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* Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2010-08-10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits) block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n xen-blkfront: fix missing out label blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value block: update request stacking methods to support discards block: fix missing export of blk_types.h writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315] drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release writeback: cleanup bdi_register writeback: add new tracepoints writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little writeback: move last_active to bdi writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list writeback: simplify bdi code a little writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads ... Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
| * block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=nJens Axboe2010-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These form the basis of the basic WRITE etc primitives, so we need them to be always visible. Otherwise we see errors like: mm/filemap.c:2164: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared fs/read_write.c:362: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared fs/splice.c:1108: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared fs/aio.c:1496: error: 'REQ_WRITE' undeclared Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * xen-blkfront: fix missing out labelJens Axboe2010-08-08
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return valueDmitry Monakhov2010-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - If function called without barrier option retvalue is incorrect Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * block: update request stacking methods to support discardsike Snitzer2010-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Propagate REQ_DISCARD in cmd_flags when cloning a discard request. Skip blk_rq_check_limits's existing checks for discard requests because discard limits will have already been checked in blkdev_issue_discard. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * block: fix missing export of blk_types.hJens Axboe2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stephen reports: After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: usr/include/linux/fs.h:11: included file 'linux/blk_types.h' is not exported Caused by commit 9d3dbbcd9a84518ff5e32ffe671d06a48cf84fd9 ("bio, fs: separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags"). Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nestingJens Axboe2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a bug where a lock is _bh nested within another _bh lock, but forgets to use the _bh variant for unlock. Further more, it's not necessary to test _bh locks, the inner lock can just use spin_lock(). So fix up the bug by making that change. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differentlyLars Ellenberg2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was a now abandoned attempt to throttle resync bandwidth based on the delay it causes on the bulk data socket. It has no userbase yet, and has been disabled by 9173465ccb51c09cc3102a10af93e9f469a0af6f already. This removes the now unused code. The basic feature, namely using up "idle" bandwith of network and disk IO subsystem, with minimal impact to application IO, is being reimplemented differently. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]Philipp Reisner2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming releasePhilipp Reisner2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: cleanup bdi_registerArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes sure we first initialize everything and set the BDI_registered flag, and only after this we add the bdi to 'bdi_list'. Current code adds the bdi to the list too early, and as a result I the WARN(!test_bit(BDI_registered, &bdi->state) in bdi forker is triggered. Also, it is in general good practice to make things visible only when they are fully initialized. Also, this patch does few micro clean-ups: 1. Removes the 'exit' label which does not do anything, just returns. This allows to get rid of few braces and 'ret' variable and make the code smaller. 2. If 'kthread_run()' fails, remove the error code it returns, not hard-coded '-ENOMEM'. Theoretically, some day 'kthread_run()' can return something else. Also, in case of failure it is not necessary to set 'bdi->wb.task' to NULL. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: add new tracepointsArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add 2 new trace points to the periodic write-back wake up case, just like we do in the 'bdi_queue_work()' function. Namely, introduce: 1. trace_writeback_wake_thread(bdi) 2. trace_writeback_wake_forker_thread(bdi) The first event is triggered every time we wake up a bdi thread to start periodic background write-out. The second event is triggered only when the bdi thread does not exist and should be created by the forker thread. This patch was suggested by Dave Chinner and Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer callArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 'setup_timer()' function also calls 'init_timer()', so the extra 'init_timer()' call is not needed. Indeed, 'setup_timer()' is basically 'init_timer()' plus callback function and data pointers initialization. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeupsArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Whe the first inode for a bdi is marked dirty, we wake up the bdi thread which should take care of the periodic background write-out. However, the write-out will actually start only 'dirty_writeback_interval' centisecs later, so we can delay the wake-up. This change was requested by Nick Piggin who pointed out that if we delay the wake-up, we weed out 2 unnecessary contex switches, which matters because '__mark_inode_dirty()' is a hot-path function. This patch introduces a new function - 'bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed()', which sets up a timer to wake-up the bdi thread and returns. So the wake-up is delayed. We also delete the timer in bdi threads just before writing-back. And synchronously delete it when unregistering bdi. At the unregister point the bdi does not have any users, so no one can arm it again. Since now we take 'bdi->wb_lock' in the timer, which can execute in softirq context, we have to use 'spin_lock_bh()' for 'bdi->wb_lock'. This patch makes this change as well. This patch also moves the 'bdi_wb_init()' function down in the file to avoid forward-declaration of 'bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed()'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeupsArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finally, we can get rid of unnecessary wake-ups in bdi threads, which are very bad for battery-driven devices. There are two types of activities bdi threads do: 1. process bdi works from the 'bdi->work_list' 2. periodic write-back So there are 2 sources of wake-up events for bdi threads: 1. 'bdi_queue_work()' - submits bdi works 2. '__mark_inode_dirty()' - adds dirty I/O to bdi's The former already has bdi wake-up code. The latter does not, and this patch adds it. '__mark_inode_dirty()' is hot-path function, but this patch adds another 'spin_lock(&bdi->wb_lock)' there. However, it is taken only in rare cases when the bdi has no dirty inodes. So adding this spinlock should be fine and should not affect performance. This patch makes sure bdi threads and the forker thread do not wake-up if there is nothing to do. The forker thread will nevertheless wake up at least every 5 min. to check whether it has to kill a bdi thread. This can also be optimized, but is not worth it. This patch also tidies up the warning about unregistered bid, and turns it from an ugly crocodile to a simple 'WARN()' statement. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker threadArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, bdi threads can decide to exit if there were no useful activities for 5 minutes. However, this causes nasty races: we can easily oops in the 'bdi_queue_work()' if the bdi thread decides to exit while we are waking it up. And even if we do not oops, but the bdi tread exits immediately after we wake it up, we'd lose the wake-up event and have an unnecessary delay (up to 5 secs) in the bdi work processing. This patch makes the forker thread to be the central place which not only creates bdi threads, but also kills them if they were inactive long enough. This better design-wise. Another reason why this change was done is to prepare for the further changes which will prevent the bdi threads from waking up every 5 sec and wasting power. Indeed, when the task does not wake up periodically anymore, it won't be able to exit either. This patch also moves the the 'wake_up_bit()' call from the bdi thread to the forker thread as well. So now the forker thread sets the BDI_pending bit, then forks the task or kills it, then clears the bit and wakes up the waiting process. The only process which may wain on the bit is 'bdi_wb_shutdown()'. This function was changed as well - now it first removes the bdi from the 'bdi_list', then waits on the 'BDI_pending' bit. Once it wakes up, it is guaranteed that the forker thread won't race with it, because the bdi is not visible. Note, the forker thread sets the 'BDI_pending' bit under the 'bdi->wb_lock' which is essential for proper serialization. And additionally, when we change 'bdi->wb.task', we now take the 'bdi->work_lock', to make sure that we do not lose wake-ups which we otherwise would when raced with, say, 'bdi_queue_work()'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a littleArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch re-structures the bdi forker a little: 1. Add 'bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi)' condition check to the bdi loop. The reason for this is that the forker thread can start _before_ the 'BDI_registered' flag is set (see 'bdi_register()'), so the WARN() statement will fire for the default bdi. I observed this warning at boot-up. 2. Introduce an enum 'action' and use "switch" statement in the outer loop. This is a preparation to the further patch which will teach the forker thread killing bdi threads, so we'll have another case in the "switch" statement. This change was suggested by Christoph Hellwig. This patch is just a small step towards the coming change where the forker thread will kill the bdi threads. It should simplify reviewing the following changes, which would otherwise be larger. This patch also amends comments a little. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: move last_active to bdiArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently bdi threads use local variable 'last_active' which stores last time when the bdi thread did some useful work. Move this local variable to 'struct bdi_writeback'. This is just a preparation for the further patches which will make the forker thread decide when bdi threads should be killed. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_listArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The forker thread removes bdis from 'bdi_list' before forking the bdi thread. But this is wrong for at least 2 reasons. Reason #1: if we temporary remove a bdi from the list, we may miss works which would otherwise be given to us. Reason #2: this is racy; indeed, 'bdi_wb_shutdown()' expects that bdis are always in the 'bdi_list' (see 'bdi_remove_from_list()'), and when it races with the forker thread, it can shut down the bdi thread at the same time as the forker creates it. This patch makes sure the forker thread never removes bdis from 'bdi_list' (which was suggested by Christoph Hellwig). In order to make sure that we do not race with 'bdi_wb_shutdown()', we have to hold the 'bdi_lock' while walking the 'bdi_list' and setting the 'BDI_pending' flag. NOTE! The error path is interesting. Currently, when we fail to create a bdi thread, we move the bdi to the tail of 'bdi_list'. But if we never remove the bdi from the list, we cannot move it to the tail either, because then we can mess up the RCU readers which walk the list. And also, we'll have the race described above in "Reason #2". But I not think that adding to the tail is any important so I just do not do that. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: simplify bdi code a littleArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simplifies bdi code a little by removing the 'pending_list' which is redundant. Indeed, currently the forker thread ('bdi_forker_thread()') is working like this: 1. In a loop, fetch all bdi's which have works but have no writeback thread and move them to the 'pending_list'. 2. If the list is empty, sleep for 5 sec. 3. Otherwise, take one bdi from the list, fork the writeback thread for this bdi, and repeat the loop. IOW, it first moves everything to the 'pending_list', then process only one element, and so on. This patch simplifies the algorithm, which is now as follows. 1. Find the first bdi which has a work and remove it from the global list of bdi's (bdi_list). 2. If there was not such bdi, sleep 5 sec. 3. Fork the writeback thread for this bdi and repeat the loop. IOW, now we find the first bdi to process, process it, and so on. This is simpler and involves less lists. The bonus now is that we can get rid of a couple of functions, as well as remove complications which involve 'rcu_call()' and 'bdi->rcu_head'. This patch also makes sure we use 'list_add_tail_rcu()', instead of plain 'list_add_tail()', but this piece of code is going to be removed in the next patch anyway. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threadsArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, bdi threads ('bdi_writeback_thread()') can lose wake-ups. For example, if 'bdi_queue_work()' is executed after the bdi thread have had finished 'wb_do_writeback()' but before it called 'schedule_timeout_interruptible()'. To fix this issue, we have to check whether we have works to process after we have changed the task state to 'TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE'. This patch also clean-ups handling of the cases when 'dirty_writeback_interval' is zero or non-zero. Additionally, this patch also removes unneeded 'list_empty_careful()' call. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 2Artem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, if someone submits jobs for the default bdi, we can lose wake-up events. E.g., this can happen if 'bdi_queue_work()' is called when 'bdi_forker_thread()' is executing code after 'wb_do_writeback(me, 0)', but before 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)'. This situation is unlikely, and the result is not very severe - we'll just delay the execution of the work, but this is still not very nice. This patch fixes the issue by checking whether the default bdi has works before the forker thread goes sleep. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 1Artem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the forker thread can lose wake-ups which may lead to unnecessary delays in processing bdi works. E.g., consider the following scenario. 1. 'bdi_forker_thread()' walks the 'bdi_list', finds out there is nothing to do, and is about to finish the loop. 2. A bdi thread decides to exit because it was inactive for long time. 3. 'bdi_queue_work()' adds a work to the bdi which just exited, so it wakes up the forker thread. 4. but 'bdi_forker_thread()' executes 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' and goes sleep. We lose a wake-up. Losing the wake-up is not fatal, but this means that the bdi work processing will be delayed by up to 5 sec. This race is theoretical, I never hit it, but it is worth fixing. The fix is to execute 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' _before_ walking 'bdi_list', not after. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: fix possible race when creating bdi threadsArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a very unlikely race condition on the bdi forker thread error path: when bdi thread creation fails, 'bdi->wb.task' may contain the error code for a short period of time. If at the same time someone submits a work to this bdi, we can end up with an oops 'bdi_queue_work()' while executing 'wake_up_process(wb->task)'. This patch fixes the issue by introducing a temporary variable 'task' and storing the possible error code there, so that 'wb->task' would never take erroneous values. Note, this race is very unlikely and I never hit it, so it is theoretical, but nevertheless worth fixing. This patch also merges 2 comments which were previously separate. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: harmonize writeback threads namingArtem Bityutskiy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The write-back code mixes words "thread" and "task" for the same things. This is not a big deal, but still an inconsistency. hch: a convention I tend to use and I've seen in various places is to always use _task for the storage of the task_struct pointer, and thread everywhere else. This especially helps with having foo_thread for the actual thread and foo_task for a global variable keeping the task_struct pointer This patch renames: * 'bdi_add_default_flusher_task()' -> 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' * 'bdi_forker_task()' -> 'bdi_forker_thread()' because bdi threads are 'bdi_writeback_thread()', so these names are more consistent. This patch also amends commentaries and makes them refer the forker and bdi threads as "thread", not "task". Also, while on it, make 'bdi_add_default_flusher_thread()' declaration use 'static void' instead of 'void static' and make checkpatch.pl happy. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * coda: fixup clash with block layer REQ_* definesJens Axboe2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | CODA should not be using defines in the global name space of that nature, prefix them with CODA_. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * bio, fs: separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms ↵Tejun Heo2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of BIO_RW_* flags linux/fs.h hard coded READ/WRITE constants which should match BIO_RW_* flags. This is fragile and caused breakage during BIO_RW_* flag rearrangement. The hardcoding is to avoid include dependency hell. Create linux/bio_types.h which contatins definitions for bio data structures and flags and include it from bio.h and fs.h, and make fs.h define all READ/WRITE related constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * bio, fs: update RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding ↵Tejun Heo2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BIO_RW_* bits Commit a82afdf (block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request) moved BIO_RW_* bits around such that they match up with REQ_* bits. Unfortunately, fs.h hard coded RW_MASK, RWA_MASK, READ, WRITE, READA and SWRITE as 0, 1, 2 and 3, and expected them to match with BIO_RW_* bits. READ/WRITE didn't change but BIO_RW_AHEAD was moved to bit 4 instead of bit 1, breaking RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE. This patch updates RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE such that they match the BIO_RW_* bits again. A follow up patch will update the definitions to directly use BIO_RW_* bits so that this kind of breakage won't happen again. Neil also spotted missing RWA_MASK conversion. Stable: The offending commit a82afdf was released with v2.6.32, so this patch should be applied to all kernels since then but it must _NOT_ be applied to kernels earlier than that. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-bisected-by: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> Root-caused-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * block: disallow FS recursion from sb_issue_discard allocationMike Snitzer2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Filesystems can call sb_issue_discard on a memory reclaim path (e.g. ext4 calls sb_issue_discard during journal commit). Use GFP_NOFS in sb_issue_discard to avoid recursing back into the FS. Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cpqarray: check put_user() resultKulikov Vasiliy2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | put_user() may fail, if so return -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * writeback: remove wb in get_next_work_itemMinchan Kim2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 83ba7b07 cleans up the writeback. So we don't use wb any more in get_next_work_item. Let's remove unnecessary argument. CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * splice: fix misuse of SPLICE_F_NONBLOCKMiklos Szeredi2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK is clearly documented to only affect blocking on the pipe. In __generic_file_splice_read(), however, it causes an EAGAIN if the page is currently being read. This makes it impossible to write an application that only wants failure if the pipe is full. For example if the same process is handling both ends of a pipe and isn't otherwise able to determine whether a splice to the pipe will fill it or not. We could make the read non-blocking on O_NONBLOCK or some other splice flag, but for now this is the simplest fix. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * xen/blkfront: Use QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN for old backendsJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there's no feature-barrier key in xenstore, then it means its a fairly old backend which does uncached in-order writes, which means ORDERED_DRAIN is appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
| * xen/blkfront: use tagged queuing for barriersJeremy Fitzhardinge2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When barriers are supported, then use QUEUE_ORDERED_TAG to tell the block subsystem that it doesn't need to do anything else with the barriers. Previously we used ORDERED_DRAIN which caused the block subsystem to drain all pending IO before submitting the barrier, which would be very expensive. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
| * scsi: use REQ_TYPE_FS for flush requestFUJITA Tomonori2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | scsi-ml uses REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC for flush requests from file systems. The definition of REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC is that we don't retry requests even when we can (e.g. UNIT ATTENTION) and we send the response to the callers (then the callers can decide what they want). We need a workaround such as the commit 77a4229719e511a0d38d9c355317ae1469adeb54 to retry BLOCK_PC flush requests. We will need the similar workaround for discard requests too since SCSI-ml handle them as BLOCK_PC internally. This uses REQ_TYPE_FS for flush requests from file systems instead of REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC. scsi-ml retries only REQ_TYPE_FS requests that have data to transfer when we can retry them (e.g. UNIT_ATTENTION). However, we also need to retry REQ_TYPE_FS requests without data because the callers don't. This also changes scsi_check_sense() to retry all the REQ_TYPE_FS requests when appropriate. Thanks to scsi_noretry_cmd(), REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests don't be retried as before. Note that basically, this reverts the commit 77a4229719e511a0d38d9c355317ae1469adeb54 since now we use REQ_TYPE_FS for flush requests. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * block: set up rq->rq_disk properly for flush requestsFUJITA Tomonori2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | q->bar_rq.rq_disk is NULL. Use the rq_disk of the original request instead. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * block: set REQ_TYPE_FS on flush requestsFUJITA Tomonori2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the block layer doesn't set rq->cmd_type on flush requests. By definition, it should be REQ_TYPE_FS (the lower layers build a command and interpret the result of it, that is, the block layer doesn't know the details). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * floppy: make controller constStephen Hemminger2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The struct cont_t is just a set of virtual function pointers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * drivers/block: use memdup_userJulia Lawall2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. Some checkpatch cleanups in nearby code. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ - to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( - to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || ...) { <+... when != goto l1; - -ENOMEM + PTR_ERR(to) ...+> } - if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) { - <+... when != goto l2; - -EFAULT - ...+> - } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Chirag Kantharia <chirag.kantharia@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * scsi: convert discard to REQ_TYPE_FS from REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PCFUJITA Tomonori2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jens, any reason why this isn't included in your for-2.6.36 yet? = From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Subject: [PATCH resend] scsi: convert discard to REQ_TYPE_FS from REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC The block layer (file systems) sends discard requests as REQ_TYPE_FS (the role of REQ_TYPE_FS is that setting up commands and interpreting the results). But SCSI-ml treats discard requests as REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC. scsi-ml can handle discard requests as REQ_TYPE_FS easily. scsi_setup_discard_cmnd() sets up struct request and the bio nicely. Only remaining issue is that discard requests can't be completed partially so we need to modify sd_done. This conversion also fixes the problem that discard requests aren't retried when possible (e.g. UNIT ATTENTION). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: cleanup interrupt_not_for_usStephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: cleanup interrupt_not_for_us In the case of MSI/MSIX interrutps, we don't need to check if the interrupt is for us, and in the case of the intx interrupt handler, when checking if the interrupt is for us, we don't need to check if we're using MSI/MSIX, we know we're not. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: change printks to dev_warn, etc.Stephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: change printks to dev_warn, etc. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: separate cmd_alloc() and cmd_special_alloc()Stephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: separate cmd_alloc() and cmd_special_alloc() cmd_alloc() took a parameter which caused it to either allocate from a pre-allocated pool, or allocate using pci_alloc_consistent. This parameter is always known at compile time, so this would be better handled by breaking the function into two functions and differentiating the cases by function names. Same goes for cmd_free(). Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: use consistent variable namesStephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: use consistent variable names "h", for the hba structure and "c" for the command structures. and get rid of trivial CCISS_LOCK macro. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: forbid hard reset of 640x boardsStephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: forbid hard reset of 640x boards The 6402/6404 are two PCI devices -- two Smart Array controllers -- that fit into one slot. It is possible to reset them independently, however, they share a battery backed cache module. One of the pair controls the cache and the 2nd one access the cache through the first one. If you reset the one controlling the cache, the other one will not be a happy camper. So we just forbid resetting this conjoined mess. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: sanitize max commandsStephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: sanitize max commands Some controllers might try to tell us they support 0 commands in performant mode. This is a lie told by buggy firmware. We have to be wary of this lest we try to allocate a negative number of command blocks, which will be treated as unsigned, and get an out of memory condition. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: fix hard reset code.Stephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: Fix hard reset code. Smart Array controllers newer than the P600 do not honor the PCI power state method of resetting the controllers. Instead, in these cases we can get them to reset via the "doorbell" register. This escaped notice until we began using "performant" mode because the fact that the controllers did not reset did not normally impede subsequent operation, and so things generally appeared to "work". Once the performant mode code was added, if the controller does not reset, it remains in performant mode. The code immediately after the reset presumes the controller is in "simple" mode (which previously, it had remained in simple mode the whole time). If the controller remains in performant mode any code which presumes it is in simple mode will not work. So the reset needs to be fixed. Unfortunately there are some controllers which cannot be reset by either method. (eg. p800). We detect these cases by noticing that the controller seems to remain in performant mode even after a reset has been attempted. In those cases we ignore the controller, as any commands outstanding on it will result in stale completions. To sum up, we try to do a better job of resetting the controller if "reset_devices" is set, and if it doesn't work, we ignore that controller. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: factor out cciss_reset_devices()Stephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: factor out cciss_reset_devices() Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: factor out cciss_find_cfg_addrs.Stephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rationale for this is that I will also need to use this code in fixing kdump host reset code prior to having the hba structure. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * cciss: factor out cciss_enter_performant_modeStephen M. Cameron2010-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | cciss: factor out cciss_enter_performant_mode Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>