linux-toradex.git/include/linux/blkdev.h, branch v4.14-rc7

blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops

2017-09-25T14:56:05+00:00

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(s_active#228);
                               lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1);
                               lock(s_active#228);
  lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
partition.

The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count)
on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.

The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
removed.

Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
access to the blk_trace structure.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 

Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
the code used to work.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-09-07T18:59:42+00:00

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
  changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
  the churn of the last few series. This contains:

   - Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.

   - Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.

   - Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.

   - Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.

   - A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.

   - CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.

   - A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.

   - A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
     device remova. From David Jeffery.

   - A few nbd fixes from Josef.

   - Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.

   - Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
     to actually hold data, among other things.

   - Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.

   - Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
     drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
     machines.

   - Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
     submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.

   - Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
     fall through case complaints"

* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
  kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
  drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
  drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
  drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
  drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
  drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
  drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
  drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
  drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
  drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
  drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
  drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
  drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
  drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
  drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
  drbd: mark symbols static where possible
  drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
  drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
  drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
  drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
  ...

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to fix up conflicts

2017-09-04T09:01:18+00:00

 Conflicts:
	mm/page_alloc.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data

2017-08-29T13:14:38+00:00

struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between
CPUs.  Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than
cache line size.  Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment
requirements.  This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to
cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines
that need to be transferred among CPUs.

This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the
size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the
power of 2.  If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to
add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2
as well.

Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes.

To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of
call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used.

To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple
thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt).  The test will create multiple
threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap
is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping
memory.  In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5%
compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying 
[ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer

2017-08-24T14:22:10+00:00

Since we split the scsi_request out of struct request bsg fails to
provide a reply-buffer for the drivers. This was done via the pointer
for sense-data, that is not preallocated anymore.

Failing to allocate/assign it results in illegal dereferences because
LLDs use this pointer unquestioned.

An example panic on s390x, using the zFCP driver, looks like this (I had
debugging on, otherwise NULL-pointer dereferences wouldn't even panic on
s390x):

Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6000 TEID: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6403
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:0000000001590007 R3:0000000000000024
Oops: 0038 ilc:2 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: 
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 4.12.0-bsg-regression+ #3
Hardware name: IBM 2964 N96 702 (z/VM 6.4.0)
task: 0000000065cb0100 task.stack: 0000000065cb4000
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000003ff801e4156 (zfcp_fc_ct_els_job_handler+0x16/0x58 [zfcp])
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 000000005fa9d0d0 000000005fa9d078 0000000000e16866
           000003ff00000290 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b 0000000059f78f00 000000000000000f
           00000000593a0958 00000000593a0958 0000000060d88800 000000005ddd4c38
           0000000058b50100 07000000659cba08 000003ff801e8556 00000000659cb9a8
Krnl Code: 000003ff801e4146: e31020500004        lg      %r1,80(%r2)
           000003ff801e414c: 58402040           l       %r4,64(%r2)
          #000003ff801e4150: e35020200004       lg      %r5,32(%r2)
          >000003ff801e4156: 50405004           st      %r4,4(%r5)
           000003ff801e415a: e54c50080000       mvhi    8(%r5),0
           000003ff801e4160: e33010280012       lt      %r3,40(%r1)
           000003ff801e4166: a718fffb           lhi     %r1,-5
           000003ff801e416a: 1803               lr      %r0,%r3
Call Trace:
([<000003ff801e8556>] zfcp_fsf_req_complete+0x726/0x768 [zfcp])
 [<000003ff801ea82a>] zfcp_fsf_reqid_check+0x102/0x180 [zfcp]
 [<000003ff801eb980>] zfcp_qdio_int_resp+0x230/0x278 [zfcp]
 [<00000000009b91b6>] qdio_kick_handler+0x2ae/0x2c8
 [<00000000009b9e3e>] __tiqdio_inbound_processing+0x406/0xc10
 [<00000000001684c2>] tasklet_action+0x15a/0x1d8
 [<0000000000bd28ec>] __do_softirq+0x3ec/0x848
 [<00000000001675a4>] irq_exit+0x74/0xf8
 [<000000000010dd6a>] do_IRQ+0xba/0xf0
 [<0000000000bd19e8>] io_int_handler+0x104/0x2d4
 [<00000000001033b6>] enabled_wait+0xb6/0x188
([<000000000010339e>] enabled_wait+0x9e/0x188)
 [<000000000010396a>] arch_cpu_idle+0x32/0x50
 [<0000000000bd0112>] default_idle_call+0x52/0x68
 [<00000000001cd0fa>] do_idle+0x102/0x188
 [<00000000001cd41e>] cpu_startup_entry+0x3e/0x48
 [<0000000000118c64>] smp_start_secondary+0x11c/0x130
 [<0000000000bd2016>] restart_int_handler+0x62/0x78
 [<0000000000000000>]           (null)
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<000003ff801e41d6>] zfcp_fc_ct_job_handler+0x3e/0x48 [zfcp]

Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

This patch moves bsg-lib to allocate and setup struct bsg_job ahead of
time, including the allocation of a buffer for the reply-data.

This means, struct bsg_job is not allocated separately anymore, but as part
of struct request allocation - similar to struct scsi_cmd. Reflect this in
the function names that used to handle creation/destruction of struct
bsg_job.

Reported-by: Steffen Maier 
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block 
Fixes: 82ed4db499b8 ("block: split scsi_request out of struct request")
Cc:  #4.11+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove unused syncfull/asyncfull queue flags

2017-08-10T14:25:38+00:00

We haven't used these in years, but somehow the definitions still
remained. Kill them, and renumber the QUEUE_FLAG_ space. We had
a hole in the beginning of the space, too.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the queue_bounce_pfn helper

2017-06-27T18:13:45+00:00

Only used inside the bounce code, and opencoding it makes it more obvious
what is going on.

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

block: move bounce declarations to block/blk.h

2017-06-27T18:13:45+00:00

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

blk-mq: expose write hints through debugfs

2017-06-27T18:05:31+00:00

Useful to verify that things are working the way they should.
Reading the file will return number of kb written with each
write hint. Writing the file will reset the statistics. No care
is taken to ensure that we don't race on updates.

Drivers will write to q->write_hints[] if they handle a given
write hint.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger 
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add support for write hints in a bio

2017-06-27T18:05:27+00:00

No functional changes in this patch, we just use up some holes
in the bio and request structures to define a write hint that
we psas down the stack.

Ensure that we don't merge requests that have different life time
hints assigned to them, and that we inherit the write hint when
cloning a bio.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe