Konrad writes:
Please git pull the following branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.16
which has a bunch of fixes to the Xen block frontend and backend driver
and a new parameter for Xen backend driver - an override (set by the toolstack)
whether to expose the discard support (if disk of course supports it) or not.
In its initial implementation a check for "type" was added, but only phy
and file are handled. This breaks advertised discard support for other
type values such as qdisk.
Fix and simplify this function: If the backend advertises discard
support it is supposed to implement it properly, so enable
feature_discard unconditionally. If the backend advertises the need for
a certain granularity and alignment then propagate both properties to
the blocklayer. The discard-secure property is a boolean, update the code
to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This was used in the olden days, back when onions were proper
yellow. Basically it mapped to the current buffer to be
transferred. With highmem being added more than a decade ago,
most drivers map pages out of a bio, and rq->buffer isn't
pointing at anything valid.
Convert old style drivers to just use bio_data().
For the discard payload use case, just reference the page
in the bio.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Konrad writes:
Please git pull the following branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git stable/for-jens-3.14
which is based off v3.13-rc6. If you would like me to rebase it on
a different branch/tag I would be more than happy to do so.
The patches are all bug-fixes and hopefully can go in 3.14.
They deal with xen-blkback shutdown and cause memory leaks
as well as shutdown races. They should go to stable tree and if you
are OK with I will ask them to backport those fixes.
There is also a fix to xen-blkfront to deal with unexpected state
transition. And lastly a fix to the header where it was using the
__aligned__ unnecessarily.
Backend drivers shouldn't transistion to CLOSED unless the frontend is
CLOSED. If a backend does transition to CLOSED too soon then the
frontend may not see the CLOSING state and will not properly shutdown.
So, treat an unexpected backend CLOSED state the same as CLOSING.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This was wrongly introduced in commit 402b27f9, the only difference
between blkif_request_segment_aligned and blkif_request_segment is
that the former has a named padding, while both share the same
memory layout.
Also correct a few minor glitches in the description, including for it
to no longer assume PAGE_SIZE == 4096.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[Description fix by Jan Beulich]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but
various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request
contains:
- Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major
here, just minor fixes and cleanups.
- Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
from Christian Engelmayer.
- Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
- Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
bio_vecs:
- dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
- btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
- bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"
* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
block: fixup for generic bio chaining
block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Kill bio_pair_split()
...
The user has the option of disabling the platform driver:
00:02.0 Unassigned class [ff80]: XenSource, Inc. Xen Platform Device (rev 01)
which is used to unplug the emulated drivers (IDE, Realtek 8169, etc)
and allow the PV drivers to take over. If the user wishes
to disable that they can set:
xen_platform_pci=0
(in the guest config file)
or
xen_emul_unplug=never
(on the Linux command line)
except it does not work properly. The PV drivers still try to
load and since the Xen platform driver is not run - and it
has not initialized the grant tables, most of the PV drivers
stumble upon:
input: Xen Virtual Keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input5
input: Xen Virtual Pointer as /devices/virtual/input/input6M
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /home/konrad/ssd/konrad/linux/drivers/xen/grant-table.c:1206!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: xen_kbdfront(+) xenfs xen_privcmd
CPU: 6 PID: 1389 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1upstream-00021-ga6c892b-dirty #1
Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.4-unstable 11/26/2013
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813ddc40>] [<ffffffff813ddc40>] get_free_entries+0x2e0/0x300
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8150d9a3>] ? evdev_connect+0x1e3/0x240
[<ffffffff813ddd0e>] gnttab_grant_foreign_access+0x2e/0x70
[<ffffffffa0010081>] xenkbd_connect_backend+0x41/0x290 [xen_kbdfront]
[<ffffffffa0010a12>] xenkbd_probe+0x2f2/0x324 [xen_kbdfront]
[<ffffffff813e5757>] xenbus_dev_probe+0x77/0x130
[<ffffffff813e7217>] xenbus_frontend_dev_probe+0x47/0x50
[<ffffffff8145e9a9>] driver_probe_device+0x89/0x230
[<ffffffff8145ebeb>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0
[<ffffffff8145eb50>] ? driver_probe_device+0x230/0x230
[<ffffffff8145eb50>] ? driver_probe_device+0x230/0x230
[<ffffffff8145cf1c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xb0
[<ffffffff8145e7d9>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffff8145e260>] bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x220
[<ffffffff8145f1ff>] driver_register+0x5f/0xf0
[<ffffffff813e55c5>] xenbus_register_driver_common+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff813e76b3>] xenbus_register_frontend+0x23/0x40
[<ffffffffa0015000>] ? 0xffffffffa0014fff
[<ffffffffa001502b>] xenkbd_init+0x2b/0x1000 [xen_kbdfront]
[<ffffffff81002049>] do_one_initcall+0x49/0x170
.. snip..
which is hardly nice. This patch fixes this by having each
PV driver check for:
- if running in PV, then it is fine to execute (as that is their
native environment).
- if running in HVM, check if user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=never',
in which case bail out and don't load any PV drivers.
- if running in HVM, and if PCI device 5853:0001 (xen_platform_pci)
does not exist, then bail out and not load PV drivers.
- (v2) if running in HVM, and if the user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=ide-disks',
then bail out for all PV devices _except_ the block one.
Ditto for the network one ('nics').
- (v2) if running in HVM, and if the user wanted 'xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary'
then load block PV driver, and also setup the legacy IDE paths.
In (v3) make it actually load PV drivers.
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it
Reported-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v2: Add extra logic to handle the myrid ways 'xen_emul_unplug'
can be used per Ian and Stefano suggestion]
[v3: Make the unnecessary case work properly]
[v4: s/disks/ide-disks/ spotted by Fabio]
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> [for PCI parts]
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.
Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Conflicts:
block/blk-flush.c
fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
fs/btrfs/scrub.c
fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
In the blkif_release function the bdget_disk() call might returns
a NULL ptr which might be dereferenced on bdev->bd_openers checking
Signed-off-by: Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v2: Added WARN per Roger's suggestion]
pfn cannot actually be used unless (!info->feature_persistent), nor is
pfn accessed in get_grant() unless (!info->feature_persistent), but silence
this warning anyway. gcc-4.8
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c: In function 'do_blkif_request':
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:508:20: warning: 'pfn' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
gnt_list_entry = get_grant(&gref_head, pfn, info);
^
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:492:19: note: 'pfn' was declared here
unsigned long pfn;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
When persistent grants were added they were always used, even if the
backend doesn't have this feature (there's no harm in always using the
same set of pages). This restores the old data path when the backend
doesn't have persistent grants, removing the burden of doing a memcpy
when it is not actually needed.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe.franciosi@citrix.com>
Cc: Felipe Franciosi <felipe.franciosi@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v2: Fix up whitespace issues]
Improve the calculation of required grants to process a request by
using nr_phys_segments instead of always assuming a request is going
to use all posible segments.
nr_phys_segments contains the number of scatter-gather DMA addr+len
pairs, which is basically what we put at every granted page.
for_each_sg iterates over the DMA addr+len pairs and uses a grant
page for each of them.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There's no need to keep the foreign access in a grant if it is not
persistently mapped by the backend. This allows us to free grants that
are not mapped by the backend, thus preventing blkfront from hoarding
all grants.
The main effect of this is that blkfront will only persistently map
the same grants as the backend, and it will always try to use grants
that are already mapped by the backend. Also the number of persistent
grants in blkfront is the same as in blkback (and is controlled by the
value in blkback).
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Konrad writes:
It has the 'feature-max-indirect-segments' implemented in both backend
and frontend. The current problem with the backend and frontend is that the
segment size is limited to 11 pages. It means we can at most squeeze in 44kB per
request. The ring can hold 32 (next power of two below 36) requests, meaning we
can do 1.4M of outstanding requests. Nowadays that is not enough.
The problem in the past was addressed in two ways - but neither one went upstream.
The first solution to this proposed by Justin from Spectralogic was to negotiate
the segment size. This means that the ‘struct blkif_sring_entry’ is now a variable size.
It can expand from 112 bytes (cover 11 pages of data - 44kB) to 1580 bytes
(256 pages of data - so 1MB). It is a simple extension by just making the array in the
request expand from 11 to a variable size negotiated. But it had limits: this extension
still limits the number of segments per request to 255 (as the total number must be
specified in the request, which only has an 8-bit field for that purpose).
The other solution (from Intel - Ronghui) was to create one extra ring that only has the
‘struct blkif_request_segment’ in them. The ‘struct blkif_request’ would be changed to have
an index in said ‘segment ring’. There is only one segment ring. This means that the size of
the initial ring is still the same. The requests would point to the segment and enumerate out
how many of the indexes it wants to use. The limit is of course the size of the segment.
If one assumes a one-page segment this means we can in one request cover ~4MB.
Those patches were posted as RFC and the author never followed up on the ideas on changing
it to be a bit more flexible.
There is yet another mechanism that could be employed (which these patches implement) - and it
borrows from VirtIO protocol. And that is the ‘indirect descriptors’. This very similar to
what Intel suggests, but with a twist. The twist is to negotiate how many of these
'segment' pages (aka indirect descriptor pages) we want to support (in reality we negotiate
how many entries in the segment we want to cover, and we module the number if it is
bigger than the segment size).
