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<title>linux-stable.git/block/elevator.c, branch v4.12.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>elevator: remove redundant warnings on IO scheduler switch</title>
<updated>2017-05-10T13:40:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-10T13:40:04+00:00</published>
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We warn twice for switching to a scheduler, if that switch fails.
As we also report the failure in the return value to the
sysfs write, remove the dmesg induced failures.

Keep the failure print for warning to switch to the kconfig
selected IO scheduler, as we can't report errors for that in
any other way.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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We warn twice for switching to a scheduler, if that switch fails.
As we also report the failure in the return value to the
sysfs write, remove the dmesg induced failures.

Keep the failure print for warning to switch to the kconfig
selected IO scheduler, as we can't report errors for that in
any other way.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: don't call blk_mq_quiesce_queue() after queue is frozen</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T17:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T23:28:02+00:00</published>
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After queue is frozen, no request in this queue can be in use at all, so
there can't be any .queue_rq() running on this queue.  It isn't
necessary to call blk_mq_quiesce_queue() any more, so remove it in both
elevator_switch_mq() and blk_mq_update_nr_requests().

Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;

Fixed up the description a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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After queue is frozen, no request in this queue can be in use at all, so
there can't be any .queue_rq() running on this queue.  It isn't
necessary to call blk_mq_quiesce_queue() any more, so remove it in both
elevator_switch_mq() and blk_mq_update_nr_requests().

Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;

Fixed up the description a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Remove elevator_change()</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T13:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T15:58:49+00:00</published>
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Since commit 84253394927c ("remove the mg_disk driver") removed the
only caller of elevator_change(), also remove the elevator_change()
function itself.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf &lt;markus@trippelsdorf.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Since commit 84253394927c ("remove the mg_disk driver") removed the
only caller of elevator_change(), also remove the elevator_change()
function itself.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf &lt;markus@trippelsdorf.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-05-01T17:39:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T17:39:57+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ
   was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement
   fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant
   to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness.
   From Paolo.

 - Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler,
   using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on
   live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar.

 - A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing
   devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life
   times, solving various problems with hot removal.

 - A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a
   'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block
   device.

 - A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef.

 - A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly
   legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a
   queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for
   more than a decade.

 - Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user
   windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to
   register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar.

 - blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable
   framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for
   blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is
   marked experimental for now.

 - Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves
   efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size
   IO.

 - A few fixes for opal, from Scott.

 - A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics.
   From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart.

 - A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from
   the blk-mq debugfs support.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how
   we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also
   shrinks the size of struct request a bit.

 - Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was
   never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness.

 - Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks.

* 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits)
  block: hide badblocks attribute by default
  blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work
  block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()
  blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work
  nbd: fix use after free on module unload
  MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler
  blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool
  mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header
  scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names
  blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character
  blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down
  blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier
  blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded
  blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory
  blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name
  blk-mq: Register &lt;dev&gt;/queue/mq after having registered &lt;dev&gt;/queue
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all
  ..
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ
   was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement
   fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant
   to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness.
   From Paolo.

 - Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler,
   using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on
   live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar.

 - A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing
   devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life
   times, solving various problems with hot removal.

 - A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a
   'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block
   device.

 - A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef.

 - A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly
   legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a
   queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for
   more than a decade.

 - Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user
   windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to
   register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar.

 - blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable
   framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for
   blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is
   marked experimental for now.

 - Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves
   efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size
   IO.

 - A few fixes for opal, from Scott.

 - A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics.
   From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart.

 - A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from
   the blk-mq debugfs support.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how
   we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also
   shrinks the size of struct request a bit.

 - Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was
   never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness.

 - Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks.

* 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits)
  block: hide badblocks attribute by default
  blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work
  block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()
  blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work
  nbd: fix use after free on module unload
  MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler
  blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool
  mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header
  scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names
  blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character
  blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down
  blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier
  blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded
  blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory
  blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name
  blk-mq: Register &lt;dev&gt;/queue/mq after having registered &lt;dev&gt;/queue
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all
  ..
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: respect BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T20:15:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-15T12:38:22+00:00</published>
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If one driver claims that it doesn't support io scheduler via
BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED, we should not allow to change and show the
availabe io schedulers.

This patch adds check to enhance this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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If one driver claims that it doesn't support io scheduler via
BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED, we should not allow to change and show the
availabe io schedulers.

This patch adds check to enhance this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Make writeback throttling defaults consistent for SQ devices</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T14:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T09:33:27+00:00</published>
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When CFQ is used as an elevator, it disables writeback throttling
because they don't play well together. Later when a different elevator
is chosen for the device, writeback throttling doesn't get enabled
again as it should. Make sure CFQ enables writeback throttling (if it
should be enabled by default) when we switch from it to another IO
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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When CFQ is used as an elevator, it disables writeback throttling
because they don't play well together. Later when a different elevator
is chosen for the device, writeback throttling doesn't get enabled
again as it should. Make sure CFQ enables writeback throttling (if it
should be enabled by default) when we switch from it to another IO
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq-sched: fix crash in switch error path</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T14:56:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T14:52:27+00:00</published>
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In elevator_switch(), if blk_mq_init_sched() fails, we attempt to fall
back to the original scheduler. However, at this point, we've already
torn down the original scheduler's tags, so this causes a crash. Doing
the fallback like the legacy elevator path is much harder for mq, so fix
it by just falling back to none, instead.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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In elevator_switch(), if blk_mq_init_sched() fails, we attempt to fall
back to the original scheduler. However, at this point, we've already
torn down the original scheduler's tags, so this causes a crash. Doing
the fallback like the legacy elevator path is much harder for mq, so fix
it by just falling back to none, instead.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq-sched: refactor scheduler initialization</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T14:56:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-05T19:01:30+00:00</published>
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Preparation cleanup for the next couple of fixes, push
blk_mq_sched_setup() and e-&gt;ops.mq.init_sched() into a helper.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Preparation cleanup for the next couple of fixes, push
blk_mq_sched_setup() and e-&gt;ops.mq.init_sched() into a helper.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: don't call ioc_exit_icq() with the queue lock held for blk-mq</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T20:59:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T20:59:08+00:00</published>
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For legacy scheduling, we always call ioc_exit_icq() with both the
ioc and queue lock held. This poses a problem for blk-mq with
scheduling, since the queue lock isn't what we use in the scheduler.
And since we don't need the queue lock held for ioc exit there,
don't grab it and leave any extra locking up to the blk-mq scheduler.

Reported-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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For legacy scheduling, we always call ioc_exit_icq() with both the
ioc and queue lock held. This poses a problem for blk-mq with
scheduling, since the queue lock isn't what we use in the scheduler.
And since we don't need the queue lock held for ioc exit there,
don't grab it and leave any extra locking up to the blk-mq scheduler.

Reported-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: get rid of blk-mq default scheduler choice Kconfig entries</title>
<updated>2017-02-22T20:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T20:19:45+00:00</published>
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The wording in the entries were poor and not understandable
by even deities. Kill the selection for default block scheduler,
and impose a policy with sane defaults.

Architected-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The wording in the entries were poor and not understandable
by even deities. Kill the selection for default block scheduler,
and impose a policy with sane defaults.

Architected-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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