kernel/include/linux/blk-mq.h, branch linux-4.15.y

Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-11-14T23:32:19Z

Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ...

blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending

2017-11-11T02:55:57Z

Currently we are inconsistent in when we decide to run the queue. Using blk_mq_run_hw_queues() we check if the hctx has pending IO before running it, but we don't do that from the individual queue run function, blk_mq_run_hw_queue(). This results in a lot of extra and pointless queue runs, potentially, on flush requests and (much worse) on tag starvation situations. This is observable just looking at top output, with lots of kworkers active. For the !async runs, it just adds to the CPU overhead of blk-mq. Move the has-pending check into the run function instead of having callers do it. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t

2017-11-11T02:53:25Z

Several block layer and NVMe core functions accept a combination of BLK_MQ_REQ_* flags through the 'flags' argument but there is no verification at compile time whether the right type of block layer flags is passed. Make it possible for sparse to verify this. This patch does not change any functionality. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Johannes Thumshirn Cc: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Introduce BLK_MQ_REQ_PREEMPT

2017-11-11T02:53:25Z

Set RQF_PREEMPT if BLK_MQ_REQ_PREEMPT is passed to blk_get_request_flags(). Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Tested-by: Martin Steigerwald Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: fix issue with shared tag queue re-running

2017-11-11T02:53:25Z

This patch attempts to make the case of hctx re-running on driver tag failure more robust. Without this patch, it's pretty easy to trigger a stall condition with shared tags. An example is using null_blk like this: modprobe null_blk queue_mode=2 nr_devices=4 shared_tags=1 submit_queues=1 hw_queue_depth=1 which sets up 4 devices, sharing the same tag set with a depth of 1. Running a fio job ala: [global] bs=4k rw=randread norandommap direct=1 ioengine=libaio iodepth=4 [nullb0] filename=/dev/nullb0 [nullb1] filename=/dev/nullb1 [nullb2] filename=/dev/nullb2 [nullb3] filename=/dev/nullb3 will inevitably end with one or more threads being stuck waiting for a scheduler tag. That IO is then stuck forever, until someone else triggers a run of the queue. Ensure that we always re-run the hardware queue, if the driver tag we were waiting for got freed before we added our leftover request entries back on the dispatch list. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Tested-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: don't handle failure in .get_budget

2017-11-04T18:31:08Z

It is enough to just check if we can get the budget via .get_budget(). And we don't need to deal with device state change in .get_budget(). For SCSI, one issue to be fixed is that we have to call scsi_mq_uninit_cmd() to free allocated ressources if SCSI device fails to handle the request. And it isn't enough to simply call blk_mq_end_request() to do that if this request is marked as RQF_DONTPREP. Fixes: 0df21c86bdbf(scsi: implement .get_budget and .put_budget for blk-mq) Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'nvme-4.15' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-4.15/block

2017-11-03T16:28:51Z

Pull NVMe changes from Christoph: "Below are the currently queue nvme updates for Linux 4.15. There are a few more things that could make it for this merge window, but I'd like to get things into linux-next, especially for the unlikely case that Linus decided to cut -rc8. Highlights: - support for SGLs in the PCIe driver (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - disable I/O schedulers for the admin queue (Israel Rukshin) - various Fibre Channel fixes and enhancements (James Smart) - various refactoring for better code sharing between transports (Sagi Grimberg and me) as well as lots of little bits from various contributors."

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

blk-mq-sched: improve dispatching from sw queue

2017-11-01T14:20:02Z

SCSI devices use host-wide tagset, and the shared driver tag space is often quite big. However, there is also a queue depth for each lun( .cmd_per_lun), which is often small, for example, on both lpfc and qla2xxx, .cmd_per_lun is just 3. So lots of requests may stay in sw queue, and we always flush all belonging to same hw queue and dispatch them all to driver. Unfortunately it is easy to cause queue busy because of the small .cmd_per_lun. Once these requests are flushed out, they have to stay in hctx->dispatch, and no bio merge can happen on these requests, and sequential IO performance is harmed. This patch introduces blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx for dequeuing a request from a sw queue, so that we can dispatch them in scheduler's way. We can then avoid dequeueing too many requests from sw queue, since we don't flush ->dispatch completely. This patch improves dispatching from sw queue by using the .get_budget and .put_budget callbacks. Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-mq: introduce .get_budget and .put_budget in blk_mq_ops

2017-11-01T14:20:02Z

For SCSI devices, there is often a per-request-queue depth, which needs to be respected before queuing one request. Currently blk-mq always dequeues the request first, then calls .queue_rq() to dispatch the request to lld. One obvious issue with this approach is that I/O merging may not be successful, because when the per-request-queue depth can't be respected, .queue_rq() has to return BLK_STS_RESOURCE, and then this request has to stay in hctx->dispatch list. This means it never gets a chance to be merged with other IO. This patch introduces .get_budget and .put_budget callback in blk_mq_ops, then we can try to get reserved budget first before dequeuing request. If the budget for queueing I/O can't be satisfied, we don't need to dequeue request at all. Hence the request can be left in the IO scheduler queue, for more merging opportunities. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe