user/sven/linux.git/drivers/vhost, branch v4.13.14

vhost_net: correctly check tx avail during rx busy polling

2017-09-20T06:27:46Z

[ Upstream commit 8b949bef9172ca69d918e93509a4ecb03d0355e0 ] We check tx avail through vhost_enable_notify() in the past which is wrong since it only checks whether or not guest has filled more available buffer since last avail idx synchronization which was just done by vhost_vq_avail_empty() before. What we really want is checking pending buffers in the avail ring. Fix this by calling vhost_vq_avail_empty() instead. This issue could be noticed by doing netperf TCP_RR benchmark as client from guest (but not host). With this fix, TCP_RR from guest to localhost restores from 1375.91 trans per sec to 55235.28 trans per sec on my laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz). Fixes: 030881372460 ("vhost_net: basic polling support") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "vhost: cache used event for better performance"

2017-07-29T21:15:56Z

This reverts commit 809ecb9bca6a9424ccd392d67e368160f8b76c92. Since it was reported to break vhost_net. We want to cache used event and use it to check for notification. The assumption was that guest won't move the event idx back, but this could happen in fact when 16 bit index wraps around after 64K entries. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending

2017-07-13T21:27:32Z

Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger: "It's been usually busy for summer, with most of the efforts centered around TCMU developments and various target-core + fabric driver bug fixing activities. Not particularly large in terms of LoC, but lots of smaller patches from many different folks. The highlights include: - ibmvscsis logical partition manager support (Michael Cyr + Bryant Ly) - Convert target/iblock WRITE_SAME to blkdev_issue_zeroout (hch + nab) - Add support for TMR percpu LUN reference counting (nab) - Fix a potential deadlock between EXTENDED_COPY and iscsi shutdown (Bart) - Fix COMPARE_AND_WRITE caw_sem leak during se_cmd quiesce (Jiang Yi) - Fix TMCU module removal (Xiubo Li) - Fix iser-target OOPs during login failure (Andrea Righi + Sagi) - Breakup target-core free_device backend driver callback (mnc) - Perform TCMU add/delete/reconfig synchronously (mnc) - Fix TCMU multiple UIO open/close sequences (mnc) - Fix TCMU CHECK_CONDITION sense handling (mnc) - Fix target-core SAM_STAT_BUSY + TASK_SET_FULL handling (mnc + nab) - Introduce TYPE_ZBC support in PSCSI (Damien Le Moal) - Fix possible TCMU memory leak + OOPs when recalculating cmd base size (Xiubo Li + Bryant Ly + Damien Le Moal + mnc) - Add login_keys_workaround attribute for non RFC initiators (Robert LeBlanc + Arun Easi + nab)" * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (68 commits) iscsi-target: Add login_keys_workaround attribute for non RFC initiators Revert "qla2xxx: Fix incorrect tcm_qla2xxx_free_cmd use during TMR ABORT" tcmu: clean up the code and with one small fix tcmu: Fix possbile memory leak / OOPs when recalculating cmd base size target: export lio pgr/alua support as device attr target: Fix return sense reason in target_scsi3_emulate_pr_out target: Fix cmd size for PR-OUT in passthrough_parse_cdb tcmu: Fix dev_config_store target: pscsi: Introduce TYPE_ZBC support target: Use macro for WRITE_VERIFY_32 operation codes target: fix SAM_STAT_BUSY/TASK_SET_FULL handling target: remove transport_complete pscsi: finish cmd processing from pscsi_req_done tcmu: fix sense handling during completion target: add helper to copy sense to se_cmd buffer target: do not require a transport_complete for SCF_TRANSPORT_TASK_SENSE target: make device_mutex and device_list static tcmu: Fix flushing cmd entry dcache page tcmu: fix multiple uio open/close sequences tcmu: drop configured check in destroy ...

mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic

2017-07-12T23:26:03Z

__GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to the page allocator. This has been true but only for allocations requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. It has been always ignored for smaller sizes. This is a bit unfortunate because there is no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests. Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful semantic. Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a success. This will work independent of the order and overrides the default allocator behavior. Page allocator users have several levels of guarantee vs. cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example) - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_ attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more aggressive reclaim - GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when the request is a performance optimization and there is another fallback for a slow path. - (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) - non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh context with an expensive slow path fallback. - GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the _default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers (e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently). - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer is not invoked. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer won't be triggered. - GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed. This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders. Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL because they already had their semantic. No new users are added. __alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point. This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c] [mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz [mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Alex Belits Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: David Daney Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: NeilBrown Cc: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2017-07-05T19:31:59Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12 merge window: 1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from Paolo Abeni. 2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet. 3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko. 4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet. 5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang. 6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from Davide Caratti. 7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer. 8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman. 9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa Prabhu. 10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov. 11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz. 12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF programs. From Martin KaFai Lau. 13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann. 14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from Yonghong Song. 15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David Daney. 16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others. 17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang. 18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan Delalande. 19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel 20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen. 21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari. 22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo. 23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova. 24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications, currently via CGROUPs" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits) net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t ...

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2017-07-04T03:55:59Z

Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char/misc driver patchset for 4.13-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, a large thunderbolt update, w1 driver header reorg, the new mux driver subsystem, google firmware driver updates, and a raft of other smaller things. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with the only reported issue being a merge problem with this tree and the jc-docs tree in the w1 documentation area" * tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (147 commits) misc: apds990x: Use sysfs_match_string() helper mei: drop unreachable code in mei_start mei: validate the message header only in first fragment. DocBook: w1: Update W1 file locations and names in DocBook mux: adg792a: always require I2C support nvmem: rockchip-efuse: add support for rk322x-efuse nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell nvmem: core: Call put_device() in nvmem_unregister() nvmem: core: fix leaks on registration errors nvmem: correct Broadcom OTP controller driver writes w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface drivers/fsi: Add module license to core driver drivers/fsi: Use asynchronous slave mode drivers/fsi: Add hub master support drivers/fsi: Add SCOM FSI client device driver drivers/fsi/gpio: Add tracepoints for GPIO master drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master drivers/fsi: Document FSI master sysfs files in ABI drivers/fsi: Add error handling for slave drivers/fsi: Add tracepoints for low-level operations ...

sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t

2017-06-20T10:18:27Z

Rename: wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue", but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head, which had to carry the name. Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'. This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry', which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types. Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

vhost/scsi: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API

2017-06-09T06:26:37Z

Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used. Make them used. Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger

vhost/vsock: use static minor number

2017-05-18T14:59:06Z

Vhost-vsock is a software device so there is no probe call that causes the driver to register its misc char device node. This creates a chicken and egg problem: userspace applications must open /dev/vhost-vsock to use the driver but the file doesn't exist until the kernel module has been loaded. Use the devname modalias mechanism so that /dev/vhost-vsock is created at boot. The vhost_vsock kernel module is automatically loaded when the first application opens /dev/host-vsock. Note that the "reserved for local use" range in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt is incorrect. The userio driver already occupies part of that range. I've updated the documentation accordingly. Cc: device@lanana.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array

2017-05-18T14:07:42Z

We used to dequeue one skb during recvmsg() from skb_array, this could be inefficient because of the bad cache utilization and spinlock touching for each packet. This patch tries to batch them by calling batch dequeuing helpers explicitly on the exported skb array and pass the skb back through msg_control for underlayer socket to finish the userspace copying. Batch dequeuing is also the requirement for more batching improvement on receive path. Tests were done by pktgen on tap with XDP1 in guest. Host is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz. rx batch | pps 0 2.25Mpps 1 2.33Mpps (+3.56%) 4 2.33Mpps (+3.56%) 16 2.35Mpps (+4.44%) 64 2.42Mpps (+7.56%) <- Default rx batching 128 2.40Mpps (+6.67%) 256 2.38Mpps (+5.78%) Signed-off-by: Jason Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller