linux.git/block/bio.c, branch v4.6-rc2

Merge branch 'for-4.6/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-03-18T23:43:11+00:00

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Here are the core block changes for this merge window.  Not a lot of
  exciting stuff going on in this round, most of the changes have been
  on the driver side of things.  That pull request is coming next.  This
  pull request contains:

   - A set of fixes for chained bio handling from Christoph.

   - A tag bounds check for blk-mq from Hannes, ensuring that we don't
     do something stupid if a device reports an invalid tag value.

   - A set of fixes/updates for the CFQ IO scheduler from Jan Kara.

   - A set of blk-mq fixes from Keith, adding support for dynamic
     hardware queues, and fixing init of max_dev_sectors for stacking
     devices.

   - A fix for the dynamic hw context from Ming.

   - Enabling of cgroup writeback support on a block device, from
     Shaohua"

* 'for-4.6/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: add bounds check on tag-to-rq conversion
  block: bio_remaining_done() isn't unlikely
  block: cleanup bio_endio
  block: factor out chained bio completion
  block: don't unecessarily clobber bi_error for chained bios
  block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support
  blk-mq: Fix NULL pointer updating nr_requests
  blk-mq: mark request queue as mq asap
  block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0
  blk-mq: dynamic h/w context count
  cfq-iosched: Allow parent cgroup to preempt its child
  cfq-iosched: Allow sync noidle workloads to preempt each other
  cfq-iosched: Reorder checks in cfq_should_preempt()
  cfq-iosched: Don't group_idle if cfqq has big thinktime

block: bio_remaining_done() isn't unlikely

2016-03-14T14:55:25+00:00

We use bio chaining during most I/Os these days due to the delayed
bio splitting.  Additionally XFS will start using it, and there is
a pending direct I/O rewrite also making heavy use for it.  Don't
pretend it's always unlikely, and let the branch predictor do it's
job instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: cleanup bio_endio

2016-03-14T14:55:24+00:00

Replace the while loop that unecessarily checks for a NULL bio in the fast
path with a simple goto loop.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: factor out chained bio completion

2016-03-14T14:55:22+00:00

Factor common code between bio_chain_endio and bio_endio into a common
helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't unecessarily clobber bi_error for chained bios

2016-03-14T14:55:21+00:00

Only overwrite the parents bi_error if it was zero. That way a successful
bio completion doesn't reset the error pointer.

Reported-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted

2016-02-12T15:17:41+00:00

Commit 35dc248383bbab0a7203fca4d722875bc81ef091 introduced a check for
current->mm to see if we have a user space context and only copies data
if we do. Now if an IO gets interrupted by a signal data isn't copied
into user space any more (as we don't have a user space context) but
user space isn't notified about it.

This patch modifies the behaviour to return -EINTR from bio_uncopy_user()
to notify userland that a signal has interrupted the syscall, otherwise
it could lead to a situation where the caller may get a buffer with
no data returned.

This can be reproduced by issuing SG_IO ioctl()s in one thread while
constantly sending signals to it.

Fixes: 35dc248 [SCSI] sg: Fix user memory corruption when SG_IO is interrupted by a signal
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v.3.11+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

kernel/fs: fix I/O wait not accounted for RW O_DSYNC

2016-02-09T16:27:01+00:00

 When a process is doing Random Write with O_DSYNC flag
 the I/O wait are not accounted in the kernel (get_cpu_iowait_time_us).
 This is preventing the governor or the cpufreq driver to account for
 I/O wait and thus use the right pstate

Signed-off-by: Stephane Gasparini 
Signed-off-by: Philippe Longepe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bio: use offset_in_page macro

2015-11-24T22:24:25+00:00

Use offset_in_page macro instead of (addr & ~PAGE_MASK).

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Vitaly Wool 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-09-11T01:56:14+00:00

Pull blk-cg updates from Jens Axboe:
 "A bit later in the cycle, but this has been in the block tree for a a
  while.  This is basically four patchsets from Tejun, that improve our
  buffered cgroup writeback.  It was dependent on the other cgroup
  changes, but they went in earlier in this cycle.

  Series 1 is set of 5 patches that has cgroup writeback updates:

   - bdi_writeback iteration fix which could lead to some wb's being
     skipped or repeated during e.g. sync under memory pressure.

   - Simplification of wb work wait mechanism.

   - Writeback tracepoints updated to report cgroup.

  Series 2 is is a set of updates for the CFQ cgroup writeback handling:

     cfq has always charged all async IOs to the root cgroup.  It didn't
     have much choice as writeback didn't know about cgroups and there
     was no way to tell who to blame for a given writeback IO.
     writeback finally grew support for cgroups and now tags each
     writeback IO with the appropriate cgroup to charge it against.

     This patchset updates cfq so that it follows the blkcg each bio is
     tagged with.  Async cfq_queues are now shared across cfq_group,
     which is per-cgroup, instead of per-request_queue cfq_data.  This
     makes all IOs follow the weight based IO resource distribution
     implemented by cfq.

     - Switched from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOWAIT as suggested by Jeff.

     - Other misc review points addressed, acks added and rebased.

  Series 3 is the blkcg policy cleanup patches:

     This patchset contains assorted cleanups for blkcg_policy methods
     and blk[c]g_policy_data handling.

     - alloc/free added for blkg_policy_data.  exit dropped.

     - alloc/free added for blkcg_policy_data.

     - blk-throttle's async percpu allocation is replaced with direct
       allocation.

     - all methods now take blk[c]g_policy_data instead of blkcg_gq or
       blkcg.

  And finally, series 4 is a set of patches cleaning up the blkcg stats
  handling:

    blkcg's stats have always been somwhat of a mess.  This patchset
    tries to improve the situation a bit.

     - The following patches added to consolidate blkcg entry point and
       blkg creation.  This is in itself is an improvement and helps
       colllecting common stats on bio issue.

     - per-blkg stats now accounted on bio issue rather than request
       completion so that bio based and request based drivers can behave
       the same way.  The issue was spotted by Vivek.

     - cfq-iosched implements custom recursive stats and blk-throttle
       implements custom per-cpu stats.  This patchset make blkcg core
       support both by default.

     - cfq-iosched and blk-throttle keep track of the same stats
       multiple times.  Unify them"

* 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (45 commits)
  blkcg: use CGROUP_WEIGHT_* scale for io.weight on the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: s/CFQ_WEIGHT_*/CFQ_WEIGHT_LEGACY_*/
  blkcg: implement interface for the unified hierarchy
  blkcg: misc preparations for unified hierarchy interface
  blkcg: separate out tg_conf_updated() from tg_set_conf()
  blkcg: move body parsing from blkg_conf_prep() to its callers
  blkcg: mark existing cftypes as legacy
  blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to io
  blkcg: refine error codes returned during blkcg configuration
  blkcg: remove unnecessary NULL checks from __cfqg_set_weight_device()
  blkcg: reduce stack usage of blkg_rwstat_recursive_sum()
  blkcg: remove cfqg_stats->sectors
  blkcg: move io_service_bytes and io_serviced stats into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() to be able to index into blkcg_gq
  blkcg: make blkcg_[rw]stat per-cpu
  blkcg: add blkg_[rw]stat->aux_cnt and replace cfq_group->dead_stats with it
  blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()
  blk-throttle: improve queue bypass handling
  blkcg: move root blkg lookup optimization from throtl_lookup_tg() to __blkg_lookup()
  blkcg: inline [__]blkg_lookup()
  ...