linux-toradex.git/block/blk-core.c, branch v3.8.3

block: export block_unplug tracepoint

2012-12-14T19:49:27+00:00

This allows stacked devices (like md/raid5) to provide blktrace
tracing, including unplug events.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Make blk_cleanup_queue() wait until request_fn finished

2012-12-06T13:33:00+00:00

Some request_fn implementations, e.g. scsi_request_fn(), unlock
the queue lock internally. This may result in multiple threads
executing request_fn for the same queue simultaneously. Keep
track of the number of active request_fn calls and make sure that
blk_cleanup_queue() waits until all active request_fn invocations
have finished. A block driver may start cleaning up resources
needed by its request_fn as soon as blk_cleanup_queue() finished,
so blk_cleanup_queue() must wait for all outstanding request_fn
invocations to finish.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reported-by: Chanho Min 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Mike Christie 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Avoid scheduling delayed work on a dead queue

2012-12-06T13:32:30+00:00

Running a queue must continue after it has been marked dying until
it has been marked dead. So the function blk_run_queue_async() must
not schedule delayed work after blk_cleanup_queue() has marked a queue
dead. Hence add a test for that queue state in blk_run_queue_async()
and make sure that queue_unplugged() invokes that function with the
queue lock held. This avoids that the queue state can change after
it has been tested and before mod_delayed_work() is invoked. Drop
the queue dying test in queue_unplugged() since it is now
superfluous: __blk_run_queue() already tests whether or not the
queue is dead.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Cc: Mike Christie 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Avoid that request_fn is invoked on a dead queue

2012-12-06T13:32:01+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Let blk_drain_queue() caller obtain the queue lock

2012-12-06T13:30:59+00:00

Let the caller of blk_drain_queue() obtain the queue lock to improve
readability of the patch called "Avoid that request_fn is invoked on
a dead queue".

Signed-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

block: Rename queue dead flag

2012-12-06T13:30:58+00:00

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.c

Signed-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

block: use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1

2012-11-10T09:41:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia 

Modified by me to cover blk_init_queue() as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add blk_rq_pos(rq) to sort rq when plushing

2012-10-25T19:58:17+00:00

My workload is a raid5 which had 16 disks. And used our filesystem to
write using direct-io mode.

I used the blktrace to find those message:
8,16   0     6647     2.453665504  2579  M   W 7493152 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6648     2.453672411  2579  Q   W 7493160 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6649     2.453672606  2579  M   W 7493160 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6650     2.453679255  2579  Q   W 7493168 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6651     2.453679441  2579  M   W 7493168 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6652     2.453685948  2579  Q   W 7493176 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6653     2.453686149  2579  M   W 7493176 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6654     2.453693074  2579  Q   W 7493184 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6655     2.453693254  2579  M   W 7493184 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6656     2.453704290  2579  Q   W 7493192 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6657     2.453704482  2579  M   W 7493192 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6658     2.453715016  2579  Q   W 7493200 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6659     2.453715247  2579  M   W 7493200 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6660     2.453721730  2579  Q   W 7493208 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6661     2.453721974  2579  M   W 7493208 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6662     2.453728202  2579  Q   W 7493216 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6663     2.453728436  2579  M   W 7493216 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6664     2.453734782  2579  Q   W 7493224 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6665     2.453735019  2579  M   W 7493224 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6666     2.453741401  2579  Q   W 7493232 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6667     2.453741632  2579  M   W 7493232 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6668     2.453748148  2579  Q   W 7493240 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6669     2.453748386  2579  M   W 7493240 + 8 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6670     2.453851843  2579  I   W 7493144 + 104 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0        0     2.453853661     0  m   N cfq2579 insert_request
8,16   0     6671     2.453854064  2579  I   W 7493120 + 24 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0        0     2.453854439     0  m   N cfq2579 insert_request
8,16   0     6672     2.453854793  2579  U   N [md0_raid5] 2
8,16   0        0     2.453855513     0  m   N cfq2579 Not idling.st->count:1
8,16   0        0     2.453855927     0  m   N cfq2579 dispatch_insert
8,16   0        0     2.453861771     0  m   N cfq2579 dispatched a request
8,16   0        0     2.453862248     0  m   N cfq2579 activate rq,drv=1
8,16   0     6673     2.453862332  2579  D   W 7493120 + 24 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0        0     2.453865957     0  m   N cfq2579 Not idling.st->count:1
8,16   0        0     2.453866269     0  m   N cfq2579 dispatch_insert
8,16   0        0     2.453866707     0  m   N cfq2579 dispatched a request
8,16   0        0     2.453867061     0  m   N cfq2579 activate rq,drv=2
8,16   0     6674     2.453867145  2579  D   W 7493144 + 104 [md0_raid5]
8,16   0     6675     2.454147608     0  C   W 7493120 + 24 [0]
8,16   0        0     2.454149357     0  m   N cfq2579 complete rqnoidle 0
8,16   0     6676     2.454791505     0  C   W 7493144 + 104 [0]
8,16   0        0     2.454794803     0  m   N cfq2579 complete rqnoidle 0
8,16   0        0     2.454795160     0  m   N cfq schedule dispatch

From above messages,we can find rq[W 7493144 + 104] and rq[W
7493120 + 24] do not merge.
Because the bio order is:
  8,16   0     6638     2.453619407  2579  Q   W 7493144 + 8 [md0_raid5]
  8,16   0     6639     2.453620460  2579  G   W 7493144 + 8 [md0_raid5]
  8,16   0     6640     2.453639311  2579  Q   W 7493120 + 8 [md0_raid5]
  8,16   0     6641     2.453639842  2579  G   W 7493120 + 8 [md0_raid5]
The bio(7493144) first and bio(7493120) later.So the subsequent
bios will be divided into two parts.
When flushing plug-list,because elv_attempt_insert_merge only support
backmerge,not supporting frontmerge.
So rq[7493120 + 24] can't merge with rq[7493144 + 104].

From my test,i found those situation can count 25% in our system.
Using this patch, there is no this situation.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma 
CC:Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-10-11T00:04:23+00:00

Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
 "Core block IO bits for 3.7.  Not a huge round this time, it contains:

   - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
     and freeing.

   - WRITE_SAME support from Martin.

   - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
     the block size of a device.

   - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).

   - A few other minor fixups."

Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton.  It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").

So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.

* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  block: makes bio_split support bio without data
  scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
  scatterlist: add sg_nents
  fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
  percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
  fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
  blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
  Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
  block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
  block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
  block: ioctl to zero block ranges
  block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
  block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
  block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
  block: Clean up special command handling logic
  block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
  block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
  block: reject invalid queue attribute values
  block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
  block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
  ...

Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00

Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...