linux-stable.git/block/blk-sysfs.c, branch linux-4.4.y

Merge branch 'mkp-fixes' into fixes

2015-12-03T17:32:33+00:00

block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits

2015-11-26T02:38:58+00:00

Commit 4f258a46346c ("sd: Fix maximum I/O size for BLOCK_PC requests")
had the unfortunate side-effect of removing an implicit clamp to
BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS for REQ_TYPE_FS requests in the block layer
code. This caused problems for some SMR drives.

Debugging this issue revealed a few problems with the existing
infrastructure since the block layer didn't know how to deal with
device-imposed limits, only limits set by the I/O controller.

 - Introduce a new queue limit, max_dev_sectors, which is used by the
   ULD to signal the maximum sectors for a REQ_TYPE_FS request.

 - Ensure that max_dev_sectors is correctly stacked and taken into
   account when overriding max_sectors through sysfs.

 - Rework sd_read_block_limits() so it saves the max_xfer and opt_xfer
   values for later processing.

 - In sd_revalidate() set the queue's max_dev_sectors based on the
   MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH value in the Block Limits VPD. If this value
   is not reported, fall back to a cap based on the CDB TRANSFER LENGTH
   field size.

 - In sd_revalidate(), use OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH from the Block Limits
   VPD--if reported and sane--to signal the preferred device transfer
   size for FS requests. Otherwise use BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS.

 - blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() is no longer used and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93581
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: sweeneygj@gmx.com
Tested-by: Arzeets 
Tested-by: David Eisner 
Tested-by: Mario Kicherer 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

block: add block polling support

2015-11-07T17:40:47+00:00

Add basic support for polling for specific IO to complete. This uses
the cookie that blk-mq passes back, which enables the block layer
to pass this cookie to the driver to spin for a specific request.

This will be combined with request latency tracking, so we can make
qualified decisions about when to poll and when not to. For now, for
benchmark purposes, we add a sysfs file that controls whether polling
is enabled or not.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Keith Busch

Merge branch 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-11-05T04:51:48+00:00

Pull block integrity updates from Jens Axboe:
 ""This is the joint work of Dan and Martin, cleaning up and improving
  the support for block data integrity"

* 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile
  block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based drivers
  block: move blk_integrity to request_queue
  block: generic request_queue reference counting
  nvme: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md, dm, scsi, nvme, libnvdimm: drop blk_integrity_unregister() at shutdown
  block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk
  block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs
  block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity
  block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties
  block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk

block: generic request_queue reference counting

2015-10-21T20:43:41+00:00

Allow pmem, and other synchronous/bio-based block drivers, to fallback
on a per-cpu reference count managed by the core for tracking queue
live/dead state.

The existing per-cpu reference count for the blk_mq case is promoted to
be used in all block i/o scenarios.  This involves initializing it by
default, waiting for it to drop to zero at exit, and holding a live
reference over the invocation of q->make_request_fn() in
generic_make_request().  The blk_mq code continues to take its own
reference per blk_mq request and retains the ability to freeze the
queue, but the check that the queue is frozen is moved to
generic_make_request().

This fixes crash signatures like the following:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880140000000
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [] ? copy_user_handle_tail+0x5f/0x70
  [] pmem_do_bvec.isra.11+0x70/0xf0 [nd_pmem]
  [] pmem_make_request+0xd1/0x200 [nd_pmem]
  [] ? mempool_alloc+0x72/0x1a0
  [] generic_make_request+0xd6/0x110
  [] submit_bio+0x76/0x170
  [] submit_bh_wbc+0x12f/0x160
  [] submit_bh+0x12/0x20
  [] jbd2_write_superblock+0x8d/0x170
  [] jbd2_mark_journal_empty+0x5d/0x90
  [] jbd2_journal_destroy+0x24b/0x270
  [] ? put_pwq_unlocked+0x2a/0x30
  [] ? destroy_workqueue+0x225/0x250
  [] ext4_put_super+0x64/0x360
  [] generic_shutdown_super+0x6a/0xf0

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't release bdi while request_queue has live references

2015-10-15T15:53:28+00:00

bdi's are initialized in two steps, bdi_init() and bdi_register(), but
destroyed in a single step by bdi_destroy() which, for a bdi embedded
in a request_queue, is called during blk_cleanup_queue() which makes
the queue invisible and starts the draining of remaining usages.

A request_queue's user can access the congestion state of the embedded
bdi as long as it holds a reference to the queue.  As such, it may
access the congested state of a queue which finished
blk_cleanup_queue() but hasn't reached blk_release_queue() yet.
Because the congested state was embedded in backing_dev_info which in
turn is embedded in request_queue, accessing the congested state after
bdi_destroy() was called was fine.  The bdi was destroyed but the
memory region for the congested state remained accessible till the
queue got released.

a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in
bdi_writeback") changed the situation.  Now, the root congested state
which is expected to be pinned while request_queue remains accessible
is separately reference counted and the base ref is put during
bdi_destroy().  This means that the root congested state may go away
prematurely while the queue is between bdi_dstroy() and
blk_cleanup_queue(), which was detected by Andrey's KASAN tests.

The root cause of this problem is that bdi doesn't distinguish the two
steps of destruction, unregistration and release, and now the root
congested state actually requires a separate release step.  To fix the
issue, this patch separates out bdi_unregister() and bdi_exit() from
bdi_destroy().  bdi_unregister() is called from blk_cleanup_queue()
and bdi_exit() from blk_release_queue().  bdi_destroy() is now just a
simple wrapper calling the two steps back-to-back.

While at it, the prototype of bdi_destroy() is moved right below
bdi_setup_and_register() so that the counterpart operations are
located together.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Fixes: a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrey Konovalov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAAeHK+zUJ74Zn17=rOyxacHU18SgCfC6bsYW=6kCY5GXJBwGfQ@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

2015-08-13T18:31:33+00:00

The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page())
checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create
bios that don't need to be split.

But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with
stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of
complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could
eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked
drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are
convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with
both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the
(potentially multiple) devices underneath them.  In the future this will
let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code.

We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various
make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary
size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to
blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and
blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing
affecting segment merging.

Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify
they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are:

 * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c)
 * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c)
 * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c)
 * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c)
 * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c)
 * loop_make_request
 * null_queue_bio
 * bcache's make_request fns

Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left
for future patches.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Ming Lei 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Jim Paris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Oleg Drokin 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Acked-by: NeilBrown  (for the 'md/md.c' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: make /sys/block//queue/discard_max_bytes writeable

2015-07-17T14:41:53+00:00

Lots of devices support huge discard sizes these days. Depending
on how the device handles them internally, huge discards can
introduce massive latencies (hundreds of msec) on the device side.

We have a sysfs file, discard_max_bytes, that advertises the max
hardware supported discard size. Make this writeable, and split
the settings into a soft and hard limit. This can be set from
'discard_granularity' and up to the hardware limit.

Add a new sysfs file, 'discard_max_hw_bytes', that shows the hw
set limit.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-06-25T23:00:17+00:00

Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe