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Linus Torvalds 2150edc6c5 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (57 commits)
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs
  ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
  block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
  ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "
  ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
  ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
  jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC
  jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message
  ext4: Add markers for better debuggability
  ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
  ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure
  add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems
  ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc
  ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache
  ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation
  ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used
  ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization
  ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()
  ext4: code cleanup
  ...
2009-01-08 17:14:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds cd764695b6 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: (45 commits)
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.00-k1.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add ISP81XX support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use proper request/response queues with MQ instantiations.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct MQ-chain information retrieval during a firmware dump.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Collapse EFT/FCE copy procedures during a firmware dump.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't pollute kernel logs with ZIO/RIO status messages.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't fallback to interrupt-polling during re-initialization with MSI-X enabled.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Remove support for reading/writing HW-event-log.
  [SCSI] cxgb3i: add missing include
  [SCSI] scsi_lib: fix DID_RESET status problems
  [SCSI] fc transport: restore missing dev_loss_tmo callback to LLDD
  [SCSI] aha152x_cs: Fix regression that keeps driver from using shared interrupts
  [SCSI] sd: Correctly handle 6-byte commands with DIX
  [SCSI] sd: DIF: Fix tagging on platforms with signed char
  [SCSI] sd: DIF: Show app tag on error
  [SCSI] Fix error handling for DIF/DIX
  [SCSI] scsi_lib: don't decrement busy counters when inserting commands
  [SCSI] libsas: fix test for negative unsigned and typos
  [SCSI] a2091, gvp11: kill warn_unused_result warnings
  [SCSI] fusion: Move a dereference below a NULL test
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict due to moving the async part of sd_probe
around in the async probes vs using dev_set_name() in naming.
2009-01-08 16:27:31 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o 4d783b093c block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-06 15:16:33 -05:00
Kay Sievers 3ada8b7e98 block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:43 -08:00
FUJITA Tomonori 97ae77a1cd [SCSI] block: make blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer for WRITE
The commit 818827669d (block: make
blk_rq_map_user take a NULL user-space buffer) extended
blk_rq_map_user to accept a NULL user-space buffer with a READ
command. It was necessary to convert sg to use the block layer mapping
API.

This patch extends blk_rq_map_user again for a WRITE command. It is
necessary to convert st and osst drivers to use the block layer
apping API.

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>
2009-01-02 11:10:35 -06:00
FUJITA Tomonori 56c451f4b5 [SCSI] block: fix the partial mappings with struct rq_map_data
This fixes bio_copy_user_iov to properly handle the partial mappings
with struct rq_map_data (which only sg uses for now but st and osst
will shortly). It adds the offset member to struct rq_map_data and
changes blk_rq_map_user to update it so that bio_copy_user_iov can add
an appropriate page frame via bio_add_pc_page().

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>
2009-01-02 11:10:08 -06:00
Rusty Russell 2ca1a61583 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
2008-12-31 23:05:57 +10:30
Rusty Russell 33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
Jens Axboe 62c1fe9d9f cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
Original patch from Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

When a queue exits the queue lock is taken and cfq_exit_queue() would free all
the cic's associated with the queue.

But when a task exits, cfq_exit_io_context() gets cic one by one and then
locks the associated queue to call __cfq_exit_single_io_context. It looks like
between getting a cic from the ioc and locking the queue, the queue might have
exited on another cpu.

Fix this by rechecking the cfq_io_context queue key inside the queue lock
again, and not calling into __cfq_exit_single_io_context() if somebody
beat us to it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
Jens Axboe b3a6ffe16b Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One
is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF
that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically
want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording
to indicate that it covers both.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Roel Kluin 3c18ce71af block: make blk_softirq_init() static
Sparse asked whether these could be static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori 18af8b2ca3 block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
zero is invalid for max_phys_segments, max_hw_segments, and
max_segment_size. It's better to use use min_not_zero instead of
min. min() works though (because the commit 0e435ac makes sure that
these values are set to the default values, non zero, if a queue is
initialized properly).

With this patch, blk_queue_stack_limits does the almost same thing
that dm's combine_restrictions_low() does. I think that it's easy to
remove dm's combine_restrictions_low.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe a6f23657d3 block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
disk_map_sector_rcu() returns a partition from a sector offset,
which we use for IO statistics on a per-partition basis. The
lookup itself is an O(N) list lookup, where N is the number of
partitions. This actually hurts performance quite a bit, even
on the lower end partitions. On higher numbered partitions,
it can get pretty bad.

Solve this by adding a one-hit cache for partition lookup.
This makes the lookup O(1) for the case where we do most IO to
one partition. Even for mixed partition workloads, amortized cost
is pretty close to O(1) since the natural IO batching makes the
one-hit cache last for lots of IOs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe 30e0dc28bf cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
This basically limits the hardware queue depth to 4*quantum at any
point in time, which is 16 with the default settings. As CFQ uses
other means to shrink the hardware queue when necessary in the first
place, there's really no need for this extra heuristic. Additionally,
it ends up hurting performance in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:51 +01:00
Jens Axboe b374d18a4b block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
Just use struct elevator_queue everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Jens Axboe a31a97381c block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
We just want to hand the first bits of IO to the device as fast
as possible. Gains a few percent on the IOPS rate.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo a185eb4bc8 block: fix empty barrier on write-through w/ ordered tag
Empty barrier on write-through (or no cache) w/ ordered tag has no
command to execute and without any command to execute ordered tag is
never issued to the device and the ordering is never achieved.  Force
draining for such cases.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo 58eea927d2 block: simplify empty barrier implementation
Empty barrier required special handling in __elv_next_request() to
complete it without letting the low level driver see it.

With previous changes, barrier code is now flexible enough to skip the
BAR step using the same barrier sequence selection mechanism.  Drop
the special handling and mask off q->ordered from start_ordered().

Remove blk_empty_barrier() test which now has no user.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo 8f11b3e99a block: make barrier completion more robust
Barrier completion had the following assumptions.

* start_ordered() couldn't finish the whole sequence properly.  If all
  actions are to be skipped, q->ordseq is set correctly but the actual
  completion was never triggered thus hanging the barrier request.

* Drain completion in elv_complete_request() assumed that there's
  always at least one request in the queue when drain completes.

Both assumptions are true but these assumptions need to be removed to
improve empty barrier implementation.  This patch makes the following
changes.

* Make start_ordered() use blk_ordered_complete_seq() to mark skipped
  steps complete and notify __elv_next_request() that it should fetch
  the next request if the whole barrier has completed inside
  start_ordered().

* Make drain completion path in elv_complete_request() check whether
  the queue is empty.  Empty queue also indicates drain completion.

* While at it, convert 0/1 return from blk_do_ordered() to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo f671620e7d block: make every barrier action optional
In all barrier sequences, the barrier write itself was always assumed
to be issued and thus didn't have corresponding control flag.  This
patch adds QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and unify action mask handling in
start_ordered() such that any barrier action can be skipped.

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:45 +01:00
Tejun Heo a7384677b2 block: remove duplicate or unused barrier/discard error paths
* Because barrier mode can be changed dynamically, whether barrier is
  supported or not can be determined only when actually issuing the
  barrier and there is no point in checking it earlier.  Drop barrier
  support check in generic_make_request() and __make_request(), and
  update comment around the support check in blk_do_ordered().

* There is no reason to check discard support in both
  generic_make_request() and __make_request().  Drop the check in
  __make_request().  While at it, move error action block to the end
  of the function and add unlikely() to q existence test.

* Barrier request, be it empty or not, is never passed to low level
  driver and thus it's meaningless to try to copy back req->sector to
  bio->bi_sector on error.  In addition, the notion of failed sector
  doesn't make any sense for empty barrier to begin with.  Drop the
  code block from __end_that_request_first().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Tejun Heo 313e42999d block: reorganize QUEUE_ORDERED_* constants
Separate out ordering type (drain,) and action masks (preflush,
postflush, fua) from visible ordering mode selectors
(QUEUE_ORDERED_*).  Ordering types are now named QUEUE_ORDERED_BY_*
while action masks are named QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_*.

This change is necessary to add QUEUE_ORDERED_DO_BAR and make it
optional to improve empty barrier implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Cheng Renquan 64d01dc9e1 block: use cancel_work_sync() instead of kblockd_flush_work()
After many improvements on kblockd_flush_work, it is now identical to
cancel_work_sync, so a direct call to cancel_work_sync is suggested.

The only difference is that cancel_work_sync is a GPL symbol,
so no non-GPL modules anymore.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Keith Mannthey 08bafc0341 block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer.  The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.

This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.

During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.

My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd.  This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.

 I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue.  A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.

Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.

Submitted-by:  Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:44 +01:00
Wu Fengguang 7c239517d9 block: don't take lock on changing ra_pages
There's no need to take queue_lock or kernel_lock when modifying
bdi->ra_pages. So remove them. Also remove out of date comment for
queue_max_sectors_store().

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Qinghuang Feng c6a06f707c block/blk-tag.c: cleanup kernel-doc
There is no argument named @tags in blk_init_tags,
remove its' comment.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:43 +01:00
Milton Miller 2b91bafcc0 scsi-ioctl: use clock_t <> jiffies
Convert the timeout ioctl scalling to use the clock_t functions
which are much more accurate with some USER_HZ vs HZ combinations.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe 70ed28b92a block: leave the request timeout timer running even on an empty list
For sync IO, we'll often do them serialized. This means we'll be touching
the queue timer for every IO, as opposed to only occasionally like we
do for queued IO. Instead of deleting the timer when the last request
is removed, just let continue running. If a new request comes up soon
we then don't have to readd the timer again. If no new requests arrive,
the timer will expire without side effect later.

This improves high iops sync IO by ~1%.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Jens Axboe 65d3618ccf block: add comment in blk_rq_timed_out() about why next can not be 0
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
malahal@us.ibm.com 565e411d76 block: optimizations in blk_rq_timed_out_timer()
Now the rq->deadline can't be zero if the request is in the
timeout_list, so there is no need to have next_set. There is no need to
access a request's deadline field if blk_rq_timed_out is called on it.

Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:28:42 +01:00
Rusty Russell be4d638c15 cpumask: Replace cpu_coregroup_map with cpu_coregroup_mask
cpu_coregroup_map returned a cpumask_t: it's going away.

(Note, the sched part of this patch won't apply meaningfully to the
sched tree, but I'm posting it to show the goal).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2008-12-26 22:23:43 +10:30
Ingo Molnar 30cd324e97 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19 09:42:40 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f2f1fa78a1 Enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout
There's no point in having too short SG_IO timeouts, since if the
command does end up timing out, we'll end up through the reset sequence
that is several seconds long in order to abort the command that timed
out.

As a result, shorter timeouts than a few seconds simply do not make
sense, as the recovery would be longer than the timeout itself.

Add a BLK_MIN_SG_TIMEOUT to match the existign BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-05 14:49:18 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 970987beb9 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-12-05 14:45:22 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig fd4ce1acd0 [PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW
Update FMODE_NDELAY before each ioctl call so that we can kill the
magic FMODE_NDELAY_NOW.  It would be even better to do this directly
in setfl(), but for that we'd need to have FMODE_NDELAY for all files,
not just block special files.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-04 04:22:57 -05:00
Andreas Schwab 1c925604e1 [PATCH] Fix block dev compat ioctl handling
Commit 33c2dca495 (trim file propagation
in block/compat_ioctl.c) removed the handling of some ioctls from
compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl.  That caused them to be rejected as unknown
by the compat layer.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-04 04:22:55 -05:00
Milan Broz 0e435ac26e block: fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask
Fix setting of max_segment_size and seg_boundary mask for stacked md/dm
devices.

When stacking devices (LVM over MD over SCSI) some of the request queue
parameters are not set up correctly in some cases by default, namely
max_segment_size and and seg_boundary mask.

If you create MD device over SCSI, these attributes are zeroed.

Problem become when there is over this mapping next device-mapper mapping
- queue attributes are set in DM this way:

request_queue   max_segment_size  seg_boundary_mask
SCSI                65536             0xffffffff
MD RAID1                0                      0
LVM                 65536                 -1 (64bit)

Unfortunately bio_add_page (resp.  bio_phys_segments) calculates number of
physical segments according to these parameters.

During the generic_make_request() is segment cout recalculated and can
increase bio->bi_phys_segments count over the allowed limit.  (After
bio_clone() in stack operation.)

Thi is specially problem in CCISS driver, where it produce OOPS here

    BUG_ON(creq->nr_phys_segments > MAXSGENTRIES);

(MAXSEGENTRIES is 31 by default.)

Sometimes even this command is enough to cause oops:

  dd iflag=direct if=/dev/<vg>/<lv> of=/dev/null bs=128000 count=10

This command generates bios with 250 sectors, allocated in 32 4k-pages
(last page uses only 1024 bytes).

For LVM layer, it allocates bio with 31 segments (still OK for CCISS),
unfortunatelly on lower layer it is recalculated to 32 segments and this
violates CCISS restriction and triggers BUG_ON().

The patch tries to fix it by:

 * initializing attributes above in queue request constructor
   blk_queue_make_request()

 * make sure that blk_queue_stack_limits() inherits setting

 (DM uses its own function to set the limits because it
 blk_queue_stack_limits() was introduced later.  It should probably switch
 to use generic stack limit function too.)

