bdev_fput() yields the holder claim and then closes the file, which is a
deferred operation. Split the yield half into bdev_yield_claim() so a caller
can give up the holder while the file - and therefore the block device - is
still open, act on the device, and only then bdev_fput().
A filesystem that made a device unfreezable for a membership change with
bdev_deny_freeze() undoes the deny on release with
bdev_yield_claim(bdev_file);
bdev_allow_freeze(file_bdev(bdev_file));
bdev_fput(bdev_file);
Re-allowing only after the holder is yielded avoids stranding the filesystem
on a racing freeze, and doing it while the file is still open avoids touching
the block device after bdev_fput(). bdev_fput() yields again, which is a
no-op once the claim has already been given up.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616-work-super-freeze_deny_upstream-v2-2-b3567c7f994b@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewd-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Add bdev_deny_freeze() and bdev_allow_freeze(), modeled on
deny_write_access()/allow_write_access(). bd_fsfreeze_count becomes a
signed counter: > 0 counts active freezes, < 0 counts deniers, and the
two regimes are mutually exclusive. bdev_freeze() refuses with -EBUSY
while a deny is held, and bdev_deny_freeze() refuses while the device is
frozen.
A filesystem that mutates a device's membership (a btrfs device add,
remove or replace) denies freezing on the device for the duration, so a
claim a freeze walk might act on is never added or torn down behind the
freezer's back.
The deny/allow helpers are a single atomic on bd_fsfreeze_count and take
no lock, so they can be called while holding s_umount without inverting
against bdev_freeze()'s bd_fsfreeze_mutex -> s_umount order.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616-work-super-freeze_deny_upstream-v2-1-b3567c7f994b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
blk_time_get_ns() caches ktime_get_ns() in current->plug->cur_ktime
and marks the task with PF_BLOCK_TS. That cache is only valid while the
task keeps running; if the task is switched out, wall-clock time
advances and the cached value must not be reused when the task runs again.
The existing invalidation covers explicit plug flushes through
__blk_flush_plug(), and the schedule() / rtmutex paths through
sched_update_worker(). It does not cover in-kernel preemption paths such
as preempt_schedule(), preempt_schedule_notrace(), and
preempt_schedule_irq(), which enter __schedule(SM_PREEMPT) directly and
return without calling sched_update_worker().
As a result, a task preempted while holding a plug with PF_BLOCK_TS set
can reuse a stale plug->cur_ktime after it is scheduled back in. blk-iocost
then consumes that stale timestamp through ioc_now(), producing stale vnow
values for throttle decisions, and through ioc_rqos_done(), inflating
on-queue time and feeding false missed-QoS samples into vrate
adjustment.
Move the schedule-side invalidation to finish_task_switch(), which runs
for the scheduled-in task after every actual context switch regardless
of which schedule entry point was used. Keep __blk_flush_plug() as the
explicit flush/finish-plug invalidation path, and remove only the
PF_BLOCK_TS handling from sched_update_worker().
Fixes: 06b23f92af ("block: update cached timestamp post schedule/preemption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616141604.328820-3-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Add shared memory zero-copy I/O support for ublk, bypassing per-I/O
copies between kernel and userspace by matching registered buffer
PFNs at I/O time. Includes selftests.
- Refactor bio integrity to support filesystem initiated integrity
operations and arbitrary buffer alignment.
- Clean up bio allocation, splitting bio_alloc_bioset() into clear fast
and slow paths. Add bio_await() and bio_submit_or_kill() helpers,
unify synchronous bi_end_io callbacks.
- Fix zone write plug refcount handling and plug removal races. Add
support for serializing zone writes at QD=1 for rotational zoned
devices, yielding significant throughput improvements.
- Add SED-OPAL ioctls for Single User Mode management and a STACK_RESET
command.
- Add io_uring passthrough (uring_cmd) support to the BSG layer.
- Replace pp_buf in partition scanning with struct seq_buf.
- zloop improvements and cleanups.
- drbd genl cleanup, switching to pre_doit/post_doit.
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Fabrics authentication updates
- Enhanced block queue limits support
- Workqueue usage updates
- A new write zeroes device quirk
- Tagset cleanup fix for loop device
- MD pull requests via Yu Kuai:
- Fix raid5 soft lockup in retry_aligned_read()
- Fix raid10 deadlock with check operation and nowait requests
- Fix raid1 overlapping writes on writemostly disks
- Fix sysfs deadlock on array_state=clear
- Proactive RAID-5 parity building with llbitmap, with
write_zeroes_unmap optimization for initial sync
- Fix llbitmap barrier ordering, rdev skipping, and bitmap_ops
version mismatch fallback
- Fix bcache use-after-free and uninitialized closure
- Validate raid5 journal metadata payload size
- Various cleanups
- Various other fixes, improvements, and cleanups
* tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (146 commits)
ublk: fix tautological comparison warning in ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
scsi: bsg: fix buffer overflow in scsi_bsg_uring_cmd()
block: refactor blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl
MAINTAINERS: update ublk driver maintainer email
Documentation: ublk: address review comments for SHMEM_ZC docs
ublk: allow buffer registration before device is started
ublk: replace xarray with IDA for shmem buffer index allocation
ublk: simplify PFN range loop in __ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
ublk: verify all pages in multi-page bvec fall within registered range
ublk: widen ublk_shmem_buf_reg.len to __u64 for 4GB buffer support
xfs: use bio_await in xfs_zone_gc_reset_sync
block: add a bio_submit_or_kill helper
block: factor out a bio_await helper
block: unify the synchronous bi_end_io callbacks
xfs: fix number of GC bvecs
selftests/ublk: add read-only buffer registration test
selftests/ublk: add filesystem fio verify test for shmem_zc
selftests/ublk: add hugetlbfs shmem_zc test for loop target
selftests/ublk: add shared memory zero-copy test
selftests/ublk: add UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC support for loop target
...
Merge in integrity changes which are also landing in the VFS tree as
dependencies for fs related changes.
* for-7.1/block-integrity:
block: pass a maxlen argument to bio_iov_iter_bounce
block: add fs_bio_integrity helpers
block: make max_integrity_io_size public
block: prepare generation / verification helpers for fs usage
block: add a bdev_has_integrity_csum helper
block: factor out a bio_integrity_setup_default helper
block: factor out a bio_integrity_action helper
bdev_nonrot() is simply the negative return value of bdev_rot().
So replace all call sites of bdev_nonrot() with calls to bdev_rot()
and remove bdev_nonrot().
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In order to maintain sequential write patterns per zone with zoned block
devices, zone write plugging issues only a single write BIO per zone at
any time. This works well but has the side effect that when large
sequential write streams are issued by the user and these streams cross
zone boundaries, the device ends up receiving a discontiguous set of
write commands for different zones. The same also happens when a user
writes simultaneously at high queue depth multiple zones: the device
does not see all sequential writes per zone and receives discontiguous
writes to different zones. While this does not affect the performance of
solid state zoned block devices, when using an SMR HDD, this pattern
change from sequential writes to discontiguous writes to different zones
significantly increases head seek which results in degraded write
throughput.
In order to reduce this seek overhead for rotational media devices,
introduce a per disk zone write plugs kernel thread to issue all write
BIOs to zones. This single zone write issuing context is enabled for
any zoned block device that has a request queue flagged with the new
QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES flag.
The flag QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is visible as the sysfs queue attribute
zoned_qd1_writes for zoned devices. For regular block devices, this
attribute is not visible. For zoned block devices, a user can override
the default value set to force the global write maximum queue depth of
1 for a zoned block device, or clear this attribute to fallback to the
default behavior of zone write plugging which limits writes to QD=1 per
sequential zone.
Writing to a zoned block device flagged with QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is
implemented using a list of zone write plugs that have a non-empty BIO
list. Listed zone write plugs are processed by the disk zone write plugs
worker kthread in FIFO order, and all BIOs of a zone write plug are all
processed before switching to the next listed zone write plug. A newly
submitted BIO for a non-FULL zone write plug that is not yet listed
causes the addition of the zone write plug at the end of the disk list
of zone write plugs.
Since the write BIOs queued in a zone write plug BIO list are
necessarilly sequential, for rotational media, using the single zone
write plugs kthread to issue all BIOs maintains a sequential write
pattern and thus reduces seek overhead and improves write throughput.
This processing essentially result in always writing to HDDs at QD=1,
which is not an issue for HDDs operating with write caching enabled.
Performance with write cache disabled is also not degraded thanks to
the efficient write handling of modern SMR HDDs.
A disk list of zone write plugs is defined using the new struct gendisk
zone_wplugs_list, and accesses to this list is protected using the
zone_wplugs_list_lock spinlock. The per disk kthread
(zone_wplugs_worker) code is implemented by the function
disk_zone_wplugs_worker(). A reference on listed zone write plugs is
always held until all BIOs of the zone write plug are processed by the
worker kthread. BIO issuing at QD=1 is driven using a completion
structure (zone_wplugs_worker_bio_done) and calls to blk_io_wait().
With this change, performance when sequentially writing the zones of a
30 TB SMR SATA HDD connected to an AHCI adapter changes as follows
(1MiB direct I/Os, results in MB/s unit):
+--------------------+
| Write BW (MB/s) |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| Sequential write | Baseline | Patched |
| Queue Depth | 6.19-rc8 | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 1 | 244 | 245 |
| 2 | 244 | 245 |
| 4 | 245 | 245 |
| 8 | 242 | 245 |
| 16 | 222 | 246 |
| 32 | 211 | 245 |
| 64 | 193 | 244 |
| 128 | 112 | 246 |
+------------------+----------+---------+
With the current code (baseline), as the sequential write stream crosses
a zone boundary, higher queue depth creates a gap between the
last IO to the previous zone and the first IOs to the following zones,
causing head seeks and degrading performance. Using the disk zone
write plugs worker thread, this pattern disappears and the maximum
throughput of the drive is maintained, leading to over 100%
improvements in throughput for high queue depth write.
Using 16 fio jobs all writing to randomly chosen zones at QD=32 with 1
MiB direct IOs, write throughput also increases significantly.
+--------------------+
| Write BW (MB/s) |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| Random write | Baseline | Patched |
| Number of zones | 6.19-rc7 | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 1 | 191 | 192 |
| 2 | 101 | 128 |
| 4 | 115 | 123 |
| 8 | 90 | 120 |
| 16 | 64 | 115 |
| 32 | 58 | 105 |
| 64 | 56 | 101 |
| 128 | 55 | 99 |
+------------------+----------+---------+
Tests using XFS shows that buffered write speed with 8 jobs writing
files increases by 12% to 35% depending on the workload.
+--------------------+
| Write BW (MB/s) |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| Workload | Baseline | Patched |
| | 6.19-rc7 | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 256MiB file size | 212 | 238 |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 4MiB .. 128 MiB | 213 | 243 |
| random file size | | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 2MiB .. 8 MiB | 179 | 242 |
| random file size | | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
Performance gains are even more significant when using an HBA that
limits the maximum size of commands to a small value, e.g. HBAs
controlled with the mpi3mr driver limit commands to a maximum of 1 MiB.
In such case, the write throughput gains are over 40%.
+--------------------+
| Write BW (MB/s) |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| Workload | Baseline | Patched |
| | 6.19-rc7 | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 256MiB file size | 175 | 245 |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 4MiB .. 128 MiB | 174 | 244 |
| random file size | | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
| 2MiB .. 8 MiB | 171 | 243 |
| random file size | | |
+------------------+----------+---------+
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Rename struct gendisk zone_wplugs_lock field to zone_wplugs_hash_lock to
clearly indicates that this is the spinlock used for manipulating the
hash table of zone write plugs.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The queue_hw_ctx field in struct request_queue is an array of pointers
to struct blk_mq_hw_ctx. The number of elements in this array is tracked
by the nr_hw_queues field.
The array is allocated in __blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs() using
kcalloc_node() with set->nr_hw_queues elements. q->nr_hw_queues is
subsequently updated to set->nr_hw_queues.
When growing the array, the new array is assigned to queue_hw_ctx before
nr_hw_queues is updated. This is safe because nr_hw_queues (the old
smaller count) is used for bounds checking, which is within the new
larger allocation.
When shrinking the array, nr_hw_queues is updated to the smaller value,
while queue_hw_ctx retains the larger allocation. This is also safe as
the count is within the allocation bounds.
Annotating queue_hw_ctx with __counted_by_ptr(nr_hw_queues) allows the
compiler (with kSAN) to verify that accesses to queue_hw_ctx are within
the valid range defined by nr_hw_queues.
This patch was generated by CodeMender and reviewed by Bill Wendling.
Tested by running blktests.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
[axboe: massage commit message]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now that all the callers of __blkdev_issue_discard() have been changed
to ignore its return value, change its return type from int to void.
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a new field async_depth to request_queue and related APIs, this is
currently not used, following patches will convert elevators to use
this instead of internal async_depth.
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This value represents the number of requests for elevator tags, or drivers
tags if elevator is none. The max value for elevator tags is 2048, and
in drivers at most 16 bits is used for tag.
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Introduce the helper function bdev_rot() to test if a block device is a
rotational one. The existing function bdev_nonrot() which tests for the
opposite condition is redefined using this new helper.
This avoids the double negation (operator and name) that appears when
testing if a block device is a rotational device, thus making the code a
little easier to read.
Call sites of bdev_nonrot() in the block layer are updated to use this
new helper. Remaining users in other subsystems are left unchanged for
now.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To check if a request queue is for a rotational device, a double
negation is needed with the pattern "!blk_queue_nonrot(q)". Simplify
this with the introduction of the helper blk_queue_rot() which tests
if a requests queue limit has the BLK_FEAT_ROTATIONAL feature set.
All call sites of blk_queue_nonrot() are modified to use blk_queue_rot()
and blk_queue_nonrot() definition removed.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Christoph HellwigandJens Axboe
Bart Van AsscheandJens Axboe
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