- 10 May, 2013 10 commits
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Alasdair G Kergon authored
Correct the documented requirement on the return code from dm cache policy lookup functions stated in the policy module header file. Signed-off-by:Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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Alasdair G Kergon authored
Document iterate_devices in device-mapper.h. Signed-off-by: -
Joe Thornber authored
Fix some typos in dm-space-map-metadata.c error messages. Signed-off-by:
Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Thornber authored
Tune the dm cache migration throttling. i) Issue a tick every second, just in case there's no i/o going through. ii) Drop the migration threshold right down to something suitable for background work. Signed-off-by:
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Mike Snitzer authored
Enable WRITE SAME support in dm multipath. As far as multipath is concerned it is just another write request. Signed-off-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Snitzer authored
If device_not_write_same_capable() returns true then the iterate_devices loop in dm_table_supports_write_same() should return false. Reported-by:
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Mikulas Patocka authored
This patch uses memalloc_noio_save to avoid a possible deadlock in dm-bufio. (it could happen only with large block size, at most PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER (typically 8MiB). __vmalloc doesn't fully respect gfp flags. The specified gfp flags are used for allocation of requested pages, structures vmap_area, vmap_block and vm_struct and the radix tree nodes. However, the kernel pagetables are allocated always with GFP_KERNEL. Thus the allocation of pagetables can recurse back to the I/O layer and cause a deadlock. This patch uses the function memalloc_noio_save to set per-process PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag and the function memalloc_noio_restore to restore it. When this flag is set, all allocations in the process are done with implied GFP_NOIO flag, thus the deadlock can't happen. This should be backported to stable kernels, but they don't have the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag and memalloc_noio_save/memalloc_noio_restore functions. So, PF_MEMALLOC should be set and restored instead. Signed-off-by:
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yongjun authored
Return -ENOMEM instead of success if unable to allocate pending exception mempool in snapshot_ctr. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yongjun authored
Return -ENOMEM if memory allocation fails in cache_create instead of 0 (to avoid NULL pointer dereference). Signed-off-by:
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Mike Snitzer authored
Fix a regression in the calculation of the stripe_width in the dm stripe target which led to incorrect processing of device limits. The stripe_width is the stripe device length divided by the number of stripes. The group of commits in the range f14fa693 ("dm stripe: fix size test") to eb850de6 ("dm stripe: support for non power of 2 chunksize") interfered with each other (a merging error) and led to the stripe_width being set incorrectly to the stripe device length divided by chunk_size * stripe_count. For example, a stripe device's table with: 0 33553920 striped 3 512 ... should result in a stripe_width of 11184640 (33553920 / 3), but due to the bug it was getting set to 21845 (33553920 / (512 * 3)). The impact of this bug is that device topologies that previously worked fine with the stripe target are no longer considered valid. In particular, there is a higher risk of seeing this issue if one of the stripe devices has a 4K logical block size. Resulting in an error message like this: "device-mapper: table: 253:4: len=21845 not aligned to h/w logical block size 4096 of dm-1" The fix is to swap the order of the divisions and to use a temporary variable for the second one, so that width retains the intended value. Signed-off-by:
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- 08 May, 2013 30 commits
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of drivers are touched. The pull request contains: - mtip32xx fixes from Micron. - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series. - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent. - Fixes for cciss" * 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits) bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder() bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock. mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester bcache: Fix a format string overflow bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown bcache: Documentation updates bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN() bcache: Add missing #include <linux/prefetch.h> ...
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe: - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs. - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue bypass operation. - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging discard bios. - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic workqueue mechanism. - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James' tree. - A few random fixes. * 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits) relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read() block: fix max discard sectors limit blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list aoe: Fix unitialized var usage bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec block: Add bio_alloc_pages() block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all() block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all() bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec raid1: use bio_copy_data() pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data() block: Add bio_copy_data() ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton: - Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently - A large rotorooting of the AIO code. Allegedly to improve performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today. I held this out of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary. I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting. I left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later. - Linus * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (33 commits) aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h aio: kill ki_retry aio: kill ki_key aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines aio: kill struct aio_ring_info aio: kill batch allocation aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions aio: use cancellation list lazily aio: use flush_dcache_page() aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout() aio: refcounting cleanup aio: make aio_put_req() lockless aio: do fget() after aio_get_req() aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug() aio: move private stuff out of aio.h aio: add kiocb_cancel() aio: kill return value of aio_complete() char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero} aio: remove retry-based AIO ... -
Kent Overstreet authored
Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by:
Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kent Overstreet authored
Thanks to Zach Brown's work to rip out the retry infrastructure, we don't need this anymore - ki_retry was only called right after the kiocb was initialized. This also refactors and trims some duplicated code, as well as cleaning up the refcounting/error handling a bit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use fmode_t in aio_run_iocb()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix file_start_write/file_end_write tests] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
ki_key wasn't actually used for anything previously - it was always 0. Drop it to trim struct kiocb a bit. Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make reqs_active __cacheline_aligned_in_smp] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
struct aio_ring_info was kind of odd, the only place it's used is where it's embedded in struct kioctx - there's no real need for it. The next patch rearranges struct kioctx and puts various things on their own cachelines - getting rid of struct aio_ring_info now makes that reordering a bit clearer. Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Previously, allocating a kiocb required touching quite a few global (well, per kioctx) cachelines... so batching up allocation to amortize those was worthwhile. But we've gotten rid of some of those, and in another couple of patches kiocb allocation won't require writing to any shared cachelines, so that means we can just rip this code out. Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
The aio code tries really hard to avoid having to deal with the completion ringbuffer overflowing. To do that, it has to keep track of the number of outstanding kiocbs, and the number of completions currently in the ringbuffer - and it's got to check that every time we allocate a kiocb. Ouch. But - we can improve this quite a bit if we just change reqs_active to mean "number of outstanding requests and unreaped completions" - that means kiocb allocation doesn't have to look at the ringbuffer, which is a fairly significant win. Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Cancelling kiocbs requires adding them to a per kioctx linked list, which is one of the few things we need to take the kioctx lock for in the fast path. But most kiocbs can't be cancelled - so if we just do this lazily, we can avoid quite a bit of locking overhead. While we're at it, instead of using a flag bit switch to using ki_cancel itself to indicate that a kiocb has been cancelled/completed. This lets us get rid of ki_flags entirely. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove buggy BUG()] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
This wasn't causing problems before because it's not needed on x86, but it is needed on other architectures. Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Previously, aio_read_event() pulled a single completion off the ringbuffer at a time, locking and unlocking each time. Change it to pull off as many events as it can at a time, and copy them directly to userspace. This also fixes a bug where if copying the event to userspace failed, we'd lose the event. Also convert it to wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout(), which simplifies it quite a bit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Analagous to wait_event_timeout() and friends, this adds wait_event_hrtimeout() and wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout(). Note that unlike the versions that use regular timers, these don't return the amount of time remaining when they return - instead, they return 0 or -ETIME if they timed out. because I was uncomfortable with the semantics of doing it the other way (that I could get it right, anyways). If the timer expires, there's no real guarantee that expire_time - current_time would be <= 0 - due to timer slack certainly, and I'm not sure I want to know the implications of the different clock bases in hrtimers. If the timer does expire and the code calculates that the time remaining is nonnegative, that could be even worse if the calling code then reuses that timeout. Probably safer to just return 0 then, but I could imagine weird bugs or at least unintended behaviour arising from that too. I came to the conclusion that if other users end up actually needing the amount of time remaining, the sanest thing to do would be to create a version that uses absolute timeouts instead of relative. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix description of `timeout' arg] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
The usage of ctx->dead was fubar - it makes no sense to explicitly check it all over the place, especially when we're already using RCU. Now, ctx->dead only indicates whether we've dropped the initial refcount. The new teardown sequence is: set ctx->dead hlist_del_rcu(); synchronize_rcu(); Now we know no system calls can take a new ref, and it's safe to drop the initial ref: put_ioctx(); We also need to ensure there are no more outstanding kiocbs. This was done incorrectly - it was being done in kill_ctx(), and before dropping the initial refcount. At this point, other syscalls may still be submitting kiocbs! Now, we cancel and wait for outstanding kiocbs in free_ioctx(), after kioctx->users has dropped to 0 and we know no more iocbs could be submitted. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Freeing a kiocb needed to touch the kioctx for three things: * Pull it off the reqs_active list * Decrementing reqs_active * Issuing a wakeup, if the kioctx was in the process of being freed. This patch moves these to aio_complete(), for a couple reasons: * aio_complete() already has to issue the wakeup, so if we drop the kioctx refcount before aio_complete does its wakeup we don't have to do it twice. * aio_complete currently has to take the kioctx lock, so it makes sense for it to pull the kiocb off the reqs_active list too. * A later patch is going to change reqs_active to include unreaped completions - this will mean allocating a kiocb doesn't have to look at the ringbuffer. So taking the decrement of reqs_active out of kiocb_free() is useful prep work for that patch. This doesn't really affect cancellation, since existing (usb) code that implements a cancel function still calls aio_complete() - we just have to make sure that aio_complete does the necessary teardown for cancelled kiocbs. It does affect code paths where we free kiocbs that were never submitted; they need to decrement reqs_active and pull the kiocb off the reqs_active list. This occurs in two places: kiocb_batch_free(), which is going away in a later patch, and the error path in io_submit_one. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
aio_get_req() will fail if we have the maximum number of requests outstanding, which depending on the application may not be uncommon. So avoid doing an unnecessary fget(). Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
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Kent Overstreet authored
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Kent Overstreet authored
Minor refactoring, to get rid of some duplicated code [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
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Kent Overstreet authored
Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()). Just kill it. Signed-off-by:
Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Acked-by:
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Zach Brown authored
These are handy for measuring the cost of the aio infrastructure with operations that do very little and complete immediately. Signed-off-by:
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Zach Brown authored
This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Zach Brown authored
This removes the only in-tree user of aio retry. This will let us remove the retry code from the aio core. Removing retry is relatively easy as the USB gadget wasn't using it to retry IOs at all. It always fully submitted the IO in the context of the initial io_submit() call. It only used the AIO retry facility to get the submitter's mm context for copying the result of a read back to user space. This is easy to implement with use_mm() and a work struct, much like kvm does with async_pf_execute() for get_user_pages(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Zach Brown authored
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Zach Brown authored
Bunch of performance improvements and cleanups Zach Brown and I have been working on. The code should be pretty solid at this point, though it could of course use more review and testing. The results in my testing are pretty impressive, particularly when an ioctx is being shared between multiple threads. In my crappy synthetic benchmark, with 4 threads submitting and one thread reaping completions, I saw overhead in the aio code go from ~50% (mostly ioctx lock contention) to low single digits. Performance with ioctx per thread improved too, but I'd have to rerun those benchmarks. The reason I've been focused on performance when the ioctx is shared is that for a fair number of real world completions, userspace needs the completions aggregated somehow - in practice people just end up implementing this aggregation in userspace today, but if it's done right we can do it much more efficiently in the kernel. Performance wise, the end result of this patch series is that submitting a kiocb writes to _no_ shared cachelines - the penalty for sharing an ioctx is gone there. There's still going to be some cacheline contention when we deliver the completions to the aio ringbuffer (at least if you have interrupts being delivered on multiple cores, which for high end stuff you do) but I have a couple more patches not in this series that implement coalescing for that (by taking advantage of interrupt coalescing). With that, there's basically no bottlenecks or performance issues to speak of in the aio code. This patch: use_mm() is used in more places than just aio. There's no need to mention callers when describing the function. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
After finishing a naming transition, remove unused backward compatibility wrapper macros Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random number generator. Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random number generator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert team_mode_random.c] Signed-off-by:
Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex] Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Cc: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch> Cc: Jean-Paul Roubelat <jpr@f6fbb.org> Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com> Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by:
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