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2017-07-05xen/blkback: don't free be structure too earlyJuergen Gross
commit 71df1d7ccad1c36f7321d6b3b48f2ea42681c363 upstream. The be structure must not be freed when freeing the blkif structure isn't done. Otherwise a use-after-free of be when unmapping the ring used for communicating with the frontend will occur in case of a late call of xenblk_disconnect() (e.g. due to an I/O still active when trying to disconnect). Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-05xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthreadJuergen Gross
commit a24fa22ce22ae302b3bf8f7008896d52d5d57b8d upstream. There is no need to use xen_blkif_get()/xen_blkif_put() in the kthread of xen-blkback. Thread stopping is synchronous and using the blkif reference counting in the kthread will avoid to ever let the reference count drop to zero at the end of an I/O running concurrent to disconnecting and multiple rings. Setting ring->xenblkd to NULL after stopping the kthread isn't needed as the kthread does this already. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-29xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in flightJuergen Gross
commit 46464411307746e6297a034a9983a22c9dfc5a0c upstream. Today disconnecting xen-blkback is broken in case there are still I/Os in flight: xen_blkif_disconnect() will bail out early without releasing all resources in the hope it will be called again when the last request has terminated. This, however, won't happen as xen_blkif_free() won't be called on termination of the last running request: xen_blkif_put() won't decrement the blkif refcnt to 0 as xen_blkif_disconnect() didn't finish before thus some xen_blkif_put() calls in xen_blkif_disconnect() didn't happen. To solve this deadlock xen_blkif_disconnect() and xen_blkif_alloc_rings() shouldn't use xen_blkif_put() and xen_blkif_get() but use some other way to do their accounting of resources. This at once fixes another error in xen_blkif_disconnect(): when it returned early with -EBUSY for another ring than 0 it would call xen_blkif_put() again for already handled rings on a subsequent call. This will lead to inconsistencies in the refcnt handling. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-07-27Merge tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull xen updates from David Vrabel: "Features and fixes for 4.8-rc0: - ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms. - Generic steal time support for arm and x86. - Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if in-guest kexec is used). - Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various places" * tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (47 commits) xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU xen/evtchn: use xen_vcpu_id mapping xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to shared_info x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7 xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT xen-blkback: really don't leak mode property xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group" xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather() xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather() xen: support runqueue steal time on xen arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall xen: update xen headers xen-pciback: drop superfluous variables xen-pciback: short-circuit read path used for merging write values ...
2016-07-22xen-blkback: really don't leak mode propertyJan Beulich
Commit 9d092603cc ("xen-blkback: do not leak mode property") left one path unfixed; correct this. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-07-22xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group"Jan Beulich
The functions these get passed to have been taking pointers to const since at least 2.6.16. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-07-22xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()Jan Beulich
... for single items being collected: It is more typesafe (as the compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to variable match) and requires one less parameter to be passed. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2016-06-09block: add a separate operation type for secure eraseChristoph Hellwig
Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag. Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't claim support for secure erase. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-04-13block: kill off q->flush_flagsJens Axboe
Now that we converted everything to the newer block write cache interface, kill off the queue flush_flags and queueable flush entries. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-03xen/blback: Fit the important information of the thread in 17 charactersKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
The processes names are truncated to 17, while we had the length of the process as name 20 - which meant that while we filled it out with various details - the last 3 characters (which had the queue number) never surfaced to the user-space. To simplify this and be able to fit the device name, domain id, and the queue number we remove the 'blkback' from the name. Prior to this patch the device name is "blkback.<domid>.<name>" for example: blkback.8.xvda, blkback.11.hda. With the multiqueue block backend we add "-%d" for the queue. But sadly this is already way past the limit so it gets stripped. Possible solution had been identified by Ian: http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-05/msg03516.html " If you are pressed for space then the "xvd" is probably a bit redundant in a string which starts blkbk. The guest may not even call the device xvdN (iirc BSD has another prefix) any how, so having blkback say so seems of limited use anyway. Since this seems to not include a partition number how does this work in the split partition scheme? (i.e. one where the guest is given xvda1 and xvda2 rather than xvda with a partition table) [It will be 'blkback.8.xvda1', and 'blkback.11.xvda2'] Perhaps something derived from one of the schemes in http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/vbd-interface.txt might be a better fit? After a bit of discussion (see http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg01588.html) we settled on dropping the "blback" part. This will make it possible to have the <domid>.<name>-<queue>: [1.xvda-0] [1.xvda-1] And we enough space to make it go up to: [32100.xvdfg9-5] Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-03-03xen-blkback: advertise indirect segment support earlierJan Beulich
There's no reason to defer this until the connect phase, and in fact there are frontend implementations expecting this to be available earlier. Move it into the probe function. Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.Bob Liu
This patch fixs two memleaks: backtrace: [<ffffffff817ba5e8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x50 [<ffffffff81205e3b>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xbb/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81534028>] xen_blkbk_probe+0x58/0x230 [<ffffffff8146adb6>] xenbus_dev_probe+0x76/0x130 [<ffffffff81511716>] driver_probe_device+0x166/0x2c0 [<ffffffff815119bc>] __device_attach_driver+0xac/0xb0 [<ffffffff8150fa57>] bus_for_each_drv+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff81511ab7>] __device_attach+0xc7/0x120 [<ffffffff81511b23>] device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff8151059a>] bus_probe_device+0x9a/0xb0 [<ffffffff8150f0a1>] device_add+0x3b1/0x5c0 [<ffffffff8150f47e>] device_register+0x1e/0x30 [<ffffffff8146a9e8>] xenbus_probe_node+0x158/0x170 [<ffffffff8146abaf>] xenbus_dev_changed+0x1af/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8146b1bb>] backend_changed+0x1b/0x20 [<ffffffff81468ca6>] xenwatch_thread+0xb6/0x160 unreferenced object 0xffff880007ba8ef8 (size 224): backtrace: [<ffffffff817ba5e8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x50 [<ffffffff81205c73>] __kmalloc+0xd3/0x1e0 [<ffffffff81534d87>] frontend_changed+0x2c7/0x580 [<ffffffff8146af12>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xa2/0xb0 [<ffffffff8146b2c0>] frontend_changed+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff81468ca6>] xenwatch_thread+0xb6/0x160 [<ffffffff810d3e97>] kthread+0xd7/0xf0 [<ffffffff817c4a9f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff unreferenced object 0xffff8800048dcd38 (size 224): The first leak is caused by not put() the be->blkif reference which we had gotten in xen_blkif_alloc(), while the second is us not freeing blkif->rings in the right place. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reported-and-Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ringBob Liu
Make st_* statistics per ring and the VBD sysfs would iterate over all the rings. Note: xenvbd_sysfs_delif() is called in xen_blkbk_remove() before all rings are torn down, so it's safe. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- v2: Aligned the variables on the same column.
2016-01-04xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
With the multi-queue support we could fail at setting up some of the rings and fail the connection. That meant that all resources tied to rings[0..n-1] (where n is the ring that failed to be setup). Eventually the frontend will switch to the states and we will call xen_blkif_disconnect. However we do not want to be at the mercy of the frontend deciding when to change states. This allows us to do the cleanup right away and freeing resources. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Lets return sensible values instead of -1. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queueBob Liu
Make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue/ring instead of per-device to get better scalability. Test was done based on null_blk driver: dom0: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB "modprobe null_blk" domu: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB [test] rw=read direct=1 ioengine=libaio bs=4k time_based runtime=30 filename=/dev/xvdb numjobs=16 iodepth=64 iodepth_batch=64 iodepth_batch_complete=64 group_reporting Results: iops1: After patch "xen/blkfront: make persistent grants per-queue". iops2: After this patch. Queues: 1 4 8 16 Iops orig(k): 810 1064 780 700 Iops1(k): 810 1230(~20%) 1024(~20%) 850(~20%) Iops2(k): 810 1410(~35%) 1354(~75%) 1440(~100%) With 4 queues after this commit we can get ~75% increase in IOPS, and performance won't drop if increasing queue numbers. Please find the respective chart in this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/agrcy2pbzbsvmwv/iops.png?dl=0 Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfrontBob Liu
Backend advertises "multi-queue-max-queues" to front, also get the negotiated number from "multi-queue-num-queues" written by blkfront. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-01-04xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/ringsKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Preparatory patch for multiple hardware queues (rings). The number of rings is unconditionally set to 1, larger number will be enabled in "xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront". Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- v2: Align variables in the structures.
2016-01-04xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkifBob Liu
Split per ring information to an new structure "xen_blkif_ring", so that one vbd device can be associated with one or more rings/hardware queues. Introduce 'pers_gnts_lock' to protect the pool of persistent grants since we may have multi backend threads. This patch is a preparation for supporting multi hardware queues/rings. Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- v2: Align the variables in the structure.
2015-10-23xen/xenbus: Rename *RING_PAGE* to *RING_GRANT*Julien Grall
Linux may use a different page size than the size of grant. So make clear that the order is actually in number of grant. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-10-23block/xen-blkback: Make it running on 64KB page granularityJulien Grall
The PV block protocol is using 4KB page granularity. The goal of this patch is to allow a Linux using 64KB page granularity behaving as a block backend on a non-modified Xen. It's only necessary to adapt the ring size and the number of request per indirect frames. The rest of the code is relying on the grant table code. Note that the grant table code is allocating a Linux page per grant which will result to waste 6OKB for every grant when Linux is using 64KB page granularity. This could be improved by sharing the page between multiple grants. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Acked-by: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-09-23xen/blkback: free requests on disconnectionRoger Pau Monne
This is due to commit 86839c56dee28c315a4c19b7bfee450ccd84cd25 "xen/block: add multi-page ring support" When using an guest under UEFI - after the domain is destroyed the following warning comes from blkback. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 95 at /home/julien/works/linux/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:274 xen_blkif_deferred_free+0x1f4/0x1f8() Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 95 Comm: kworker/2:1 Tainted: G W 4.2.0 #85 Hardware name: APM X-Gene Mustang board (DT) Workqueue: events xen_blkif_deferred_free Call trace: [<ffff8000000890a8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x124 [<ffff8000000891dc>] show_stack+0x10/0x1c [<ffff8000007653bc>] dump_stack+0x78/0x98 [<ffff800000097e88>] warn_slowpath_common+0x9c/0xd4 [<ffff800000097f80>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x20 [<ffff800000557a0c>] xen_blkif_deferred_free+0x1f0/0x1f8 [<ffff8000000ad020>] process_one_work+0x160/0x3b4 [<ffff8000000ad3b4>] worker_thread+0x140/0x494 [<ffff8000000b2e34>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0 ---[ end trace 6f859b7883c88cdd ]--- Request allocation has been moved to connect_ring, which is called every time blkback connects to the frontend (this can happen multiple times during a blkback instance life cycle). On the other hand, request freeing has not been moved, so it's only called when destroying the backend instance. Due to this mismatch, blkback can allocate the request pool multiple times, without freeing it. In order to fix it, move the freeing of requests to xen_blkif_disconnect to restore the symmetry between request allocation and freeing. Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2 Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2015-06-06xen/block: add multi-page ring supportBob Liu
Extend xen/block to support multi-page ring, so that more requests can be issued by using more than one pages as the request ring between blkfront and backend. As a result, the performance can get improved significantly. We got some impressive improvements on our highend iscsi storage cluster backend. If using 64 pages as the ring, the IOPS increased about 15 times for the throughput testing and above doubled for the latency testing. The reason was the limit on outstanding requests is 32 if use only one-page ring, but in our case the iscsi lun was spread across about 100 physical drives, 32 was really not enough to keep them busy. Changes in v2: - Rebased to 4.0-rc6. - Document on how multi-page ring feature working to linux io/blkif.h. Changes in v3: - Remove changes to linux io/blkif.h and follow the protocol defined in io/blkif.h of XEN tree. - Rebased to 4.1-rc3 Changes in v4: - Turn to use 'ring-page-order' and 'max-ring-page-order'. - A few comments from Roger. Changes in v5: - Clarify with 4k granularity to comment - Address more comments from Roger Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2015-06-06drivers: xen-blkback: delay pending_req allocation to connect_ringBob Liu
This is a pre-patch for multi-page ring feature. In connect_ring, we can know exactly how many pages are used for the shared ring, delay pending_req allocation here so that we won't waste too much memory. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2015-04-17Merge branch 'for-4.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the block driver pull request for 4.1. As with the core bits, this is a relatively slow round. This pull request contains: - Various fixes and cleanups for NVMe, from Alexey Khoroshilov, Chong Yuan, myself, Keith Busch, and Murali Iyer. - Documentation and code cleanups for nbd from Markus Pargmann. - Change of brd maintainer to me, from Ross Zwisler. At least the email doesn't bounce anymore then. - Two xen-blkback fixes from Tao Chen" * 'for-4.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits) NVMe: Meta data handling through submit io ioctl NVMe: Add translation for block limits NVMe: Remove check for null NVMe: Fix error handling of class_create("nvme") xen-blkback: define pr_fmt macro to avoid the duplication of DRV_PFX xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name nbd: Return error pointer directly nbd: Return error code directly nbd: Remove fixme that was already fixed nbd: Restructure debugging prints nbd: Fix device bytesize type nbd: Replace kthread_create with kthread_run nbd: Remove kernel internal header Documentation: nbd: Add list of module parameters Documentation: nbd: Reformat to allow more documentation NVMe: increase depth of admin queue nvme: Fix PRP list calculation for non-4k system page size NVMe: Fix blk-mq hot cpu notification NVMe: embedded iod mask cleanup NVMe: Freeze admin queue on device failure ...
2015-04-15xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ringWei Liu
Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and backend. The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also included. Affected Xen drivers: * blkfront/back * netfront/back * pcifront/back * scsifront/back * vtpmfront The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2015-04-07xen-blkback: define pr_fmt macro to avoid the duplication of DRV_PFXTao Chen
Define pr_fmt macro with {xen-blkback: } prefix, then remove all use of DRV_PFX in the pr sentences. Replace all DPRINTK with pr sentences, and get rid of DPRINTK macro. It will simplify the code. And if the pr sentences miss a \n, add it in the end. If the DPRINTK sentences have redundant \n, remove it. It will format the code. These all make the readability of the code become better. Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
2015-04-07xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback nameTao Chen
The blkback name is like blkback.domid.xvd[a-z], if domid has four digits (means larger than 1000), then the backmost xvd wouldn't be fully shown. Define a BLKBACK_NAME_LEN macro to be 20, enlarge the array size of blkback name, so it will be fully shown in any case. Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
2015-02-10xen-blkback: default to X86_32 ABI on x86David Vrabel
Prior to the existance of 64-bit backends using the X86_64 ABI, frontends used the X86_32 ABI. These old frontends do not specify the ABI and when used with a 64-bit backend do not work. On x86, default to the X86_32 ABI if one is not specified. Backends on ARM continue to default to their NATIVE ABI. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
2014-10-18Merge branch 'for-3.18/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block layer driver update from Jens Axboe: "This is the block driver pull request for 3.18. Not a lot in there this round, and nothing earth shattering. - A round of drbd fixes from the linbit team, and an improvement in asender performance. - Removal of deprecated (and unused) IRQF_DISABLED flag in rsxx and hd from Michael Opdenacker. - Disable entropy collection from flash devices by default, from Mike Snitzer. - A small collection of xen blkfront/back fixes from Roger Pau Monné and Vitaly Kuznetsov" * 'for-3.18/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request() xen-blkback: fix leak on grant map error path xen/blkback: unmap all persistent grants when frontend gets disconnected rsxx: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED block: hd: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED drbd: use RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS() to define augment callbacks drbd: compute the end before rb_insert_augmented() drbd: Add missing newline in resync progress display in /proc/drbd drbd: reduce lock contention in drbd_worker drbd: Improve asender performance drbd: Get rid of the WORK_PENDING macro drbd: Get rid of the __no_warn and __cond_lock macros drbd: Avoid inconsistent locking warning drbd: Remove superfluous newline from "resync_extents" debugfs entry. drbd: Use consistent names for all the bi_end_io callbacks drbd: Use better variable names
2014-10-06xen: remove DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macroDavid Vrabel
The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse errors. Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead. This is similar to pci and usb device registration. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
2014-10-01xen/blkback: unmap all persistent grants when frontend gets disconnectedVitaly Kuznetsov
blkback does not unmap persistent grants when frontend goes to Closed state (e.g. when blkfront module is being removed). This leads to the following in guest's dmesg: [ 343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x445 still in use! [ 343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x42a still in use! ... When load module -> use device -> unload module sequence is performed multiple times it is possible to hit BUG() condition in blkfront module: [ 343.243825] kernel BUG at drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:954! [ 343.243825] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 343.243825] Modules linked in: xen_blkfront(-) ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: xen_blkfront] ... [ 343.243825] Call Trace: [ 343.243825] [<ffffffff814111ef>] ? unregister_xenbus_watch+0x16f/0x1e0 [ 343.243825] [<ffffffffa0016fbf>] blkfront_remove+0x3f/0x140 [xen_blkfront] ... [ 343.243825] RIP [<ffffffffa0016aae>] blkif_free+0x34e/0x360 [xen_blkfront] [ 343.243825] RSP <ffff88001eb8fdc0> We don't need to keep these grants if we're disconnecting as frontend might already forgot about them. Solve the issue by moving xen_blkbk_free_caches() call from xen_blkif_free() to xen_blkif_disconnect(). Now we can see the following: [ 928.590893] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x587 still in use! [ 928.591861] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x372 still in use! ... [ 929.592146] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x587 [ 929.597174] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x372 ... Backend does not keep persistent grants any more, reconnect works fine. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-05-28xen-blkback: defer freeing blkif to avoid blocking xenwatchValentin Priescu
Currently xenwatch blocks in VBD disconnect, waiting for all pending I/O requests to finish. If the VBD is attached to a hot-swappable disk, then xenwatch can hang for a long period of time, stalling other watches. INFO: task xenwatch:39 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ffff880057f01bd0 0000000000000246 ffff880057f01ac0 ffffffff810b0782 ffff880057f01ad0 00000000000131c0 0000000000000004 ffff880057edb040 ffff8800344c6080 0000000000000000 ffff880058c00ba0 ffff880057edb040 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810b0782>] ? irq_to_desc+0x12/0x20 [<ffffffff8128f761>] ? list_del+0x11/0x40 [<ffffffff8147a080>] ? wait_for_common+0x60/0x160 [<ffffffff8147bcef>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50 [<ffffffff8147bd49>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x20 [<ffffffff8147a26a>] schedule+0x3a/0x60 [<ffffffffa018fe6a>] xen_blkif_disconnect+0x8a/0x100 [xen_blkback] [<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 [<ffffffffa018ffce>] xen_blkbk_remove+0xae/0x1e0 [xen_blkback] [<ffffffff8130b254>] xenbus_dev_remove+0x44/0x90 [<ffffffff81345cb7>] __device_release_driver+0x77/0xd0 [<ffffffff81346488>] device_release_driver+0x28/0x40 [<ffffffff813456e8>] bus_remove_device+0x78/0xe0 [<ffffffff81342c9f>] device_del+0x12f/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81342d2d>] device_unregister+0x1d/0x60 [<ffffffffa0190826>] frontend_changed+0xa6/0x4d0 [xen_blkback] [<ffffffffa019c252>] ? frontend_changed+0x192/0x650 [xen_netback] [<ffffffff8130ae50>] ? cmp_dev+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff81344fe4>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x94/0xa0 [<ffffffff8130b06e>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xbe/0x120 [<ffffffff8130b4cb>] frontend_changed+0xb/0x10 [<ffffffff81309c82>] xenwatch_thread+0xf2/0x130 [<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40 [<ffffffff81309b90>] ? xenbus_directory+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff810799d6>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 [<ffffffff81485934>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff814839f3>] ? int_ret_from_sys_call+0x7/0x1b [<ffffffff8147c17c>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6 [<ffffffff81485930>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 With this patch, when there is still pending I/O, the actual disconnect is done by the last reference holder (last pending I/O request). In this case, xenwatch doesn't block indefinitely. Signed-off-by: Valentin Priescu <priescuv@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Kady <stevkady@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Noonan <snoonan@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-05-28xen/blkback: disable discard feature if requested by toolstackOlaf Hering
Newer toolstacks may provide a boolean property "discard-enable" in the backend node. Its purpose is to disable discard for file backed storage to avoid fragmentation. Recognize this setting also for physical storage. If that property exists and is false, do not advertise "feature-discard" to the frontend. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-02-12xen-blkback: init persistent_purge_work work_structRoger Pau Monne
Initialize persistent_purge_work work_struct on xen_blkif_alloc (and remove the previous initialization done in purge_persistent_gnt). This prevents flush_work from complaining even if purge_persistent_gnt has not been used. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-02-07xen-blkback: fix shutdown raceRoger Pau Monne
Introduce a new variable to keep track of the number of in-flight requests. We need to make sure that when xen_blkif_put is called the request has already been freed and we can safely free xen_blkif, which was not the case before. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-02-07xen-blkback: fix memory leaksRoger Pau Monne
I've at least identified two possible memory leaks in blkback, both related to the shutdown path of a VBD: - blkback doesn't wait for any pending purge work to finish before cleaning the list of free_pages. The purge work will call put_free_pages and thus we might end up with pages being added to the free_pages list after we have emptied it. Fix this by making sure there's no pending purge work before exiting xen_blkif_schedule, and moving the free_page cleanup code to xen_blkif_free. - blkback doesn't wait for pending requests to end before cleaning persistent grants and the list of free_pages. Again this can add pages to the free_pages list or persistent grants to the persistent_gnts red-black tree. Fixed by moving the persistent grants and free_pages cleanup code to xen_blkif_free. Also, add some checks in xen_blkif_free to make sure we are cleaning everything. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-09-11block: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han
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>
2013-07-23Merge branch 'for-3.11/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2013-07-03drivers: avoid parsing names as kthread_run() format stringsKees Cook
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>
2013-06-17xen/blkback: Check for insane amounts of request on the ring (v6).Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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
2013-06-07xen/blkback: Use physical sector size for setupStefan Bader
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>
2013-05-07xen-blkback: allocate list of pending reqs in small chunksRoger Pau Monne
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>
2013-04-18xen-block: implement indirect descriptorsRoger Pau Monne
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>
2013-04-18xen-blkback: make the queue of free requests per backendRoger Pau Monne
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>
2013-04-18xen-blkback: implement LRU mechanism for persistent grantsRoger Pau Monne
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>
2013-04-18xen-blkback: use balloon pages for all mappingsRoger Pau Monne
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>
2013-03-11xen/blkback: Change statistics counter types to unsignedZoltan Kiss
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>
2013-02-19xen-blkback: do not leak mode propertyJan Beulich
"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>
2012-12-17Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
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 ...