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Linus Torvalds
666484f025 Merge branch 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
  softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable
  Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
2008-07-14 15:28:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d1794f2c5b Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (146 commits)
  IB/umad: BKL is not needed for ib_umad_open()
  IB/uverbs: BKL is not needed for ib_uverbs_open()
  bf561-coreb: BKL unneeded for open()
  Call fasync() functions without the BKL
  snd/PCM: fasync BKL pushdown
  ipmi: fasync BKL pushdown
  ecryptfs: fasync BKL pushdown
  Bluetooth VHCI: fasync BKL pushdown
  tty_io: fasync BKL pushdown
  tun: fasync BKL pushdown
  i2o: fasync BKL pushdown
  mpt: fasync BKL pushdown
  Remove BKL from remote_llseek v2
  Make FAT users happier by not deadlocking
  x86-mce: BKL pushdown
  vmwatchdog: BKL pushdown
  vmcp: BKL pushdown
  via-pmu: BKL pushdown
  uml-random: BKL pushdown
  uml-mmapper: BKL pushdown
  ...
2008-07-14 14:48:31 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
2fceef397f Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
dddec01eb8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (37 commits)
  splice: fix generic_file_splice_read() race with page invalidation
  ramfs: enable splice write
  drivers/block/pktcdvd.c: avoid useless memset
  cdrom: revert commit 22a9189 (cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack)
  scsi: sr avoids useless buffer allocation
  block: blk_rq_map_kern uses the bounce buffers for stack buffers
  block: add blk_queue_update_dma_pad
  DAC960: push down BKL
  pktcdvd: push BKL down into driver
  paride: push ioctl down into driver
  block: use get_unaligned_* helpers
  block: extend queue_flag bitops
  block: request_module(): use format string
  Add bvec_merge_data to handle stacked devices and ->merge_bvec()
  block: integrity flags can't use bit ops on unsigned short
  cmdfilter: extend default read filter
  sg: fix odd style (extra parenthesis) introduced by cmd filter patch
  block: add bounce support to blk_rq_map_user_iov
  cfq-iosched: get rid of enable_idle being unused warning
  allow userspace to modify scsi command filter on per device basis
  ...
2008-07-14 13:15:14 -07:00
James Bottomley
8df5fc042c [SCSI] bsg: fix oops on remove
If you do a modremove of any sas driver, you run into an oops on
shutdown when the host is removed (coming from the host bsg device).
The root cause seems to be that there's a use after free of the
bsg_class_device:  In bsg_kref_release_function, this is used (to do a
put_device(bcg->parent) after bcg->release has been called.  In sas (and
possibly many other things) bcd->release frees the queue which contains
the bsg_class_device, so we get a put_device on unreferenced memory.
Fix this by taking a copy of the pointer to the parent before releasing
bsg.

Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 10:14:56 -05:00
FUJITA Tomonori
30c00eda73 block: blk_rq_map_kern uses the bounce buffers for stack buffers
blk_rq_map_kern is used for kernel internal I/Os. Some callers use
this function with stack buffers but DMA to/from the stack buffers
leads to memory corruption on a non-coherent platform.

This patch make blk_rq_map_kern uses the bounce buffers if a caller
passes a stack buffer (on the all platforms for simplicity).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-04 09:52:13 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
27f8221af4 block: add blk_queue_update_dma_pad
This adds blk_queue_update_dma_pad to prevent LLDs from overwriting
the dma pad mask wrongly (we added blk_queue_update_dma_alignment due
to the same reason).

This also converts libata to use blk_queue_update_dma_pad instead of
blk_queue_dma_pad.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-04 09:52:13 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e48ec69005 block: extend queue_flag bitops
Add test_and_clear and test_and_set.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
maximilian attems
e180f59493 block: request_module(): use format string
Avoid bad things happening if the module has a printk control string in
its name.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b24498d477 block: integrity flags can't use bit ops on unsigned short
Just use normal open coded bit operations instead, they need not be
atomic.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:15 +02:00
Adel Gadllah
06a452e5b9 cmdfilter: extend default read filter
This patch adds the commands that the former sg filter allowed for read
access to the cmdfilter to keep userspace apps that rely on them working.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
07359fc61b block: add bounce support to blk_rq_map_user_iov
blk_rq_map_user_iov can't handle the bounce buffer (it means that the
bio_map_user_iov path doesn't work with a LLD that needs GFP_DMA).

This patch fixes blk_rq_map_user_iov to support the bounce buffer.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
Jens Axboe
c265a7f417 cfq-iosched: get rid of enable_idle being unused warning
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
Adel Gadllah
0b07de85a7 allow userspace to modify scsi command filter on per device basis
This patch exports the per-gendisk command filter to user space through
sysfs, so it can be changed by the system administrator.
All users of the old cmd filter have been converted to use the new one.

Original patch from Peter Jones.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:14 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b984679efe block: integrity checkpatch cleanups
> 80 char lines and that sort of thing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
7ba1ba12ee block: Block layer data integrity support
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Kay Sievers
1c9ce52763 block: export "ro" attribute
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:12 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
02c62304e6 Added in user-injected messages into blk traces
This allows a user to annotate the blk trace stream: writing a suitable
message to {/sys/kernel/debug}/block/<dsf>/msg will have it propagated
into the trace stream.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
7b679138b3 cfq-iosched: add message logging through blktrace
Now that blktrace has the ability to carry arbitrary messages in
its stream, use that for some CFQ logging.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
863fddcb4b as-iosched: properly protect ioc_gone and ioc count
If we have multiple tasks freeing io contexts when as-iosched
is being unloaded, we could complete() ioc_gone twice. Fix that by
protecting ioc_gone complete() and clearing with a spinlock for
just that purpose. Doesn't matter from a performance perspective,
since it'll only enter that path when ioc_gone != NULL (when as-iosched
is being rmmod'ed).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:12 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9a11b4ed0e cfq-iosched: properly protect ioc_gone and ioc count
If we have multiple tasks freeing cfq_io_contexts when cfq-iosched
is being unloaded, we could complete() ioc_gone twice. Fix that by
protecting ioc_gone complete() and clearing with a spinlock for
just that purpose. Doesn't matter from a performance perspective,
since it'll only enter that path when ioc_gone != NULL (when cfq-iosched
is being rmmod'ed).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:12 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
d585d0b9d7 block: Fix the starving writes bug in the anticipatory IO scheduler
AS scheduler alternates between issuing read and write batches. It does
the batch switch only after all requests from the previous batch are
completed.

When switching to a write batch, if there is an on-going read request,
it waits for its completion and indicates its intention of switching by
setting ad->changed_batch and the new direction but does not update the
batch_expire_time for the new write batch which it does in the case of
no previous pending requests.
On completion of the read request, it sees that we were waiting for the
switch and schedules work for kblockd right away and resets the
ad->changed_data flag.
Now when kblockd enters dispatch_request where it is expected to pick
up a write request, it in turn ends the write batch because the
batch_expire_timer was not updated and shows the expire timestamp for
the previous batch.

This results in the write starvation for all the cases where there is
the intention for switching to a write batch, but there is a previous
in-flight read request and the batch gets reverted to a read_batch
right away.

This also holds true in the reverse case (switching from a write batch
to a read batch with an in-flight write request).

I've checked that this bug exists on 2.6.11, 2.6.18, 2.6.24 and
linux-2.6-block git HEAD. I've tested the fix on x86 platforms with
SCSI drives where the driver asks for the next request while a current
request is in-flight.

This patch is based off linux-2.6-block git HEAD.

Bug reproduction:
A simple scenario which reproduces this bug is:
- dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/null &
- lilo
   The lilo takes forever to complete.

This can also be reproduced fairly easily with the earlier dd and
another test
program doing msync().

The example test program below should print out a message after every
iteration
but it simply hangs forever. With this bugfix it makes forward progress.

====
Example test program using msync() (thanks to suleiman AT google DOT
com)

inline uint64_t
rdtsc(void)
{
         int64_t tsc;

         __asm __volatile("rdtsc" : "=A" (tsc));
         return (tsc);
}

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
         struct stat st;
         uint64_t e, s, t;
         char *p, q;
         long i;
         int fd;

         if (argc < 2) {
                 printf("Usage: %s <file>\n", argv[0]);
                 return (1);
         }

         if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_NOATIME)) < 0)
                 err(1, "open");

         if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
                 err(1, "fstat");

         p = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

         t = 0;
         for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
                 *p = 0;
                 msync(p, 4096, MS_SYNC);
                 s = rdtsc();
                *p = 0;
                 __asm __volatile(""::: "memory");
                 e = rdtsc();
                 if (argc > 2)
                         printf("%d: %lld cycles %jd %jd\n",
                                i, e - s, (intmax_t)s, (intmax_t)e);
                 t += e - s;
         }
         printf("average time: %lld cycles\n", t / 1000);
         return (0);
}

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-01 09:06:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9583f3d9c0 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softirq 2008-06-16 11:24:17 +02:00
Carl Henrik Lunde
14a73f5479 block: disable IRQs until data is written to relay channel
As we may run relay_reserve from interrupt context we must always disable
IRQs.  This is because a call to relay_reserve may expose previously written
data to use space.

Updated new message code and an old but related comment.

Signed-off-by: Carl Henrik Lunde <chlunde@ping.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-12 11:20:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d5791d13b1 Fix invalid access errors in blk_lookup_devt
Commit 30f2f0eb4b ("block: do_mounts -
accept root=<non-existant partition>") extended blk_lookup_devt() to be
able to look up partitions that had not yet been registered, but in the
process made the assumption that the '&block_class.devices' list only
contains disk devices and that you can do 'dev_to_disk(dev)' on them.

That isn't actually true.  The block_class device list also contains the
partitions we've discovered so far, and you can't just do a
'dev_to_disk()' on those.

So make sure to only work on devices that block/genhd.c has registered
itself, something we can test by checking the 'dev->type' member.  This
makes the loop in blk_lookup_devt() match the other such loops in this
file.

[ We may want to do an alternate version that knows to handle _either_
  whole-disk devices or partitions, but for now this is the minimal fix
  for a series of crashes reported by Mariusz Kozlowski in

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/25

  and Ingo in

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/9/39 ]

Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-09 10:06:24 -07:00
Jens Axboe
d6de8be711 cfq-iosched: fix RCU problem in cfq_cic_lookup()
cfq_cic_lookup() needs to properly protect ioc->ioc_data before
dereferencing it and also exclude updaters of ioc->ioc_data as well.

Also add a number of comments documenting why the existing RCU usage
is OK.

Thanks a lot to "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for
review and comments!

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe
64565911cd block: make blktrace use per-cpu buffers for message notes
Currently it uses a single static char array, but that risks
being corrupted when multiple users issue message notes at the
same time. Make the buffers dynamically allocated when the trace
is setup and make them per-cpu instead.

The default max message size of 1k is also very large, the
interface is mainly for small text notes. So shrink it to 128 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
4722dc52a8 Added in elevator switch message to blktrace stream
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Alan D. Brunelle
9d5f09a424 Added in MESSAGE notes for blktraces
Allows messages to be inserted into blktrace streams.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Richard Kennedy
be754d2c21 block: reorder cfq_queue to save space on 64bit builds
saves 8 bytes of padding & increases objects/slab from 30 to 32 on my
AMD64 config

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin
05caf8dbc1 block: Move the second call to get_request to the end of the loop
In function get_request_wait, the second call to get_request could be
moved to the end of the while loop, because if the first call to
get_request fails, the second call will fail without sleep.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-28 14:49:27 +02:00
Carlos R. Mafra
962cf36c5b Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
As git-grep shows, open_softirq() is always called with the last argument
being NULL

block/blk-core.c:       open_softirq(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, blk_done_softirq, NULL);
kernel/hrtimer.c:       open_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_hrtimer_softirq, NULL);
kernel/rcuclassic.c:    open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/rcupreempt.c:    open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/sched.c: open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c:       open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c:       open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);
kernel/timer.c: open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action, NULL);

This observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)

"I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element
passed to them."

and the situation hasn't changed since them. So it appears we can safely
remove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).

Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@ift.unesp.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 07:43:15 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet
75bd2ef145 bsg: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
Push the cdev lock_kernel call into bsg_open().

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-05-18 15:43:40 -06:00
Neil Brown
e7e72bf641 Remove blkdev warning triggered by using md
As setting and clearing queue flags now requires that we hold a spinlock
on the queue, and as blk_queue_stack_limits is called without that lock,
get the lock inside blk_queue_stack_limits.

For blk_queue_stack_limits to be able to find the right lock, each md
personality needs to set q->queue_lock to point to the appropriate lock.
Those personalities which didn't previously use a spin_lock, us
q->__queue_lock.  So always initialise that lock when allocated.

With this in place, setting/clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED bit will no
longer cause warnings as it will be clear that the proper lock is held.

Thanks to Dan Williams for review and fixing the silly bugs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-14 19:11:15 -07:00
Kay Sievers
30f2f0eb4b block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.

This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(

Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14 10:37:57 -07:00
Jean Delvare
f36f21ecca Fix misuses of bdevname()
bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
Jens Axboe
28f13702f0 block: avoid duplicate calls to get_part() in disk stat code
get_part() is fairly expensive, as it O(N) loops over partitions
to find the right one. In lots of normal IO paths we end up looking
up the partition twice, to make matters even worse. Change the
stat add code to accept a passed in partition instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 10:15:46 +02:00
Jens Axboe
6d63c27557 cfq-iosched: make io priorities inherit CPU scheduling class as well as nice
We currently set all processes to the best-effort scheduling class,
regardless of what CPU scheduling class they belong to. Improve that
so that we correctly track idle and rt scheduling classes as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:51:23 +02:00
Jens Axboe
dbaf2c003e block: optimize generic_unplug_device()
Original patch from Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

Mike Anderson was doing an OLTP benchmark on a computer with 48 physical
disks mapped to one logical device via device mapper.

He found that there was a slowdown on request_queue->lock in function
generic_unplug_device. The slowdown is caused by the fact that when some
code calls unplug on the device mapper, device mapper calls unplug on all
physical disks. These unplug calls take the lock, find that the queue is
already unplugged, release the lock and exit.

With the below patch, performance of the benchmark was increased by 18%
(the whole OLTP application, not just block layer microbenchmarks).

So I'm submitting this patch for upstream. I think the patch is correct,
because when more threads call simultaneously plug and unplug, it is
unspecified, if the queue is or isn't plugged (so the patch can't make
this worse). And the caller that plugged the queue should unplug it
anyway. (if it doesn't, there's 3ms timeout).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:48:17 +02:00
Jens Axboe
2cdf79cafb block: get rid of likely/unlikely predictions in merge logic
They tend to depend a lot on the workload, so not a clear-cut
likely or unlikely fit.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:33:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe
07416d29bc cfq-iosched: fix RCU race in the cfq io_context destructor handling
put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(),
however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and
dereferencing the first object on the list.

So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(),
and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for
call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held.

Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:28:57 +02:00
Jens Axboe
aa94b5371f block: adjust tagging function queue bit locking
For most initialization purposes, calling blk_queue_init_tags() without
the queue lock held is OK. Only if called for resizing an existing map
must the lock be held. Ditto for tag cleanup, the maps are reference
counted.

So switch the general queue flag setting to the unlocked variant, but
retain the locked variant for resizing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:27:43 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bf0f97025c block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*()
Concurrency isn't a big deal here since we have requests in flight
at this point, but do the locked variant to set a better example.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:09:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d626e3bf72 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6:
  [SCSI] aic94xx: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] u14-34f: Fix 32bit only problem
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: sysfs code
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: 64 bit support
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: move from virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt to dma_alloc_coherent
  [SCSI] dpt_i2o: use standard __init / __exit code
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix suspend/resume sections
  [SCSI] aacraid: Add Power Management support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix jbod operations scan issues
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix warning about macro side-effects
  [SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
  [SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd->cmnd use request->cmd buffer
  [SCSI] bsg: add large command support
  [SCSI] aacraid: Fix down_interruptible() to check the return value correctly
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas; Update the Version and Changelog
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Handle non SCSI error status
  [SCSI] bug fix for free list handling
  [SCSI] ipr: Rename ipr's state scsi host attribute to prevent collisions
  [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: fix Dell CERC firmware problem
2008-05-02 13:52:35 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
db4742dd8f [SCSI] add support for variable length extended commands
Add support for variable-length, extended, and vendor specific
CDBs to scsi-ml. It is now possible for initiators and ULD's
to issue these types of commands. LLDs need not change much.
All they need is to raise the .max_cmd_len to the longest command
they support (see iscsi patch).

- clean-up some code paths that did not expect commands to be
  larger than 16, and change cmd_len members' type to short as
  char is not enough.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-05-02 11:33:25 -05:00
FUJITA Tomonori
9f5de6b105 [SCSI] bsg: add large command support
This enables bsg to handle the request length larger than BLK_MAX_CDB
(mainly for the variable length CDB format).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-05-02 10:17:35 -05:00
Harvey Harrison
24c03d47d0 block: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
cf0ca9fe5d mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs
Provide a place in sysfs (/sys/class/bdi) for the backing_dev_info object.
This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables.

In particular this properly exposes the read-ahead window for all relevant
users and /sys/block/<block>/queue/read_ahead_kb should be deprecated.

With patient help from Kay Sievers and Greg KH

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - split off NFS and FUSE changes into separate patches
 - document new sysfs attributes under Documentation/ABI
 - do bdi_class_init as a core_initcall, otherwise the "default" BDI
   won't be initialized
 - remove bdi_init_fmt macro, it's not used very much

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
Alan D. Brunelle
ac9fafa124 block: Skip I/O merges when disabled
The block I/O + elevator + I/O scheduler code spend a lot of time trying
to merge I/Os -- rightfully so under "normal" circumstances. However,
if one were to know that the incoming I/O stream was /very/ random in
nature, the cycles are wasted.

This patch adds a per-request_queue tunable that (when set) disables
merge attempts (beyond the simple one-hit cache check), thus freeing up
a non-trivial amount of CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
d7e3c3249e block: add large command support
This patch changes rq->cmd from the static array to a pointer to
support large commands.

We rarely handle large commands. So for optimization, a struct request
still has a static array for a command. rq_init sets rq->cmd pointer
to the static array.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-29 14:48:55 +02:00