 * sets the default seg_boundary value in one place (blkdev.h)

 * use this mask as default in DM (instead of -1, which differs in 64bit)

Bugs related to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471639
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8672

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:55:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo 53a08807c0 block: internal dequeue shouldn't start timer
blkdev_dequeue_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are equivalent and
both start the timeout timer.  Barrier code dequeues the original
barrier request but doesn't passes the request itself to lower level
driver, only broken down proxy requests; however, as the original
barrier code goes through the same dequeue path and timeout timer is
started on it.  If barrier sequence takes long enough, this timer
expires but the low level driver has no idea about this request and
oops follows.

Timeout timer shouldn't have been started on the original barrier
request as it never goes through actual IO.  This patch unexports
elv_dequeue_request(), which has no external user anyway, and makes it
operate on elevator proper w/o adding the timer and make
blkdev_dequeue_request() call elv_dequeue_request() and add timer.
Internal users which don't pass the request to driver - barrier code
and end_that_request_last() - are converted to use
elv_dequeue_request().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:26 +01:00
Cheng Renquan bf91db18ac block: set disk->node_id before it's being used
disk->node_id will be refered in allocating in disk_expand_part_tbl, so we
should set it before disk->node_id is refered.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:20 +01:00
Petr Vandrovec 53cc0b2948 When block layer fails to map iov, it calls bio_unmap_user to undo
mapping.  Which is good if pages were mapped - but if they were provided
by someone else and just copied then bad things happen - pages are
released once here, and once by caller, leading to user triggerable BUG
at include/linux/mm.h:246.

Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-03 12:41:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 0bfc24559d blktrace: port to tracepoints, update
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE()
sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by
Mathieu Desnoyers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-26 13:04:35 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 5f3ea37c77 blktrace: port to tracepoints
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to
encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register
interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the
'what' parameter.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 12:13:34 +01:00
Jens Axboe c26156b253 block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
If the size passed in is OK but we end up mapping too many segments,
we call the unmap path directly like from IO completion. But from IO
completion we have an extra reference to the bio, so this error case
goes OOPS when it attempts to free and already free bio.

Fix it by getting an extra reference to the bio before calling the
unmap failure case.

Reported-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Zhang, Yanmin 561ec68e4d block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a
couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another
HPC NX6325 notebook.  All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9.
With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail.

I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517

As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs.

1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times
and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return
value 0.  Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes,
0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for
exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are
available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting
other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related.  I work
out a patch for nash to fix it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858

2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports
switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting:
    (1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop)
    (2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line
	"8 sd";
    (3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK)
	type for the device and add it to its own list;
    (4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem
	labels; scsi register "8 sd" always.

When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up
for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK)
type.

To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for
kernel.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837

Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new
block device in proc/devices.

With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for
dozens of times without failure.

Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo ba32929a91 block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure.  This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Alan Stern 7838c15b8d Block: use round_jiffies_up()
This patch (as1159b) changes the timeout routines in the block core to
use round_jiffies_up().  There's no point in rounding the timer
deadline down, since if it expires too early we will have to restart
it.

The patch also removes some unnecessary tests when a request is
removed from the queue's timer list.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:42:49 +01:00
Mike Anderson e78042e5b8 blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
Move the calling  blk_delete_timer to later in end_that_request_last to
address an issue where blkdev_dequeue_request may have add a timer for the
request.

Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:56 +01:00
Tejun Heo 2920ebbd65 block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
Block queue supports two usage models - one where block driver peeks
at the front of queue using elv_next_request(), processes it and
finishes it and the other where block driver peeks at the front of
queue, dequeue the request using blkdev_dequeue_request() and finishes
it.  The latter is more flexible as it allows the driver to process
multiple commands concurrently.

These two inconsistent usage models affect the block layer
implementation confusing.  For some, elv_next_request() is considered
the issue point while others consider blkdev_dequeue_request() the
issue point.

Till now the inconsistency mostly affect only accounting, so it didn't
really break anything seriously; however, with block layer timeout,
this inconsistency hits hard.  Block layer considers
elv_next_request() the issue point and adds timer but SCSI layer
thinks it was just peeking and when the request can't process the
command right away, it's just left there without further processing.
This makes the request dangling on the timer list and, when the timer
goes off, the request which the SCSI layer and below think is still on
the block queue ends up in the EH queue, causing various problems - EH
hang (failed count goes over busy count and EH never wakes up),
WARN_ON() and oopses as low level driver trying to handle the unknown
command, etc. depending on the timing.

As SCSI midlayer is the only user of block layer timer at the moment,
moving blk_add_timer() to elv_dequeue_request() fixes the problem;
however, this two usage models definitely need to be cleaned up in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:55 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori 43381785a5 block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 88ed86fee6 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00