linux-toradex.git/block/cfq-iosched.c, branch v3.17-rc6

cfq-iosched: Add comments on update timing of weight

2014-08-28T14:16:29+00:00

Explain that weight has to be updated on activation.
This complements previous fix e15693ef18e1 ("cfq-iosched: Fix wrong
children_weight calculation").

Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

cfq-iosched: Fix wrong children_weight calculation

2014-08-26T16:17:30+00:00

cfq_group_service_tree_add() is applying new_weight at the beginning of
the function via cfq_update_group_weight().
This actually allows weight to change between adding it to and subtracting
it from children_weight, and triggers WARN_ON_ONCE() in
cfq_group_service_tree_del(), or even causes oops by divide error during
vfr calculation in cfq_group_service_tree_add().

The detailed scenario is as follows:
1. Create blkio cgroups X and Y as a child of X.
   Set X's weight to 500 and perform some I/O to apply new_weight.
   This X's I/O completes before starting Y's I/O.
2. Y starts I/O and cfq_group_service_tree_add() is called with Y.
3. cfq_group_service_tree_add() walks up the tree during children_weight
   calculation and adds parent X's weight (500) to children_weight of root.
   children_weight becomes 500.
4. Set X's weight to 1000.
5. X starts I/O and cfq_group_service_tree_add() is called with X.
6. cfq_group_service_tree_add() applies its new_weight (1000).
7. I/O of Y completes and cfq_group_service_tree_del() is called with Y.
8. I/O of X completes and cfq_group_service_tree_del() is called with X.
9. cfq_group_service_tree_del() subtracts X's weight (1000) from
   children_weight of root. children_weight becomes -500.
   This triggers WARN_ON_ONCE().
10. Set X's weight to 500.
11. X starts I/O and cfq_group_service_tree_add() is called with X.
12. cfq_group_service_tree_add() applies its new_weight (500) and adds it
    to children_weight of root. children_weight becomes 0. Calcularion of
    vfr triggers oops by divide error.

weight should be updated right before adding it to children_weight.

Reported-by: Ruki Sekiya 
Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-06-09T22:03:33+00:00

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 hierarchy

        Documentation/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
  ...

cgroup: replace cftype->write_string() with cftype->write()

2014-05-13T16:16:21+00:00

Convert all cftype->write_string() users to the new cftype->write()
which maps directly to kernfs write operation and has full access to
kernfs and cgroup contexts.  The conversions are mostly mechanical.

* @css and @cft are accessed using of_css() and of_cft() accessors
  respectively instead of being specified as arguments.

* Should return @nbytes on success instead of 0.

* @buf is not trimmed automatically.  Trim if necessary.  Note that
  blkcg and netprio don't need this as the parsers already handle
  whitespaces.

cftype->write_string() has no user left after the conversions and
removed.

While at it, remove unnecessary local variable @p in
cgroup_subtree_control_write() and stale comment about
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE in cgroup_freezer.c.

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

v2: netprio was missing from conversion.  Converted.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Cc: "David S. Miller"

block: Fix format string mismatch in cfq-iosched.c

2014-04-30T21:56:10+00:00

Fix format string mismatch in cfq_var_show()

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove 'q' parameter from kblockd_schedule_*_work()

2014-04-09T16:17:00+00:00

The queue parameter is never used, just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-04-03T20:05:42+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot updates for cgroup:

   - The biggest one is cgroup's conversion to kernfs.  cgroup took
     after the long abandoned vfs-entangled sysfs implementation and
     made it even more convoluted over time.  cgroup's internal objects
     were fused with vfs objects which also brought in vfs locking and
     object lifetime rules.  Naturally, there are places where vfs rules
     don't fit and nasty hacks, such as credential switching or lock
     dance interleaving inode mutex and cgroup_mutex with object serial
     number comparison thrown in to decide whether the operation is
     actually necessary, needed to be employed.

     After conversion to kernfs, internal object lifetime and locking
     rules are mostly isolated from vfs interactions allowing shedding
     of several nasty hacks and overall simplification.  This will also
     allow implmentation of operations which may affect multiple cgroups
     which weren't possible before as it would have required nesting
     i_mutexes.

   - Various simplifications including dropping of module support,
     easier cgroup name/path handling, simplified cgroup file type
     handling and task_cg_lists optimization.

   - Prepatory changes for the planned unified hierarchy, which is still
     a patchset away from being actually operational.  The dummy
     hierarchy is updated to serve as the default unified hierarchy.
     Controllers which aren't claimed by other hierarchies are
     associated with it, which BTW was what the dummy hierarchy was for
     anyway.

   - Various fixes from Li and others.  This pull request includes some
     patches to add missing slab.h to various subsystems.  This was
     triggered xattr.h include removal from cgroup.h.  cgroup.h
     indirectly got included a lot of files which brought in xattr.h
     which brought in slab.h.

  There are several merge commits - one to pull in kernfs updates
  necessary for converting cgroup (already in upstream through
  driver-core), others for interfering changes in the fixes branch"

* 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (74 commits)
  cgroup: remove useless argument from cgroup_exit()
  cgroup: fix spurious lockdep warning in cgroup_exit()
  cgroup: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in cgroup.c
  cgroup: break kernfs active_ref protection in cgroup directory operations
  cgroup: fix cgroup_taskset walking order
  cgroup: implement CFTYPE_ONLY_ON_DFL
  cgroup: make cgrp_dfl_root mountable
  cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string()
  cgroup: rename cgroup_dummy_root and related names
  cgroup: move ->subsys_mask from cgroupfs_root to cgroup
  cgroup: treat cgroup_dummy_root as an equivalent hierarchy during rebinding
  cgroup: remove NULL checks from [pr_cont_]cgroup_{name|path}()
  cgroup: use cgroup_setup_root() to initialize cgroup_dummy_root
  cgroup: reorganize cgroup bootstrapping
  cgroup: relocate setting of CGRP_DEAD
  cpuset: use rcu_read_lock() to protect task_cs()
  cgroup_freezer: document freezer_fork() subtleties
  cgroup: update cgroup_transfer_tasks() to either succeed or fail
  cgroup: drop task_lock() protection around task->cgroups
  cgroup: update how a newly forked task gets associated with css_set
  ...

cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string()

2014-03-19T14:23:54+00:00

cftype->write_string() just passes on the writeable buffer from kernfs
and there's no reason to add const restriction on the buffer.  The
only thing const achieves is unnecessarily complicating parsing of the
buffer.  Drop const from @buffer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Michal Hocko                                            
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

block: Stop abusing csd.list for fifo_time

2014-02-24T22:46:32+00:00

Block layer currently abuses rq->csd.list.next for storing fifo_time.
That is a terrible hack and completely unnecessary as well. Union
achieves the same space saving in a cleaner way.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

cgroup: update the meaning of cftype->max_write_len

2014-02-11T16:52:48+00:00

cftype->max_write_len is used to extend the maximum size of writes.
It's interpreted in such a way that the actual maximum size is one
less than the specified value.  The default size is defined by
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE.  Its interpretation is quite confusing - its
value is decremented by 1 and then compared for equality with max
size, which means that the actual default size is
CGROUP_LOCAL_BUFFER_SIZE - 2, which is 62 chars.

There's no point in having a limit that low.  Update its definition so
that it means the actual string length sans termination and anything
below PAGE_SIZE-1 is treated as PAGE_SIZE-1.

.max_write_len for "release_agent" is updated to PATH_MAX-1 and
cgroup_release_agent_write() is updated so that the redundant strlen()
check is removed and it uses strlcpy() instead of strcpy().
.max_write_len initializations in blk-throttle.c and cfq-iosched.c are
no longer necessary and removed.  The one in cpuset is kept unchanged
as it's an approximated value to begin with.

This will also make transition to kernfs smoother.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan