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<title>loop: Fix the max_loop commandline argument treatment when it is set to 0</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:14:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Isaac J. Manjarres</name>
<email>isaacmanjarres@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-08T21:29:01+00:00</published>
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commit 85c50197716c60fe57f411339c579462e563ac57 upstream.

Currently, the max_loop commandline argument can be used to specify how
many loop block devices are created at init time. If it is not
specified on the commandline, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT loop block
devices will be created.

The max_loop commandline argument can be used to override the value of
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. However, when max_loop is set to 0
through the commandline, the current logic treats it as if it had not
been set, and creates CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT devices anyway.

Fix this by starting max_loop off as set to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT.
This preserves the intended behavior of creating
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT loop block devices if the max_loop
commandline parameter is not specified, and allowing max_loop to
be respected for all values, including 0.

This allows environments that can create all of their required loop
block devices on demand to not have to unnecessarily preallocate loop
block devices.

Fixes: 732850827450 ("remove artificial software max_loop limit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221208212902.765781-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 85c50197716c60fe57f411339c579462e563ac57 upstream.

Currently, the max_loop commandline argument can be used to specify how
many loop block devices are created at init time. If it is not
specified on the commandline, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT loop block
devices will be created.

The max_loop commandline argument can be used to override the value of
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT. However, when max_loop is set to 0
through the commandline, the current logic treats it as if it had not
been set, and creates CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT devices anyway.

Fix this by starting max_loop off as set to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT.
This preserves the intended behavior of creating
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT loop block devices if the max_loop
commandline parameter is not specified, and allowing max_loop to
be respected for all values, including 0.

This allows environments that can create all of their required loop
block devices on demand to not have to unnecessarily preallocate loop
block devices.

Fixes: 732850827450 ("remove artificial software max_loop limit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres &lt;isaacmanjarres@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221208212902.765781-1-isaacmanjarres@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop</title>
<updated>2022-08-31T15:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Siddh Raman Pant</name>
<email>code@siddh.me</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-23T16:08:10+00:00</published>
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commit c490a0b5a4f36da3918181a8acdc6991d967c5f3 upstream.

The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein
a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s
case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call
loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info()
(see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &amp;config-&gt;info which is of type
loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like
the offset.

loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c),
which is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has
lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h).

The function directly copies offset from info to the device as
follows (See line 980 of loop.c):
	lo-&gt;lo_offset = info-&gt;lo_offset;

This results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter()
due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has:
	WARN_ON_ONCE(iter-&gt;iomap.offset &gt; iter-&gt;pos);

Thus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info().

Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+a8e049cd3abd342936b6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant &lt;code@siddh.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823160810.181275-1-code@siddh.me
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c490a0b5a4f36da3918181a8acdc6991d967c5f3 upstream.

The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein
a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s
case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call
loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info()
(see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &amp;config-&gt;info which is of type
loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like
the offset.

loop_device has lo_offset of type loff_t (see line 52 of loop.c),
which is typdef-chained to long long, whereas loop_info64 has
lo_offset of type __u64 (see line 56 of include/uapi/linux/loop.h).

The function directly copies offset from info to the device as
follows (See line 980 of loop.c):
	lo-&gt;lo_offset = info-&gt;lo_offset;

This results in an overflow, which triggers a warning in iomap_iter()
due to a call to iomap_iter_done() which has:
	WARN_ON_ONCE(iter-&gt;iomap.offset &gt; iter-&gt;pos);

Thus, check for negative value during loop_set_status_from_info().

Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c620fe14aac810396d3c3edc9ad73848bf69a29e

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+a8e049cd3abd342936b6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant &lt;code@siddh.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823160810.181275-1-code@siddh.me
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: use sysfs_emit() in the sysfs xxx show()</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T12:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chaitanya Kulkarni</name>
<email>kch@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T21:33:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b27824d31f09ea7b4a6ba2c1b18bd328df3e8bed ]

sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer length.

Use a generic sysfs_emit function that knows the size of the
temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done for offset
attribute in
loop_attr_[offset|sizelimit|autoclear|partscan|dio]_show() callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani &lt;himanshu.madhani@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215213310.7264-2-kch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b27824d31f09ea7b4a6ba2c1b18bd328df3e8bed ]

sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer length.

Use a generic sysfs_emit function that knows the size of the
temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done for offset
attribute in
loop_attr_[offset|sizelimit|autoclear|partscan|dio]_show() callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani &lt;himanshu.madhani@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215213310.7264-2-kch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: loop:use kstatfs.f_bsize of backing file to set discard granularity</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T18:12:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-26T03:58:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 06582bc86d7f48d35cd044098ca1e246e8c7c52e ]

If backing file's filesystem has implemented -&gt;fallocate(), we think the
loop device can support discard, then pass sb-&gt;s_blocksize as
discard_granularity. However, some underlying FS, such as overlayfs,
doesn't set sb-&gt;s_blocksize, and causes discard_granularity to be set as
zero, then the warning in __blkdev_issue_discard() is triggered.

