disk->part[] is protected by its matching bdev's lock. However,
non-critical accesses like collecting stats and printing out sysfs and
proc information used to be performed without any locking. As
partitions can come and go dynamically, partitions can go away
underneath those non-critical accesses. As some of those accesses are
writes, this theoretically can lead to silent corruption.
This patch fixes the race by using RCU for the partition array and dev
reference counter to hold partitions.
* Rename disk->part[] to disk->__part[] to make sure no one outside
genhd layer proper accesses it directly.
* Use RCU for disk->__part[] dereferencing.
* Implement disk_{get|put}_part() which can be used to get and put
partitions from gendisk respectively.
* Iterators are implemented to help iterate through all partitions
safely.
* Functions which require RCU readlock are marked with _rcu suffix.
* Use disk_put_part() in __blkdev_put() instead of directly putting
the contained kobject.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Implement disk_devt() and part_devt() and use them to directly
access devt instead of computing it from ->major and ->first_minor.
Note that all references to ->major and ->first_minor outside of
block layer is used to determine devt of the disk (the part0) and as
->major and ->first_minor will continue to represent devt for the
disk, converting these users aren't strictly necessary. However,
convert them for consistency.
* Implement disk_max_parts() to avoid directly deferencing
genhd->minors.
* Update bdget_disk() such that it doesn't assume consecutive minor
space.
* Move devt computation from register_disk() to add_disk() and make it
the only one (all other usages use the initially determined value).
These changes clean up the code and will help disk->part dereference
fix and extended block device numbers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
In hd_struct, @partno is used to denote partition number and a number
of other places use @part to denote hd_struct. Functions use @part
and @index instead. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to
use consistent variable names for hd_struct. Always use @partno if a
variable represents partition number.
Also, print out functions use @f or @part for seq_file argument. Use
@seqf uniformly instead.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch makes the following misc updates in preparation for
disk->part dereference fix and extended block devt support.
* implment part_to_disk()
* fix comment about gendisk->part indexing
* rename get_part() to disk_map_sector()
* don't use n which is always zero while printing disk information in
diskstats_show()
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
d805dda4 tried to fix error case handling in add_partition() but had a
few problems.
* disk->part[] entry is set early and left dangling if operation
fails.
* Once device initialized, the last put_device() is responsible for
freeing all the resources. The failure path freed part_stats and p
regardless of put_device() causing double free.
* holders subdir holds reference to the disk device, so failure path
should remove it to release resources properly which was missing.
This patch fixes the above problems and while at it move partition
slot busy check into add_partition() for completeness and inlines
holders subdirectory creation. Using separate function for it just
obfuscates the code.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
delete_partition() was noop for zero length partition. As the
addition code allows creating zero lenght partition and deletion is
assumed to always succeed, this causes memory leak for zero length
partitions. Allow zero length partitions to end their meaningless
lives.
While at it, allow deleting zero lenght partition via
BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION ioctl too.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f3025 converted all
class device iteration to class_for_each_device() and
class_find_device(), which are correct but pain in the ass to use.
This pach converts them to newly introduced class_dev_iterator so that
they can use more natural control structures instead of separate
callbacks and struct to pass parameters to them.
This results in smaller and easier code.
This patch also restores the original behavior of not printing header
in /proc/partitions if there's no partition to print. This is trivial
but still user-visible behavior.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
block_class_lock protects major_names array and bdev_map and doesn't
have anything to do with block class devices. Don't grab them while
iterating over block class devices.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f3025 broke partition
info printouts.
* printk_all_partitions(): Partition print out stops when it meets a
partition hole. Partition printing inner loop should continue
instead of exiting on empty partition slot.
* /proc/partitions and /proc/diskstats: If all information can't be
read in single read(), the information is truncated. This is
because find_start() doesn't actually update the counter containing
the initial seek. It runs to the end and ends up always reporting
EOF on the second read.
This patch fixes both problems.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual
merge accounting they have no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Deadline currently only batches sector-contiguous requests, so except
for a few circumstances (e.g. requests in a single direction), it is
essentially first come first served. This is bad for throughput, so
change it to CSCAN, which means requests in a batch do not need to be
sequential and are issued in increasing sector order.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as
soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent
writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're
reallocated quickly enough).
Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to
take care of queue ordering for themselves.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as
unwanted before they format it, for example.
The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length
in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to
be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Let the compiler see what's going on, and it can all get a lot simpler.
On PPC64 this reduces the size of the code calculating these bits by
about 60%. On x86_64 it's less of a win -- only 40%.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents
of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along
with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such
requests.
The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since
blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into
multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for
completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even
_if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By
definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more.
[With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
I have another request for the block filter SG_IO command whitelist,
specifically the MMC streaming command set SET READ AHEAD command.
The command applies only to MMC CDROM/DVDROM drives with the streaming
optional feature set. The command is useful to cdparanoia in that it
allows explicit cache control side effects that are, on many drives,
cdparanoia's most efficient way to flush/disable the media cache on
cdrom drives. I am aware of no reason why it should not be accessible
from usespace.
Also note that the command is already fully accessible through the
SCSI-native version of the SG_IO ioctl as well as the traditional SG
interface. The command is only being refused on block devices. That
means that on a typical stock distro, the command is available through
/dev/sg* but not /dev/scd* although both are typically available and
accessible. Filtering the command is not providing any protection,
only a confusing inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We still have life time issues with the sysfs command filter kobject,
so disable it for 2.6.27 release. We can revisit this and make it work
properly for 2.6.28, for 2.6.27 release it's too risky.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Tejun Heo
Randy Dunlap
Mikulas Patocka
Aaron Carroll
David Woodhouse
OGAWA Hirofumi
Jens Axboe
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