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2013-07-04Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds2-1/+2
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity. - About half the MM queue - Some backlight bits - Various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - zillions more little rtc patches - ptrace - signals - exec - procfs - rapidio - nbd - aoe - pps - memstick - tools/testing/selftests updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits) tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile selftests: add .gitignore for vm selftests: add hugetlbfstest self-test: fix make clean selftests: exit 1 on failure kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete() drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool aoe: update internal version number to v83 aoe: update copyright date aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel ...
2013-07-04block: do not pass disk names as format stringsKees Cook1-1/+1
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0. CVE-2013-2851 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-04block/compat_ioctl.c: do not leak info to user-spaceCong Wang1-0/+1
There is a hole in struct hd_geometry, so we have to zero the struct on stack before copying it to user-space. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: "This is the bulk of the s390 patches for the 3.11 merge window. Notable enhancements are: the block timeout patches for dasd from Hannes, and more work on the PCI support front. In addition some cleanup and the usual bug fixing." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits) s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set s390/dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out() block/dasd: detailed I/O errors s390/dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors s390/dasd: Implement block timeout handling s390/dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet s390/dasd: make number of retries configurable s390/dasd: Clarify comment s390/hwsampler: Updated misleading member names in hws_data_entry s390/appldata_net_sum: do not use static data s390/appldata_mem: do not use static data s390/vmwatchdog: do not use static data s390/airq: simplify adapter interrupt code s390/pci: remove per device debug attribute s390/dma: remove gratuitous brackets s390/facility: decompose test_facility() s390/sclp: remove duplicated include from sclp_ctl.c s390/irq: store interrupt information in pt_regs s390/drivers: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch" ...
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds3-6/+12
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up changes necessary at this point. The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh. This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions less effective. Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes." * 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq block: queue work on power efficient wq PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
2013-07-01block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out()Hannes Reinecke1-2/+3
rq_timed_out_fn might have been unset while the request was in flight, so we need to check for it in blk_rq_timed_out(). Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-07-01block/dasd: detailed I/O errorsHannes Reinecke1-0/+3
The DASD driver is using FASTFAIL as an equivalent to the transport errors in SCSI. And the 'steal lock' function maps roughly to a reservation error. So we should be returning the appropriate error codes when completing a request. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-05-17blkpm: avoid sleep when holding queue lockAaron Lu1-1/+1
In blk_post_runtime_resume, an autosuspend request will be initiated for the device. Since we are holding the queue lock, we can't sleep and thus we should use the async version to initiate an autosuspend, i.e. pm_request_suspend instead of pm_runtime_suspend, which might sleep. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-05-14block: queue work on power efficient wqViresh Kumar3-6/+12
Block layer uses workqueues for multiple purposes. There is no real dependency of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them. On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one. This patch replaces normal workqueues with power efficient versions. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-05-08Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds6-79/+229
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() ...
2013-05-08aio: don't include aio.h in sched.hKent Overstreet1-0/+1
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>
2013-05-03Merge tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull virtio & lguest updates from Rusty Russell: "Lots of virtio work which wasn't quite ready for last merge window. Plus I dived into lguest again, reworking the pagetable code so we can move the switcher page: our fixmaps sometimes take more than 2MB now..." Ugh. Annoying conflicts with the tcm_vhost -> vhost_scsi rename. Hopefully correctly resolved. * tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (57 commits) caif_virtio: Remove bouncing email addresses lguest: improve code readability in lg_cpu_start. virtio-net: fill only rx queues which are being used lguest: map Switcher below fixmap. lguest: cache last cpu we ran on. lguest: map Switcher text whenever we allocate a new pagetable. lguest: don't share Switcher PTE pages between guests. lguest: expost switcher_pages array (as lg_switcher_pages). lguest: extract shadow PTE walking / allocating. lguest: make check_gpte et. al return bool. lguest: assume Switcher text is a single page. lguest: rename switcher_page to switcher_pages. lguest: remove RESERVE_MEM constant. lguest: check vaddr not pgd for Switcher protection. lguest: prepare to make SWITCHER_ADDR a variable. virtio: console: replace EMFILE with EBUSY for already-open port virtio-scsi: reset virtqueue affinity when doing cpu hotplug virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support virtio-scsi: push vq lock/unlock into virtscsi_vq_done virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function ...
2013-04-30partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc'sPhilippe De Muyter1-2/+2
In alloc_read_gpt_entries and alloc_read_gpt_header, the kzalloc'ated zones are either totally overwritten by the following read_lba call, or freed. As kmalloc is cheaper than kzalloc, use kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-3.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete. cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path(). - device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu. - perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy. - A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately, cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled implicitly along with unified hierarchy. The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm), which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without introducing a full separate set of control knobs. This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that it's supportable in the long term. Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able to drop it in a decade. Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun. * 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits) cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn() cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll() cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs cgroup: fix broken file xattrs devcg: remove parent_cgroup. memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys." perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant() cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys. devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held() ...
2013-04-29Merge tag 'driver-core-3.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core update from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here's the merge request for the driver core tree for 3.10-rc1 It's pretty small, just a number of driver core and sysfs updates and fixes, all of which have been in linux-next for a while now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" Fixed conflict in kernel/rtmutex-tester.c, the locking tree had a better fix for the same sysfs file mode problem. * tag 'driver-core-3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: PM / Runtime: Idle devices asynchronously after probe|release driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs change driver core: devtmpfs: fix compile failure with CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS devtmpfs: add base.h include driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs sysfs: check if one entry has been removed before freeing sysfs: fix crash_notes_size build warning sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write and readdir rtmutex-tester: fix mode of sysfs files Documentation: Add ABI entry for crash_notes and crash_notes_size sysfs: Add crash_notes_size to export percpu note size driver core: platform_device.h: fix checkpatch errors and warnings driver core: platform.c: fix checkpatch errors and warnings driver core: warn that platform_driver_probe can not use deferred probing sysfs: use atomic_inc_unless_negative in sysfs_get_active base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions on device attributes device: separate all subsys mutexes
2013-04-18Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f. Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic. Jens says: "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close). The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of queueing up a revert and pull request." Reported-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Requested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-15Merge 3.9-rc7 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman2-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-11driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs changeGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
Now that devtmpfs is caring about uid/gid, we need to use the correct internal types so users who have USER_NS enabled will have things work properly for them. Thanks to Eric for pointing this out, and the patch review. Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-09blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_startJun'ichi Nomura1-2/+2
Since 749fefe677 in v3.7 ("block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()"), the following warning appears when multipath is used with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. This patch moves blk_queue_bypass_start() before radix_tree_preload() to avoid the sleeping call while preemption is disabled. BUG: scheduling while atomic: multipath/2460/0x00000002 1 lock held by multipath/2460: #0: (&md->type_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffffa019fb05>] dm_lock_md_type+0x17/0x19 [dm_mod] Modules linked in: ... Pid: 2460, comm: multipath Tainted: G W 3.7.0-rc2 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810723ae>] __schedule_bug+0x6a/0x78 [<ffffffff81428ba2>] __schedule+0xb4/0x5e0 [<ffffffff814291e6>] schedule+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8142773a>] schedule_timeout+0x39/0xf8 [<ffffffff8108ad5f>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x29 [<ffffffff8108ae30>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0xb6/0xbb [<ffffffff814289e3>] wait_for_common+0x9d/0xee [<ffffffff8107526c>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x206/0x206 [<ffffffff810c0eb8>] ? kfree_call_rcu+0x1c/0x1c [<ffffffff81428aec>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x1f [<ffffffff810611f9>] wait_rcu_gp+0x5d/0x7a [<ffffffff81061216>] ? wait_rcu_gp+0x7a/0x7a [<ffffffff8106fb18>] ? complete+0x21/0x53 [<ffffffff810c0556>] synchronize_rcu+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff811dd903>] blk_queue_bypass_start+0x5d/0x62 [<ffffffff811ee109>] blkcg_activate_policy+0x73/0x270 [<ffffffff81130521>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xc7/0x108 [<ffffffff811f04b3>] cfq_init_queue+0x80/0x28e [<ffffffffa01a1600>] ? dm_blk_ioctl+0xa7/0xa7 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff811d8c41>] elevator_init+0xe1/0x115 [<ffffffff811e229f>] ? blk_queue_make_request+0x54/0x59 [<ffffffff811dd743>] blk_init_allocated_queue+0x8c/0x9e [<ffffffffa019ffcd>] dm_setup_md_queue+0x36/0xaa [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa01a60e6>] table_load+0x1bd/0x2c8 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa01a7026>] ctl_ioctl+0x1d6/0x236 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa01a5f29>] ? table_clear+0xaa/0xaa [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa01a7099>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x17 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff811479fc>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3fb/0x441 [<ffffffff811b643c>] ? file_has_perm+0x8a/0x99 [<ffffffff81147aa0>] sys_ioctl+0x5e/0x82 [<ffffffff812010be>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff814310d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-04-08driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfsKay Sievers1-1/+2
Some drivers want to tell userspace what uid and gid should be used for their device nodes, so allow that information to percolate through the driver core to userspace in order to make this happen. This means that some systems (i.e. Android and friends) will not need to even run a udev-like daemon for their device node manager and can just rely in devtmpfs fully, reducing their footprint even more. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-08Revert "loop: cleanup partitions when detaching loop device"Jens Axboe1-1/+0
This reverts commit 8761a3dc1f07b163414e2215a2cadbb4cfe2a107. There are situations where the destruction path is called with the bdev->bd_mutex already held, which then deadlocks in loop_clr_fd(). The normal partition cleanup does a trylock() on the mutex, but it'd be nice to have a more bullet proof method in loop. So punt this more involved fix to the next merge window, and just back out this buggy fix for now. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-04-03block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_storeArnd Bergmann1-0/+2
As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether that value was set or not. block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot': block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive, writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has an undefined result, rather than returning an error. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-04-02Merge branch 'writeback-workqueue' of ↵Jens Axboe2-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq into for-3.10/core Tejun writes: ----- This is the pull request for the earlier patchset[1] with the same name. It's only three patches (the first one was committed to workqueue tree) but the merge strategy is a bit involved due to the dependencies. * Because the conversion needs features from wq/for-3.10, block/for-3.10/core is based on rc3, and wq/for-3.10 has conflicts with rc3, I pulled mainline (rc5) into wq/for-3.10 to prevent those workqueue conflicts from flaring up in block tree. * Resolving the issue that Jan and Dave raised about debugging requires arch-wide changes. The patchset is being worked on[2] but it'll have to go through -mm after these changes show up in -next, and not included in this pull request. The three commits are located in the following git branch. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git writeback-workqueue Pulling it into block/for-3.10/core produces a conflict in drivers/md/raid5.c between the following two commits. e3620a3ad5 ("MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available") 2f6db2a707 ("raid5: use bio_reset()") The conflict is trivial - one removes an "if ()" conditional while the other removes "rbi->bi_next = NULL" right above it. We just need to remove both. The merged branch is available at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git block-test-merge so that you can use it for verification. The test merge commit has proper merge description. While these changes are a bit of pain to route, they make code simpler and even have, while minute, measureable performance gain[3] even on a workload which isn't particularly favorable to showing the benefits of this conversion. ---- Fixed up the conflict. Conflicts: drivers/md/raid5.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-25Merge branch 'for-jens' of http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache into ↵Jens Axboe3-75/+16
for-3.10/core This contains Kents prep work for the immutable bio_vecs.
