21 Jul, 2016
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Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
06 May, 2015
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This removes the request types and hacks from the block code and into the
old IDE driver. There is a small amunt of code duplication due to this,
but it's not too bad.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Sep, 2014
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We should not insert requests into the flush state machine from
blk_mq_insert_request. All incoming flush requests come through
blk_{m,s}q_make_request and are handled there, while blk_execute_rq_nowait
should only be called for BLOCK_PC requests. All other callers
deal with requests that already went through the flush statemchine
and shouldn't be reinserted into it.Reported-by: Robert Elliott
Debugged-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
09 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Address of local variable assigned to a function parameter
This was partly found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
22 Feb, 2014
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It's almost identical to blk_mq_insert_request, so fold the two into one
slightly more generic function by making the flush special case a bit
smarted.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Feb, 2014
1 commit
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This is neede for proper SG_IO operation as well as various uses of
blk_execute_rq from the SCSI midlayer.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
01 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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blk_mq_drain_queue() is introduced so that we can drain
mq queue inside blk_cleanup_queue().Also don't accept new requests any more if queue is marked
as dying.Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
25 Oct, 2013
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Linux currently has two models for block devices:
- The classic request_fn based approach, where drivers use struct
request units for IO. The block layer provides various helper
functionalities to let drivers share code, things like tag
management, timeout handling, queueing, etc.- The "stacked" approach, where a driver squeezes in between the
block layer and IO submitter. Since this bypasses the IO stack,
driver generally have to manage everything themselves.With drivers being written for new high IOPS devices, the classic
request_fn based driver doesn't work well enough. The design dates
back to when both SMP and high IOPS was rare. It has problems with
scaling to bigger machines, and runs into scaling issues even on
smaller machines when you have IOPS in the hundreds of thousands
per device.The stacked approach is then most often selected as the model
for the driver. But this means that everybody has to re-invent
everything, and along with that we get all the problems again
that the shared approach solved.This commit introduces blk-mq, block multi queue support. The
design is centered around per-cpu queues for queueing IO, which
then funnel down into x number of hardware submission queues.
We might have a 1:1 mapping between the two, or it might be
an N:M mapping. That all depends on what the hardware supports.blk-mq provides various helper functions, which include:
- Scalable support for request tagging. Most devices need to
be able to uniquely identify a request both in the driver and
to the hardware. The tagging uses per-cpu caches for freed
tags, to enable cache hot reuse.- Timeout handling without tracking request on a per-device
basis. Basically the driver should be able to get a notification,
if a request happens to fail.- Optional support for non 1:1 mappings between issue and
submission queues. blk-mq can redirect IO completions to the
desired location.- Support for per-request payloads. Drivers almost always need
to associate a request structure with some driver private
command structure. Drivers can tell blk-mq this at init time,
and then any request handed to the driver will have the
required size of memory associated with it.- Support for merging of IO, and plugging. The stacked model
gets neither of these. Even for high IOPS devices, merging
sequential IO reduces per-command overhead and thus
increases bandwidth.For now, this is provided as a potential 3rd queueing model, with
the hope being that, as it matures, it can replace both the classic
and stacked model. That would get us back to having just 1 real
model for block devices, leaving the stacked approach to dm/md
devices (as it was originally intended).Contributions in this patch from the following people:
Shaohua Li
Alexander Gordeev
Christoph Hellwig
Mike Christie
Matias Bjorling
Jeff MoyerAcked-by: Christoph Hellwig
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This reference count has been around since before git history, but the only
place where it's used is in blk_execute_rq, and ther it is entirely useless
as it is incremented before submitting the request and decremented in the
end_io handler before waking up the submitter thread.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
18 Sep, 2013
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This leaves bios setup on the request, because the caller assumes when
the blk_execute_rq_nowait/blk_execute_rq call has completed that
the rq->bios have been cleaned up.This patch has blk_execute_rq_nowait use __blk_end_request_all
to free bios and also call rq->end_io.Signed-off-by: Mike Christie
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
01 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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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()
...
15 Feb, 2013
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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
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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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
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
18 Dec, 2012
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Pull block layer core updates from Jens Axboe:
"Here are the core block IO bits for 3.8. The branch contains:- The final version of the surprise device removal fixups from Bart.
- Don't hide EFI partitions under advanced partition types. It's
fairly wide spread these days. This is especially dangerous for
systems that have both msdos and efi partition tables, where you
want to keep them in sync.- Cleanup of using -1 instead of the proper NUMA_NO_NODE
- Export control of bdi flusher thread CPU mask and default to using
the home node (if known) from Jeff.- Export unplug tracepoint for MD.
- Core improvements from Shaohua. Reinstate the recursive merge, as
the original bug has been fixed. Add plugging for discard and also
fix a problem handling non pow-of-2 discard limits.There's a trivial merge in block/blk-exec.c due to a fix that went
into 3.7-rc at a later point than -rc4 where this is based."* 'for-3.8/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: export block_unplug tracepoint
block: add plug for blkdev_issue_discard
block: discard granularity might not be power of 2
deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed
partitions: enable EFI/GPT support by default
bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue()
block: Make blk_cleanup_queue() wait until request_fn finished
block: Avoid scheduling delayed work on a dead queue
block: Avoid that request_fn is invoked on a dead queue
block: Let blk_drain_queue() caller obtain the queue lock
block: Rename queue dead flag
bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads
block: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1
block: recursive merge requests
block CFQ: avoid moving request to different queue
06 Dec, 2012
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A block driver may start cleaning up resources needed by its
request_fn as soon as blk_cleanup_queue() finished, so request_fn
must not be invoked after draining finished. This is important
when blk_run_queue() is invoked without any requests in progress.
As an example, if blk_drain_queue() and scsi_run_queue() run in
parallel, blk_drain_queue() may have finished all requests after
scsi_run_queue() has taken a SCSI device off the starved list but
before that last function has had a chance to run the queue.Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Mike Christie
Cc: Chanho Min
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
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QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD is used to indicate that queuing new requests must
stop. After this flag has been set queue draining starts. However,
during the queue draining phase it is still safe to invoke the
queue's request_fn, so QUEUE_FLAG_DYING is a better name for this
flag.This patch has been generated by running the following command
over the kernel source tree:git grep -lEw 'blk_queue_dead|QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD' |
xargs sed -i.tmp -e 's/blk_queue_dead/blk_queue_dying/g' \
-e 's/QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING/g'; \
sed -i.tmp -e "s/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)*5/QUEUE_FLAG_DYING$(printf \\t)5/g" \
include/linux/blkdev.h; \
sed -i.tmp -e 's/ DEAD/ DYING/g' -e 's/dead queue/a dying queue/' \
-e 's/Dead queue/A dying queue/' block/blk-core.cSigned-off-by: Bart Van Assche
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Mike Christie
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Chanho Min
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
23 Nov, 2012
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After we've done __elv_add_request() and __blk_run_queue() in
blk_execute_rq_nowait(), the request might finish and be freed
immediately. Therefore checking if the type is REQ_TYPE_PM_RESUME
isn't safe afterwards, because if it isn't, rq might be gone.
Instead, check beforehand and stash the result in a temporary.This fixes crashes in blk_execute_rq_nowait() I get occasionally when
running with lots of memory debugging options enabled -- I think this
race is usually harmless because the window for rq to be reallocated
is so small.Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
20 Jul, 2012
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If the queue is dead blk_execute_rq_nowait() doesn't invoke the done()
callback function. That will result in blk_execute_rq() being stuck
in wait_for_completion(). Avoid this by initializing rq->end_io to the
done() callback before we check the queue state. Also, make sure the
queue lock is held around the invocation of the done() callback. Found
this through source code review.Signed-off-by: Muthukumar Ratty
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
14 Dec, 2011
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blk_insert_cloned_request(), blk_execute_rq_nowait() and
blk_flush_plug_list() either didn't check whether the queue was dead
or did it without holding queue_lock. Update them so that dead state
is checked while holding queue_lock.AFAICS, this plugs all holes (requeue doesn't matter as the request is
transitioning atomically from in_flight to queued).Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe -
There are a number of QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD tests. Add blk_queue_dead()
macro and use it.This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
22 Jul, 2011
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USB surprise removal of sr is triggering an oops in
scsi_dispatch_command(). What seems to be happening is that USB is
hanging on to a queue reference until the last close of the upper
device, so the crash is caused by surprise remove of a mounted CD
followed by attempted unmount.The problem is that USB doesn't issue its final commands as part of
the SCSI teardown path, but on last close when the block queue is long
gone. The long term fix is probably to make sr do the teardown in the
same way as sd (so remove all the lower bits on ejection, but keep the
upper disk alive until last close of user space). However, the
current oops can be simply fixed by not allowing any commands to be
sent to a dead queue.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
06 May, 2011
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unplug is replaced with blk_run_queue now in blk_execute_rq_nowait,
so change the comment accordingly.Signed-off-by: Tao Ma
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
18 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly. I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
10 Mar, 2011
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Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
block/blk-flush.c
drivers/md/raid1.c
drivers/md/raid10.c
drivers/md/raid5.c
fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
fs/nilfs2/mdt.cSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
24 Sep, 2010
1 commit
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During long I/O operations, the hang_check timer may fire,
trigger stack dumps that unnecessarily alarm the user.Eg. hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb ## can take *hours* to complete
So, if hang_check is armed, we should wake up periodically
to prevent it from triggering. This patch uses a wake-up interval
equal to half the hang_check timer period, which keeps overhead low enough.Signed-off-by: Mark Lord
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
08 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests. This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
28 Apr, 2009
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RQ_NOMERGE_FLAGS already clears defines which REQ flags aren't
mergeable. There is no reason to specify it superflously. It only
adds to confusion. Don't set REQ_NOMERGE for barriers and requests
with specific queueing directive. REQ_NOMERGE is now exclusively used
by the merging code.[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
09 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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…in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
16 Jul, 2008
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All the users of blk_end_sync_rq has gone (they are converted to use
blk_execute_rq). This unexports blk_end_sync_rq.Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -
For blk_pm_resume_request() requests (which are used only by IDE subsystem
currently) the queue is stopped so we need to call ->request_fn explicitly.Thanks to:
- Rafael for reporting/bisecting the bug
- Borislav/Rafael for testing the fixThis is a preparation for converting IDE to use blk_execute_rq().
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
01 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
30 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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Adds files for barrier handling, rq execution, io context handling,
mapping data to requests, and queue settings.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe