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Johannes Weiner
185efc0f9a memcg: Revert "memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"
Revert the post-3.0 commit 82f9d486e5 ("memcg: add
memory.vmscan_stat").

The implementation of per-memcg reclaim statistics violates how memcg
hierarchies usually behave: hierarchically.

The reclaim statistics are accounted to child memcgs and the parent
hitting the limit, but not to hierarchy levels in between.  Usually,
hierarchical statistics are perfectly recursive, with each level
representing the sum of itself and all its children.

Since this exports statistics to userspace, this may lead to confusion
and problems with changing things after the release, so revert it now,
we can try again later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14 18:09:38 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
bff747c58c regulator: fix kernel-doc warning in consumer.h
Fix kernel-doc warning about internal/private data by marking it
as "private:" so that kernel-doc will ignore it.

  Warning(include/linux/regulator/consumer.h:128): No description found for parameter 'ret'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-08 14:43:03 -07:00
Stephane Eranian
a8d757ef07 perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading
to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active
cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU
would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a
simple ping/pong example:

 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10684.51 ctxsw/s

Now start a cgroup perf stat:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

$ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 6674.61 ctxsw/s

That's a 37% penalty.

Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup.

The results shown by perf stat are bogus:
 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 100

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles   test
 CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles  #    0.000 GHz

The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock
(here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups.

The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any
cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are
in the same cgroup.

With this patch the same test now yields:
 $ ./pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10775.30 ctxsw/s

Start perf stat with cgroup:

 $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

Run pong outside the cgroup:
 $ /pong
 Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s
 10687.80 ctxsw/s

The penalty is now less than 2%.

And the results for perf stat are correct:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 <not counted> cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

Now perf stat reports the correct counts for
for the non cgroup event.

If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the
correct counts:

$ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test  -C 1 -- sleep 10

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10':

 CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test #    0.000 GHz
 CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles      #    0.000 GHz

      10.001457237 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-29 12:28:33 +02:00
NeilBrown
f5b9409973 All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-26 15:09:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
efe45ab1ee Merge branch 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  omap-serial: Allow IXON and IXOFF to be disabled.
  TTY: serial, document ignoring of uart->ops->startup error
  TTY: pty, fix pty counting
  8250: Fix race condition in serial8250_backup_timeout().
  serial/8250_pci: delete duplicate data definition
  8250_pci: add support for Rosewill RC-305 4x serial port card
  tty: Add "spi:" prefix for spi modalias
  atmel_serial: fix atmel_default_console_device
  serial: 8250_pnp: add Intermec CV60 touchscreen device
  drivers/serial/ucc_uart.c: Fix compiler warning
  pch_uart: Set PCIe bus number using probe parameter
  serial: samsung: Fix build error
2011-08-26 13:06:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3ab47029d9 Merge branch 'driver-core-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* 'driver-core-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  drivers:misc: ti-st: fix unexpected UART close
  drivers:misc: ti-st: free skb on firmware download
  drivers:misc: ti-st: wait for completion at fail
  drivers:misc: ti-st: reinit completion before send
  drivers:misc: ti-st: fail-safe on wrong pkt type
  drivers:misc: ti-st: reinit completion on ver read
  drivers:misc:ti-st: platform hooks for chip states
  drivers:misc: ti-st: avoid a misleading dbg msg
  base/devres.c: quiet sparse noise about context imbalance
  pti: add missing CONFIG_PCI dependency
  drivers/base/devtmpfs.c: correct annotation of `setup_done'
  driver core: fix kernel-doc warning in platform.c
  firmware: fix google/gsmi.c build warning
2011-08-26 13:05:09 -07:00
Dilan Lee
cc7993f643 backlight: add a callback 'notify_after' for backlight control
We need a callback to do some things after pwm_enable, pwm_disable
and pwm_config.

Signed-off-by: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Alexandre Bounine
284fb68d00 rapidio: fix use of non-compatible registers
Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not
forward-compatible with newer versions of RapidIO specification.

RapidIO specification v.1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR,
Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR.

Use of removed (since RIO v.1.3) register bits affects users of
currently available 1.3 and 2.x compliant devices who may use not so
recent kernel versions.

Removing checks for unsupported bits makes corresponding routines
compatible with all versions of RapidIO specification.  Therefore,
backporting makes stable kernel versions compliant with RIO v.1.3 and
later as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com>
Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:34 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
a801876638 MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has moved
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
Josh Boyer
e096d0c7e2 lockdep: Add helper function for dir vs file i_mutex annotation
Purely in-memory filesystems do not use the inode hash as the dcache
tells us if an entry already exists.  As a result, they do not call
unlock_new_inode, and thus directory inodes do not get put into a
different lockdep class for i_sem.

We need the different lockdep classes, because the locking order for
i_mutex is different for directory inodes and regular inodes.  Directory
inodes can do "readdir()", which takes i_mutex *before* possibly taking
mm->mmap_sem (due to a page fault while copying the directory entry to
user space).

In contrast, regular inodes can be mmap'ed, which takes mm->mmap_sem
before accessing i_mutex.

The two cases can never happen for the same inode, so no real deadlock
can occur, but without the different lockdep classes, lockdep cannot
understand that.  As a result, if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set, this
can lead to false positives from lockdep like below:

    find/645 is trying to acquire lock:
     (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff81109514>] might_fault+0x5c/0xac

    but task is already holding lock:
     (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81149f34>]
    vfs_readdir+0x5b/0xb4

    which lock already depends on the new lock.

    the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

    -> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}:
          [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103
          [<ffffffff814db822>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4c/0x361
          [<ffffffff814dbc46>] mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x45
          [<ffffffff811daa87>] hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0x82/0x110
          [<ffffffff81111557>] mmap_region+0x258/0x432
          [<ffffffff811119dd>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ac/0x306
          [<ffffffff81111b4f>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0x118/0x16a
          [<ffffffff8100c858>] sys_mmap+0x22/0x24
          [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

    -> #0 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}:
          [<ffffffff8108a4bc>] __lock_acquire+0xa1a/0xcf7
          [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103
          [<ffffffff81109541>] might_fault+0x89/0xac
          [<ffffffff81149cff>] filldir+0x6f/0xc7
          [<ffffffff811586ea>] dcache_readdir+0x67/0x205
          [<ffffffff81149f54>] vfs_readdir+0x7b/0xb4
          [<ffffffff8114a073>] sys_getdents+0x7e/0xd1
          [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This patch moves the directory vs file lockdep annotation into a helper
function that can be called by in-memory filesystems and has hugetlbfs
call it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:50:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e33f2d238e Merge branch 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback
* 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback:
  squeeze max-pause area and drop pass-good area
2011-08-25 10:40:12 -07:00
Andi Kleen
be27425dcc Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.

For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.

  $ uname -a
  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  $ hpacucli ctrl all show

  Error: No controllers detected.

  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
  hpacucli-8.75-12.0

Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
sys.platform() == "linux2":

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
programs.

This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.

I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
compatibility to existing programs is important.

Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)

To use:

  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
  ./uname26 program

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25 10:17:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
051732bcbe Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message
  fuse: mark pages accessed when written to
  fuse: delete dead .write_begin and .write_end aops
  fuse: fix flock
  fuse: fix non-ANSI void function notation
2011-08-24 09:14:42 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
24d406a6bf TTY: pty, fix pty counting
tty_operations->remove is normally called like:
queue_release_one_tty
 ->tty_shutdown
   ->tty_driver_remove_tty
     ->tty_operations->remove

However tty_shutdown() is called from queue_release_one_tty() only if
tty_operations->shutdown is NULL. But for pty, it is not.
pty_unix98_shutdown() is used there as ->shutdown.

So tty_operations->remove of pty (i.e. pty_unix98_remove()) is never
called. This results in invalid pty_count. I.e. what can be seen in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr.

I see this was already reported at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/5/370
But it was not fixed since then.

This patch is kind of a hackish way. The problem lies in ->install. We
allocate there another tty (so-called tty->link). So ->install is
called once, but ->remove twice, for both tty and tty->link. The fix
here is to count both tty and tty->link and divide the count by 2 for
user.

And to have ->remove called, let's make tty_driver_remove_tty() global
and call that from pty_unix98_shutdown() (tty_operations->shutdown).

While at it, let's document that when ->shutdown is defined,
tty_shutdown() is not called.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-23 10:10:38 -07:00
Pavan Savoy
0d7c5f2572 drivers:misc:ti-st: platform hooks for chip states
Certain platform specific or Host-WiLink Interface specific actions would be
required to be taken when the chip is being enabled and after the chip is
disabled such as configuration of the mux modes for the GPIO of host connected
to the nshutdown of the chip or relinquishing UART after the chip is disabled.

Similar actions can also be taken when the chip is in deep sleep or when the
chip is awake. Performance enhancements such as configuring the host to run
faster when chip is awake and slower when chip is asleep can also be made
here.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-22 14:13:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0c3bef6128 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: OF: Don't crash when bridge parent is NULL.
  PCI: export pcie_bus_configure_settings symbol
  PCI: code and comments cleanup
  PCI: make cardbus-bridge resources optional
  PCI: make SRIOV resources optional
  PCI : ability to relocate assigned pci-resources
  PCI: honor child buses add_size in hot plug configuration
  PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric
2011-08-19 10:02:37 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
bb0822954a squeeze max-pause area and drop pass-good area
Revert the pass-good area introduced in ffd1f609ab ("writeback:
introduce max-pause and pass-good dirty limits") and make the max-pause
area smaller and safe.

This fixes ~30% performance regression in the ext3 data=writeback
fio_mmap_randwrite_64k/fio_mmap_randrw_64k test cases, where there are
12 JBOD disks, on each disk runs 8 concurrent tasks doing reads+writes.

Using deadline scheduler also has a regression, but not that big as CFQ,
so this suggests we have some write starvation.

The test logs show that

- the disks are sometimes under utilized

- global dirty pages sometimes rush high to the pass-good area for
  several hundred seconds, while in the mean time some bdi dirty pages
  drop to very low value (bdi_dirty << bdi_thresh).  Then suddenly the
  global dirty pages dropped under global dirty threshold and bdi_dirty
  rush very high (for example, 2 times higher than bdi_thresh). During
  which time balance_dirty_pages() is not called at all.

So the problems are

1) The random writes progress so slow that they break the assumption of
   the max-pause logic that "8 pages per 200ms is typically more than
   enough to curb heavy dirtiers".

2) The max-pause logic ignored task_bdi_thresh and thus opens the possibility
   for some bdi's to over dirty pages, leading to (bdi_dirty >> bdi_thresh)
   and then (bdi_thresh >> bdi_dirty) for others.

3) The higher max-pause/pass-good thresholds somehow leads to the bad
   swing of dirty pages.

The fix is to allow the task to slightly dirty over task_bdi_thresh, but
no way to exceed bdi_dirty and/or global dirty_thresh.

Tests show that it fixed the JBOD regression completely (both behavior
and performance), while still being able to cut down large pause times
in balance_dirty_pages() for single-disk cases.

Reported-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-08-19 22:42:07 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
b4fd4ae6c6 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / Domains: Fix build for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset
2011-08-17 13:15:25 -07:00
Ian Campbell
aa462abe8a mm: fix __page_to_pfn for a const struct page argument
This allows the cast in lowmem_page_address (introduced as a warning
fixup to 33dd4e0ec9 "mm: make some struct page's const") to be
removed.

