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<title>scsi: sd: use mempool for discard special page</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T01:11:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2018-12-12T13:46:55+00:00</published>
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When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the discard
page allocation in sd. If we fail allocating the special page, we return
busy, and it'll get retried. But since ordering is honored for dispatch
requests, we can keep retrying this same IO and failing. Behind that IO
could be requests that want to free memory, but they never get the
chance. This means you get repeated spews of traces like this:

[1201401.625972] Call Trace:
[1201401.631748]  dump_stack+0x4d/0x65
[1201401.639445]  warn_alloc+0xec/0x190
[1201401.647335]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xe84/0xf30
[1201401.657722]  ? get_page_from_freelist+0x11b/0xb10
[1201401.668475]  ? __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x2e/0xf30
[1201401.679054]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f9/0x210
[1201401.689424]  alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0x110
[1201401.699025]  sd_setup_write_same16_cmnd+0x51/0x150
[1201401.709987]  sd_init_command+0x49c/0xb70
[1201401.719029]  scsi_setup_cmnd+0x9c/0x160
[1201401.727877]  scsi_queue_rq+0x4d9/0x610
[1201401.736535]  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x19a/0x360
[1201401.747113]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xff/0x190
[1201401.758844]  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x95/0xa0
[1201401.768653]  blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x2c/0x30
[1201401.777886]  process_one_work+0x14b/0x400
[1201401.787119]  worker_thread+0x4b/0x470
[1201401.795586]  kthread+0x110/0x150
[1201401.803089]  ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320
[1201401.812322]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
[1201401.820787]  ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150
[1201401.829635]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40

Ensure that the discard page allocation has a mempool backing, so we
know we can make progress.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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When boxes are run near (or to) OOM, we have a problem with the discard
page allocation in sd. If we fail allocating the special page, we return
busy, and it'll get retried. But since ordering is honored for dispatch
requests, we can keep retrying this same IO and failing. Behind that IO
could be requests that want to free memory, but they never get the
chance. This means you get repeated spews of traces like this:

[1201401.625972] Call Trace:
[1201401.631748]  dump_stack+0x4d/0x65
[1201401.639445]  warn_alloc+0xec/0x190
[1201401.647335]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xe84/0xf30
[1201401.657722]  ? get_page_from_freelist+0x11b/0xb10
[1201401.668475]  ? __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x2e/0xf30
[1201401.679054]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f9/0x210
[1201401.689424]  alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0x110
[1201401.699025]  sd_setup_write_same16_cmnd+0x51/0x150
[1201401.709987]  sd_init_command+0x49c/0xb70
[1201401.719029]  scsi_setup_cmnd+0x9c/0x160
[1201401.727877]  scsi_queue_rq+0x4d9/0x610
[1201401.736535]  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x19a/0x360
[1201401.747113]  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xff/0x190
[1201401.758844]  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x95/0xa0
[1201401.768653]  blk_mq_run_work_fn+0x2c/0x30
[1201401.777886]  process_one_work+0x14b/0x400
[1201401.787119]  worker_thread+0x4b/0x470
[1201401.795586]  kthread+0x110/0x150
[1201401.803089]  ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320
[1201401.812322]  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
[1201401.820787]  ? do_syscall_64+0x53/0x150
[1201401.829635]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40

Ensure that the discard page allocation has a mempool backing, so we
know we can make progress.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Introduce blk_revalidate_disk_zones()</title>
<updated>2018-10-25T17:17:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>damien.lemoal@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-12T10:08:50+00:00</published>
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Drivers exposing zoned block devices have to initialize and maintain
correctness (i.e. revalidate) of the device zone bitmaps attached to
the device request queue (seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock).

To simplify coding this, introduce a generic helper function
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() suitable for most (and likely all) cases.
This new function always update the seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock
bitmaps as well as the queue nr_zones field when called for a disk
using a request based queue. For a disk using a BIO based queue, only
the number of zones is updated since these queues do not have
schedulers and so do not need the zone bitmaps.

With this change, the zone bitmap initialization code in sd_zbc.c can be
replaced with a call to this function in sd_zbc_read_zones(), which is
called from the disk revalidate block operation method.

A call to blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is also added to the null_blk
driver for devices created with the zoned mode enabled.

Finally, to ensure that zoned devices created with dm-linear or
dm-flakey expose the correct number of zones through sysfs, a call to
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is added to dm_table_set_restrictions().

The zone bitmaps allocated and initialized with
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() are freed automatically from
__blk_release_queue() using the block internal function
blk_queue_free_zone_bitmaps().

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Drivers exposing zoned block devices have to initialize and maintain
correctness (i.e. revalidate) of the device zone bitmaps attached to
the device request queue (seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock).

To simplify coding this, introduce a generic helper function
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() suitable for most (and likely all) cases.
This new function always update the seq_zones_bitmap and seq_zones_wlock
bitmaps as well as the queue nr_zones field when called for a disk
using a request based queue. For a disk using a BIO based queue, only
the number of zones is updated since these queues do not have
schedulers and so do not need the zone bitmaps.

With this change, the zone bitmap initialization code in sd_zbc.c can be
replaced with a call to this function in sd_zbc_read_zones(), which is
called from the disk revalidate block operation method.

A call to blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is also added to the null_blk
driver for devices created with the zoned mode enabled.

Finally, to ensure that zoned devices created with dm-linear or
dm-flakey expose the correct number of zones through sysfs, a call to
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() is added to dm_table_set_restrictions().

The zone bitmaps allocated and initialized with
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() are freed automatically from
__blk_release_queue() using the block internal function
blk_queue_free_zone_bitmaps().

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a report_zones method</title>
<updated>2018-10-25T17:17:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-12T10:08:49+00:00</published>
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Dispatching a report zones command through the request queue is a major
pain due to the command reply payload rewriting necessary. Given that
blkdev_report_zones() is executing everything synchronously, implement
report zones as a block device file operation instead, allowing major
simplification of the code in many places.

sd, null-blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey being the only block device
drivers supporting exposing zoned block devices, these drivers are
modified to provide the device side implementation of the
report_zones() block device file operation.

For device mappers, a new report_zones() target type operation is
defined so that the upper block layer calls blkdev_report_zones() can
be propagated down to the underlying devices of the dm targets.
Implementation for this new operation is added to the dm-linear and
dm-flakey targets.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
[Damien]
* Changed method block_device argument to gendisk
* Various bug fixes and improvements
* Added support for null_blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Dispatching a report zones command through the request queue is a major
pain due to the command reply payload rewriting necessary. Given that
blkdev_report_zones() is executing everything synchronously, implement
report zones as a block device file operation instead, allowing major
simplification of the code in many places.

sd, null-blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey being the only block device
drivers supporting exposing zoned block devices, these drivers are
modified to provide the device side implementation of the
report_zones() block device file operation.

For device mappers, a new report_zones() target type operation is
defined so that the upper block layer calls blkdev_report_zones() can
be propagated down to the underlying devices of the dm targets.
Implementation for this new operation is added to the dm-linear and
dm-flakey targets.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
[Damien]
* Changed method block_device argument to gendisk
* Various bug fixes and improvements
* Added support for null_blk, dm-linear and dm-flakey.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v4.19-rc6' into for-4.20/block</title>
<updated>2018-10-01T14:58:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-01T14:58:57+00:00</published>
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Merge -rc6 in, for two reasons:

1) Resolve a trivial conflict in the blk-mq-tag.c documentation
2) A few important regression fixes went into upstream directly, so
   they aren't in the 4.20 branch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;

* tag 'v4.19-rc6': (780 commits)
  Linux 4.19-rc6
  MAINTAINERS: fix reference to moved drivers/{misc =&gt; auxdisplay}/panel.c
  cpufreq: qcom-kryo: Fix section annotations
  perf/core: Add sanity check to deal with pinned event failure
  xen/blkfront: correct purging of persistent grants
  Revert "xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change
  blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace
  dax: Fix deadlock in dax_lock_mapping_entry()
  x86/boot: Fix kexec booting failure in the SEV bit detection code
  bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid deadlock
  drm/amd/display: Fix Edid emulation for linux
  drm/amd/display: Fix Vega10 lightup on S3 resume
  drm/amdgpu: Fix vce work queue was not cancelled when suspend
  Revert "drm/panel: Add device_link from panel device to DRM device"
  xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-atmel-pit: Properly handle error cases
  block: fix deadline elevator drain for zoned block devices
  ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Don't scan for non-hotplug bridges if slot is not bridge
  drm/syncobj: Don't leak fences when WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT is set
  ...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Merge -rc6 in, for two reasons:

1) Resolve a trivial conflict in the blk-mq-tag.c documentation
2) A few important regression fixes went into upstream directly, so
   they aren't in the 4.20 branch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;

* tag 'v4.19-rc6': (780 commits)
  Linux 4.19-rc6
  MAINTAINERS: fix reference to moved drivers/{misc =&gt; auxdisplay}/panel.c
  cpufreq: qcom-kryo: Fix section annotations
  perf/core: Add sanity check to deal with pinned event failure
  xen/blkfront: correct purging of persistent grants
  Revert "xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change
  blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace
  dax: Fix deadlock in dax_lock_mapping_entry()
  x86/boot: Fix kexec booting failure in the SEV bit detection code
  bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid deadlock
  drm/amd/display: Fix Edid emulation for linux
  drm/amd/display: Fix Vega10 lightup on S3 resume
  drm/amdgpu: Fix vce work queue was not cancelled when suspend
  Revert "drm/panel: Add device_link from panel device to DRM device"
  xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer
  clocksource/drivers/timer-atmel-pit: Properly handle error cases
  block: fix deadline elevator drain for zoned block devices
  ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Don't scan for non-hotplug bridges if slot is not bridge
  drm/syncobj: Don't leak fences when WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT is set
  ...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: genhd: add 'groups' argument to device_add_disk</title>
<updated>2018-09-28T14:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T06:17:19+00:00</published>
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Update device_add_disk() to take an 'groups' argument so that
individual drivers can register a device with additional sysfs
attributes.
This avoids race condition the driver would otherwise have if these
groups were to be created with sysfs_add_groups().

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;martin.wilck@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Update device_add_disk() to take an 'groups' argument so that
individual drivers can register a device with additional sysfs
attributes.
This avoids race condition the driver would otherwise have if these
groups were to be created with sysfs_add_groups().

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;martin.wilck@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Move power management code into a new source file</title>
<updated>2018-09-26T21:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-26T21:01:03+00:00</published>
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Move the code for runtime power management from blk-core.c into the
new source file blk-pm.c. Move the corresponding declarations from
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; into &lt;linux/blk-pm.h&gt;. For CONFIG_PM=n, leave out
the declarations of the functions that are not used in that mode.
This patch not only reduces the number of #ifdefs in the block layer
core code but also reduces the size of header file &lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt;
and hence should help to reduce the build time of the Linux kernel
if CONFIG_PM is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jianchao Wang &lt;jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Move the code for runtime power management from blk-core.c into the
new source file blk-pm.c. Move the corresponding declarations from
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; into &lt;linux/blk-pm.h&gt;. For CONFIG_PM=n, leave out
the declarations of the functions that are not used in that mode.
This patch not only reduces the number of #ifdefs in the block layer
core code but also reduces the size of header file &lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt;
and hence should help to reduce the build time of the Linux kernel
if CONFIG_PM is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jianchao Wang &lt;jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: sd: don't crash the host on invalid commands</title>
<updated>2018-09-21T16:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Thumshirn</name>
<email>jthumshirn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-21T07:01:01+00:00</published>
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When sd_init_command() get's a command with a unknown req_op() it crashes the
system via BUG().

This makes debugging the actual reason for the broken request cmd_flags pretty
hard as the system is down before it's able to write out debugging data on the
serial console or the trace buffer.

Change the BUG() to a WARN_ON() and return BLKPREP_KILL to fail gracefully and
return an I/O error to the producer of the request.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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When sd_init_command() get's a command with a unknown req_op() it crashes the
system via BUG().

This makes debugging the actual reason for the broken request cmd_flags pretty
hard as the system is down before it's able to write out debugging data on the
serial console or the trace buffer.

Change the BUG() to a WARN_ON() and return BLKPREP_KILL to fail gracefully and
return an I/O error to the producer of the request.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device</title>
<updated>2018-09-17T06:57:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xuewei Zhang</name>
<email>xueweiz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-06T20:37:19+00:00</published>
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Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it uses
blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with blk-mq, it make
sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these cases. This is
especially important for virtual machines.

commit b5b6e8c8d3b4 ("scsi: virtio_scsi: fix IO hang caused by automatic irq
vector affinity") made all virtio-scsi device to use blk-mq, which does not
contribute to randomness today. So for a virtual machine only having
virtio-scsi disk (which is common), it will simple stop getting randomness
from its disks in today's implementation.

With this patch, if the above VM has rotational virtio-scsi device, then it
can still benefit from the entropy generated from the disk.

Reported-by: Xuewei Zhang &lt;xueweiz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xuewei Zhang &lt;xueweiz@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it uses
blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with blk-mq, it make
sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these cases. This is
especially important for virtual machines.

commit b5b6e8c8d3b4 ("scsi: virtio_scsi: fix IO hang caused by automatic irq
vector affinity") made all virtio-scsi device to use blk-mq, which does not
contribute to randomness today. So for a virtual machine only having
virtio-scsi disk (which is common), it will simple stop getting randomness
from its disks in today's implementation.

With this patch, if the above VM has rotational virtio-scsi device, then it
can still benefit from the entropy generated from the disk.

Reported-by: Xuewei Zhang &lt;xueweiz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xuewei Zhang &lt;xueweiz@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maciej Żenczykowski &lt;maze@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax</title>
<updated>2018-08-26T18:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-26T18:48:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aba16dc5cf9318b4e0fe92f8261779cd9f1d2d77'/>
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Pull IDA updates from Matthew Wilcox:
 "A better IDA API:

      id = ida_alloc(ida, GFP_xxx);
      ida_free(ida, id);

  rather than the cumbersome ida_simple_get(), ida_simple_remove().

  The new IDA API is similar to ida_simple_get() but better named.  The
  internal restructuring of the IDA code removes the bitmap
  preallocation nonsense.

  I hope the net -200 lines of code is convincing"

* 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (29 commits)
  ida: Change ida_get_new_above to return the id
  ida: Remove old API
  test_ida: check_ida_destroy and check_ida_alloc
  test_ida: Convert check_ida_conv to new API
  test_ida: Move ida_check_max
  test_ida: Move ida_check_leaf
  idr-test: Convert ida_check_nomem to new API
  ida: Start new test_ida module
  target/iscsi: Allocate session IDs from an IDA
  iscsi target: fix session creation failure handling
  drm/vmwgfx: Convert to new IDA API
  dmaengine: Convert to new IDA API
  ppc: Convert vas ID allocation to new IDA API
  media: Convert entity ID allocation to new IDA API
  ppc: Convert mmu context allocation to new IDA API
  Convert net_namespace to new IDA API
  cb710: Convert to new IDA API
  rsxx: Convert to new IDA API
  osd: Convert to new IDA API
  sd: Convert to new IDA API
  ...
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<pre>
Pull IDA updates from Matthew Wilcox:
 "A better IDA API:

      id = ida_alloc(ida, GFP_xxx);
      ida_free(ida, id);

  rather than the cumbersome ida_simple_get(), ida_simple_remove().

  The new IDA API is similar to ida_simple_get() but better named.  The
  internal restructuring of the IDA code removes the bitmap
  preallocation nonsense.

  I hope the net -200 lines of code is convincing"

* 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax: (29 commits)
  ida: Change ida_get_new_above to return the id
  ida: Remove old API
  test_ida: check_ida_destroy and check_ida_alloc
  test_ida: Convert check_ida_conv to new API
  test_ida: Move ida_check_max
  test_ida: Move ida_check_leaf
  idr-test: Convert ida_check_nomem to new API
  ida: Start new test_ida module
  target/iscsi: Allocate session IDs from an IDA
  iscsi target: fix session creation failure handling
  drm/vmwgfx: Convert to new IDA API
  dmaengine: Convert to new IDA API
  ppc: Convert vas ID allocation to new IDA API
  media: Convert entity ID allocation to new IDA API
  ppc: Convert mmu context allocation to new IDA API
  Convert net_namespace to new IDA API
  cb710: Convert to new IDA API
  rsxx: Convert to new IDA API
  osd: Convert to new IDA API
  sd: Convert to new IDA API
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sd: Convert to new IDA API</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T03:54:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-11T19:26:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9401508012e2044ce841a57bc453c5746b671851'/>
<id>9401508012e2044ce841a57bc453c5746b671851</id>
<content type='text'>
Allows us to remove an explicit spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<pre>
Allows us to remove an explicit spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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