linux-stable.git/block/blk-lib.c, branch linux-4.3.y

block: re-add discard_granularity and alignment checks

2015-10-28T00:12:58+00:00

In commit b49a087("block: remove split code in
blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}"), discard_granularity and alignment
checks were removed. Ideally, with bio late splitting, the upper layers
shouldn't need to depend on device's limits.

Christoph reported a discard regression on the HGST Ultrastar SN100 NVMe
device when mkfs.xfs. We have not found the root cause yet.

This patch re-adds discard_granularity and alignment checks by reverting
the related changes in commit b49a087. The good thing is now we can
remove the 2G discard size cap and just use UINT_MAX to avoid bi_size
overflow.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}

2015-08-13T18:31:47+00:00

The split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same} can go away
now that any driver that cares does the split. We have to make
sure bio size doesn't overflow.

For discard, we set max discard sectors to (1<<31)>>9 to ensure
it doesn't overflow bi_size and hopefully it is of the proper
granularity as long as the granularity is a power of two.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper

2015-02-05T17:14:54+00:00

blkdev_issue_zeroout() printed a warning if a device failed a discard or
write same request despite advertising support for these. That's fine
for SCSI since we'll disable these commands if we get an error back from
the disk saying that they are not supported. And consequently the
warning only gets printed once.

There are other types of block devices that support discard, however,
and these may return -EOPNOTSUPP for each command but leave discard
enabled in the queue limits. This will cause a warning message for every
blkdev_issue_zeroout() invocation.

Remove the offending warning messages.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add discard flag to blkdev_issue_zeroout() function

2015-01-21T17:41:46+00:00

blkdev_issue_discard() will zero a given block range. This is done by
way of explicit writing, thus provisioning or allocating the blocks on
disk.

There are use cases where the desired behavior is to zero the blocks but
unprovision them if possible. The blocks must deterministically contain
zeroes when they are subsequently read back.

This patch adds a flag to blkdev_issue_zeroout() that provides this
variant. If the discard flag is set and a block device guarantees
discard_zeroes_data we will use REQ_DISCARD to clear the block range. If
the device does not support discard_zeroes_data or if the discard
request fails we will fall back to first REQ_WRITE_SAME and then a
regular REQ_WRITE.

Also update the callers of blkdev_issue_zero() to reflect the new flag
and make sb_issue_zeroout() prefer the discard approach.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block/blk-lib.c: make __blkdev_issue_zeroout static

2014-05-26T23:39:09+00:00

__blkdev_issue_zeroout is only used in blk-lib.c

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add cond_resched() to potentially long running ioctl discard loop

2014-02-12T16:36:37+00:00

When mkfs issues a full device discard and the device only
supports discards of a smallish size, we can loop in
blkdev_issue_discard() for a long time. If preempt isn't enabled,
this can turn into a softlock situation and the kernel will
start complaining.

Add an explicit cond_resched() at the end of the loop to avoid
that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Benny Halevy 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Joern Engel 
Cc: Prasad Joshi 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Ben Myers 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Guo Chao 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Stefano Stabellini 
Cc: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Peng Tao 
Cc: Andy Adamson 
Cc: fanchaoting 
Cc: Jie Liu 
Cc: Sunil Mushran 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: Namjae Jeon 
Cc: Pankaj Kumar 
Cc: Dan Magenheimer 
Cc: Mel Gorman 6

block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor

2013-11-08T16:04:46+00:00

do_div() (called by sector_div() if CONFIG_LBDAF=y) is meant for divisions
of 64-bit number by 32-bit numbers.  Passing 64-bit divisor types caused
issues in the past on 32-bit platforms, cfr. commit
ea077b1b96e073eac5c3c5590529e964767fc5f7 ("m68k: Truncate base in
do_div()").

As queue_limits.max_discard_sectors and .discard_granularity are unsigned
int, max_discard_sectors and granularity should be unsigned int.
As bdev_discard_alignment() returns int, alignment should be int.
Now 2 calls to sector_div() can be replaced by 32-bit arithmetic:
  - The 64-bit modulo operation can become a 32-bit modulo operation,
  - The 64-bit division and multiplication can be replaced by a 32-bit
    modulo operation and a subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request

2013-02-15T15:45:07+00:00

Using wait_for_completion() for waiting for a IO request to be executed
results in wrong iowait time accounting. For example, a system having
the only task doing write() and fdatasync() on a block device can be
reported being idle instead of iowaiting as it should because
blkdev_issue_flush() calls wait_for_completion() which in turn calls
schedule() that does not increment the iowait proc counter and thus does
not turn on iowait time accounting.

The patch makes block layer use wait_for_completion_io() instead of
wait_for_completion() where appropriate to account iowait time
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe