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2022 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrey Vagin
8515736604 block: fix memory leaks on unplugging block device
All objects, which are allocated in blk_mq_register_disk, must be
released in blk_mq_unregister_disk.

I use a KVM virtual machine and virtio disk to reproduce this issue.

kmemleak: 18 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak | head -n 30
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b6636150 (size 8):
  comm "kworker/0:2", pid 65, jiffies 4294809903 (age 86.358s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    76 69 72 74 69 6f 34 00                          virtio4.
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8165d41e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [<ffffffff8118cfc5>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xf5/0x260
    [<ffffffff81155b11>] kstrdup+0x31/0x60
    [<ffffffff812242be>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x2e/0x140
    [<ffffffff81224678>] create_dir+0x38/0xe0
    [<ffffffff812249e3>] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x73/0xc0
    [<ffffffff8130dfa9>] kobject_add_internal+0xc9/0x340
    [<ffffffff8130e535>] kobject_add+0x65/0xb0
    [<ffffffff813f34f8>] device_add+0x128/0x660
    [<ffffffff813f3a4a>] device_register+0x1a/0x20
    [<ffffffff813ae6f8>] register_virtio_device+0x98/0xe0
    [<ffffffff813b0cce>] virtio_pci_probe+0x12e/0x1c0
    [<ffffffff81340675>] local_pci_probe+0x45/0xa0
    [<ffffffff81341a51>] pci_device_probe+0x121/0x130
    [<ffffffff813f67f7>] driver_probe_device+0x87/0x390
    [<ffffffff813f6b3b>] __device_attach+0x3b/0x40
unreferenced object 0xffff8800b65aa1d8 (size 144):

Fixes: 320ae51fee (blk-mq: new multi-queue block IO queueing mechanism)
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-06 09:18:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5ee540613d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A small collection of fixes for the current series. It contains:

   - A fix for a use-after-free of a request in blk-mq.  From Ming Lei

   - A fix for a blk-mq bug that could attempt to dereference a NULL rq
     if allocation failed

   - Two xen-blkfront small fixes

   - Cleanup of submit_bio_wait() type uses in the kernel, unifying
     that.  From Kent

   - A fix for 32-bit blkg_rwstat reading.  I apologize for this one
     looking mangled in the shortlog, it's entirely my fault for missing
     an empty line between the description and body of the text"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: fix use-after-free of request
  blk-mq: fix dereference of rq->mq_ctx if allocation fails
  block: xen-blkfront: Fix possible NULL ptr dereference
  xen-blkfront: Silence pfn maybe-uninitialized warning
  block: submit_bio_wait() conversions
  Update of blkg_stat and blkg_rwstat may happen in bh context
2013-12-05 15:33:27 -08:00
Ming Lei
0d11e6aca3 blk-mq: fix use-after-free of request
If accounting is on, we will do the IO completion accounting after
we have freed the request. Fix that by moving it sooner instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-05 10:50:39 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
959a35f13e blk-mq: fix dereference of rq->mq_ctx if allocation fails
If __GFP_WAIT isn't set and we fail allocating, when we go
to drop the reference on the ctx, we will attempt to dereference
the NULL rq. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-12-03 14:24:28 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
c170bbb45f block: submit_bio_wait() conversions
It was being open coded in a few places.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-24 16:33:41 -07:00
Antti P Miettinen
49204c116a block/partitions/efi.c: fix bound check
Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof to get proper max for label length.

Since this is just a read out of bounds it's not that bad, but the
problem becomes user-visible eg if one tries to use DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
DEBUG_RODATA, at least with some enhancements from Hiroshi.  Of course
the destination array can contain garbage when we read beyond the end of
source array so that would be another user-visible problem.

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-21 16:42:27 -08:00
Hong Zhiguo
2c575026fa Update of blkg_stat and blkg_rwstat may happen in bh context.
While u64_stats_fetch_retry is only preempt_disable on 32bit
UP system. This is not enough to avoid preemption by bh and
may read strange 64 bit value.

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-20 15:33:04 -07:00
Jens Axboe
01b983c9fc blk-mq: add blktrace insert event trace
We need it to make 'btt' from blktrace happy, otherwise
we are missing one state transition.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-19 19:00:45 -07:00
Jens Axboe
94eddfbeaa blk-mq: ensure that we set REQ_IO_STAT so diskstats work
If disk stats are enabled on the queue, a request needs to
be marked with REQ_IO_STAT for accounting to be active on
that request. This fixes an issue with virtio-blk not
showing up in /proc/diskstats after the conversion to
blk-mq.

Add QUEUE_FLAG_MQ_DEFAULT, setting stats and same cpu-group
completion on by default.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-19 09:25:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f412f2c60b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull second round of block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "As mentioned in the original pull request, the bcache bits were pulled
  because of their dependency on the immutable bio vecs.  Kent re-did
  this part and resubmitted it, so here's the 2nd round of (mostly)
  driver updates for 3.13.  It contains:

 - The bcache work from Kent.

 - Conversion of virtio-blk to blk-mq.  This removes the bio and request
   path, and substitutes with the blk-mq path instead.  The end result
   almost 200 deleted lines.  Patch is acked by Asias and Christoph, who
   both did a bunch of testing.

 - A removal of bootmem.h include from Grygorii Strashko, part of a
   larger series of his killing the dependency on that header file.

 - Removal of __cpuinit from blk-mq from Paul Gortmaker"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (56 commits)
  virtio_blk: blk-mq support
  blk-mq: remove newly added instances of __cpuinit
  bcache: defensively handle format strings
  bcache: Bypass torture test
  bcache: Delete some slower inline asm
  bcache: Use ida for bcache block dev minor
  bcache: Fix sysfs splat on shutdown with flash only devs
  bcache: Better full stripe scanning
  bcache: Have btree_split() insert into parent directly
  bcache: Move spinlock into struct time_stats
  bcache: Kill sequential_merge option
  bcache: Kill bch_next_recurse_key()
  bcache: Avoid deadlocking in garbage collection
  bcache: Incremental gc
  bcache: Add make_btree_freeing_key()
  bcache: Add btree_node_write_sync()
  bcache: PRECEDING_KEY()
  bcache: bch_(btree|extent)_ptr_invalid()
  bcache: Don't bother with bucket refcount for btree node allocations
  bcache: Debug code improvements
  ...
2013-11-15 16:33:41 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
0a06ff068f kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
We've switched over every architecture that supports SMP to it, so
remove the new useless config variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Paul Gortmaker
f618ef7c47 blk-mq: remove newly added instances of __cpuinit
The new blk-mq code added new instances of __cpuinit usage.
We removed this a couple versions ago; we now want to remove
the compat no-op stubs.  Introducing new users is not what
we want to see at this point in time, as it will break once
the stubs are gone.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-14 08:26:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5e30025a31 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes:

   - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
     unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.

   - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
     kernel/locking/ directory"

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
  locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
  lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
  locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
  ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
  cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
  seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
  net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
  locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
  hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
  x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
  lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
  lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
  ...
2013-11-14 16:30:30 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
0910c0bdf7 Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for
  3.13.  It contains:

   - The new blk-mq request interface.

     This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the
     best part of the request based interface we currently have (which
     is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface"
     which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because
     it's much faster than the request based one.

     The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into
     the stack much earlier.  This means that drivers end up having to
     implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging,
     timeout handling, requeue, etc.  The blk-mq interface provides all
     these.  Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and
     has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in
     the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads.  This is a
     huge mess.  Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code
     reduction.  Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even
     shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices.  So while the
     model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has
     substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well.  This code
     has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready
     to go.  A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this
     model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled
     for 3.14 conversion.

   - Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang.

   - A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost.

   - Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter.

   - Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven.

   - A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout
     handling from Jeff Moyer.  This is what caused the merge conflict
     with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that.

   - A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer.

   - A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent
     Overstreet.

   - A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop
     crash and memory corruption on blk cg.

   - Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama.

