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2011-10-03block: Free queue resources at blk_release_queue()Hannes Reinecke
commit 777eb1bf15b8532c396821774bf6451e563438f5 upstream. A kernel crash is observed when a mounted ext3/ext4 filesystem is physically removed. The problem is that blk_cleanup_queue() frees up some resources eg by calling elevator_exit(), which are not checked for in normal operation. So we should rather move these calls to the destructor function blk_release_queue() as at that point all remaining references are gone. However, in doing so we have to ensure that any externally supplied queue_lock is disconnected as the driver might free up the lock after the call of blk_cleanup_queue(), Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-20Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/coreJens Axboe
Since for-2.6.40/core was forked off the 2.6.39 devel tree, we've had churn in the core area that makes it difficult to handle patches for eg cfq or blk-throttle. Instead of requiring that they be based in older versions with bugs that have been fixed later in the rc cycle, merge in 2.6.39 final. Also fixes up conflicts in the below files. Conflicts: drivers/block/paride/pcd.c drivers/cdrom/viocd.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-05-18block: Fix discard topology stacking and reportingMartin K. Petersen
In some cases we would end up stacking discard_zeroes_data incorrectly. Fix this by enabling the feature by default for stacking drivers and clearing it for low-level drivers. Incorporating a device that does not support dzd will then cause the feature to be disabled in the stacking driver. Also ensure that the maximum discard value does not overflow when exported in sysfs and return 0 in the alignment and dzd fields for devices that don't support discard. Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block: Remove the extra check in queue_requests_storeTao Ma
In queue_requests_store, the code looks like if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC] >= q->nr_requests) { blk_set_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); } else if (rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests) { blk_clear_queue_full(q, BLK_RW_SYNC); wake_up(&rl->wait[BLK_RW_SYNC]); } If we don't satify the situation of "if", we can get that rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC} < q->nr_quests. It is the same as rl->count[BLK_RW_SYNC]+1 <= q->nr_requests. All the "else" should satisfy the "else if" check so it isn't needed actually. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-19block, blk-sysfs: Fix an err return path in blk_register_queue()Liu Yuan
We do not call blk_trace_remove_sysfs() in err return path if kobject_add() fails. This path fixes it. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-13block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function callLiu Yuan
In the function blk_register_queue(), var _dev_ is already assigned by disk_to_dev().So use it directly instead of calling disk_to_dev() again. Signed-off-by: Liu Yuan <tailai.ly@taobao.com> Modified by me to delete an empty line in the same function while in there anyway. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-02block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue()Vivek Goyal
Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue() there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around. Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported one problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86 And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue(). commit 7ad58c028652753814054f4e3ac58f925e7343f4 Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Date: Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200 block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid the problem reported by Ingo. blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn() or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work. In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might never be dispatched. Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related data structures are cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-12-17block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits insteadMartin K. Petersen
When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a metadevice. There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver. The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing. We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking. Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD. Reported-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-23block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle codeJens Axboe
blk_throtl_exit() frees the throttle data hanging off the queue in blk_cleanup_queue(), but blk_put_queue() will indirectly dereference this data when calling blk_sync_queue() which in turns calls throtl_shutdown_timer_wq(). Fix this by moving the freeing of the throttle data to when the queue is truly being released, and post the call to blk_sync_queue(). Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* '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
2010-09-10block/scsi: Provide a limit on the number of integrity segmentsMartin K. Petersen
Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection information scatter-gather list segments they can handle. Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a value suitable for the hardware. Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both bios and requests. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
2010-08-23block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail pathXiaotian Feng
kernel needs to kobject_put on dev->kobj if elv_register_queue fails. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: add helpers for the trivial queue flag sysfs show/store entriesJens Axboe
The code for nonrot, random, and io stats are completely identical. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributionsJens Axboe
There are two reasons for doing this: - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they should contribute to the random pool in the first place. - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead. This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there should be no functional changes from this patch. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-04-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch loop: Update mtime when writing using aops block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL cciss: unlock on error path cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() paride: fix off-by-one test drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size ...
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-19Merge branch 'master' into for-linusJens Axboe
Conflicts: block/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-15block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfsMartin K. Petersen
These two values are useful when debugging issues surrounding maximum I/O size. Put them in sysfs with the rest of the queue limits. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-01-29block: Added in stricter no merge semantics for block I/OAlan D. Brunelle
Updated 'nomerges' tunable to accept a value of '2' - indicating that _no_ merges at all are to be attempted (not even the simple one-hit cache). The following table illustrates the additional benefit - 5 minute runs of a random I/O load were applied to a dozen devices on a 16-way x86_64 system. nomerges Throughput %System Improvement (tput / %sys) -------- ------------ ----------- ------------------------- 0 12.45 MB/sec 0.669365609 1 12.50 MB/sec 0.641519199 0.40% / 2.71% 2 12.52 MB/sec 0.639849750 0.56% / 2.96% Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-03block: Allow devices to indicate whether discarded blocks are zeroedMartin K. Petersen
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-11-10block: Expose discard granularityMartin K. Petersen
While SSDs track block usage on a per-sector basis, RAID arrays often have allocation blocks that are bigger. Allow the discard granularity and alignment to be set and teach the topology stacking logic how to handle them. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfsZdenek Kabelac
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9192fed5dd3b60224d9f2dfea0dcd82. Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL. Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were note properly destroyed during device removal: unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80): comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff .........e...... 90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff .f........S..... backtrace: [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60 [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0 [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120 [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0 [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160 [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0 [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests storeJens Axboe
Stacked devices do not. For now, just error out with -EINVAL. Later we could make the limit apply on stacked devices too, for throttling reasons. This fixes 5a54cd13353bb3b88887604e2c980aa01e314309 and should go into 2.6.31 stable as well. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-01block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512Nikanth Karthikesan
The patch "block: Use accessor functions for queue limits" (ae03bf639a5027d27270123f5f6e3ee6a412781d) changed queue_max_sectors_store() to use blk_queue_max_sectors() instead of directly assigning the value. But blk_queue_max_sectors() differs a bit 1. It sets both max_sectors_kb, and max_hw_sectors_kb 2. Never allows one to change max_sectors_kb above BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS. If one specifies a value greater then max_hw_sectors is set to that value but max_sectors is set to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS I am not sure whether blk_queue_max_sectors() should be changed, as it seems to be that way for a long time. And there may be callers dependent on that behaviour. This patch simply reverts to the older way of directly assigning the value to max_sectors as it was before. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-17block: sysfs fix mismatched queue_var_{store,show} in 64bit kernelXiaotian Feng
In blk-sysfs.c, queue_var_store uses unsigned long to store data, but queue_var_show uses unsigned int to show data. This causes, # echo 70000000000 > /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb # cat /sys/block/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb => get wrong value Fix it by using unsigned long. While at it, convert queue_rq_affinity_show() such that it uses bool variable instead of explicit != 0 testing. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-05-22block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitionsMartin K. Petersen
To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfsMartin K. Petersen
Currently stacking devices do not have a queue directory in sysfs. However, many of the I/O characteristics like sector size, maximum request size, etc. are queue properties. This patch enables the queue directory for MD/DM devices. The elevator code has been modified to deal with queues that do not have an I/O scheduler. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Use accessor functions for queue limitsMartin K. Petersen
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions instead of poking the request queue variables directly. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_sizeMartin K. Petersen
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-07Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24block: simplify I/O stat accountingJerome Marchand
This simplifies I/O stat accounting switching code and separates it completely from I/O scheduler switch code. Requests are accounted according to the state of their request queue at the time of the request allocation. There is no need anymore to flush the request queue when switching I/O accounting state. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-16blktrace: add trace/ to /sys/block/sdaLi Zefan
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices To trace a single partition: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable To trace the whole sda instead: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace can't be used to trace device-mapper devices. Now: # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable echo: write error: No such device or address # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42665.6020506@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15block: fix bad spelling of quiesceJens Axboe
Credit goes to Andrew Morton for spotting this one. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-07block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting codeJerome Marchand
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 <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-06block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async basedJens Axboe
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead of doing the split on writes vs reads. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-30block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accountingJens Axboe
This allows us to turn off disk stat accounting completely, for the cases where the 0.5-1% reduction in system time is important. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-30block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfsBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
For some devices (i.e. CFA ATA) we can't reliably detect whether the device is of rotational or non-rotational type so we need to leave the final decision about this setting to the user-space. As a bonus do a minor CodingStyle fixup in queue_nomerges_store(). Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29block: don't take lock on changing ra_pagesWu Fengguang
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for queue_max_sectors_store(). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: add support for IO CPU affinityJens Axboe
This patch adds support for controlling the IO completion CPU of either all requests on a queue, or on a per-request basis. We export a sysfs variable (rq_affinity) which, if set, migrates completions of requests to the CPU that originally submitted it. A bio helper (bio_set_completion_cpu()) is also added, so that queuers can ask for completion on that specific CPU. In testing, this has been show to cut the system time by as much as 20-40% on synthetic workloads where CPU affinity is desired. This requires a little help from the architecture, so it'll only work as designed for archs that are using the new generic smp helper infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: implement and use {disk|part}_to_dev()Tejun Heo
Implement {disk|part}_to_dev() and use them to access generic device instead of directly dereferencing {disk|part}->dev. To make sure no user is left behind, rename generic devices fields to __dev. This is in preparation of unifying partition 0 handling with other partitions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*()Jens Axboe
Concurrency isn't a big deal here since we have requests in flight at this point, but do the locked variant to set a better example. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29block: Skip I/O merges when disabledAlan D. Brunelle
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However, if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in nature, the cycles are wasted. This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles. Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-21block: fix blk_register_queue() return valueAkinobu Mita
blk_register_queue() returns -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL. But there are some block drivers that call blk_register_queue() via add_disk() with queue->request_fn == NULL. (For example, brd, loop) Although no one checks return value of blk_register_queue(), this patch makes it return 0 instead of -ENXIO when queue->request_fn is NULL, Also this patch adds warning when blk_register_queue() and blk_unregister_queue() are called with queue == NULL rather than ignore invalid usage silently. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-01block: make core bits checkpatch compliantJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29Expose hardware sector sizeMartin K. Petersen
Expose hardware sector size in sysfs queue directory. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29block: split tag and sysfs handling from blk-core.cJens Axboe
Seperates the tag and sysfs handling from ll_rw_blk. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>