This means that with the existing 36 slots in the ring (single page) we can cover:
32 slots * each blkif_request_indirect covers: 512 * 4096 ~= 64M. Since we ample space
in the blkif_request_indirect to span more than one indirect page, that number (64M)
can be also multiplied by eight = 512MB.
Roger Pau Monne took the idea and implemented them in these patches. They work
great and the corner cases (migration between backends with and without this extension)
work nicely. The backend has a limit right now off how many indirect entries
it can handle: one indirect page, and at maximum 256 entries (out of 512 - so 50% of the page
is used). That comes out to 32 slots * 256 entries in a indirect page * 1 indirect page
per request * 4096 = 32MB.
This is a conservative number that can change in the future. Right now it strikes
a good balance between giving excellent performance, memory usage in the backend, and
balancing the needs of many guests.
In the patchset there is also the split of the blkback structure to be per-VBD.
This means that the spinlock contention we had with many guests trying to do I/O and
all the blkback threads hitting the same lock has been eliminated.
Also there are bug-fixes to deal with oddly sized sectors, insane amounts on
th ring, and also a security fix (posted earlier).
Now that indirect segments are enabled blk_queue_max_hw_sectors must
be set to match the maximum number of sectors we can handle in a
request.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe.franciosi@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Currently xen-blkback passes the logical sector size over xenbus and
xen-blkfront sets up the paravirt disk with that logical block size.
But newer drives usually have the logical sector size set to 512 for
compatibility reasons and would show the actual sector size only in
physical sector size.
This results in the device being partitioned and accessed in dom0 with
the correct sector size, but the guest thinks 512 bytes is the correct
block size. And that results in poor performance.
To fix this, blkback gets modified to pass also physical-sector-size
over xenbus and blkfront to use both values to set up the paravirt
disk. I did not just change the passed in sector-size because I am
not sure having a bigger logical sector size than the physical one
is valid (and that would happen if a newer dom0 kernel hits an older
domU kernel). Also this way a domU set up before should still be
accessible (just some tools might detect the unaligned setup).
[v2: Make xenbus write failure non-fatal]
[v3: Use xenbus_scanf instead of xenbus_gather]
[v4: Rebased against segment changes]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The max module parameter (by default 32) is the maximum number of
segments that the frontend will negotiate with the backend for indirect
descriptors. Higher value means more potential throughput but more
memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend and its
default backend value.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
In blkif_queue_request blkfront iterates over the scatterlist in order
to set the segments of the request, and in blkif_completion blkfront
iterates over the raw request, which makes it hard to know the exact
position of the source and destination memory positions.
This can be solved by allocating a scatterlist for each request, that
will be keep until the request is finished, allowing us to copy the
data back to the original memory without having to iterate over the
raw request.
Oracle-Bug: 16660413 - LARGE ASYNCHRONOUS READS APPEAR BROKEN ON 2.6.39-400
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Anne Milicia <anne.milicia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation
(BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments
in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of
blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a
request.
The proposed implementation sets the maximum number of indirect grefs
(frames filled with blkif_request_segment_aligned) to 256 in the
backend and 32 in the frontend. The value in the frontend has been
chosen experimentally, and the backend value has been set to a sane
value that allows expanding the maximum number of indirect descriptors
in the frontend if needed.
The migration code has changed from the previous implementation, in
which we simply remapped the segments on the shared ring. Now the
maximum number of segments allowed in a request can change depending
on the backend, so we have to requeue all the requests in the ring and
in the queue and split the bios in them if they are bigger than the
new maximum number of segments.
[v2: Fixed minor comments by Konrad.
[v1: Added padding to make the indirect request 64bit aligned.
Added some BUGs, comments; fixed number of indirect pages in
blkif_get_x86_{32/64}_req. Added description about the indirect operation
in blkif.h]
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v3: Fixed spaces and tabs mix ups]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We already have the frame (pfn of the grant page) stored inside struct
grant, so there's no need to keep an aditional list of mapped frames
for a specific request. This reduces memory usage in blkfront.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This prevents us from having to call alloc_page while we are preparing
the request. Since blkfront was calling alloc_page with a spinlock
held we used GFP_ATOMIC, which can fail if we are requesting a lot of
pages since it is using the emergency memory pools.
Allocating all the pages at init prevents us from having to call
alloc_page, thus preventing possible failures.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Jens Axboe
Olaf Hering
David Vrabel
Roger Pau Monne
Linus Torvalds
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Jens Axboe
Felipe Pena
Tim Gardner
Kent Overstreet
Stefan Bader
Al Viro