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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20190726-2' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-07-27T02:20:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-27T02:20:34+00:00</published>
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Pull block DMA segment fix from Jens Axboe:
 "Here's the virtual boundary segment size fix"

* tag 'for-linus-20190726-2' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix max segment size handling in blk_queue_virt_boundary
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Pull block DMA segment fix from Jens Axboe:
 "Here's the virtual boundary segment size fix"

* tag 'for-linus-20190726-2' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix max segment size handling in blk_queue_virt_boundary
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<entry>
<title>block: fix max segment size handling in blk_queue_virt_boundary</title>
<updated>2019-07-26T18:50:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-24T16:26:56+00:00</published>
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We should only set the max segment size to unlimited if we actually
have a virt boundary.  Otherwise we accidentally clear that limit
when called from the SCSI midlayer, which always calls
blk_queue_virt_boundary, even if that mask is 0.

Fixes: 7ad388d8e4c7 ("scsi: core: add a host / host template field for the virt boundary")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We should only set the max segment size to unlimited if we actually
have a virt boundary.  Otherwise we accidentally clear that limit
when called from the SCSI midlayer, which always calls
blk_queue_virt_boundary, even if that mask is 0.

Fixes: 7ad388d8e4c7 ("scsi: core: add a host / host template field for the virt boundary")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-07-26T17:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-26T17:32:12+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Several io_uring fixes/improvements:
     - Blocking fix for O_DIRECT (me)
     - Latter page slowness for registered buffers (me)
     - Fix poll hang under certain conditions (me)
     - Defer sequence check fix for wrapped rings (Zhengyuan)
     - Mismatch in async inc/dec accounting (Zhengyuan)
     - Memory ordering issue that could cause stall (Zhengyuan)
      - Track sequential defer in bytes, not pages (Zhengyuan)

 - NVMe pull request from Christoph

 - Set of hang fixes for wbt (Josef)

 - Redundant error message kill for libahci (Ding)

 - Remove unused blk_mq_sched_started_request() and related ops (Marcos)

 - drbd dynamic alloc shash descriptor to reduce stack use (Arnd)

 - blkcg -&gt;pd_stat() non-debug print (Tejun)

 - bcache memory leak fix (Wei)

 - Comment fix (Akinobu)

 - BFQ perf regression fix (Paolo)

* tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  io_uring: ensure -&gt;list is initialized for poll commands
  Revert "nvme-pci: don't create a read hctx mapping without read queues"
  nvme: fix multipath crash when ANA is deactivated
  nvme: fix memory leak caused by incorrect subsystem free
  nvme: ignore subnqn for ADATA SX6000LNP
  drbd: dynamically allocate shash descriptor
  block: blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_sched_started_request and started_request
  bcache: fix possible memory leak in bch_cached_dev_run()
  io_uring: track io length in async_list based on bytes
  io_uring: don't use iov_iter_advance() for fixed buffers
  block: properly handle IOCB_NOWAIT for async O_DIRECT IO
  blk-mq: allow REQ_NOWAIT to return an error inline
  io_uring: add a memory barrier before atomic_read
  rq-qos: use a mb for got_token
  rq-qos: set ourself TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE after we schedule
  rq-qos: don't reset has_sleepers on spurious wakeups
  rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle
  wait: add wq_has_single_sleeper helper
  block, bfq: check also in-flight I/O in dispatch plugging
  block: fix sysfs module parameters directory path in comment
  ...
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Several io_uring fixes/improvements:
     - Blocking fix for O_DIRECT (me)
     - Latter page slowness for registered buffers (me)
     - Fix poll hang under certain conditions (me)
     - Defer sequence check fix for wrapped rings (Zhengyuan)
     - Mismatch in async inc/dec accounting (Zhengyuan)
     - Memory ordering issue that could cause stall (Zhengyuan)
      - Track sequential defer in bytes, not pages (Zhengyuan)

 - NVMe pull request from Christoph

 - Set of hang fixes for wbt (Josef)

 - Redundant error message kill for libahci (Ding)

 - Remove unused blk_mq_sched_started_request() and related ops (Marcos)

 - drbd dynamic alloc shash descriptor to reduce stack use (Arnd)

 - blkcg -&gt;pd_stat() non-debug print (Tejun)

 - bcache memory leak fix (Wei)

 - Comment fix (Akinobu)

 - BFQ perf regression fix (Paolo)

