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    block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices · b49773e7
    Damien Le Moal authored
    Simultaneously writing to a sequential zone of a zoned block device
    from multiple contexts requires mutual exclusion for BIO issuing to
    ensure that writes happen sequentially. However, even for a well
    behaved user correctly implementing such synchronization, BIO plugging
    may interfere and result in BIOs from the different contextx to be
    reordered if plugging is done outside of the mutual exclusion section,
    e.g. the plug was started by a function higher in the call chain than
    the function issuing BIOs.
    
             Context A                     Context B
    
       | blk_start_plug()
       | ...
       | seq_write_zone()
         | mutex_lock(zone)
         | bio-0->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp
         | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-0)
         | submit_bio(bio-0)
         | bio-1->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp
         | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-1)
         | submit_bio(bio-1)
         | mutex_unlock(zone)
         | return
       | -----------------------> | seq_write_zone()
      				| mutex_lock(zone)
         				| bio-2->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp
         				| zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-2)
    				| submit_bio(bio-2)
    				| mutex_unlock(zone)
       | <------------------------- |
       | blk_finish_plug()
    
    In the above example, despite the mutex synchronization ensuring the
    correct BIO issuing order 0, 1, 2, context A BIOs 0 and 1 end up being
    issued after BIO 2 of context B, when the plug is released with
    blk_finish_plug().
    
    While this problem can be addressed using the blk_flush_plug_list()
    function (in the above example, the call must be inserted before the
    zone mutex lock is released), a simple generic solution in the block
    layer avoid this additional code in all zoned block device user code.
    The simple generic solution implemented with this patch is to introduce
    the internal helper function blk_mq_plug() to access the current
    context plug on BIO submission. This helper returns the current plug
    only if the target device is not a zoned block device or if the BIO to
    be plugged is not a write operation. Otherwise, the caller context plug
    is ignored and NULL returned, resulting is all writes to zoned block
    device to never be plugged.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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