Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
 "Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9.  It was delayed a few days
  since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
  current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
  by zero, will report separately).  In any case, it contains:

   - The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.

   - Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.

   - Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
     flushing.

   - _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
     io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
     properly.

   - Various little fixes.

  You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
  fix up"

Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42ca: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").

* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
  block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
  block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
  cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
  drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
  block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
  block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
  sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
  writeback: add more tracepoints
  block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
  buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
  block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
  block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
  block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
  block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
  cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
  cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
  cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
  blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
  block: RCU free request_queue
  blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
  ...

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index a794ce91a2d5..da272c8f44e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -94,13 +94,11 @@ Throttling/Upper Limit policy
 
 Hierarchical Cgroups
 ====================
-- Currently none of the IO control policy supports hierarchical groups. But
-  cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarchical cgroups and internally
-  IO policies treat them as flat hierarchy.
+- Currently only CFQ supports hierarchical groups. For throttling,
+  cgroup interface does allow creation of hierarchical cgroups and
+  internally it treats them as flat hierarchy.
 
-  So this patch will allow creation of cgroup hierarchcy but at the backend
-  everything will be treated as flat. So if somebody created a hierarchy like
-  as follows.
+  If somebody created a hierarchy like as follows.
 
                         root
                         /  \
@@ -108,16 +106,20 @@ Hierarchical Cgroups
                         |
                      test3
 
-  CFQ and throttling will practically treat all groups at same level.
+  CFQ will handle the hierarchy correctly but and throttling will
+  practically treat all groups at same level. For details on CFQ
+  hierarchy support, refer to Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt.
+  Throttling will treat the hierarchy as if it looks like the
+  following.
 
                                 pivot
                              /  /   \  \
                         root  test1 test2  test3
 
-  Down the line we can implement hierarchical accounting/control support
-  and also introduce a new cgroup file "use_hierarchy" which will control
-  whether cgroup hierarchy is viewed as flat or hierarchical by the policy..
-  This is how memory controller also has implemented the things.
+  Nesting cgroups, while allowed, isn't officially supported and blkio
+  genereates warning when cgroups nest. Once throttling implements
+  hierarchy support, hierarchy will be supported and the warning will
+  be removed.
 
 Various user visible config options
 ===================================
@@ -172,6 +174,12 @@ Proportional weight policy files
           dev     weight
           8:16    300
 
+- blkio.leaf_weight[_device]
+        - Equivalents of blkio.weight[_device] for the purpose of
+          deciding how much weight tasks in the given cgroup has while
+          competing with the cgroup's child cgroups. For details,
+          please refer to Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt.
+
 - blkio.time
         - disk time allocated to cgroup per device in milliseconds. First
           two fields specify the major and minor number of the device and
@@ -279,6 +287,11 @@ Proportional weight policy files
           and minor number of the device and third field specifies the number
           of times a group was dequeued from a particular device.
 
+- blkio.*_recursive
+        - Recursive version of various stats. These files show the
+          same information as their non-recursive counterparts but
+          include stats from all the descendant cgroups.
+
 Throttling/Upper limit policy files
 -----------------------------------
 - blkio.throttle.read_bps_device