  A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch.  Initially the immutable
  bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became
  clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet.  So the decision was made to
  pull this out and postpone it until 3.14.  It was a straight forward
  rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of
  problems with it.  The rest of the patches applied directly and no
  further changes were made"

* 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits)
  block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor
  kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup()
  block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations
  block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector()
  block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list
  block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device
  elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
  elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
  block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
  bdi: test bdi_init failure
  block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region
  loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails
  blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails
  block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling
  blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces
  blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set
  blk-mq: mq plug list breakage
  blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock
  ...
2013-11-14 12:08:14 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
8ceafbfa91 Merge branch 'for-linus-dma-masks' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Pull DMA mask updates from Russell King:
 "This series cleans up the handling of DMA masks in a lot of drivers,
  fixing some bugs as we go.

  Some of the more serious errors include:
   - drivers which only set their coherent DMA mask if the attempt to
     set the streaming mask fails.
   - drivers which test for a NULL dma mask pointer, and then set the
     dma mask pointer to a location in their module .data section -
     which will cause problems if the module is reloaded.

  To counter these, I have introduced two helper functions:
   - dma_set_mask_and_coherent() takes care of setting both the
     streaming and coherent masks at the same time, with the correct
     error handling as specified by the API.
   - dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent() which resolves the problem of
     drivers forcefully setting DMA masks.  This is more a marker for
     future work to further clean these locations up - the code which
     creates the devices really should be initialising these, but to fix
     that in one go along with this change could potentially be very
     disruptive.

  The last thing this series does is prise away some of Linux's addition
  to "DMA addresses are physical addresses and RAM always starts at
  zero".  We have ARM LPAE systems where all system memory is above 4GB
  physical, hence having DMA masks interpreted by (eg) the block layers
  as describing physical addresses in the range 0..DMAMASK fails on
  these platforms.  Santosh Shilimkar addresses this in this series; the
  patches were copied to the appropriate people multiple times but were
  ignored.

  Fixing this also gets rid of some ARM weirdness in the setup of the
  max*pfn variables, and brings ARM into line with every other Linux
  architecture as far as those go"

* 'for-linus-dma-masks' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: 7805/1: mm: change max*pfn to include the physical offset of memory
  ARM: 7797/1: mmc: Use dma_max_pfn(dev) helper for bounce_limit calculations
  ARM: 7796/1: scsi: Use dma_max_pfn(dev) helper for bounce_limit calculations
  ARM: 7795/1: mm: dma-mapping: Add dma_max_pfn(dev) helper function
  ARM: 7794/1: block: Rename parameter dma_mask to max_addr for blk_queue_bounce_limit()
  ARM: DMA-API: better handing of DMA masks for coherent allocations
  ARM: 7857/1: dma: imx-sdma: setup dma mask
  DMA-API: firmware/google/gsmi.c: avoid direct access to DMA masks
  DMA-API: dcdbas: update DMA mask handing
  DMA-API: dma: edma.c: no need to explicitly initialize DMA masks
  DMA-API: usb: musb: use platform_device_register_full() to avoid directly messing with dma masks
  DMA-API: crypto: remove last references to 'static struct device *dev'
  DMA-API: crypto: fix ixp4xx crypto platform device support
  DMA-API: others: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
  DMA-API: staging: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
  DMA-API: usb: use new dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
  DMA-API: usb: use dma_set_coherent_mask()
  DMA-API: parport: parport_pc.c: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
  DMA-API: net: octeon: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
  DMA-API: net: nxp/lpc_eth: use dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent()
  ...
2013-11-14 07:55:21 +09:00
Peter Zijlstra
90d3839b90 block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
Now that seqcounts are lockdep enabled objects, we need to explicitly
initialize runtime allocated seqcounts so that lockdep can track them.

Without this patch, Fengguang was seeing:

  [    4.127282] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
  [    4.128027] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
  [    4.128027] turning off the locking correctness validator.
  [    4.128027] CPU: 0 PID: 96 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 3.12.0-next-20131108-10601-gbad570d #2
  [    4.128027] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  [    ...     ]
  [    4.128027] Call Trace:
  [    4.128027]  [<7908e744>] ? console_unlock+0x353/0x380
  [    4.128027]  [<79dc7cf2>] dump_stack+0x48/0x60
  [    4.128027]  [<7908953e>] __lock_acquire.isra.26+0x7e3/0xceb
  [    4.128027]  [<7908a1c5>] lock_acquire+0x71/0x9a
  [    4.128027]  [<794079aa>] ? blk_throtl_bio+0x1c3/0x485
  [    4.128027]  [<7940658b>] throtl_update_dispatch_stats+0x7c/0x153
  [    4.128027]  [<794079aa>] ? blk_throtl_bio+0x1c3/0x485
  [    4.128027]  [<794079aa>] blk_throtl_bio+0x1c3/0x485
  ...

Use u64_stats_init() for all affected data structures, which initializes
the seqcount.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Folded in another fix from the mailing list as well as a fix to that fix. Tweaked commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384314134-6895-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
[ So I actually think that the two SOBs from PeterZ are the right depiction of the patch route. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-13 13:54:08 +01:00
Grygorii Strashko
d17ab45927 block: cleanup removing dependency on bootmem headers
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 19:43:48 -07:00
Jens Axboe
e37459b8e2 Merge branch 'blk-mq/core' into for-3.13/core
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Conflicts:
	block/blk-timeout.c
2013-11-08 09:08:12 -07:00
Duan Jiong
c7d1ba417c block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
This patch fixes coccinelle error regarding usage of IS_ERR and
PTR_ERR instead of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:05:31 -07:00
Duan Jiong
8616ebb16b block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
This patch fixes coccinelle error regarding usage of IS_ERR and
PTR_ERR instead of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:05:30 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
97597dc08f block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor
do_div() (called by sector_div() if CONFIG_LBDAF=y) is meant for divisions
of 64-bit number by 32-bit numbers.  Passing 64-bit divisor types caused
issues in the past on 32-bit platforms, cfr. commit
ea077b1b96 ("m68k: Truncate base in
do_div()").

As queue_limits.max_discard_sectors and .discard_granularity are unsigned
int, max_discard_sectors and granularity should be unsigned int.
As bdev_discard_alignment() returns int, alignment should be int.
Now 2 calls to sector_div() can be replaced by 32-bit arithmetic:
  - The 64-bit modulo operation can become a 32-bit modulo operation,
  - The 64-bit division and multiplication can be replaced by a 32-bit
    modulo operation and a subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:04:46 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
e0ce0eacb3 block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector()
No need for silly open coding - and struct sg_iovec has exactly the same
layout as struct iovec...

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:02:14 -07:00
Alireza Haghdoost
23779fbc99 block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list
This patch enables the sysfs to control I/O request merge
functionality in the plug list. While this control has been
implemented for the request queue, it was dismissed in the plug list.
Therefore, block layer merges requests together (or attempt to merge)
even if the merge capability was disable using sysfs nomerge parameter
value 2.

This limitation is directly affects functionality of io_submit()
system call. The system call enables user to submit a bunch of IO
requests from user space using struct iocb **ios input argument.
However, the unconditioned merging functionality in the plug list
potentially merges these requests together down the road. Therefore,
there is no way to distinguish between an application sending bunch of
sequential IOs and an application sending one big IO. Ultimately, all
requests generated by the former app merge within the plug list
together and looks similar to the second app.

While the merging functionality is a desirable feature to improve the
performance of IO subsystem for some applications, it is not useful
for other application like ours at all.

Signed-off-by: Alireza Haghdoost <alireza@cs.umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Coding style modified.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:00:22 -07:00
Mike Snitzer
d82ae52e68 block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device
Without this patch all DM devices will default to BLK_MAX_SEGMENT_SIZE
(65536) even if the underlying device(s) have a larger value -- this is
due to blk_stack_limits() using min_not_zero() when stacking the
max_segment_size limit.

1073741824

before patch:
65536

after patch:
1073741824

Reported-by: Lukasz Flis <l.flis@cyfronet.pl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.3+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:00:17 -07:00
Tomoki Sekiyama
7c8a3679e3 elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
Add locking of q->sysfs_lock into elevator_change() (an exported function)
to ensure it is held to protect q->elevator from elevator_init(), even if
elevator_change() is called from non-sysfs paths.
sysfs path (elv_iosched_store) uses __elevator_change(), non-locking
version, as the lock is already taken by elv_iosched_store().

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-11-08 09:00:13 -07:00