Propagate const'ness to page_to_section() as well since it is required
by __page_to_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-17 13:00:20 -07:00
Ian Campbell
f991879473 mm: make HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL page_address' struct page argument const.
Followup to 33dd4e0ec9 "mm: make some struct page's const" which missed the
HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL case.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-17 13:00:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6cac952960 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rtc: Limit RTC PIE frequency
  rtc: Fix hrtimer deadlock
  rtc: Handle errors correctly in rtc_irq_set_state()

Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/rtc/interface.c due to slightly
trivially versions of the same patch coming in two different ways.
2011-08-17 10:28:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
950d0a10d1 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: Track the owner of irq descriptor
  irq: Always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified
  genirq: Fix wrong bit operation
2011-08-17 10:23:50 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
4853abaae7 block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
Commit ae1b153962, block: reimplement
FLUSH/FUA to support merge, introduced a performance regression when
running any sort of fsyncing workload using dm-multipath and certain
storage (in our case, an HP EVA).  The test I ran was fs_mark, and it
dropped from ~800 files/sec on ext4 to ~100 files/sec.  It turns out
that dm-multipath always advertised flush+fua support, and passed
commands on down the stack, where those flags used to get stripped off.
The above commit changed that behavior:

static inline struct request *__elv_next_request(struct request_queue *q)
{
        struct request *rq;

        while (1) {
-               while (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
+               if (!list_empty(&q->queue_head)) {
                        rq = list_entry_rq(q->queue_head.next);
-                       if (!(rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) ||
-                           (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH_SEQ))
-                               return rq;
-                       rq = blk_do_flush(q, rq);
-                       if (rq)
-                               return rq;
+                       return rq;
                }

Note that previously, a command would come in here, have
REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA set, and then get handed off to blk_do_flush:

struct request *blk_do_flush(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
{
        unsigned int fflags = q->flush_flags; /* may change, cache it */
        bool has_flush = fflags & REQ_FLUSH, has_fua = fflags & REQ_FUA;
        bool do_preflush = has_flush && (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH);
        bool do_postflush = has_flush && !has_fua && (rq->cmd_flags &
        REQ_FUA);
        unsigned skip = 0;
...
        if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) && !do_preflush && !do_postflush) {
                rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FLUSH;
		if (!has_fua)
			rq->cmd_flags &= ~REQ_FUA;
	        return rq;
	}

So, the flush machinery was bypassed in such cases (q->flush_flags == 0
&& rq->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)).

Now, however, we don't get into the flush machinery at all.  Instead,
__elv_next_request just hands a request with flush and fua bits set to
the scsi_request_fn, even if the underlying request_queue does not
support flush or fua.

The agreed upon approach is to fix the flush machinery to allow
stacking.  While this isn't used in practice (since there is only one
request-based dm target, and that target will now reflect the flush
flags of the underlying device), it does future-proof the solution, and
make it function as designed.

In order to make this work, I had to add a field to the struct request,
inside the flush structure (to store the original req->end_io).  Shaohua
had suggested overloading the union with rb_node and completion_data,
but the completion data is used by device mapper and can also be used by
other drivers.  So, I didn't see a way around the additional field.

I tested this patch on an HP EVA with both ext4 and xfs, and it recovers
the lost performance.  Comments and other testers, as always, are
appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-15 21:37:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
97c24d1d45 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc:
  mmc: remove unused "ddr" parameter in struct mmc_ios
  mmc: dw_mmc: Fix DDR mode support.
  mmc: core: use defined R1_STATE_PRG macro for card status
  mmc: sdhci: use f_max instead of host->clock for timeouts
  mmc: sdhci: move timeout_clk calculation farther down
  mmc: sdhci: check host->clock before using it as a denominator
  mmc: Revert "mmc: sdhci: Fix SDHCI_QUIRK_TIMEOUT_USES_SDCLK"
  mmc: tmio: eliminate unused variable 'mmc' warning
  mmc: esdhc-imx: fix card interrupt loss on freescale eSDHC
  mmc: sdhci-s3c: Fix build for header change
  mmc: dw_mmc: Fix mask in IDMAC_SET_BUFFER1_SIZE macro
  mmc: cb710: fix possible pci_dev leak in cb710_pci_configure()
  mmc: core: Detect eMMC v4.5 ext_csd entries
  mmc: mmc_test: avoid stalled file in debugfs
  mmc: sdhci-s3c: add BROKEN_ADMA_ZEROLEN_DESC quirk
  mmc: sdhci: pxav3: controller needs 32 bit ADMA addressing
  mmc: sdhci: fix retuning timer wrongly deleted in sdhci_tasklet_finish
2011-08-14 12:28:15 -07:00