* tag 'for-linus-20190726' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  io_uring: ensure -&gt;list is initialized for poll commands
  Revert "nvme-pci: don't create a read hctx mapping without read queues"
  nvme: fix multipath crash when ANA is deactivated
  nvme: fix memory leak caused by incorrect subsystem free
  nvme: ignore subnqn for ADATA SX6000LNP
  drbd: dynamically allocate shash descriptor
  block: blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_sched_started_request and started_request
  bcache: fix possible memory leak in bch_cached_dev_run()
  io_uring: track io length in async_list based on bytes
  io_uring: don't use iov_iter_advance() for fixed buffers
  block: properly handle IOCB_NOWAIT for async O_DIRECT IO
  blk-mq: allow REQ_NOWAIT to return an error inline
  io_uring: add a memory barrier before atomic_read
  rq-qos: use a mb for got_token
  rq-qos: set ourself TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE after we schedule
  rq-qos: don't reset has_sleepers on spurious wakeups
  rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle
  wait: add wq_has_single_sleeper helper
  block, bfq: check also in-flight I/O in dispatch plugging
  block: fix sysfs module parameters directory path in comment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: blk-mq: Remove blk_mq_sched_started_request and started_request</title>
<updated>2019-07-23T13:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>marcos.souza.org@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-23T03:27:41+00:00</published>
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blk_mq_sched_completed_request is a function that checks if the elevator
related to the request has started_request implemented, but currently, none of
the available IO schedulers implement started_request, so remove both.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.souza.org@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blk_mq_sched_completed_request is a function that checks if the elevator
related to the request has started_request implemented, but currently, none of
the available IO schedulers implement started_request, so remove both.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.souza.org@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: allow REQ_NOWAIT to return an error inline</title>
<updated>2019-07-22T03:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:55:23+00:00</published>
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By default, if a caller sets REQ_NOWAIT and we need to block, we'll
return -EAGAIN through the bio-&gt;bi_end_io() callback. For some use
cases, this makes it hard to use.

Allow a caller to ask for inline return of errors related to
blocking by also setting REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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By default, if a caller sets REQ_NOWAIT and we need to block, we'll
return -EAGAIN through the bio-&gt;bi_end_io() callback. For some use
cases, this makes it hard to use.

Allow a caller to ask for inline return of errors related to
blocking by also setting REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rq-qos: use a mb for got_token</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T16:20:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T20:19:29+00:00</published>
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Oleg noticed that our checking of data.got_token is unsafe in the
cleanup case, and should really use a memory barrier.  Use a wmb on the
write side, and a rmb() on the read side.  We don't need one in the main
loop since we're saved by set_current_state().

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Oleg noticed that our checking of data.got_token is unsafe in the
cleanup case, and should really use a memory barrier.  Use a wmb on the
write side, and a rmb() on the read side.  We don't need one in the main
loop since we're saved by set_current_state().

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rq-qos: set ourself TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE after we schedule</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T16:20:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T20:19:28+00:00</published>
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In case we get a spurious wakeup we need to make sure to re-set
ourselves to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE so we don't busy wait.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In case we get a spurious wakeup we need to make sure to re-set
ourselves to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE so we don't busy wait.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rq-qos: don't reset has_sleepers on spurious wakeups</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T16:20:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T20:19:27+00:00</published>
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If we raced with somebody else getting an inflight counter we could fail
to get an inflight counter with no sleepers on the list, and thus need
to go to sleep.  In this case has_sleepers should be true because we are
now relying on the waker to get our inflight counter for us.  And in the
case of spurious wakeups we'd still want this to be the case.  So set
has_sleepers to true if we went to sleep to make sure we're woken up the
proper way.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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If we raced with somebody else getting an inflight counter we could fail
to get an inflight counter with no sleepers on the list, and thus need
to go to sleep.  In this case has_sleepers should be true because we are
now relying on the waker to get our inflight counter for us.  And in the
case of spurious wakeups we'd still want this to be the case.  So set
has_sleepers to true if we went to sleep to make sure we're woken up the
proper way.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T16:20:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T20:19:26+00:00</published>
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We saw a hang in production with WBT where there was only one waiter in
the throttle path and no outstanding IO.  This is because of the
has_sleepers optimization that is used to make sure we don't steal an
inflight counter for new submitters when there are people already on the
list.

We can race with our check to see if the waitqueue has any waiters (this
is done locklessly) and the time we actually add ourselves to the
waitqueue.  If this happens we'll go to sleep and never be woken up
because nobody is doing IO to wake us up.

Fix this by checking if the waitqueue has a single sleeper on the list
after we add ourselves, that way we have an uptodate view of the list.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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We saw a hang in production with WBT where there was only one waiter in
the throttle path and no outstanding IO.  This is because of the
has_sleepers optimization that is used to make sure we don't steal an
inflight counter for new submitters when there are people already on the
list.

We can race with our check to see if the waitqueue has any waiters (this
is done locklessly) and the time we actually add ourselves to the
waitqueue.  If this happens we'll go to sleep and never be woken up
because nobody is doing IO to wake us up.

Fix this by checking if the waitqueue has a single sleeper on the list
after we add ourselves, that way we have an uptodate view of the list.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block, bfq: check also in-flight I/O in dispatch plugging</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T13:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Valente</name>
<email>paolo.valente@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T07:08:52+00:00</published>
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Consider a sync bfq_queue Q that remains empty while in service, and
suppose that, when this happens, there is a fair amount of already
in-flight I/O not belonging to Q. In such a situation, I/O dispatching
may need to be plugged (until new I/O arrives for Q), for the
following reason.

The drive may decide to serve in-flight non-Q's I/O requests before
Q's ones, thereby delaying the arrival of new I/O requests for Q
(recall that Q is sync). If I/O-dispatching is not plugged, then,
while Q remains empty, a basically uncontrolled amount of I/O from
other queues may be dispatched too, possibly causing the service of
Q's I/O to be delayed even longer in the drive. This problem gets more
and more serious as the speed and the queue depth of the drive grow,
because, as these two quantities grow, the probability to find no
queue busy but many requests in flight grows too.

If Q has the same weight and priority as the other queues, then the
above delay is unlikely to cause any issue, because all queues tend to
undergo the same treatment. So, since not plugging I/O dispatching is
convenient for throughput, it is better not to plug. Things change in
case Q has a higher weight or priority than some other queue, because
Q's service guarantees may simply be violated. For this reason,
commit 1de0c4cd9ea6 ("block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric
scenarios") does plug I/O in such an asymmetric scenario. Plugging
minimizes the delay induced by already in-flight I/O, and enables Q to
recover the bandwidth it may lose because of this delay.

Yet the above commit does not cover the case of weight-raised queues,
for efficiency concerns. For weight-raised queues, I/O-dispatch
plugging is activated simply if not all bfq_queues are
weight-raised. But this check does not handle the case of in-flight
requests, because a bfq_queue may become non busy *before* all its
in-flight requests are completed.

This commit performs I/O-dispatch plugging for weight-raised queues if
there are some in-flight requests.

As a practical example of the resulting recover of control, under
write load on a Samsung SSD 970 PRO, gnome-terminal starts in 1.5
seconds after this fix, against 15 seconds before the fix (as a
reference, gnome-terminal takes about 35 seconds to start with any of
the other I/O schedulers).

Fixes: 1de0c4cd9ea6 ("block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Consider a sync bfq_queue Q that remains empty while in service, and
suppose that, when this happens, there is a fair amount of already
in-flight I/O not belonging to Q. In such a situation, I/O dispatching
may need to be plugged (until new I/O arrives for Q), for the
following reason.

The drive may decide to serve in-flight non-Q's I/O requests before
Q's ones, thereby delaying the arrival of new I/O requests for Q
(recall that Q is sync). If I/O-dispatching is not plugged, then,
while Q remains empty, a basically uncontrolled amount of I/O from
other queues may be dispatched too, possibly causing the service of
Q's I/O to be delayed even longer in the drive. This problem gets more
and more serious as the speed and the queue depth of the drive grow,
because, as these two quantities grow, the probability to find no
queue busy but many requests in flight grows too.

If Q has the same weight and priority as the other queues, then the
above delay is unlikely to cause any issue, because all queues tend to
undergo the same treatment. So, since not plugging I/O dispatching is
convenient for throughput, it is better not to plug. Things change in
case Q has a higher weight or priority than some other queue, because
Q's service guarantees may simply be violated. For this reason,
commit 1de0c4cd9ea6 ("block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric
scenarios") does plug I/O in such an asymmetric scenario. Plugging
minimizes the delay induced by already in-flight I/O, and enables Q to
recover the bandwidth it may lose because of this delay.

Yet the above commit does not cover the case of weight-raised queues,
for efficiency concerns. For weight-raised queues, I/O-dispatch
plugging is activated simply if not all bfq_queues are
weight-raised. But this check does not handle the case of in-flight
requests, because a bfq_queue may become non busy *before* all its
in-flight requests are completed.

This commit performs I/O-dispatch plugging for weight-raised queues if
there are some in-flight requests.

As a practical example of the resulting recover of control, under
write load on a Samsung SSD 970 PRO, gnome-terminal starts in 1.5
seconds after this fix, against 15 seconds before the fix (as a
reference, gnome-terminal takes about 35 seconds to start with any of
the other I/O schedulers).

Fixes: 1de0c4cd9ea6 ("block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente &lt;paolo.valente@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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