linux-toradex.git/include/linux/elevator.h, branch v2.6.38.6

core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.

2010-12-17T14:07:19+00:00

__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a
single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the
correct per cpu instance.

However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read()
cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through
segment prefixes).  Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var
where the address of the variable is not used.

Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges"

2010-10-24T20:06:02+00:00

This reverts commit 7681bfeeccff5efa9eb29bf09249a3c400b15327.

Conflicts:

	include/linux/genhd.h

It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator
devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean
version without rushing things.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-10-23T00:00:32+00:00

* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments
  block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag
  block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister
  block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int
  blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations
  blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX
  blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds
  blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386
  blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change
  blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list
  blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops
  blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n
  block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
  block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces
  Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
  block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
  block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O
  cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h

block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges

2010-10-19T07:07:02+00:00

/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.

$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
   8       0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
   8       1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
                                                ~~~~~~~~~~
   8       2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
   8       3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
   8       4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   8       5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137

Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.

The detailed root cause is as follows.

Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.

1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
   is 0 and sda2's one is 1.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
   step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
   from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
   hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
   sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |         -1
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.

When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.

Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

elevator: fix oops on early call to elevator_change()

2010-10-07T07:35:16+00:00

2.6.36 introduces an API for drivers to switch the IO scheduler
instead of manually calling the elevator exit and init functions.
This API was added since q->elevator must be cleared in between
those two calls. And since we already have this functionality
directly from use by the sysfs interface to switch schedulers
online, it was prudent to reuse it internally too.

But this API needs the queue to be in a fully initialized state
before it is called, or it will attempt to unregister elevator
kobjects before they have been added. This results in an oops
like this:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000051
IP: [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
PGD 47ddfc067 PUD 47c6a1067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:04:00.1/irq
CPU 2
Modules linked in: t(+) loop hid_apple usbhid ahci ehci_hcd uhci_hcd libahci usbcore nls_base igb

Pid: 7319, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-rc6+ #132 QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R
RIP: 0010:[]  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
RSP: 0018:ffff88027da25d08  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88047c68c528 RBX: 00000000fffffffe RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 000000000000002f RDI: ffff88047e196c88
RBP: ffff88027da25d38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: d84156c5635688c0
R10: d84156c5635688c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88047e196c88
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88047c68c528
FS:  00007fcb0b26f6e0(0000) GS:ffff880287400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000051 CR3: 000000047e76e000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 7319, threadinfo ffff88027da24000, task ffff88027d377090)
Stack:
 ffff88027da25d58 ffff88047c68c528 00000000fffffffe ffff88047e196c88
<0> ffff88047c68c528 ffff88047e05bd90 ffff88027da25d78 ffffffff8123fb77
<0> ffff88047e05bd90 0000000000000000 ffff88047e196c88 ffff88047c68c528
Call Trace:
 [] kobject_add_internal+0xe7/0x1f0
 [] kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60
 [] kobject_add+0x69/0x90
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xe0
 [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x30/0x50
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x20/0xa0
 [] ? sysfs_remove_dir+0x34/0xa0
 [] elv_register_queue+0x34/0xa0
 [] elevator_change+0xfd/0x250
 [] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [] ? t_init+0x0/0x361 [t]
 [] t_init+0xa8/0x361 [t]
 [] do_one_initcall+0x3e/0x170
 [] sys_init_module+0xbd/0x220
 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: e5 41 56 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 10 48 85 ff 74 52 48 8b 47 18 49 c7 c5 00 46 61 81 48 85 c0 74 04 4c 8b 68 30 45 31 f6 <41> 80 7d 51 00 74 0e 49 8b 44 24 28 4c 89 e7 ff 50 20 49 89 c6
RIP  [] sysfs_create_dir+0x2e/0xc0
 RSP 
CR2: 0000000000000051
---[ end trace a6541d3bf07945df ]---

Fix this by adding a registered bit to the elevator queue, which is
set when the sysfs kobjects have been registered.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver

2010-08-23T11:52:19+00:00

Currently drivers must do an elevator_exit() + elevator_init()
to switch IO schedulers. There are a few problems with this:

- Since commit 1abec4fdbb142e3ccb6ce99832fae42129134a96,
  elevator_init() requires a zeroed out q->elevator
  pointer. The two existing in-kernel users don't do that.

- It will only work at initialization time, since using the
  above two-staged construct does not properly quisce the queue.

So add elevator_change() which takes care of this, and convert
the elv_iosched_store() sysfs interface to use this helper as well.

Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Reported-by: Kevin Vigor 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blkio: Add io_merged stat

2010-04-09T06:36:07+00:00

This includes both the number of bios merged into requests belonging to this
cgroup as well as the number of requests merged together.
In the past, we've observed different merging behavior across upstream kernels,
some by design some actual bugs. This stat helps a lot in debugging such
problems when applications report decreased throughput with a new kernel
version.

This needed adding an extra elevator function to capture bios being merged as I
did not want to pollute elevator code with blkiocg knowledge and hence needed
the accounting invocation to come from CFQ.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch

2009-05-11T07:52:18+00:00

Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Mike Miller 
Cc: unsik Kim 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Tim Waugh 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Laurent Vivier 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Grant Likely 
Cc: Adrian McMenamin 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Cc: Alex Dubov 
Cc: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Markus Lidel 
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Pete Zaitcev 
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: drop request->hard_* and *nr_sectors

2009-05-11T07:50:54+00:00

struct request has had a few different ways to represent some
properties of a request.  ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the
request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix
are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated
as necessary by the low level drivers.  The thing is that as block
layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't
necessary and only cause confusion.  In addition, manual management of
request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at
the very least.

Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and
rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and
rq->bio->bi_size.  This is more convoluted than the hard_ case.

rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but
blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests.  rq->data_len is
initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc
requests.  This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer
and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of
black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and
what the specific LLD is actually doing.

rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in
the contiguous data area at the front.  This is mainly used by drivers
which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment.  This
value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9.  However, data length for
pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field
becomes a bit confusing.

In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property
leads only to confusion and subtle bugs.  With recent block low level
driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these
duplicate fields directly.  Drop all the duplicates.  Now rq->sector
means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and
rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length.  Everything else is
defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors.

* blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and
  now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update.
  This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no
  in-kernel user yet tho).

* bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer
  now uses byte count as the primary data length.

* blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct.  In-block users
  converted.

* blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is
  blk_rq_sectors().  In-block users converted.

* blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9.
  More convenient one is used.

* blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const
  pointer to request.

[ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code

2009-04-07T06:12:38+00:00

This forces in_flight to be zero when turning off or on the I/O stat
accounting and stops updating I/O stats in attempt_merge() when
accounting is turned off.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe