user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/blkdev.h, branch v4.12.9

blk-mq: fix performance regression with shared tags

2017-06-21T16:17:49Z

If we have shared tags enabled, then every IO completion will trigger a full loop of every queue belonging to a tag set, and every hardware queue for each of those queues, even if nothing needs to be done. This causes a massive performance regression if you have a lot of shared devices. Instead of doing this huge full scan on every IO, add an atomic counter to the main queue that tracks how many hardware queues have been marked as needing a restart. With that, we can avoid looking for restartable queues, if we don't have to. Max reports that this restores performance. Before this patch, 4K IOPS was limited to 22-23K IOPS. With the patch, we are running at 950-970K IOPS. Fixes: 6d8c6c0f97ad ("blk-mq: Restart a single queue if tag sets are shared") Reported-by: Max Gurtovoy Tested-by: Max Gurtovoy Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Tested-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression

2017-06-14T19:27:50Z

Avoid that the following complaint is reported: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/workqueue.c:2790 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 41, name: rcuop/3 1 lock held by rcuop/3/41: #0: (rcu_callback){......}, at: [] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x282/0x500 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x86/0xcf ___might_sleep+0x174/0x260 __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80 flush_work+0x7e/0x2e0 __cancel_work_timer+0x143/0x1c0 cancel_work_sync+0x10/0x20 blk_throtl_exit+0x25/0x60 blkcg_exit_queue+0x35/0x40 blk_release_queue+0x42/0x130 kobject_put+0xa9/0x190 This happens since we invoke callbacks that need to block from the queue release handler. Fix this by pushing the final release to a workqueue. Reported-by: Ross Zwisler Fixes: commit b425e5049258 ("block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-free") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Tested-by: Ross Zwisler Updated changelog Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-05-12T22:43:10Z

Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams: "Incremental fixes and a small feature addition on top of the main libnvdimm 4.12 pull request: - Geert noticed that tinyconfig was bloated by BLOCK selecting DAX. The size regression is fixed by moving all dax helpers into the dax-core and only specifying "select DAX" for FS_DAX and dax-capable drivers. He also asked for clarification of the NR_DEV_DAX config option which, on closer look, does not need to be a config option at all. Mike also throws in a DEV_DAX_PMEM fixup for good measure. - Ben's attention to detail on -stable patch submissions caught a case where the recent fixes to arch_copy_from_iter_pmem() missed a condition where we strand dirty data in the cache. This is tagged for -stable and will also be included in the rework of the pmem api to a proposed {memcpy,copy_user}_flushcache() interface for 4.13. - Vishal adds a feature that missed the initial pull due to pending review feedback. It allows the kernel to clear media errors when initializing a BTT (atomic sector update driver) instance on a pmem namespace. - Ross noticed that the dax_device + dax_operations conversion broke __dax_zero_page_range(). The nvdimm unit tests fail to check this path, but xfstests immediately trips over it. No excuse for missing this before submitting the 4.12 pull request. These all pass the nvdimm unit tests and an xfstests spot check. The set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot" * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: filesystem-dax: fix broken __dax_zero_page_range() conversion libnvdimm, btt: ensure that initializing metadata clears poison libnvdimm: add an atomic vs process context flag to rw_bytes x86, pmem: Fix cache flushing for iovec write < 8 bytes device-dax: kill NR_DEV_DAX block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX device-dax: Tell kbuild DEV_DAX_PMEM depends on DEV_DAX

block, dax: move "select DAX" from BLOCK to FS_DAX

2017-05-08T17:55:27Z

For configurations that do not enable DAX filesystems or drivers, do not require the DAX core to be built. Given that the 'direct_access' method has been removed from 'block_device_operations', we can also go ahead and remove the block-related dax helper functions from fs/block_dev.c to drivers/dax/super.c. This keeps dax details out of the block layer and lets the DAX core be built as a module in the FS_DAX=n case. Filesystems need to include dax.h to call bdev_dax_supported(). Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

