ffff88060d171858 ffff880baa3dee60 0000000000000082 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88060d171898 ffffffff810c7848 ffff88060d171888 ffff880bde4bc4b8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810c7848>] __wake_up+0x48/0x70 [<ffffffff8131da53>] __blk_drain_queue+0x123/0x190 [<ffffffff8131dbb5>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xf5/0x210 [<ffffffff8141877a>] __scsi_remove_device+0x5a/0xd0 [<ffffffff81418824>] scsi_remove_device+0x34/0x50 [<ffffffff814189cb>] scsi_remove_target+0x16b/0x220 [<ffffffff814210f1>] __iscsi_unbind_session+0xd1/0x1b0 [<ffffffff814212b2>] iscsi_remove_session+0xe2/0x1c0 [<ffffffff814213a6>] iscsi_destroy_session+0x16/0x60 [<ffffffff81423a59>] iscsi_session_teardown+0xd9/0x100 [<ffffffff8142b75a>] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy+0x5a/0xb0 [<ffffffff81420948>] iscsi_if_rx+0x10e8/0x1560 [<ffffffff81573335>] netlink_unicast+0x145/0x200 [<ffffffff815736f3>] netlink_sendmsg+0x303/0x410 [<ffffffff81528196>] sock_sendmsg+0xa6/0xd0 [<ffffffff815294bc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x38c/0x3a0 [<ffffffff811ea840>] ? fget_light+0x40/0x160 [<ffffffff811ea899>] ? fget_light+0x99/0x160 [<ffffffff811ea840>] ? fget_light+0x40/0x160 [<ffffffff8152bc79>] __sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x90 [<ffffffff8152bcd2>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff815fb642>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 66 66 66 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 f7 41 56 41 89 ce 41 55 41 54 4c 8d 67 38 53 48 83 ec 18 89 55 c4 48 8b 57 38 4c 89 45 c8 <4c> 8b 2a 48 8d 42 e8 49 Fix it by moving r->root_blkg and q->root_rl.blkg setting to blkg_create() and clearing to blkg_destroy() so that they area initialized when a root blkg is created and cleared when destroyed. Reported-and-tested-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-11block: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)Joe Perches
Use the helper function instead of __GFP_ZERO. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-11block: trace all devices plug operationJianpeng Ma
In func blk_queue_bio, if list of plug is empty,it will call blk_trace_plug. If process deal with a single device,it't ok.But if process deal with multi devices,it only trace the first device. Using request_count to judge, it can soleve this problem. In addition, i modify the comment. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-09-04Merge branch 'for-3.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on the cgroup front. Most changes aren't visible to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the planned unified hierarchy. - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's. Because controllers (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of a cgroup. Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed. Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup core and controllers. These assumptions are gradually removed, which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path. Note that decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these changes and the patchset is pending for the next window. - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is only used by memcg. It is overly complex trying to achieve high flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best. Going forward, new events will simply generate file modified event and the existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg. This pull request contains prepatory patches for such change. - Various fixes and cleanups" Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun. * 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits) cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id() cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp() cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control() cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id() cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css() cgroup: factor out kill_css() cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css() cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[] ...
2013-08-23[SCSI] Return ENODATA on medium errorHannes Reinecke
When a medium error is detected the SCSI stack should return ENODATA to the upper layers. [jejb: fix whitespace error] Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-08-23[SCSI] return ENOSPC on thin provisioning failureHannes Reinecke
When the thin provisioning hard threshold is reached we should return ENOSPC to inform upper layers about this fact. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-08-09cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in ↵Tejun Heo
the iteration Previously, all css descendant iterators didn't include the origin (root of subtree) css in the iteration. The reasons were maintaining consistency with css_for_each_child() and that at the time of introduction more use cases needed skipping the origin anyway; however, given that css_is_descendant() considers self to be a descendant, omitting the origin css has become more confusing and looking at the accumulated use cases rather clearly indicates that including origin would result in simpler code overall. While this is a change which can easily lead to subtle bugs, cgroup API including the iterators has recently gone through major restructuring and no out-of-tree changes will be applicable without adjustments making this a relatively acceptable opportunity for this type of change. The conversions are mostly straight-forward. If the iteration block had explicit origin handling before or after, it's moved inside the iteration. If not, if (pos == origin) continue; is added. Some conversions add extra reference get/put around origin handling by consolidating origin handling and the rest. While the extra ref operations aren't strictly necessary, this shouldn't cause any noticeable difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
2013-08-09cgroup: make cgroup_taskset deal with cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroupTejun Heo
cgroup is in the process of converting to css (cgroup_subsys_state) from cgroup as the principal subsystem interface handle. This is mostly to prepare for the unified hierarchy support where css's will be created and destroyed dynamically but also helps cleaning up subsystem implementations as css is usually what they are interested in anyway. cgroup_taskset which is used by the subsystem attach methods is the last cgroup subsystem API which isn't using css as the handle. Update cgroup_taskset_cur_cgroup() to cgroup_taskset_cur_css() and cgroup_taskset_for_each() to take @skip_css instead of @skip_cgrp. The conversions are pretty mechanical. One exception is cpuset::cgroup_cs(), which lost its last user and got removed. This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-09cgroup: make hierarchy iterators deal with cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroupTejun Heo
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using css (cgroup_subsys_state) as the primary handle instead of cgroup in subsystem API. For hierarchy iterators, this is beneficial because * In most cases, css is the only thing subsystems care about anyway. * On the planned unified hierarchy, iterations for different subsystems will need to skip over different subtrees of the hierarchy depending on which subsystems are enabled on each cgroup. Passing around css makes it unnecessary to explicitly specify the subsystem in question as css is intersection between cgroup and subsystem * For the planned unified hierarchy, css's would need to be created and destroyed dynamically independent from cgroup hierarchy. Having cgroup core manage css iteration makes enforcing deref rules a lot easier. Most subsystem conversions are straight-forward. Noteworthy changes are * blkio: cgroup_to_blkcg() is no longer used. Removed. * freezer: cgroup_freezer() is no longer used. Removed. * devices: cgroup_to_devcgroup() is no longer used. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-08-09cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methodsTejun Heo
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup. Please see the previous commit which converts the subsystem methods for rationale. This patch converts all cftype file operations to take @css instead of @cgroup. cftypes for the cgroup core files don't have their subsytem pointer set. These will automatically use the dummy_css added by the previous patch and can be converted the same way. Most subsystem conversions are straight forwards but there are some interesting ones. * freezer: update_if_frozen() is also converted to take @css instead of @cgroup for consistency. This will make the code look simpler too once iterators are converted to use css. * memory/vmpressure: mem_cgroup_from_css() needs to be exported to vmpressure while mem_cgroup_from_cont() can be made static. Updated accordingly. * cpu: cgroup_tg() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * cpuacct: cgroup_ca() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * hugetlb: hugetlb_cgroup_form_cgroup() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * net_cls: cgrp_cls_state() doesn't have any user left. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-09cgroup: add subsys backlink pointer to cftypeTejun Heo
cgroup is transitioning to using css (cgroup_subsys_state) instead of cgroup as the primary subsystem handle. The cgroupfs file interface will be converted to use css's which requires finding out the subsystem from cftype so that the matching css can be determined from the cgroup. This patch adds cftype->ss which points to the subsystem the file belongs to. The field is initialized while a cftype is being registered. This makes it unnecessary to explicitly specify the subsystem for other cftype handling functions. @ss argument dropped from various cftype handling functions. This patch shouldn't introduce any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-08-09cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in subsystem methodsTejun Heo
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup * in subsystem implementations for the following reasons. * With unified hierarchy, subsystems will be dynamically bound and unbound from cgroups and thus css's (cgroup_subsys_state) may be created and destroyed dynamically over the lifetime of a cgroup, which is different from the current state where all css's are allocated and destroyed together with the associated cgroup. This in turn means that cgroup_css() should be synchronized and may return NULL, making it more cumbersome to use. * Differing levels of per-subsystem granularity in the unified hierarchy means that the task and descendant iterators should behave differently depending on the specific subsystem the iteration is being performed for. * In majority of the cases, subsystems only care about its part in the cgroup hierarchy - ie. the hierarchy of css's. Subsystem methods often obtain the matching css pointer from the cgroup and don't bother with the cgroup pointer itself. Passing around css fits much better. This patch converts all cgroup_subsys methods to take @css instead of @cgroup. The conversions are mostly straight-forward. A few noteworthy changes are * ->css_alloc() now takes css of the parent cgroup rather than the pointer to the new cgroup as the css for the new cgroup doesn't exist yet. Knowing the parent css is enough for all the existing subsystems. * In kernel/cgroup.c::offline_css(), unnecessary open coded css dereference is replaced with local variable access. This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences. v2: Unnecessary explicit cgrp->subsys[] deref in css_online() replaced with local variable @css as suggested by Li Zefan. Rebased on top of new for-3.12 which includes for-3.11-fixes so that ->css_free() invocation added by da0a12caff ("cgroup: fix a leak when percpu_ref_init() fails") is converted too. Suggested by Li Zefan. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-09cgroup: add css_parent()Tejun Heo
Currently, controllers have to explicitly follow the cgroup hierarchy to find the parent of a given css. cgroup is moving towards using cgroup_subsys_state as the main controller interface construct, so let's provide a way to climb the hierarchy using just csses. This patch implements css_parent() which, given a css, returns its parent. The function is guarnateed to valid non-NULL parent css as long as the target css is not at the top of the hierarchy. freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct, hugetlb, memory, net_cls and devices are converted to use css_parent() instead of accessing cgroup->parent directly. * __parent_ca() is dropped from cpuacct and its usage is replaced with parent_ca(). The only difference between the two was NULL test on cgroup->parent which is now embedded in css_parent() making the distinction moot. Note that eventually a css->parent field will be added to css and the NULL check in css_parent() will go away. This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-08-09cgroup: add/update accessors which obtain subsys specific data from cssTejun Heo
css (cgroup_subsys_state) is usually embedded in a subsys specific data structure. Subsystems either use container_of() directly to cast from css to such data structure or has an accessor function wrapping such cast. As cgroup as whole is moving towards using css as the main interface handle, add and update such accessors to ease dealing with css's. All accessors explicitly handle NULL input and return NULL in those cases. While this looks like an extra branch in the code, as all controllers specific data structures have css as the first field, the casting doesn't involve any offsetting and the compiler can trivially optimize out the branch. * blkio, freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct and net_cls didn't have such accessor. Added. * memory, hugetlb and devices already had one but didn't explicitly handle NULL input. Updated. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-08-09cgroup: s/cgroup_subsys_state/cgroup_css/ s/task_subsys_state/task_css/Tejun Heo
The names of the two struct cgroup_subsys_state accessors - cgroup_subsys_state() and task_subsys_state() - are somewhat awkward. The former clashes with the type name and the latter doesn't even indicate it's somehow related to cgroup. We're about to revamp large portion of cgroup API, so, let's rename them so that they're less awkward. Most per-controller usages of the accessors are localized in accessor wrappers and given the amount of scheduled changes, this isn't gonna add any noticeable headache. Rename cgroup_subsys_state() to cgroup_css() and task_subsys_state() to task_css(). This patch is pure rename. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-07-14block: delete __cpuinit usage from all block filesPaul Gortmaker
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the drivers/block uses of the __cpuinit macros from all C files. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-11Merge branch 'for-3.11/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull core block IO updates from Jens Axboe: "Here are the core IO block bits for 3.11. It contains: - A tweak to the reserved tag logic from Jan, for weirdo devices with just 3 free tags. But for those it improves things substantially for random writes. - Periodic writeback fix from Jan. Marked for stable as well. - Fix for a race condition in IO scheduler switching from Jianpeng. - The hierarchical blk-cgroup support from Tejun. This is the grunt of the series. - blk-throttle fix from Vivek. Just a note that I'm in the middle of a relocation, whole family is flying out tomorrow. Hence I will be awal the remainder of this week, but back at work again on Monday the 15th. CC'ing Tejun, since any potential "surprises" will most likely be from the blk-cgroup work. But it's been brewing for a while and sitting in my tree and linux-next for a long time, so should be solid." * 'for-3.11/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (36 commits) elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount blk-throttle: implement proper hierarchy support blk-throttle: implement throtl_grp->has_rules[] blk-throttle: Account for child group's start time in parent while bio climbs up blk-throttle: add throtl_qnode for dispatch fairness blk-throttle: make throtl_pending_timer_fn() ready for hierarchy blk-throttle: make tg_dispatch_one_bio() ready for hierarchy blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_bio() ready for hierarchy blk-throttle: make blk_throtl_drain() ready for hierarchy blk-throttle: dispatch from throtl_pending_timer_fn() blk-throttle: implement dispatch looping blk-throttle: separate out throtl_service_queue->pending_timer from throtl_data->dispatch_work blk-throttle: set REQ_THROTTLED from throtl_charge_bio() and gate stats update with it blk-throttle: implement sq_to_tg(), sq_to_td() and throtl_log() blk-throttle: add throtl_service_queue->parent_sq blk-throttle: generalize update_disptime optimization in blk_throtl_bio() blk-throttle: dispatch to throtl_data->service_queue.bio_lists[] blk-throttle: move bio_lists[] and friends to throtl_service_queue ...
2013-07-09partitions/msdos: enumerate also AIX LVM partitionsPhilippe De Muyter
Graft AIX partitions enumeration into partitions/msdos.c There is already a AIX disks detection logic in msdos.c. When an AIX disk has been found, and if configured to, call the aix partitions recognizer. This avoids removal of AIX disks protection from msdos.c, avoids code duplication, and ensures that AIX partitions enumeration is called before plain msdos partitions enumeration. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09partitions: add aix lvm partition support filesPhilippe De Muyter
Add partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c. AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes" which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguous disk area. The code also detects "logical volumes" made of multiple slices on the probed disk, but can not describe them to the partition layer, because the partition layer generic code does not support that. When such non-contiguous "logical volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is printed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09partitions/msdos.c: end-of-line whitespace and semicolon cleanupPhilippe De Muyter
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-04Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity. - About half the MM queue - Some backlight bits - Various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - zillions more little rtc patches - ptrace - signals - exec - procfs - rapidio - nbd - aoe - pps - memstick - tools/testing/selftests updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits) tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile selftests: add .gitignore for vm selftests: add hugetlbfstest self-test: fix make clean selftests: exit 1 on failure kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete() drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool aoe: update internal version number to v83 aoe: update copyright date aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel ...
2013-07-03block: do not pass disk names as format stringsKees Cook
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0. CVE-2013-2851 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03block/compat_ioctl.c: do not leak info to user-spaceCong Wang
There is a hole in struct hd_geometry, so we have to zero the struct on stack before copying it to user-space. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "This is the bulk of the s390 patches for the 3.11 merge window. Notable enhancements are: the block timeout patches for dasd from Hannes, and more work on the PCI support front. In addition some cleanup and the usual bug fixing." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits) s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set s390/dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out() block/dasd: detailed I/O errors s390/dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors s390/dasd: Implement block timeout handling s390/dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet s390/dasd: make number of retries configurable s390/dasd: Clarify comment s390/hwsampler: Updated misleading member names in hws_data_entry s390/appldata_net_sum: do not use static data s390/appldata_mem: do not use static data s390/vmwatchdog: do not use static data s390/airq: simplify adapter interrupt code s390/pci: remove per device debug attribute s390/dma: remove gratuitous brackets s390/facility: decompose test_facility() s390/sclp: remove duplicated include from sclp_ctl.c s390/irq: store interrupt information in pt_regs s390/drivers: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch" ...
2013-07-03elevator: Fix a race in elevator switchingJianpeng Ma
There's a race between elevator switching and normal io operation. Because the allocation of struct elevator_queue and struct elevator_data don't in a atomic operation.So there are have chance to use NULL ->elevator_data. For example: Thread A: Thread B blk_queu_bio elevator_switch spin_lock_irq(q->queue_block) elevator_alloc elv_merge elevator_init_fn Because call elevator_alloc, it can't hold queue_lock and the ->elevator_data is NULL.So at the same time, threadA call elv_merge and nedd some info of elevator_data.So the crash happened. Move the elevator_alloc into func elevator_init_fn, it make the operations in a atomic operation. Using the follow method can easy reproduce this bug 1:dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null 2:while true;do echo noop > scheduler;echo deadline > scheduler;done The test method also use this method. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up changes necessary at this point. The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh. This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions less effective. Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes." * 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq block: queue work on power efficient wq PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
2013-07-01block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out()Hannes Reinecke
rq_timed_out_fn might have been unset while the request was in flight, so we need to check for it in blk_rq_timed_out(). Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-07-01block/dasd: detailed I/O errorsHannes Reinecke
The DASD driver is using FASTFAIL as an equivalent to the transport errors in SCSI. And the 'steal lock' function maps roughly to a reservation error. So we should be returning the appropriate error codes when completing a request. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-06-28block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are availableJan Kara
In case a device has three tags available we still reserve two of them for sync IO. That leaves only a single tag for async IO such as writeback from flusher thread which results in poor performance. Allow async IO to consume two tags in case queue has three tag availabe to get a decent async write performance. This patch improves streaming write performance on a machine with such disk from ~21 MB/s to ~52 MB/s. Also postmark throughput in presence of streaming writer improves from 8 to 12 transactions per second so sync IO doesn't seem to be harmed in presence of heavy async writer. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>