2013-03-24block: Add bio_end_sector()Kent Overstreet3-7/+4
Just a little convenience macro - main reason to add it now is preparing for immutable bio vecs, it'll reduce the size of the patch that puts bi_sector/bi_size/bi_idx into a struct bvec_iter. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> CC: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com> CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> CC: dm-devel@redhat.com CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com> CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2013-03-24block: Refactor blk_update_request()Kent Overstreet1-68/+12
Converts it to use bio_advance(), simplifying it quite a bit in the process. Note that req_bio_endio() now always calls bio_advance() - which means it always loops over the biovec, not just on partial completions. Don't expect it to affect performance, but worth noting. Tested it by forcing partial updates, and dumping before and after on various bio/bvec fields when doing a partial update. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-23block: implement runtime pm strategyLin Ming2-0/+65
When a request is added: If device is suspended or is suspending and the request is not a PM request, resume the device. When the last request finishes: Call pm_runtime_mark_last_busy(). When pick a request: If device is resuming/suspending, then only PM request is allowed to go. The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-23block: add runtime pm helpersLin Ming1-0/+144
Add runtime pm helper functions: void blk_pm_runtime_init(struct request_queue *q, struct device *dev) - Initialization function for drivers to call. int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q) - If any requests are in the queue, mark last busy and return -EBUSY. Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDING and return 0. void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err) - If the suspend succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED. Otherwise set it to RPM_ACTIVE and mark last busy. void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q) - Set q->rpm_status to RPM_RESUMING. void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err) - If the resume succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_ACTIVE and call __blk_run_queue, then mark last busy and autosuspend. Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED. The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-22Block: blk-flush: Fixed indent code styleAlice Ferrazzi1-1/+1
Fixed code indent should use tabs where possible. Signed-off-by: Alice Ferrazzi <alice.ferrazzi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-22loop: cleanup partitions when detaching loop devicePhillip Susi1-0/+1
Any partitions added by user space to the loop device were being left in place after detaching the loop device. This was because the detach path issued a BLKRRPART to clean up partitions if LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN was set, meaning that the partitions were auto scanned on attach. Replace this BLKRRPART with code that unconditionally cleans up partitions on detach instead. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> Modified by Jens to export delete_partition(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-03-20scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_endPaolo Bonzini2-2/+2
This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every time in hot paths. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-03-04cgroup: fix cgroup_path() vs rename() raceLi Zefan1-2/+0
rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold a longer name. As accessing dentry->name must be protected by dentry->d_lock or parent inode's i_mutex, while on the other hand cgroup-path() can be called with some irq-safe spinlocks held, we can't generate cgroup path using dentry->d_name. Alternatively we make a copy of dentry->d_name and save it in cgrp->name when a cgroup is created, and update cgrp->name at rename(). v5: use flexible array instead of zero-size array. v4: - allocate root_cgroup_name and all root_cgroup->name points to it. - add cgroup_name() wrapper. v3: use kfree_rcu() instead of synchronize_rcu() in user-visible path. v2: make cgrp->name RCU safe. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-03-01Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds11-205/+834
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe: "Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains: - The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek. - Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun. - Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug flushing. - _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait properly. - Various little fixes. You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to fix up" Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit b67bfe0d42ca: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators"). * 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits) block: remove redundant check to bd_openers() block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size() cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout] writeback: add more tracepoints block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats() blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock block: RCU free request_queue blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge() ...
2013-02-28hlist: drop the node parameter from iteratorsSasha Levin5-12/+7
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block/partitions: optimize memory allocation in check_partition()Ming Lei3-8/+37
Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition, especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage, MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure. This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct parsed_partitions to try to address the issue: - make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved - vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is still a bit big for kmalloc - given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block/partitions/mac.c: obey the state->limit constraintMing Lei1-0/+4
It isn't necessary to read the information of partitions whose number is equal and more than state->limit since only maximum state->limit partitions will be added inside rescan_partitions(). That is also what other kind of partitions are doing. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block/partitions/efi.c: ensure that the GPT header is at least the size of ↵Peter Jones1-2/+10
the structure. UEFI 2.3.1D will include a change to the spec language mandating that a GPT header must be greater than *or equal to* the size of the defined structure. While verifying that this would work on Linux, I discovered that we're not actually checking the minimum bound at all. The result of this is that when we verify the checksum, it's possible that on a malformed header (with header_size of 0), we won't actually verify any data. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block/partition/msdos: detect AIX formatted disks even without 55aaPhilippe De Muyter1-3/+8
AIX formatted disks do not always have the MSDOS 55aa signature. This happens e.g. for unbootable AIX disks. Up to now, such disks were not recognized as AIX disks, because of the missing 55aa. Fix that by inverting the two tests. Let's first check for the AIX magic strings, and only if that fails check for the MSDOS magic word. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block: convert to idr_alloc()Tejun Heo2-32/+15
Convert to the much saner new idr interface. Both bsg and genhd protect idr w/ mutex making preloading unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block: fix synchronization and limit check in blk_alloc_devt()Tejun Heo1-8/+5
idr allocation in blk_alloc_devt() wasn't synchronized against lookup and removal, and its limit check was off by one - 1 << MINORBITS is the number of minors allowed, not the maximum allowed minor. Add locking and rename MAX_EXT_DEVT to NR_EXT_DEVT and fix limit checking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-28block: fix ext_devt_idr handlingTomas Henzl2-2/+6
While adding and removing a lot of disks disks and partitions this sometimes shows up: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:512 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130() (Not tainted) Hardware name: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/dev/block/259:751' Modules linked in: raid1 autofs4 bnx2fc cnic uio fcoe libfcoe libfc 8021q scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt garp stp llc sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table mperf ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log power_meter microcode dcdbas serio_raw amd64_edac_mod edac_core edac_mce_amd i2c_piix4 i2c_core k10temp bnx2 sg ixgbe dca mdio ext4 mbcache jbd2 dm_round_robin sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic pata_acpi pata_atiixp ahci mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas dm_multipath dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 44103, comm: async/16 Not tainted 2.6.32-195.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130 sysfs_do_create_link+0x12b/0x170 sysfs_create_link+0x13/0x20 device_add+0x317/0x650 idr_get_new+0x13/0x50 add_partition+0x21c/0x390 rescan_partitions+0x32b/0x470 sd_open+0x81/0x1f0 [sd_mod] __blkdev_get+0x1b6/0x3c0 blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 register_disk+0x155/0x170 add_disk+0xa6/0x160 sd_probe_async+0x13b/0x210 [sd_mod] add_wait_queue+0x46/0x60 async_thread+0x102/0x250 default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 async_thread+0x0/0x250 kthread+0x96/0xa0 child_rip+0xa/0x20 kthread+0x0/0xa0 child_rip+0x0/0x20 This most likely happens because dev_t is freed while the number is still used and idr_get_new() is not protected on every use. The fix adds a mutex where it wasn't before and moves the dev_t free function so it is called after device del. Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-24block/genhd.c: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block devicesMing Lei1-0/+10
Apply the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block device so that PM core will teach mm to not allocate memory with GFP_IOFS when calling the runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback for block devices and its ancestors. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-22cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocationsGlauber Costa1-0/+2
While stress-running very-small container scenarios with the Kernel Memory Controller, I've run into a lockdep-detected lock imbalance in cfq-iosched.c. I'll apologize beforehand for not posting a backlog: I didn't anticipate it would be so hard to reproduce, so I didn't save my serial output and went directly on debugging. Turns out that it did not happen again in more than 20 runs, making it a quite rare pattern. But here is my analysis: When we are in very low-memory situations, we will arrive at cfq_find_alloc_queue and may not find a queue, having to resort to the oom queue, in an rcu-locked condition: if (!cfqq || cfqq == &cfqd->oom_cfqq) [ ... ] Next, we will release the rcu lock, and try to allocate a queue, retrying if we succeed: rcu_read_unlock(); spin_unlock_irq(cfqd->queue->queue_lock); new_cfqq = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cfq_pool, gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, cfqd->queue->node); spin_lock_irq(cfqd->queue->queue_lock); if (new_cfqq) goto retry; We are unlocked at this point, but it should be fine, since we will reacquire the rcu_read_lock when we retry. Except of course, that we may not retry: the allocation may very well fail and we'll keep on going through the flow: The next branch is: if (cfqq) { [ ... ] } else cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq; And right before exiting, we'll issue rcu_read_unlock(). Being already unlocked, this is the likely source of our imbalance. Since cfqq is either already NULL or made NULL in the first statement of the outter branch, the only viable alternative here seems to be to return the oom queue right away in case of allocation failure. Please review the following patch and apply if you agree with my analysis. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-22block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEMMikulas Patocka1-1/+0
The block device doesn't use percpu rw-semaphore anymore, so don't select it for compilation. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-22block: optionally snapshot page contents to provide stable pages during writeDarrick J. Wong1-3/+5
This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling schemes of jbd2. The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot page contents instead of waiting. For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking (which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude. If we're going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the complaints about high latency will likely return. We might as well centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-22bdi: allow block devices to say that they require stable page writesDarrick J. Wong1-0/+4
This patchset ("stable page writes, part 2") makes some key modifications to the original 'stable page writes' patchset. First, it provides creators (devices and filesystems) of a backing_dev_info a flag that declares whether or not it is necessary to ensure that page contents cannot change during writeout. It is no longer assumed that this is true of all devices (which was never true anyway). Second, the flag is used to relaxed the wait_on_page_writeback calls so that wait only occurs if the device needs it. Third, it fixes up the remaining disk-backed filesystems to use this improved conditional-wait logic to provide stable page writes on those filesystems. It is hoped that (for people not using checksumming devices, anyway) this patchset will give back unnecessary performance decreases since the original stable page write patchset went into 3.0. Sorry about not fixing it sooner. Complaints were registered by several people about the long write latencies introduced by the original stable page write patchset. Generally speaking, the kernel ought to allocate as little extra memory as possible to facilitate writeout, but for people who simply cannot wait, a second page stability strategy is (re)introduced: snapshotting page contents. The waiting behavior is still the default strategy; to enable page snapshotting, a superblock flag (MS_SNAP_STABLE) must be set. This flag is used to bandaid^Henable stable page writeback on ext3[1], and is not used anywhere else. Given that there are already a few storage devices and network FSes that have rolled their own page stability wait/page snapshot code, it would be nice to move towards consolidating all of these. It seems possible that iscsi and raid5 may wish to use the new stable page write support to enable zero-copy writeout. Thank you to Jan Kara for helping fix a couple more filesystems. Per Andrew Morton's request, here are the result of using dbench to measure latencies on ext2: 3.8.0-rc3: Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat ---------------------------------------- WriteX 109347 0.028 59.817 ReadX 347180 0.004 3.391 Flush 15514 29.828 287.283 Throughput 57.429 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=287.290 ms 3.8.0-rc3 + patches: WriteX 105556 0.029 4.273 ReadX 335004 0.005 4.112 Flush 14982 30.540 298.634 Throughput 55.4496 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=298.650 ms As you can see, for ext2 the maximum write latency decreases from ~60ms on a laptop hard disk to ~4ms. I'm not sure why the flush latencies increase, though I suspect that being able to dirty pages faster gives the flusher more work to do. On ext4, the average write latency decreases as well as all the maximum latencies: 3.8.0-rc3: WriteX 85624 0.152 33.078 ReadX 272090 0.010 61.210 Flush 12129 36.219 168.260 Throughput 44.8618 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=168.276 ms 3.8.0-rc3 + patches: WriteX 86082 0.141 30.928 ReadX 273358 0.010 36.124 Flush 12214 34.800 165.689 Throughput 44.9941 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=165.722 ms XFS seems to exhibit similar latency improvements as ext2: 3.8.0-rc3: WriteX 125739 0.028 104.343 ReadX 399070 0.005 4.115 Flush 17851 25.004 131.390 Throughput 66.0024 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=131.406 ms 3.8.0-rc3 + patches: WriteX 123529 0.028 6.299 ReadX 392434 0.005 4.287 Flush 17549 25.120 188.687 Throughput 64.9113 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=188.704 ms ...and btrfs, just to round things out, also shows some latency decreases: 3.8.0-rc3: WriteX 67122 0.083 82.355 ReadX 212719 0.005 2.828 Flush 9547 47.561 147.418 Throughput 35.3391 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=147.433 ms 3.8.0-rc3 + patches: WriteX 64898 0.101 71.631 ReadX 206673 0.005 7.123 Flush 9190 47.963 219.034 Throughput 34.0795 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=219.044 ms Before this patchset, all filesystems would block, regardless of whether or not it was necessary. ext3 would wait, but still generate occasional checksum errors. The network filesystems were left to do their own thing, so they'd wait too. After this patchset, all the disk filesystems except ext3 and btrfs will wait only if the hardware requires it. ext3 (if necessary) snapshots pages instead of blocking, and btrfs provides its own bdi so the mm will never wait. Network filesystems haven't been touched, so either they provide their own wait code, or they don't block at all. The blocking behavior is back to what it was before 3.0 if you don't have a disk requiring stable page writes. This patchset has been tested on 3.8.0-rc3 on x64 with ext3, ext4, and xfs. I've spot-checked 3.8.0-rc4 and seem to be getting the same results as -rc3. [1] The alternative fixes to ext3 include fixing the locking order and page bit handling like we did for ext4 (but then why not just use ext4?), or setting PG_writeback so early that ext3 becomes extremely slow. I tried that, but the number of write()s I could initiate dropped by nearly an order of magnitude. That was a bit much even for the author of the stable page series! :) This patch: Creates a per-backing-device flag that tracks whether or not pages must be held immutable during writeout. Eventually it will be used to waive wait_for_page_writeback() if nothing requires stable pages. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-20Merge branch 'for-3.9-async' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+28
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull async changes from Tejun Heo: "These are followups for the earlier deadlock issue involving async ending up waiting for itself through block requesting module[1]. The following changes are made by these commits. - Instead of requesting default elevator on each request_queue init, block now requests it once early during boot. - Kmod triggers warning if invoked from an async worker. - Async synchronization implementation has been reimplemented. It's a lot simpler now." * 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: async: initialise list heads to fix crash async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items async: keep pending tasks on async_domain and remove async_pending async: use ULLONG_MAX for infinity cookie value async: bring sanity to the use of words domain and running async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers block: don't request module during elevator init init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot
2013-02-20Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes: - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic Weisbecker. - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith: " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package: pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs " - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it under observation. - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h> cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64 sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task() sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt() cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime ... Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
2013-02-15block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO requestVladimir Davydov3-6/+6
Using wait_for_completion() for waiting for a IO request to be executed results in wrong iowait time accounting. For example, a system having the only task doing write() and fdatasync() on a block device can be reported being idle instead of iowaiting as it should because blkdev_issue_flush() calls wait_for_completion() which in turn calls schedule() that does not increment the iowait proc counter and thus does not turn on iowait time accounting. The patch makes block layer use wait_for_completion_io() instead of wait_for_completion() where appropriate to account iowait time correctly. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-02-07sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate headerClark Williams1-0/+1
Move the sysctl-related bits from include/linux/sched.h into a new file: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h. Then update source files requiring access to those bits by including the new header file. Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>