Christoph suggested to pass kstatfs.f_bsize as discard granularity, and
this way is fine because kstatfs.f_bsize means 'Optimal transfer block
size', which still matches with definition of discard granularity.

So fix the issue by setting discard_granularity as kstatfs.f_bsize if it
is available, otherwise claims discard isn't supported.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pei Zhang &lt;pezhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126035830.296465-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 06582bc86d7f48d35cd044098ca1e246e8c7c52e ]

If backing file's filesystem has implemented -&gt;fallocate(), we think the
loop device can support discard, then pass sb-&gt;s_blocksize as
discard_granularity. However, some underlying FS, such as overlayfs,
doesn't set sb-&gt;s_blocksize, and causes discard_granularity to be set as
zero, then the warning in __blkdev_issue_discard() is triggered.

Christoph suggested to pass kstatfs.f_bsize as discard granularity, and
this way is fine because kstatfs.f_bsize means 'Optimal transfer block
size', which still matches with definition of discard granularity.

So fix the issue by setting discard_granularity as kstatfs.f_bsize if it
is available, otherwise claims discard isn't supported.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pei Zhang &lt;pezhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220126035830.296465-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: Use pr_warn_once() for loop_control_remove() warning</title>
<updated>2021-12-17T09:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T10:00:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e3f9387aea67742b9d1f4de8e5bb2fd08a8a4584 ]

kernel test robot reported that RCU stall via printk() flooding is
possible [1] when stress testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129073709.GA18483@xsang-OptiPlex-9020 [1]
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e3f9387aea67742b9d1f4de8e5bb2fd08a8a4584 ]

kernel test robot reported that RCU stall via printk() flooding is
possible [1] when stress testing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129073709.GA18483@xsang-OptiPlex-9020 [1]
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size</title>
<updated>2021-11-21T12:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xie Yongji</name>
<email>xieyongji@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T14:40:14+00:00</published>
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commit af3c570fb0df422b4906ebd11c1bf363d89961d5 upstream.

Remove loop_validate_block_size() and use the block layer helper
to validate block size.

Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026144015.188-4-xieyongji@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit af3c570fb0df422b4906ebd11c1bf363d89961d5 upstream.

Remove loop_validate_block_size() and use the block layer helper
to validate block size.

Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026144015.188-4-xieyongji@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Tadeusz Struk &lt;tadeusz.struk@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope</title>
<updated>2021-09-04T04:14:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-02T00:07:35+00:00</published>
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syzbot is reporting circular locking problem at __loop_clr_fd() [1], for
commit a160c6159d4a0cf8 ("block: add an optional probe callback to
major_names") is calling the module's probe function with major_names_lock
held.

Fortunately, since commit 990e78116d38059c ("block: loop: fix deadlock
between open and remove") stopped holding loop_ctl_mutex in lo_open(),
current role of loop_ctl_mutex is to serialize access to loop_index_idr
and loop_add()/loop_remove(); in other words, management of id for IDR.
To avoid holding loop_ctl_mutex during whole add/remove operation, use
a bool flag to indicate whether the loop device is ready for use.

loop_unregister_transfer() which is called from cleanup_cryptoloop()
currently has possibility of use-after-free problem due to lack of
serialization between kfree() from loop_remove() from loop_control_remove()
and mutex_lock() from unregister_transfer_cb(). But since lo-&gt;lo_encryption
should be already NULL when this function is called due to module unload,
and commit 222013f9ac30b9ce ("cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning")
indicates that we will remove this function shortly, this patch updates
this function to emit warning instead of checking lo-&gt;lo_encryption.

Holding loop_ctl_mutex in loop_exit() is pointless, for all users must
close /dev/loop-control and /dev/loop$num (in order to drop module's
refcount to 0) before loop_exit() starts, and nobody can open
/dev/loop-control or /dev/loop$num afterwards.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7bb10e8b62f83e4d445cdf4c13d69e407e629558 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+f61766d5763f9e7a118f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adb1e792-fc0e-ee81-7ea0-0906fc36419d@i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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syzbot is reporting circular locking problem at __loop_clr_fd() [1], for
commit a160c6159d4a0cf8 ("block: add an optional probe callback to
major_names") is calling the module's probe function with major_names_lock
held.

Fortunately, since commit 990e78116d38059c ("block: loop: fix deadlock
between open and remove") stopped holding loop_ctl_mutex in lo_open(),
current role of loop_ctl_mutex is to serialize access to loop_index_idr
and loop_add()/loop_remove(); in other words, management of id for IDR.
To avoid holding loop_ctl_mutex during whole add/remove operation, use
a bool flag to indicate whether the loop device is ready for use.

loop_unregister_transfer() which is called from cleanup_cryptoloop()
currently has possibility of use-after-free problem due to lack of
serialization between kfree() from loop_remove() from loop_control_remove()
and mutex_lock() from unregister_transfer_cb(). But since lo-&gt;lo_encryption
should be already NULL when this function is called due to module unload,
and commit 222013f9ac30b9ce ("cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning")
indicates that we will remove this function shortly, this patch updates
this function to emit warning instead of checking lo-&gt;lo_encryption.

Holding loop_ctl_mutex in loop_exit() is pointless, for all users must
close /dev/loop-control and /dev/loop$num (in order to drop module's
refcount to 0) before loop_exit() starts, and nobody can open
/dev/loop-control or /dev/loop$num afterwards.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=7bb10e8b62f83e4d445cdf4c13d69e407e629558 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+f61766d5763f9e7a118f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adb1e792-fc0e-ee81-7ea0-0906fc36419d@i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: Select I/O scheduler 'none' from inside add_disk()</title>
<updated>2021-08-05T17:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-05T17:42:00+00:00</published>
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We noticed that the user interface of Android devices becomes very slow
under memory pressure. This is because Android uses the zram driver on top
of the loop driver for swapping, because under memory pressure the swap
code alternates reads and writes quickly, because mq-deadline is the
default scheduler for loop devices and because mq-deadline delays writes by
five seconds for such a workload with default settings. Fix this by making
the kernel select I/O scheduler 'none' from inside add_disk() for loop
devices. This default can be overridden at any time from user space,
e.g. via a udev rule. This approach has an advantage compared to changing
the I/O scheduler from userspace from 'mq-deadline' into 'none', namely
that synchronize_rcu() does not get called.

This patch changes the default I/O scheduler for loop devices from
'mq-deadline' into 'none'.

Additionally, this patch reduces the Android boot time on my test setup
with 0.5 seconds compared to configuring the loop I/O scheduler from user
space.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210805174200.3250718-3-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We noticed that the user interface of Android devices becomes very slow
under memory pressure. This is because Android uses the zram driver on top
of the loop driver for swapping, because under memory pressure the swap
code alternates reads and writes quickly, because mq-deadline is the
default scheduler for loop devices and because mq-deadline delays writes by
five seconds for such a workload with default settings. Fix this by making
the kernel select I/O scheduler 'none' from inside add_disk() for loop
devices. This default can be overridden at any time from user space,
e.g. via a udev rule. This approach has an advantage compared to changing
the I/O scheduler from userspace from 'mq-deadline' into 'none', namely
that synchronize_rcu() does not get called.

This patch changes the default I/O scheduler for loop devices from
'mq-deadline' into 'none'.

Additionally, this patch reduces the Android boot time on my test setup
with 0.5 seconds compared to configuring the loop I/O scheduler from user
space.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210805174200.3250718-3-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: raise media_change event</title>
<updated>2021-08-02T19:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matteo Croce</name>
<email>mcroce@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-12T23:05:30+00:00</published>
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Make the loop device raise a DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE event on attach or detach.

	# udevadm monitor -up |grep -e DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE -e DEVNAME &amp;

	# losetup -f zero
	[    7.454235] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 16384
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0

	# losetup -f zero
	[   10.205245] loop1: detected capacity change from 0 to 16384
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1

	# losetup -f zero2
	[   13.532368] loop2: detected capacity change from 0 to 40960
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2

	# losetup -D
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712230530.29323-7-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Make the loop device raise a DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE event on attach or detach.

	# udevadm monitor -up |grep -e DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE -e DEVNAME &amp;

	# losetup -f zero
	[    7.454235] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 16384
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0

	# losetup -f zero
	[   10.205245] loop1: detected capacity change from 0 to 16384
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1

	# losetup -f zero2
	[   13.532368] loop2: detected capacity change from 0 to 40960
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2

	# losetup -D
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop2
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0
	DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE=1
	DEVNAME=/dev/loop0

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712230530.29323-7-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>loop: don't grab a reference to the block device</title>
<updated>2021-08-02T19:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-22T07:54:00+00:00</published>
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The whole device block device won't be removed while the disk is still
alive, so don't bother to grab a reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@rehat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210722075402.983367-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The whole device block device won't be removed while the disk is still
alive, so don't bother to grab a reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@rehat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210722075402.983367-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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