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2015-11-06mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapdMel Gorman1-13/+13
__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 <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10Merge branch 'for-4.3/blkcg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
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() ...
2015-09-02Merge branch 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-134/+78
Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe: "This first core part of the block IO changes contains: - Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph. We used to rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we store the error in the bio itself. - Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64. - Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again, from Jeff Moyer. This caused performance regressions in various tests. Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size instead. - Make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me. Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies when deleting files. Enable the admin to configure the size down. We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX sectors. - Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch. - Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot path). From Kent. - Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it faster. From Ming Lei. - Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race condition. - Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward for a while, and testing them. Ming also did a few fixes around that. - Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by the bio->bi_error changes from Christoph. - Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar" * 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits) blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560 Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap" blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending' Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs() fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same} btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code block: simplify bio_add_page() block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put() block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again ...
2015-08-19block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits maskKeith Busch1-2/+1
The SG_GAPS queue flag caused checks for bio vector alignment against PAGE_SIZE, but the device may have different constraints. This patch adds a queue limits so a driver with such constraints can set to allow requests that would have been unnecessarily split. The new gaps check takes the request_queue as a parameter to simplify the logic around invoking this function. This new limit makes the queue flag redundant, so removing it and all usage. Device-mappers will inherit the correct settings through blk_stack_limits(). Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-18blkcg: rename subsystem name from blkio to ioTejun Heo1-1/+1
blkio interface has become messy over time and is currently the largest. In addition to the inconsistent naming scheme, it has multiple stat files which report more or less the same thing, a number of debug stat files which expose internal details which shouldn't have been part of the public interface in the first place, recursive and non-recursive stats and leaf and non-leaf knobs. Both recursive vs. non-recursive and leaf vs. non-leaf distinctions don't make any sense on the unified hierarchy as only leaf cgroups can contain processes. cgroups is going through a major interface revision with the unified hierarchy involving significant fundamental usage changes and given that a significant portion of the interface doesn't make sense anymore, it's a good time to reorganize the interface. As the first step, this patch renames the external visible subsystem name from "blkio" to "io". This is more concise, matches the other two major subsystem names, "cpu" and "memory", and better suited as blkcg will be involved in anything writeback related too whether an actual block device is involved or not. As the subsystem legacy_name is set to "blkio", the only userland visible change outside the unified hierarchy is that blkcg is reported as "io" instead of "blkio" in the subsystem initialized message during boot. On the unified hierarchy, blkcg now appears as "io". Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-13block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()Kent Overstreet1-23/+0
We can always fill up the bio now, no need to estimate the possible size based on queue parameters. Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> [hch: rebased and wrote a changelog] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-08-13block: simplify bio_add_page()Kent Overstreet1-80/+55
Since generic_make_request() can now handle arbitrary size bios, all we have to do is make sure the bvec array doesn't overflow. __bio_add_page() doesn't need to call ->merge_bvec_fn(), where we can get rid of unnecessary code paths. Removing the call to ->merge_bvec_fn() is also fine, as no driver that implements support for BLOCK_PC commands even has a ->merge_bvec_fn() method. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> [dpark: rebase and resolve merge conflicts, change a couple of comments, make bio_add_page() warn once upon a cloned bio.] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-29block: manipulate bio->bi_flags through helpersJens Axboe1-7/+7
Some places use helpers now, others don't. We only have the 'is set' helper, add helpers for setting and clearing flags too. It was a bit of a mess of atomic vs non-atomic access. With BIO_UPTODATE gone, we don't have any risk of concurrent access to the flags. So relax the restriction and don't make any of them atomic. The flags that do have serialization issues (reffed and chained), we already handle those separately. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-29block: add a bi_error field to struct bioChristoph Hellwig1-25/+18
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-23block: Do a full clone when splitting discard biosMartin K. Petersen1-3/+12
This fixes a data corruption bug when using discard on top of MD linear, raid0 and raid10 personalities. Commit 20d0189b1012 "block: Introduce new bio_split()" permits sharing the bio_vec between the two resulting bios. That is fine for read/write requests where the bio_vec is immutable. For discards, however, we need to be able to attach a payload and update the bio_vec so the page can get mapped to a scatterlist entry. Therefore the bio_vec can not be shared when splitting discards and we must do a full clone. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reported-by: Seunguk Shin <seunguk.shin@samsung.com> Tested-by: Seunguk Shin <seunguk.shin@samsung.com> Cc: Seunguk Shin <seunguk.shin@samsung.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+ Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-07-23block: export bio_associate_*() and wbc_account_io()Tejun Heo1-0/+2
bio_associate_blkcg(), bio_associate_current() and wbc_account_io() are used to implement cgroup writeback support for filesystems and thus need to be exported. Export them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02blkcg: implement bio_associate_blkcg()Tejun Heo1-1/+23
Currently, a bio can only be associated with the io_context and blkcg of %current using bio_associate_current(). This is too restrictive for cgroup writeback support. Implement bio_associate_blkcg() which associates a bio with the specified blkcg. bio_associate_blkcg() leaves the io_context unassociated. bio_associate_current() is updated so that it considers a bio as already associated if it has a blkcg_css, instead of an io_context, associated with it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02cgroup, block: implement task_get_css() and use it in bio_associate_current()Tejun Heo1-10/+1
bio_associate_current() currently open codes task_css() and css_tryget_online() to find and pin $current's blkcg css. Abstract it into task_get_css() which is implemented from cgroup side. As a task is always associated with an online css for every subsystem except while the css_set update is propagating, task_get_css() retries till css_tryget_online() succeeds. This is a cleanup and shouldn't lead to noticeable behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-22block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_ioMike Snitzer1-21/+14
Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern: 1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io 2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io 3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io 4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if bio_inc_remaining() is called. For the above pattern it isn't set until step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN). As such the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with the value 1 instead of 0. When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step 3 it brought it to a value of 2. When the second bio_endio() was called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set upfront). Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining. For the above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called! Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface. Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c. Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains") Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-05bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_cnt for most use casesJens Axboe1-7/+11
Struct bio has a reference count that controls when it can be freed. Most uses cases is allocating the bio, which then returns with a single reference to it, doing IO, and then dropping that single reference. We can remove this atomic_dec_and_test() in the completion path, if nobody else is holding a reference to the bio. If someone does call bio_get() on the bio, then we flag the bio as now having valid count and that we must properly honor the reference count when it's being put. Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-05bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chainsJens Axboe1-9/+29
Struct bio has an atomic ref count for chained bio's, and we use this to know when to end IO on the bio. However, most bio's are not chained, so we don't need to always introduce this atomic operation as part of ending IO. Add a helper to elevate the bi_remaining count, and flag the bio as now actually needing the decrement at end_io time. Rename the field to __bi_remaining to catch any current users of this doing the incrementing manually. For high IOPS workloads, this reduces the overhead of bio_endio() substantially. Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()Dongsu Park1-34/+56
Rewrite __bio_copy_iov using the copy_page_{from,to}_iter helpers, and split it into two simpler functions. This commit should contain only literal replacements, without functional changes. Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com> [hch: removed the __bio_copy_iov wrapper] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iovChristoph Hellwig1-36/+20
And also remove the unused bdev argument. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kernChristoph Hellwig1-33/+17
This saves a little code, and allow to simplify the error handling. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functionsKent Overstreet1-79/+67
Make use of a new interface provided by iov_iter, backed by scatter-gather list of iovec, instead of the old interface based on sg_iovec. Also use iov_iter_advance() instead of manual iteration. This commit should contain only literal replacements, without functional changes. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> [dpark: add more description in commit message] Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com> [hch: fixed to do a deep clone of the iov_iter, and to properly use the iov_iter direction] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pagesChristoph Hellwig1-32/+33
The code sniplet to walk all bio_vecs and free their pages is opencoded in way to many places, so factor it into a helper. Also convert the slightly more complex cases in bio_kern_endio and __bio_copy_iov where we break the freeing from an existing loop into a separate one. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_userChristoph Hellwig1-52/+1
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-02-05block: simplify bio_map_kernChristoph Hellwig1-16/+44
Just open code the trivial mapping from a kernel virtual address to a bio instead of going through the complex user address mapping machinery. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-12-11bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segmentMaurizio Lombardi1-24/+30
The original behaviour is to refuse to add a new page if the maximum number of segments has been reached, regardless of the fact the page we are going to add can be merged into the last segment or not. Unfortunately, when the system runs under heavy memory fragmentation conditions, a driver may try to add multiple pages to the last segment. The original code won't accept them and EBUSY will be reported to userspace. This patch modifies the function so it refuses to add a page only in case the latter starts a new segment and the maximum number of segments has already been reached. The bug can be easily reproduced with the st driver: 1) set CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS_MAX_SGE or CONFIG_SCSI_MPT3SAS_MAX_SGE to 16 2) modprobe st buffer_kbs=1024 3) #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=1M count=10 dd: error writing `/dev/st0': Device or resource busy Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-11-24blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help functionGu Zheng1-0/+28
Many block drivers accounting io stat based on bio (e.g. NVMe...), the blk_account_io_start/end() which is based on request does not make sense to them, so here we introduce the similar help function named generic_start/end_io_acct base on raw sectors, and it can simplify some driver's open io accounting code. Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-10-03block: add bioset_create_nobvec()Junichi Nomura1-17/+44
Users of bio_clone_fast() do not want bios with their own bvecs. Allocating a bvec mempool as part of the bioset intended for such users is a waste of memory. bioset_create_nobvec() creates a bioset that doesn't have the bvec mempool. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-08-01block: use kmalloc alignment for bio slabMikulas Patocka1-1/+2
Various subsystems can ask the bio subsystem to create a bio slab cache with some free space before the bio. This free space can be used for any purpose. Device mapper uses this per-bio-data feature to place some target-specific and device-mapper specific data before the bio, so that the target-specific data doesn't have to be allocated separately. This per-bio-data mechanism is used in place of kmalloc, so we need the allocated slab to have the same memory alignment as memory allocated with kmalloc. Change bio_find_or_create_slab() so that it uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN alignment when creating the slab cache. This is needed so that dm-crypt can use per-bio-data for encryption - the crypto subsystem assumes this data will have the same alignment as kmalloc'ed memory. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-06-24block: add support for limiting gaps in SG listsJens Axboe1-0/+8
Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the previous SG entry doesn't end on a page boundary. For NVMe, all SG entries must start at offset 0 (except the first) and end on a page boundary (except the last). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-06-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+7
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe: "Final small batch of fixes to be included before -rc1. Some general cleanups in here as well, but some of the blk-mq fixes we need for the NVMe conversion and/or scsi-mq. The pull request contains: - Support for not merging across a specified "chunk size", if set by the driver. Some NVMe devices perform poorly for IO that crosses such a chunk, so we need to support it generically as part of request merging avoid having to do complicated split logic. From me. - Bump max tag depth to 10Ki tags. Some scsi devices have a huge shared tag space. Before we failed with EINVAL if a too large tag depth was specified, now we truncate it and pass back the actual value. From me. - Various blk-mq rq init fixes from me and others. - A fix for enter on a dying queue for blk-mq from Keith. This is needed to prevent oopsing on hot device removal. - Fixup for blk-mq timer addition from Ming Lei. - Small round of performance fixes for mtip32xx from Sam Bradshaw. - Minor stack leak fix from Rickard Strandqvist. - Two __init annotations from Fabian Frederick" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: add __init to blkcg_policy_register block: add __init to elv_register block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio blk-mq: add timer in blk_mq_start_request blk-mq: always initialize request->start_time block: blk-exec.c: Cleaning up local variable address returnd mtip32xx: minor performance enhancements blk-mq: ->timeout should be cleared in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init() blk-mq: don't allow queue entering for a dying queue blk-mq: bump max tag depth to 10K tags block: add blk_rq_set_block_pc() block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging
2014-06-10block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bioJens Axboe1-1/+6
With commit 762380ad9322 added support for chunk sizes and no merging across them, it broke the rule of always allowing adding of a single page to an empty bio. So relax the restriction a bit to allow for that, similarly to what we have always done. This fixes a crash with mkfs.xfs and 512b sector sizes on NVMe. Reported-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-06-09Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and rationales of the the unified hierarchy Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is added. Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be used to simplify memcg significantly" * 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits) cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy cgroup: don't destroy the default root cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries cgroup: implement css_tryget() device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children() cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: remove cgroup->parent device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child() memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty() cgroup: remove css_parent() cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting ...
2014-06-05block: add notion of a chunk size for request mergingJens Axboe1-1/+2
Some drivers have different limits on what size a request should optimally be, depending on the offset of the request. Similar to dividing a device into chunks. Add a setting that allows the driver to inform the block layer of such a chunk size. The block layer will then prevent merging across the chunks. This is needed to optimally support NVMe with a non-zero stripe size. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-05-19block: move bio.c and bio-integrity.c from fs/ to block/Jens Axboe1-0/+2038
They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script gets it wrong when in fs/. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>