user/sven/linux.git/block, branch v4.8.6

blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL

2016-10-28T07:45:27Z

commit bbb427e342495df1cda10051d0566388697499c0 upstream. Unlocking a mutex twice is wrong. Hence modify blkcg_policy_register() such that blkcg_pol_mutex is unlocked once if cpd == NULL. This patch avoids that smatch reports the following error: block/blk-cgroup.c:1378: blkcg_policy_register() error: double unlock 'mutex:&blkcg_pol_mutex' Fixes: 06b285bd1125 ("blkcg: fix blkcg_policy_data allocation bug") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes

2016-10-22T10:40:26Z

commit 3932a86b4b9d1f0b049d64d4591ce58ad18b44ec upstream. While debugging timeouts happening in my application workload (ScyllaDB), I have observed calls to open() taking a long time, ranging everywhere from 2 seconds - the first ones that are enough to time out my application - to more than 30 seconds. The problem seems to happen because XFS may block on pending metadata updates under certain circumnstances, and that's confirmed with the following backtrace taken by the offcputime tool (iovisor/bcc): ffffffffb90c57b1 finish_task_switch ffffffffb97dffb5 schedule ffffffffb97e310c schedule_timeout ffffffffb97e1f12 __down ffffffffb90ea821 down ffffffffc046a9dc xfs_buf_lock ffffffffc046abfb _xfs_buf_find ffffffffc046ae4a xfs_buf_get_map ffffffffc046babd xfs_buf_read_map ffffffffc0499931 xfs_trans_read_buf_map ffffffffc044a561 xfs_da_read_buf ffffffffc0451390 xfs_dir3_leaf_read.constprop.16 ffffffffc0452b90 xfs_dir2_leaf_lookup_int ffffffffc0452e0f xfs_dir2_leaf_lookup ffffffffc044d9d3 xfs_dir_lookup ffffffffc047d1d9 xfs_lookup ffffffffc0479e53 xfs_vn_lookup ffffffffb925347a path_openat ffffffffb9254a71 do_filp_open ffffffffb9242a94 do_sys_open ffffffffb9242b9e sys_open ffffffffb97e42b2 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath 00007fb0698162ed [unknown] Inspecting my run with blktrace, I can see that the xfsaild kthread exhibit very high "Dispatch wait" times, on the dozens of seconds range and consistent with the open() times I have saw in that run. Still from the blktrace output, we can after searching a bit, identify the request that wasn't dispatched: 8,0 11 152 81.092472813 804 A WM 141698288 + 8 <- (8,1) 141696240 8,0 11 153 81.092472889 804 Q WM 141698288 + 8 [xfsaild/sda1] 8,0 11 154 81.092473207 804 G WM 141698288 + 8 [xfsaild/sda1] 8,0 11 206 81.092496118 804 I WM 141698288 + 8 ( 22911) [xfsaild/sda1] <==== 'I' means Inserted (into the IO scheduler) ===================================> 8,0 0 289372 96.718761435 0 D WM 141698288 + 8 (15626265317) [swapper/0] <==== Only 15s later the CFQ scheduler dispatches the request ======================> As we can see above, in this particular example CFQ took 15 seconds to dispatch this request. Going back to the full trace, we can see that the xfsaild queue had plenty of opportunity to run, and it was selected as the active queue many times. It would just always be preempted by something else (example): 8,0 1 0 81.117912979 0 m N cfq1618SN / insert_request 8,0 1 0 81.117913419 0 m N cfq1618SN / add_to_rr 8,0 1 0 81.117914044 0 m N cfq1618SN / preempt 8,0 1 0 81.117914398 0 m N cfq767A / slice expired t=1 8,0 1 0 81.117914755 0 m N cfq767A / resid=40 8,0 1 0 81.117915340 0 m N / served: vt=1948520448 min_vt=1948520448 8,0 1 0 81.117915858 0 m N cfq767A / sl_used=1 disp=0 charge=0 iops=1 sect=0 where cfq767 is the xfsaild queue and cfq1618 corresponds to one of the ScyllaDB IO dispatchers. The requests preempting the xfsaild queue are synchronous requests. That's a characteristic of ScyllaDB workloads, as we only ever issue O_DIRECT requests. While it can be argued that preempting ASYNC requests in favor of SYNC is part of the CFQ logic, I don't believe that doing so for 15+ seconds is anyone's goal. Moreover, unless I am misunderstanding something, that breaks the expectation set by the "fifo_expire_async" tunable, which in my system is set to the default. Looking at the code, it seems to me that the issue is that after we make an async queue active, there is no guarantee that it will execute any request. When the queue itself tests if it cfq_may_dispatch() it can bail if it sees SYNC requests in flight. An incoming request from another queue can also preempt it in such situation before we have the chance to execute anything (as seen in the trace above). This patch sets the must_dispatch flag if we notice that we have requests that are already fifo_expired. This flag is always cleared after cfq_dispatch_request() returns from cfq_dispatch_requests(), so it won't pin the queue for subsequent requests (unless they are themselves expired) Care is taken during preempt to still allow rt requests to preempt us regardless. Testing my workload with this patch applied produces much better results. From the application side I see no timeouts, and the open() latency histogram generated by systemtap looks much better, with the worst outlier at 131ms: Latency histogram of xfs_buf_lock acquisition (microseconds): value |-------------------------------------------------- count 0 | 11 1 |@@@@ 161 2 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1966 4 |@ 54 8 | 36 16 | 7 32 | 0 64 | 0 ~ 1024 | 0 2048 | 0 4096 | 1 8192 | 1 16384 | 2 32768 | 0 65536 | 0 131072 | 1 262144 | 0 524288 | 0 Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa CC: Jens Axboe CC: linux-block@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

blk-mq: skip unmapped queues in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx

2016-09-23T16:25:48Z

This provides the caller a feedback that a given hctx is not mapped and thus no command can be sent on it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Tested-by: Steve Wise Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-throttle: Extend slice if throttle group is not empty

2016-09-19T21:12:41Z

Right now, if slice is expired, we start a new slice. If a bio is queued, we keep on extending slice by throtle_slice interval (100ms). This worked well as long as pending timer function got executed with-in few milli seconds of scheduled time. But looks like with recent changes in timer subsystem, slack can be much longer depending on the expiry time of the scheduled timer. commit 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel") This means, by the time timer function gets executed, it is possible the delay from scheduled time is more than 100ms. That means current code will conclude that existing slice has expired and a new one needs to be started. New slice will be 100ms by default and that will not be sufficient to meet rate requirement of group given the bio size and bio will not be dispatched and we will start a new timer function to wait. And when that timer expires, same process will repeat and we will wait again and this can easily be an infinite loop. Solve this issue by starting a new slice only if throttle gropup is empty. If it is not empty, that means there should be an active slice going on. Ideally it should not be expired but given the slack, it is possible that it has expired. Reported-by: Hou Tao Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU

2016-08-24T21:38:01Z

__blk_mq_run_hw_queue() currently warns if we are running the queue on a CPU that isn't set in its mask. However, this can happen if a CPU is being offlined, and the workqueue handling will place the work on CPU0 instead. Improve the warning so that it only triggers if the batch cpu in the hardware queue is currently online. If it triggers for that case, then it's indicative of a flow problem in blk-mq, so we want to retain it for that case. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: don't overwrite rq->mq_ctx

2016-08-24T21:34:35Z

We do this in a few places, if the CPU is offline. This isn't allowed, though, since on multi queue hardware, we can't just move a request from one software queue to another, if they map to different hardware queues. The request and tag isn't valid on another hardware queue. This can happen if plugging races with CPU offlining. But it does no harm, since it can only happen in the window where we are currently busy freezing the queue and flushing IO, in preparation for redoing the software <-> hardware queue mappings. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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

2016-08-24T14:17:24Z

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 race triggered by blk_set_queue_dying()

2016-08-17T01:36:14Z

blk_set_queue_dying() can be called while another thread is submitting I/O or changing queue flags, e.g. through dm_stop_queue(). Hence protect the QUEUE_FLAG_DYING flag change with locking. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix secure erase

2016-08-16T15:16:51Z

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

2016-08-07T20:41:02Z

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