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  1. Sep 21, 2018
    • Omar Sandoval's avatar
      block: use nanosecond resolution for iostat · b57e99b4
      Omar Sandoval authored
      Klaus Kusche reported that the I/O busy time in /proc/diskstats was not
      updating properly on 4.18. This is because we started using ktime to
      track elapsed time, and we convert nanoseconds to jiffies when we update
      the partition counter. However, this gets rounded down, so any I/Os that
      take less than a jiffy are not accounted for. Previously in this case,
      the value of jiffies would sometimes increment while we were doing I/O,
      so at least some I/Os were accounted for.
      
      Let's convert the stats to use nanoseconds internally. We still report
      milliseconds as before, now more accurately than ever. The value is
      still truncated to 32 bits for backwards compatibility.
      
      Fixes: 522a7775
      
       ("block: consolidate struct request timestamp fields")
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Reported-by: default avatarKlaus Kusche <klaus.kusche@computerix.info>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b57e99b4
  2. Sep 20, 2018
  3. Sep 17, 2018
  4. Sep 12, 2018
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      null_blk: fix zoned support for non-rq based operation · b228ba1c
      Jens Axboe authored
      The supported added for zones in null_blk seem to assume that only rq
      based operation is possible. But this depends on the queue_mode setting,
      if this is set to 0, then cmd->bio is what we need to be operating on.
      Right now any attempt to load null_blk with queue_mode=0 will
      insta-crash, since cmd->rq is NULL and null_handle_cmd() assumes it to
      always be set.
      
      Make the zoned code deal with bio's instead, or pass in the
      appropriate sector/nr_sectors instead.
      
      Fixes: ca4b2a01
      
       ("null_blk: add zone support")
      Tested-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b228ba1c
  5. Sep 11, 2018
  6. Sep 10, 2018
  7. Sep 06, 2018
  8. Sep 05, 2018
  9. Sep 04, 2018
  10. Aug 31, 2018
    • Dennis Zhou (Facebook)'s avatar
      blkcg: use tryget logic when associating a blkg with a bio · 31118850
      Dennis Zhou (Facebook) authored
      There is a very small change a bio gets caught up in a really
      unfortunate race between a task migration, cgroup exiting, and itself
      trying to associate with a blkg. This is due to css offlining being
      performed after the css->refcnt is killed which triggers removal of
      blkgs that reach their blkg->refcnt of 0.
      
      To avoid this, association with a blkg should use tryget and fallback to
      using the root_blkg.
      
      Fixes: 08e18eab
      
       ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups")
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      31118850
    • Dennis Zhou (Facebook)'s avatar
      blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finished · 59b57717
      Dennis Zhou (Facebook) authored
      Currently, blkcg destruction relies on a sequence of events:
        1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called and blkgs
           release their reference to the blkcg. This immediately destroys
           the cgwbs (writeback).
        2. With blkgs giving up their reference, the blkcg ref count should
           become zero and eventually call blkcg_css_free() which finally
           frees the blkcg.
      
      Jiufei Xue reported that there is a race between blkcg_bio_issue_check()
      and cgroup_rmdir(). To remedy this, blkg destruction becomes contingent
      on the completion of all writeback associated with the blkcg. A count of
      the number of cgwbs is maintained and once that goes to zero, blkg
      destruction can follow. This should prevent premature blkg destruction
      related to writeback.
      
      The new process for blkcg cleanup is as follows:
        1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called which offlines
           writeback. Blkg destruction is delayed on the cgwb_refcnt count to
           avoid punting potentially large amounts of outstanding writeback
           to root while maintaining any ongoing policies. Here, the base
           cgwb_refcnt is put back.
        2. When the cgwb_refcnt becomes zero, blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is called
           and handles destruction of blkgs. This is where the css reference
           held by each blkg is released.
        3. Once the blkcg ref count goes to zero, blkcg_css_free() is called.
           This finally frees the blkg.
      
      It seems in the past blk-throttle didn't do the most understandable
      things with taking data from a blkg while associating with current. So,
      the simplification and unification of what blk-throttle is doing caused
      this.
      
      Fixes: 08e18eab
      
       ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups")
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      59b57717
    • Dennis Zhou (Facebook)'s avatar
      Revert "blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()" · 6b065462
      Dennis Zhou (Facebook) authored
      This reverts commit 4c699480.
      
      Destroying blkgs is tricky because of the nature of the relationship. A
      blkg should go away when either a blkcg or a request_queue goes away.
      However, blkg's pin the blkcg to ensure they remain valid. To break this
      cycle, when a blkcg is offlined, blkgs put back their css ref. This
      eventually lets css_free() get called which frees the blkcg.
      
      The above commit (4c699480) breaks this order of events by trying to
      destroy blkgs in css_free(). As the blkgs still hold references to the
      blkcg, css_free() is never called.
      
      The race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir() will be
      addressed in the following patch by delaying destruction of a blkg until
      all writeback associated with the blkcg has been finished.
      
      Fixes: 4c699480
      
       ("blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()")
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      6b065462
  11. Aug 29, 2018
  12. Aug 28, 2018
    • Chaitanya Kulkarni's avatar
    • James Smart's avatar
      nvme-fcloop: Fix dropped LS's to removed target port · afd299ca
      James Smart authored
      
      When a targetport is removed from the config, fcloop will avoid calling
      the LS done() routine thinking the targetport is gone. This leaves the
      initiator reset/reconnect hanging as it waits for a status on the
      Create_Association LS for the reconnect.
      
      Change the filter in the LS callback path. If tport null (set when
      failed validation before "sending to remote port"), be sure to call
      done. This was the main bug. But, continue the logic that only calls
      done if tport was set but there is no remoteport (e.g. case where
      remoteport has been removed, thus host doesn't expect a completion).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      afd299ca
    • Michal Wnukowski's avatar
      nvme-pci: add a memory barrier to nvme_dbbuf_update_and_check_event · f1ed3df2
      Michal Wnukowski authored
      In many architectures loads may be reordered with older stores to
      different locations.  In the nvme driver the following two operations
      could be reordered:
      
       - Write shadow doorbell (dbbuf_db) into memory.
       - Read EventIdx (dbbuf_ei) from memory.
      
      This can result in a potential race condition between driver and VM host
      processing requests (if given virtual NVMe controller has a support for
      shadow doorbell).  If that occurs, then the NVMe controller may decide to
      wait for MMIO doorbell from guest operating system, and guest driver may
      decide not to issue MMIO doorbell on any of subsequent commands.
      
      This issue is purely timing-dependent one, so there is no easy way to
      reproduce it. Currently the easiest known approach is to run "Oracle IO
      Numbers" (orion) that is shipped with Oracle DB:
      
      orion -run advanced -num_large 0 -size_small 8 -type rand -simulate \
      	concat -write 40 -duration 120 -matrix row -testname nvme_test
      
      Where nvme_test is a .lun file that contains a list of NVMe block
      devices to run test against. Limiting number of vCPUs assigned to given
      VM instance seems to increase chances for this bug to occur. On test
      environment with VM that got 4 NVMe drives and 1 vCPU assigned the
      virtual NVMe controller hang could be observed within 10-20 minutes.
      That correspond to about 400-500k IO operations processed (or about
      100GB of IO read/writes).
      
      Orion tool was used as a validation and set to run in a loop for 36
      hours (equivalent of pushing 550M IO operations). No issues were
      observed. That suggest that the patch fixes the issue.
      
      Fixes: f9f38e33
      
       ("nvme: improve performance for virtual NVMe devices")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Wnukowski <wnukowski@google.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
      [hch: updated changelog and comment a bit]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      f1ed3df2
  13. Aug 27, 2018
  14. Aug 25, 2018
  15. Aug 24, 2018
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata · 05193597
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
       "Nothing too interesting. Mostly ahci and ahci_platform changes, many
        around power management"
      
      * 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits)
        ata: ahci_platform: enable to get and control reset
        ata: libahci_platform: add reset control support
        ata: add an extra argument to ahci_platform_get_resources()
        ata: sata_rcar: Add r8a77965 support
        ata: sata_rcar: exclude setting of PHY registers in Gen3
        ata: sata_rcar: really mask all interrupts on Gen2 and later
        Revert "ata: ahci_platform: allow disabling of hotplug to save power"
        ata: libahci: Allow reconfigure of DEVSLP register
        ata: libahci: Correct setting of DEVSLP register
        ata: ahci: Enable DEVSLP by default on x86 with SLP_S0
        ata: ahci: Support state with min power but Partial low power state
        Revert "ata: ahci_platform: convert kcalloc to devm_kcalloc"
        ata: sata_rcar: Add rudimentary Runtime PM support
        ata: sata_rcar: Provide a short-hand for &pdev->dev
        ata: Only output sg element mapped number in verbose debug
        ata: Guard ata_scsi_dump_cdb() by ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG
        ata: ahci_platform: convert kcalloc to devm_kcalloc
        ata: ahci_platform: convert kzallloc to kcalloc
        ata: ahci_platform: correct parameter documentation for ahci_platform_shutdown
        libata: remove ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq()
        ...
      05193597
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup · 59676610
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
       "Just one commit from Steven to take out spin lock from trace event
        handlers"
      
      * 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
        cgroup/tracing: Move taking of spin lock out of trace event handlers
      59676610