linux-toradex.git/block/blk-merge.c, branch v4.9.71

block: make sure a big bio is split into at most 256 bvecs

2016-08-24T14:17:24+00:00

After arbitrary bio size was introduced, the incoming bio may
be very big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs for safety reason, such
as bio_clone().

This patch fixes the following kernel crash:

> [  172.660142] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
> [  172.660229] IP: [] bio_trim+0xf/0x2a
> [  172.660289] PGD 7faf3e067 PUD 7f9279067 PMD 0
> [  172.660399] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [...]
> [  172.664780] Call Trace:
> [  172.664813]  [] ? raid1_make_request+0x2e8/0xad7 [raid1]
> [  172.664846]  [] ? blk_queue_split+0x377/0x3d4
> [  172.664880]  [] ? md_make_request+0xf6/0x1e9 [md_mod]
> [  172.664912]  [] ? generic_make_request+0xb5/0x155
> [  172.664947]  [] ? prio_io+0x85/0x95 [bcache]
> [  172.664981]  [] ? register_cache_set+0x355/0x8d0 [bcache]
> [  172.665016]  [] ? register_bcache+0x1006/0x1174 [bcache]

The issue can be reproduced by the following steps:
	- create one raid1 over two virtio-blk
	- build bcache device over the above raid1 and another cache device
	and bucket size is set as 2Mbytes
	- set cache mode as writeback
	- run random write over ext4 on the bcache device

Fixes: 54efd50(block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios)
Reported-by: Sebastian Roesner 
Reported-by: Eric Wheeler 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.3+)
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix secure erase

2016-08-16T15:16:51+00:00

Commit 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure
erase") split REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE from REQ_OP_DISCARD without considering
all the places REQ_OP_DISCARD was being used to mean either. Fix those.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Fixes: 288dab8a35a0 ("block: add a separate operation type for secure erase")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf

2016-08-07T20:41:02+00:00

Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.

No intended functional changes in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2016-07-26T22:37:51+00:00

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This branch also contains core changes.  I've come to the conclusion
  that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch.  We
  often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
  always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
  when that happens.

  That said, this contains:

   - separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
     Christoph.

   - set of discard fixes, from Christoph.

   - bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
     op/flags change in the core branch.

   - map and append request fixes from Christoph.

   - NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph.  This is pretty
     exciting!

   - nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.

   - removal of ->driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
     device_add_disk() helper.

   - bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.

   - cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.

   - set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.

   - set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.

   - mg_disk error path fix from Bart.

   - user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.

   - NVMe in general:
        + NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
        + SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
        + fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
        + use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
        + cancel IO fixes from Ming.
        + don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
        + error code fixup from Dan.
        + use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
        + variable init fix from Jay.
        + fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
        + various fixes"

* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
  nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
  nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
  block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
  scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
  target: stop using blk_make_request
  block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
  block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
  virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
  memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
  block: shrink bio size again
  block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
  block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
  block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
  block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
  NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
  nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
  nvme: Limit command retries
  loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
  nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
  nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
  ...

block: Fix front merge check

2016-07-21T03:40:47+00:00

For a front merge, the maximum number of sectors of the
request must be checked against the front merge BIO sector,
not the current sector of the request.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: do not merge requests without consulting with io scheduler

2016-07-21T03:35:12+00:00

Before merging a bio into an existing request, io scheduler is called to
get its approval first. However, the requests that come from a plug
flush may get merged by block layer without consulting with io
scheduler.

In case of CFQ, this can cause fairness problems. For instance, if a
request gets merged into a low weight cgroup's request, high weight cgroup
now will depend on low weight cgroup to get scheduled. If high weigt cgroup
needs that io request to complete before submitting more requests, then it
will also lose its timeslice.

Following script demonstrates the problem. Group g1 has a low weight, g2
and g3 have equal high weights but g2's requests are adjacent to g1's
requests so they are subject to merging. Due to these merges, g2 gets
poor disk time allocation.

cat > cfq-merge-repro.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/bash
set -e

IO_ROOT=/mnt-cgroup/io

mkdir -p $IO_ROOT

if ! mount | grep -qw $IO_ROOT; then
  mount -t cgroup none -oblkio $IO_ROOT
fi

cd $IO_ROOT

for i in g1 g2 g3; do
  if [ -d $i ]; then
    rmdir $i
  fi
done

mkdir g1 && echo 10 > g1/blkio.weight
mkdir g2 && echo 495 > g2/blkio.weight
mkdir g3 && echo 495 > g3/blkio.weight

RUNTIME=10

(echo $BASHPID > g1/cgroup.procs &&
 fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \
     --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \
     --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=0k &> /dev/null)&

(echo $BASHPID > g2/cgroup.procs &&
 fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \
     --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \
     --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=64k &> /dev/null)&

(echo $BASHPID > g3/cgroup.procs &&
 fio --readonly --name name1 --filename /dev/sdb \
     --rw read --size 64k --bs 64k --time_based \
     --runtime=$RUNTIME --offset=256k &> /dev/null)&

sleep $((RUNTIME+1))

for i in g1 g2 g3; do
  echo ---- $i ----
  cat $i/blkio.time
done

EOF
# ./cfq-merge-repro.sh
---- g1 ----
8:16 162
---- g2 ----
8:16 165
---- g3 ----
8:16 686

After applying the patch:

# ./cfq-merge-repro.sh
---- g1 ----
8:16 90
---- g2 ----
8:16 445
---- g3 ----
8:16 471

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a separate operation type for secure erase

2016-06-09T15:52:25+00:00

Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag.
Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the
dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't
claim support for secure erase.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: convert merge/insert code to check for REQ_OPs.

2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00

This patch converts the block layer merging code to use separate variables
for the operation and flags, and to check req_op for the REQ_OP.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessors

2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00

This patch converts the simple bi_rw use cases in the block,
drivers, mm and fs code to set/get the bio operation using
bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op

These should be simple one or two liner cases, so I just did them
in one patch. The next patches handle the more complicated
cases in a module per patch.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, drivers, cgroup: use op_is_write helper instead of checking for REQ_WRITE

2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00

We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs
like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next patches where we
no longer set up the op as a bitmap, we will not be able to
detect a operation direction like writesame by testing if REQ_WRITE is
set.

This patch converts the drivers and cgroup to use the
op_is_write helper. This should just cover the simple
cases. I did dm, md and bcache in their own patches
because they were more involved.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe