linux-toradex.git/drivers/block/aoe, branch v4.4.93

Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"

2015-08-18T20:21:13+00:00

This reverts commit 34b48db66e08ca1c1bc07cf305d672ac940268dc.
That commit caused performance regressions for streaming I/O
workloads on a number of different storage devices, from
SATA disks to external RAID arrays.  It also managed to
trip up some buggy firmware in at least one drive, causing
data corruption.

The next patch will bump the default max_sectors_kb value to
1280, which will accommodate a 10-data-disk stripe write
with chunk size 128k.  In the testing I've done using iozone,
fio, and aio-stress, a value of 1280 does not show a big
performance difference from 512.  This will hopefully still
help the software RAID setup that Christoph saw the original
performance gains with while still not regressing other
storage configurations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

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 callback

The 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

block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap

2014-10-21T20:02:54+00:00

Set max_sectors to the value the drivers provides as hardware limit by
default.  Linux had proper I/O throttling for a long time and doesn't
rely on a artifically small maximum I/O size anymore.  By not limiting
the I/O size by default we remove an annoying tuning step required for
most Linux installation.

Note that both the user, and if absolutely required the driver can still
impose a limit for FS requests below max_hw_sectors_kb.

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

mm: close PageTail race

2014-03-04T15:55:47+00:00

Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for
ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction
which dereferences page->first_page if PageTail(page).

This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the
aforementioned page_count(page).  Indeed, anything that does
compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with
prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page->first_page
pointer.

This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that
deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head()
implementation.  This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that
if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither
NULL nor dangling.  The patch then adds a store memory barrier to
prep_compound_page() to ensure page->first_page is set.

This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are
expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the
memory barriers are unfortunately required.

Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier
during init since no race is possible.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Holger Kiehl 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Rafael Aquini 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aoe: Convert to immutable biovecs

2013-11-24T06:33:52+00:00

Now that we've got a mechanism for immutable biovecs -
bi_iter.bi_bvec_done - we need to convert drivers to use primitives that
respect it instead of using the bvec array directly.

The aoe code no longer has to manually iterate over partial bvecs, so
some struct members go away - other struct members are effectively
renamed:

buf->resid	-> buf->iter.bi_size
buf->sector	-> buf->iter.bi_sector

f->bcnt		-> f->iter.bi_size
f->lba		-> f->iter.bi_sector

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin"

block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter

2013-11-24T06:33:49+00:00

More prep work for immutable biovecs - with immutable bvecs drivers
won't be able to use the biovec directly, they'll need to use helpers
that take into account bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done.

This updates callers for the new usage without changing the
implementation yet.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Jim Paris 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Nagalakshmi Nandigama 
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy 
Cc: support@lsi.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Guo Chao 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Keith Busch 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Cc: Quoc-Son Anh 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cbe-oss-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Geoff Levand

block: Convert bio_iovec() to bvec_iter

2013-11-24T06:33:49+00:00

For immutable biovecs, we'll be introducing a new bio_iovec() that uses
our new bvec iterator to construct a biovec, taking into account
bvec_iter->bi_bvec_done - this patch updates existing users for the new
usage.

Some of the existing users really do need a pointer into the bvec array
- those uses are all going to be removed, but we'll need the
functionality from immutable to remove them - so for now rename the
existing bio_iovec() -> __bio_iovec(), and it'll be removed in a couple
patches.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Benny Halevy 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Joern Engel 
Cc: Prasad Joshi 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Ben Myers 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Guo Chao 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Stefano Stabellini 
Cc: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Peng Tao 
Cc: Andy Adamson 
Cc: fanchaoting 
Cc: Jie Liu 
Cc: Sunil Mushran 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: Namjae Jeon 
Cc: Pankaj Kumar 
Cc: Dan Magenheimer 
Cc: Mel Gorman 6

aoe: do not BUG if memory pressure prevented debugfs file creation

2013-09-11T22:59:28+00:00

If the system has trouble allocating memory for the creation of the aoe
debugfs directory or of a file inside it, the debugfs member of an aoedev
can be NULL.

Do not treat a NULL debugfs pointer as a BUG on aoedev shutdown, avoiding
the user impact of an unecessary panic.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aoe: suppress compiler warnings

2013-09-11T22:59:27+00:00

This patch fixes following compiler warnings:

  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c: In function `aoecmd_ata_rw':
  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:383:17: warning: variable `t' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
    struct aoetgt *t;
                   ^
  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c: In function `resend':
  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:488:21: warning: variable `ah' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
    struct aoe_atahdr *ah;
                       ^

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Ed Cashin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds