07 Nov, 2015
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…d avoiding waking kswapd
__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>
11 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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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()
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03 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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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//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
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20 Aug, 2015
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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
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
19 Aug, 2015
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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
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
14 Aug, 2015
2 commits
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We can always fill up the bio now, no need to estimate the possible
size based on queue parameters.Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
[hch: rebased and wrote a changelog]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
[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
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
29 Jul, 2015
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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
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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 callbackThe 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
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Jul, 2015
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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
Reported-by: Seunguk Shin
Tested-by: Seunguk Shin
Cc: Seunguk Shin
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Kent Overstreet
Cc: # v3.14+
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
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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
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
02 Jun, 2015
2 commits
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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
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
22 May, 2015
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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_ioThe 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
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
06 May, 2015
2 commits
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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
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
06 Feb, 2015
7 commits
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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
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park
[hch: removed the __bio_copy_iov wrapper]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
And also remove the unused bdev argument.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
This saves a little code, and allow to simplify the error handling.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Doug Gilbert
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
[dpark: add more description in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park
[hch: fixed to do a deep clone of the iov_iter, and to properly use
the iov_iter direction]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
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
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
12 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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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 busySigned-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei
Cc: Jet Chen
Cc: Tomas Henzl
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
04 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
02 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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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
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
25 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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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
11 Jun, 2014
2 commits
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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 -
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
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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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 hierarchyDocumentation/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
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06 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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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
19 May, 2014
1 commit
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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
Acked-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe