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<title>blk: optimization for classic polling</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T16:12:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nitesh Shetty</name>
<email>nj.shetty@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T15:48:12+00:00</published>
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This removes the dependency on interrupts to wake up task. Set task
state as TASK_RUNNING, if need_resched() returns true,
while polling for IO completion.
Earlier, polling task used to sleep, relying on interrupt to wake it up.
This made some IO take very long when interrupt-coalescing is enabled in
NVMe.

Reference:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2018-February/015435.html

Changes since v2-&gt;v3:
	-using __set_current_state() instead of set_current_state()

Changes since v1-&gt;v2:
	-setting task state once in blk_poll, instead of multiple
callers.

Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty &lt;nj.shetty@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This removes the dependency on interrupts to wake up task. Set task
state as TASK_RUNNING, if need_resched() returns true,
while polling for IO completion.
Earlier, polling task used to sleep, relying on interrupt to wake it up.
This made some IO take very long when interrupt-coalescing is enabled in
NVMe.

Reference:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2018-February/015435.html

Changes since v2-&gt;v3:
	-using __set_current_state() instead of set_current_state()

Changes since v1-&gt;v2:
	-setting task state once in blk_poll, instead of multiple
callers.

Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty &lt;nj.shetty@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: do bulk POLL* -&gt; EPOLL* replacement</title>
<updated>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</published>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block, bfq: add requeue-request hook</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T22:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Valente</name>
<email>paolo.valente@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T21:19:20+00:00</published>
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Commit 'a6a252e64914 ("blk-mq-sched: decide how to handle flush rq via
RQF_FLUSH_SEQ")' makes all non-flush re-prepared requests for a device
be re-inserted into the active I/O scheduler for that device. As a
consequence, I/O schedulers may get the same request inserted again,
even several times, without a finish_request invoked on that request
before each re-insertion.

This fact is the cause of the failure reported in [1]. For an I/O
scheduler, every re-insertion of the same re-prepared request is
equivalent to the insertion of a new request. For schedulers like
mq-deadline or kyber, this fact causes no harm. In contrast, it
confuses a stateful scheduler like BFQ, which keeps state for an I/O
request, until the finish_request hook is invoked on the request. In
particular, BFQ may get stuck, waiting forever for the number of
request dispatches, of the same request, to be balanced by an equal
number of request completions (while there will be one completion for
that request). In this state, BFQ may refuse to serve I/O requests
from other bfq_queues. The hang reported in [1] then follows.

However, the above re-prepared requests undergo a requeue, thus the
requeue_request hook of the active elevator is invoked for these
requests, if set. This commit then addresses the above issue by
properly implementing the hook requeue_request in BFQ.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&amp;m=151211117608676

Reported-by: Ivan Kozik &lt;ivan@ludios.org&gt;
Reported-by: Alban Browaeys &lt;alban.browaeys@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serena Ziviani &lt;ziviani.serena@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Commit 'a6a252e64914 ("blk-mq-sched: decide how to handle flush rq via
RQF_FLUSH_SEQ")' makes all non-flush re-prepared requests for a device
be re-inserted into the active I/O scheduler for that device. As a
consequence, I/O schedulers may get the same request inserted again,
even several times, without a finish_request invoked on that request
before each re-insertion.

This fact is the cause of the failure reported in [1]. For an I/O
scheduler, every re-insertion of the same re-prepared request is
equivalent to the insertion of a new request. For schedulers like
mq-deadline or kyber, this fact causes no harm. In contrast, it
confuses a stateful scheduler like BFQ, which keeps state for an I/O
request, until the finish_request hook is invoked on the request. In
particular, BFQ may get stuck, waiting forever for the number of
request dispatches, of the same request, to be balanced by an equal
number of request completions (while there will be one completion for
that request). In this state, BFQ may refuse to serve I/O requests
from other bfq_queues. The hang reported in [1] then follows.

However, the above re-prepared requests undergo a requeue, thus the
requeue_request hook of the active elevator is invoked for these
requests, if set. This commit then addresses the above issue by
properly implementing the hook requeue_request in BFQ.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&amp;m=151211117608676

Reported-by: Ivan Kozik &lt;ivan@ludios.org&gt;
Reported-by: Alban Browaeys &lt;alban.browaeys@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serena Ziviani &lt;ziviani.serena@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Add should_fail_bio() for bpf error injection</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T22:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Howard McLauchlan</name>
<email>hmclauchlan@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T22:05:39+00:00</published>
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The classic error injection mechanism, should_fail_request() does not
support use cases where more information is required (from the entire
struct bio, for example).

To that end, this patch introduces should_fail_bio(), which calls
should_fail_request() under the hood but provides a convenient
place for kprobes to hook into if they require the entire struct bio.
This patch also replaces some existing calls to should_fail_request()
with should_fail_bio() with no degradation in performance.

Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan &lt;hmclauchlan@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The classic error injection mechanism, should_fail_request() does not
support use cases where more information is required (from the entire
struct bio, for example).

To that end, this patch introduces should_fail_bio(), which calls
should_fail_request() under the hood but provides a convenient
place for kprobes to hook into if they require the entire struct bio.
This patch also replaces some existing calls to should_fail_request()
with should_fail_bio() with no degradation in performance.

Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan &lt;hmclauchlan@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T21:14:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-05T20:16:56+00:00</published>
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Mikulas reported a workload that saw bad performance, and figured
out what it was due to various other types of requests being
accounted as reads. Flush requests, for instance. Due to the
high latency of those, we heavily throttle the writes to keep
the latencies in balance. But they really should be accounted
as writes.

Fix this by checking the exact type of the request. If it's a
read, account as a read, if it's a write or a flush, account
as a write. Any other request we disregard. Previously everything
would have been mistakenly accounted as reads.

Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Mikulas reported a workload that saw bad performance, and figured
out what it was due to various other types of requests being
accounted as reads. Flush requests, for instance. Due to the
high latency of those, we heavily throttle the writes to keep
the latencies in balance. But they really should be accounted
as writes.

Fix this by checking the exact type of the request. If it's a
read, account as a read, if it's a write or a flush, account
as a write. Any other request we disregard. Previously everything
would have been mistakenly accounted as reads.

Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20180204' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T19:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T19:16:35+00:00</published>
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Most of this is fixes and not new code/features:

   - skd fix from Arnd, fixing a build error dependent on sla allocator
     type.

   - blk-mq scheduler discard merging fixes, one from me and one from
     Keith. This fixes a segment miscalculation for blk-mq-sched, where
     we mistakenly think two segments are physically contigious even
     though the request isn't carrying real data. Also fixes a bio-to-rq
     merge case.

   - Don't re-set a bit on the buffer_head flags, if it's already set.
     This can cause scalability concerns on bigger machines and
     workloads. From Kemi Wang.

   - Add BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE return value to blk-mq, allowing us to
     distuingish between a local (device related) resource starvation
     and a global one. The latter might happen without IO being in
     flight, so it has to be handled a bit differently. From Ming"

* tag 'for-linus-20180204' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: skd: fix incorrect linux/slab_def.h inclusion
  buffer: Avoid setting buffer bits that are already set
  blk-mq-sched: Enable merging discard bio into request
  blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached
  blk-mq: introduce BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE
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Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Most of this is fixes and not new code/features:

   - skd fix from Arnd, fixing a build error dependent on sla allocator
     type.

   - blk-mq scheduler discard merging fixes, one from me and one from
     Keith. This fixes a segment miscalculation for blk-mq-sched, where
     we mistakenly think two segments are physically contigious even
     though the request isn't carrying real data. Also fixes a bio-to-rq
     merge case.

   - Don't re-set a bit on the buffer_head flags, if it's already set.
     This can cause scalability concerns on bigger machines and
     workloads. From Kemi Wang.

   - Add BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE return value to blk-mq, allowing us to
     distuingish between a local (device related) resource starvation
     and a global one. The latter might happen without IO being in
     flight, so it has to be handled a bit differently. From Ming"

* tag 'for-linus-20180204' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: skd: fix incorrect linux/slab_def.h inclusion
  buffer: Avoid setting buffer bits that are already set
  blk-mq-sched: Enable merging discard bio into request
  blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached
  blk-mq: introduce BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq-sched: Enable merging discard bio into request</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:45:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>keith.busch@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:41:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:01:02+00:00</published>
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I ran into an issue on my laptop that triggered a bug on the
discard path:

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 207 at drivers/nvme/host/core.c:527 nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430
 Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse ctr ccm bnep arc4 binfmt_misc snd_hda_codec_hdmi nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat snd_hda_codec_conexant fat snd_hda_codec_generic iwlmvm snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mac80211 snd_hda_core snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp kvm_intel uvcvideo iwlwifi btusb snd_seq_device videobuf2_vmalloc btintel videobuf2_memops kvm snd_timer videobuf2_v4l2 bluetooth irqbypass videobuf2_core aesni_intel aes_x86_64 crypto_simd cryptd snd glue_helper videodev cfg80211 ecdh_generic soundcore hid_generic usbhid hid i915 psmouse e1000e ptp pps_core xhci_pci xhci_hcd intel_gtt
 CPU: 2 PID: 207 Comm: jbd2/nvme0n1p7- Tainted: G     U           4.15.0+ #176
 Hardware name: LENOVO 20FBCTO1WW/20FBCTO1WW, BIOS N1FET59W (1.33 ) 12/19/2017
 RIP: 0010:nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430
 RSP: 0018:ffff880423e9f838 EFLAGS: 00010217
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880423e9f8c8 RCX: 0000000000010000
 RDX: ffff88022b200010 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 00000000327f0000
 RBP: ffff880421251400 R08: ffff88022b200000 R09: 0000000000000009
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000ffff
 R13: ffff88042341e280 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: ffff880421251440
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880441500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000055b684795030 CR3: 0000000002e09006 CR4: 00000000001606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  nvme_queue_rq+0x40/0xa00
  ? __sbitmap_queue_get+0x24/0x90
  ? blk_mq_get_tag+0xa3/0x250
  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
  ? blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x97/0xf0
  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x7b/0x4a0
  ? deadline_remove_request+0x49/0xb0
  blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x4f/0xc0
  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x106/0x170
  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x53/0xa0
  __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x83/0xa0
  blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x6c/0xd0
  blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x96/0x140
  __blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x3d/0x190
  blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x30/0x70
  blk_mq_make_request+0x1a4/0x6a0
  generic_make_request+0xfd/0x2f0
  ? submit_bio+0x5c/0x110
  submit_bio+0x5c/0x110
  ? __blkdev_issue_discard+0x152/0x200
  submit_bio_wait+0x43/0x60
  ext4_process_freed_data+0x1cd/0x440
  ? account_page_dirtied+0xe2/0x1a0
  ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x4a/0xc0
  jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x17e2/0x19e0
  ? kjournald2+0xb0/0x250
  kjournald2+0xb0/0x250
  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
  ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0x111/0x130
  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x50/0x50
  ? do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 Code: 73 89 c1 83 ce 10 c1 e1 10 09 ca 83 f8 04 0f 87 0f ff ff ff 8b 4d 20 48 8b 7d 00 c1 e9 09 48 01 8c c7 00 08 00 00 e9 f8 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; ff 4c 89 c7 41 bc 0a 00 00 00 e8 0d 78 d6 ff e9 a1 fc ff ff
 ---[ end trace 50d361cc444506c8 ]---
 print_req_error: I/O error, dev nvme0n1, sector 847167488

Decoding the assembly, the request claims to have 0xffff segments,
while nvme counts two. This turns out to be because we don't check
for a data carrying request on the mq scheduler path, and since
blk_phys_contig_segment() returns true for a non-data request,
we decrement the initial segment count of 0 and end up with
0xffff in the unsigned short.

There are a few issues here:

1) We should initialize the segment count for a discard to 1.
2) The discard merging is currently using the data limits for
   segments and sectors.

Fix this up by having attempt_merge() correctly identify the
request, and by initializing the segment count correctly
for discards.

This can only be triggered with mq-deadline on discard capable
devices right now, which isn't a common configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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I ran into an issue on my laptop that triggered a bug on the
discard path:

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 207 at drivers/nvme/host/core.c:527 nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430
 Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse ctr ccm bnep arc4 binfmt_misc snd_hda_codec_hdmi nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat snd_hda_codec_conexant fat snd_hda_codec_generic iwlmvm snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mac80211 snd_hda_core snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp kvm_intel uvcvideo iwlwifi btusb snd_seq_device videobuf2_vmalloc btintel videobuf2_memops kvm snd_timer videobuf2_v4l2 bluetooth irqbypass videobuf2_core aesni_intel aes_x86_64 crypto_simd cryptd snd glue_helper videodev cfg80211 ecdh_generic soundcore hid_generic usbhid hid i915 psmouse e1000e ptp pps_core xhci_pci xhci_hcd intel_gtt
 CPU: 2 PID: 207 Comm: jbd2/nvme0n1p7- Tainted: G     U           4.15.0+ #176
 Hardware name: LENOVO 20FBCTO1WW/20FBCTO1WW, BIOS N1FET59W (1.33 ) 12/19/2017
 RIP: 0010:nvme_setup_cmd+0x3d3/0x430
 RSP: 0018:ffff880423e9f838 EFLAGS: 00010217
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880423e9f8c8 RCX: 0000000000010000
 RDX: ffff88022b200010 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 00000000327f0000
 RBP: ffff880421251400 R08: ffff88022b200000 R09: 0000000000000009
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000ffff
 R13: ffff88042341e280 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: ffff880421251440
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880441500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000055b684795030 CR3: 0000000002e09006 CR4: 00000000001606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  nvme_queue_rq+0x40/0xa00
  ? __sbitmap_queue_get+0x24/0x90
  ? blk_mq_get_tag+0xa3/0x250
  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
  ? blk_mq_get_driver_tag+0x97/0xf0
  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x7b/0x4a0
  ? deadline_remove_request+0x49/0xb0
  blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x4f/0xc0
  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x106/0x170
  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x53/0xa0
  __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x83/0xa0
  blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x6c/0xd0
  blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0x96/0x140
  __blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x3d/0x190
  blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x30/0x70
  blk_mq_make_request+0x1a4/0x6a0
  generic_make_request+0xfd/0x2f0
  ? submit_bio+0x5c/0x110
  submit_bio+0x5c/0x110
  ? __blkdev_issue_discard+0x152/0x200
  submit_bio_wait+0x43/0x60
  ext4_process_freed_data+0x1cd/0x440
  ? account_page_dirtied+0xe2/0x1a0
  ext4_journal_commit_callback+0x4a/0xc0
  jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x17e2/0x19e0
  ? kjournald2+0xb0/0x250
  kjournald2+0xb0/0x250
  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
  ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0x111/0x130
  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x50/0x50
  ? do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 Code: 73 89 c1 83 ce 10 c1 e1 10 09 ca 83 f8 04 0f 87 0f ff ff ff 8b 4d 20 48 8b 7d 00 c1 e9 09 48 01 8c c7 00 08 00 00 e9 f8 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; ff 4c 89 c7 41 bc 0a 00 00 00 e8 0d 78 d6 ff e9 a1 fc ff ff
 ---[ end trace 50d361cc444506c8 ]---
 print_req_error: I/O error, dev nvme0n1, sector 847167488

Decoding the assembly, the request claims to have 0xffff segments,
while nvme counts two. This turns out to be because we don't check
for a data carrying request on the mq scheduler path, and since
blk_phys_contig_segment() returns true for a non-data request,
we decrement the initial segment count of 0 and end up with
0xffff in the unsigned short.

There are a few issues here:

1) We should initialize the segment count for a discard to 1.
2) The discard merging is currently using the data limits for
   segments and sectors.

Fix this up by having attempt_merge() correctly identify the
request, and by initializing the segment count correctly
for discards.

This can only be triggered with mq-deadline on discard capable
devices right now, which isn't a common configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: introduce BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T03:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T03:04:57+00:00</published>
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This status is returned from driver to block layer if device related
resource is unavailable, but driver can guarantee that IO dispatch
will be triggered in future when the resource is available.

Convert some drivers to return BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE.  Also, if driver
returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE and SCHED_RESTART is set, rerun queue after
a delay (BLK_MQ_DELAY_QUEUE) to avoid IO stalls.  BLK_MQ_DELAY_QUEUE is
3 ms because both scsi-mq and nvmefc are using that magic value.

If a driver can make sure there is in-flight IO, it is safe to return
BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE because:

1) If all in-flight IOs complete before examining SCHED_RESTART in
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(), SCHED_RESTART must be cleared, so queue
is run immediately in this case by blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list();

2) if there is any in-flight IO after/when examining SCHED_RESTART
in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list():
- if SCHED_RESTART isn't set, queue is run immediately as handled in 1)
- otherwise, this request will be dispatched after any in-flight IO is
  completed via blk_mq_sched_restart()

3) if SCHED_RESTART is set concurently in context because of
BLK_STS_RESOURCE, blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() will cover the above two
cases and make sure IO hang can be avoided.

One invariant is that queue will be rerun if SCHED_RESTART is set.

Suggested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman &lt;loberman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
This status is returned from driver to block layer if device related
resource is unavailable, but driver can guarantee that IO dispatch
will be triggered in future when the resource is available.

Convert some drivers to return BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE.  Also, if driver
returns BLK_STS_RESOURCE and SCHED_RESTART is set, rerun queue after
a delay (BLK_MQ_DELAY_QUEUE) to avoid IO stalls.  BLK_MQ_DELAY_QUEUE is
3 ms because both scsi-mq and nvmefc are using that magic value.

If a driver can make sure there is in-flight IO, it is safe to return
BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE because:

1) If all in-flight IOs complete before examining SCHED_RESTART in
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(), SCHED_RESTART must be cleared, so queue
is run immediately in this case by blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list();

2) if there is any in-flight IO after/when examining SCHED_RESTART
in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list():
- if SCHED_RESTART isn't set, queue is run immediately as handled in 1)
- otherwise, this request will be dispatched after any in-flight IO is
  completed via blk_mq_sched_restart()

3) if SCHED_RESTART is set concurently in context because of
BLK_STS_RESOURCE, blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() will cover the above two
cases and make sure IO hang can be avoided.

One invariant is that queue will be rerun if SCHED_RESTART is set.

Suggested-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman &lt;loberman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=168fe32a072a4b8dc81a3aebf0e5e588d38e2955'/>
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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<pre>
Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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