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

2017-05-06T18:25:08Z

Pull block fixes and updates from Jens Axboe: "Some fixes and followup features/changes that should go in, in this merge window. This contains: - Two fixes for lightnvm from Javier, fixing problems in the new code merge previously in this merge window. - A fix from Jan for the backing device changes, fixing an issue in NFS that causes a failure to mount on certain setups. - A change from Christoph, cleaning up the blk-mq init and exit request paths. - Remove elevator_change(), which is now unused. From Bart. - A fix for queue operation invocation on a dead queue, from Bart. - A series fixing up mtip32xx for blk-mq scheduling, removing a bandaid we previously had in place for this. From me. - A regression fix for this series, fixing a case where we wait on workqueue flushing from an invalid (non-blocking) context. From me. - A fix/optimization from Ming, ensuring that we don't both quiesce and freeze a queue at the same time. - A fix from Peter on lock ordering for CPU hotplug. Not a real problem right now, but will be once the CPU hotplug rework goes in. - A series from Omar, cleaning up out blk-mq debugfs support, and adding support for exporting info from schedulers in debugfs as well. This is really useful in debugging stalls or livelocks. From Omar" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (28 commits) mq-deadline: add debugfs attributes kyber: add debugfs attributes blk-mq-debugfs: allow schedulers to register debugfs attributes blk-mq: untangle debugfs and sysfs blk-mq: move debugfs declarations to a separate header file blk-mq: Do not invoke queue operations on a dead queue blk-mq-debugfs: get rid of a bunch of boilerplate blk-mq-debugfs: rename hw queue directories from to hctx blk-mq-debugfs: don't open code strstrip() blk-mq-debugfs: error on long write to queue "state" file blk-mq-debugfs: clean up flag definitions blk-mq-debugfs: separate flags with | nfs: Fix bdi handling for cloned superblocks block/mq: Cure cpu hotplug lock inversion lightnvm: fix bad back free on error path lightnvm: create cmd before allocating request blk-mq: don't use sync workqueue flushing from drivers mtip32xx: convert internal commands to regular block infrastructure mtip32xx: cleanup internal tag assumptions block: don't call blk_mq_quiesce_queue() after queue is frozen ...

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-05-06T01:49:20Z

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last couple days, but the whole set has received a build success notification from the kbuild robot. Change summary: - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of namespace modes or state. This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1 Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error" requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus devices. - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations. This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent memory support. - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event. Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally, fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for -stable. - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM payload debug available by default, and various fixes. Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed: - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock": Tested-by: Yi Zhang - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing" Tested-by: Toshi Kani " * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits) libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking" libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison() libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush() libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem() block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access() block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access() filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access() Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads" ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations ...

blk-mq-debugfs: allow schedulers to register debugfs attributes

2017-05-04T14:24:40Z

This provides the infrastructure for schedulers to expose their internal state through debugfs. We add a list of queue attributes and a list of hctx attributes to struct elevator_type and wire them up when switching schedulers. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Add missing seq_file.h header in blk-mq-debugfs.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: untangle debugfs and sysfs

2017-05-04T14:24:13Z

Originally, I tied debugfs registration/unregistration together with sysfs. There's no reason to do this, and it's getting in the way of letting schedulers define their own debugfs attributes. Instead, tie the debugfs registration to the lifetime of the structures themselves. The saner lifetimes mean we can also get rid of the extra mq directory and move everything one level up. I.e., nvme0n1/mq/hctx0/tags is now just nvme0n1/hctx0/tags. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-05-01T17:39:57Z

Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe: - Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness. From Paolo. - Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler, using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar. - A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life times, solving various problems with hot removal. - A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a 'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block device. - A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef. - A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for more than a decade. - Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar. - blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is marked experimental for now. - Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size IO. - A few fixes for opal, from Scott. - A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics. From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart. - A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from the blk-mq debugfs support. - A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES. - A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also shrinks the size of struct request a bit. - Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness. - Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks. * 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits) block: hide badblocks attribute by default blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on() blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work nbd: fix use after free on module unload MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq() blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq() blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name blk-mq: Register /queue/mq after having registered /queue ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all ..

block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()

2017-04-28T14:10:15Z

This modifies (or adds, if not currently pending) an existing delayed work item. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe