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these should be used on objects already in top layer
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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library helpers called by filesystem drivers on their own inodes
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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... except where that code acts as a filesystem driver, rather than
working with dentries given to it.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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most of the ->d_inode uses there refer to the same inode IO would
go to, i.e. d_backing_inode()
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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socket inodes and sunrpc filesystems - inodes owned by that code
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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places where we are dealing with S_ISSOCK file creation/lookups.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own;
those two act as filesystem drivers
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver.
(1) FILE_DATA() should just be replaced with file_inode().
(2) set_debugfs_file_size() should be removed and debugfs_create_file_size()
should be used to create the file.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Cachefiles should perform fs modifications (eg. vfs_unlink()) on the top layer
only and should not attempt to alter the lower layer.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only and should not attempt
to modify the lower layer in a layered filesystem such as overlayfs.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file->f_path.dentry->d_inode.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG() to determine whether to
honour O_TRUNC. Since this occurs after complete_walk(), the dentry type
field cannot change and the inode pointer cannot change as we hold a ref on
the dentry, so this should be safe.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir(dentry) in place of
S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Where we have:
if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {
type constructions in pathwalk we should be able to eliminate the check of
d_inode and rely solely on the result of d_is_negative() or d_is_positive().
What we do have to take care to do is to read d_inode after calling a
d_is_xxx() typecheck function to get the barriering right.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Don't use d_inode as a variable name as it now masks a function name.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags to avoid the need to do
this:
if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {
when this:
if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {
should suffice.
This check is especially problematic if a dentry can have its type field set
to something other than DENTRY_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL (as in
unionmount).
What we really need to do is stick a write barrier between setting d_inode and
setting d_flags and a read barrier between reading d_flags and reading
d_inode.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Supply two functions to test whether a filesystem's own dentries are positive
or negative (d_really_is_positive() and d_really_is_negative()).
The problem is that the DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE field of dentry->d_flags may be
overridden by the union part of a layered filesystem and isn't thus
necessarily indicative of the type of dentry.
Normally, this would involve a negative dentry (ie. ->d_inode == NULL) having
->d_layer.lower pointed to a lower layer dentry, DCACHE_PINNING_LOWER set and
the DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE field set to something other than DCACHE_MISS_TYPE - but
it could also involve, say, a DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE being overridden to
DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE if a 0,0 chardev is detected in the top layer.
However, inside a filesystem, when that fs is looking at its own dentries, it
probably wants to know if they are really negative or not - and doesn't care
about the fallthrough bits used by the union.
To this end, a filesystem should normally use d_really_is_positive/negative()
when looking at its own dentries rather than d_is_positive/negative() and
should use d_inode() to get at the inode.
Anyone looking at someone else's dentries (this includes pathwalk) should use
d_is_xxx() and d_backing_inode().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Current -next fails to link an ARM allmodconfig because drivers that use
the core recovery functions can be built as modules but those functions
are not exported:
ERROR: "i2c_generic_gpio_recovery" [drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "i2c_generic_scl_recovery" [drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "i2c_recover_bus" [drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.ko] undefined!
Add exports to fix this.
Fixes: 5f9296ba21b3c (i2c: Add bus recovery infrastructure)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
"Here is the kconfig stuff for v4.1-rc1:
- fixes for mergeconfig (used by make kvmconfig/tinyconfig)
- header cleanup
- make -s *config is silent now"
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kconfig: Do not print status messages in make -s mode
kconfig: Simplify Makefile
kbuild: add generic mergeconfig target, %.config
merge_config.sh: rename MAKE to RUNMAKE
merge_config.sh: improve indentation
kbuild: mergeconfig: remove redundant $(objtree)
kbuild: mergeconfig: move an error check to merge_config.sh
kbuild: mergeconfig: fix "jobserver unavailable" warning
kconfig: Remove unnecessary prototypes from headers
kconfig: Remove dead code
kconfig: Get rid of the P() macro in headers
kconfig: fix a misspelling in scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Here is the first round of kbuild changes for v4.1-rc1:
- kallsyms fix for ARM and cleanup
- make dep(end) removed (developers have no sense of nostalgia these
days...)
- include Makefiles by relative path
- stop useless rebuilds of asm-offsets.h and bounds.h"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols
Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker
kbuild: ia64: use $(src)/Makefile.gate rather than particular path
kbuild: include $(src)/Makefile rather than $(obj)/Makefile
kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile
kbuild: use relative path to include Makefile
kbuild: do not add $(bounds-file) and $(offsets-file) to targets
kbuild: remove warning about "make depend"
kbuild: Don't reset timestamps in include/generated if not needed
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"Highlights for this window:
- improved AVC hashing for SELinux by John Brooks and Stephen Smalley
- addition of an unconfined label to Smack
- Smack documentation update
- TPM driver updates"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (28 commits)
lsm: copy comm before calling audit_log to avoid race in string printing
tomoyo: Do not generate empty policy files
tomoyo: Use if_changed when generating builtin-policy.h
tomoyo: Use bin2c to generate builtin-policy.h
selinux: increase avtab max buckets
selinux: Use a better hash function for avtab
selinux: convert avtab hash table to flex_array
selinux: reconcile security_netlbl_secattr_to_sid() and mls_import_netlbl_cat()
selinux: remove unnecessary pointer reassignment
Smack: Updates for Smack documentation
tpm/st33zp24/spi: Add missing device table for spi phy.
tpm/st33zp24: Add proper wait for ordinal duration in case of irq mode
smack: Fix gcc warning from unused smack_syslog_lock mutex in smackfs.c
Smack: Allow an unconfined label in bringup mode
Smack: getting the Smack security context of keys
Smack: Assign smack_known_web as default smk_in label for kernel thread's socket
tpm/tpm_infineon: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management
MAINTAINERS: Add Jason as designated reviewer for TPM
tpm: Update KConfig text to include TPM2.0 FIFO chips
tpm/st33zp24/dts/st33zp24-spi: Add dts documentation for st33zp24 spi phy
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Non interleaved dualpoint v2 devices have separate pointstick button bits,
document this.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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This change allows atmel_mxt_ts to bind to ACPI-enumerated devices in
Google Pixel 2 (2015).
While newer version of ACPI standard allow use of device-tree-like
properties in device descriptions, the version of ACPI implemented in
Google BIOS does not support them, and we have to resort to DMI data to
specify exact characteristics of the devices (touchpad vs. touchscreen,
GPIO to button mapping, etc).
Pixel 1 continues to use i2c devices and platform data created by
chromeos-laptop driver, since ACPI does not enumerate them.
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Tested-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 4.1:
New interfaces:
- user-space interface for AEAD
- user-space interface for RNG (i.e., pseudo RNG)
New hashes:
- ARMv8 SHA1/256
- ARMv8 AES
- ARMv8 GHASH
- ARM assembler and NEON SHA256
- MIPS OCTEON SHA1/256/512
- MIPS img-hash SHA1/256 and MD5
- Power 8 VMX AES/CBC/CTR/GHASH
- PPC assembler AES, SHA1/256 and MD5
- Broadcom IPROC RNG driver
Cleanups/fixes:
- prevent internal helper algos from being exposed to user-space
- merge common code from assembly/C SHA implementations
- misc fixes"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (169 commits)
crypto: arm - workaround for building with old binutils
crypto: arm/sha256 - avoid sha256 code on ARMv7-M
crypto: x86/sha512_ssse3 - move SHA-384/512 SSSE3 implementation to base layer
crypto: x86/sha256_ssse3 - move SHA-224/256 SSSE3 implementation to base layer
crypto: x86/sha1_ssse3 - move SHA-1 SSSE3 implementation to base layer
crypto: arm64/sha2-ce - move SHA-224/256 ARMv8 implementation to base layer
crypto: arm64/sha1-ce - move SHA-1 ARMv8 implementation to base layer
crypto: arm/sha2-ce - move SHA-224/256 ARMv8 implementation to base layer
crypto: arm/sha256 - move SHA-224/256 ASM/NEON implementation to base layer
crypto: arm/sha1-ce - move SHA-1 ARMv8 implementation to base layer
crypto: arm/sha1_neon - move SHA-1 NEON implementation to base layer
crypto: arm/sha1 - move SHA-1 ARM asm implementation to base layer
crypto: sha512-generic - move to generic glue implementation
crypto: sha256-generic - move to generic glue implementation
crypto: sha1-generic - move to generic glue implementation
crypto: sha512 - implement base layer for SHA-512
crypto: sha256 - implement base layer for SHA-256
crypto: sha1 - implement base layer for SHA-1
crypto: api - remove instance when test failed
crypto: api - Move alg ref count init to crypto_check_alg
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In flush_busy_ctxs() and blk_mq_hctx_has_pending(), regardless of how many
ctxs assigned to one hctx, they will all loop hctx->ctx_map.map_size
times. Here hctx->ctx_map.map_size is a const ALIGN(nr_cpu_ids, 8) / 8.
Especially, flush_busy_ctxs() is in hot code path. And it's unnecessary.
Change ->map_size to contain the actually mapped software queues, so we
only loop for as many iterations as we have to.
And remove cpumask setting and nr_ctx count in blk_mq_init_cpu_queues()
since they are all re-done in blk_mq_map_swqueue().
blk_mq_map_swqueue().
Signed-off-by: Chong Yuan <chong.yuan@memblaze.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Updated by me for formatting and commenting.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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exit_aio() currently serializes killing io contexts. Each context
killing ends up having to do percpu_ref_kill(), which in turns has
to wait for an RCU grace period. This can take a long time, depending
on the number of contexts. And there's no point in doing them serially,
when we could be waiting for all of them in one fell swoop.
This patches makes my fio thread offload test case exit 0.2s instead
of almost 6s.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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I suspect this doesn't show up for most anyone because software
algorithms typically don't have a sense of being too busy. However,
when working with the Freescale CAAM driver it will return -EBUSY on
occasion under heavy -- which resulted in dm-crypt deadlock.
After checking the logic in some other drivers, the scheme for
crypt_convert() and it's callback, kcryptd_async_done(), were not
correctly laid out to properly handle -EBUSY or -EINPROGRESS.
Fix this by using the completion for both -EBUSY and -EINPROGRESS. Now
crypt_convert()'s use of completion is comparable to
af_alg_wait_for_completion(). Similarly, kcryptd_async_done() follows
the pattern used in af_alg_complete().
Before this fix dm-crypt would lockup within 1-2 minutes running with
the CAAM driver. Fix was regression tested against software algorithms
on PPC32 and x86_64, and things seem perfectly happy there as well.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Commit 003b5c571 ("block: Convert drivers to immutable biovecs")
stopped short of changing dm-crypt to leverage the fact that the biovec
array of a bio will no longer be modified.
Switch to using bio_clone_fast() when cloning bios for decryption after
read.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Cryptsetup home page moved to GitLab.
Also remove link to abandonded Truecrypt page.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Introduce a new target that is meant for file system developers to test file
system integrity at particular points in the life of a file system. We capture
all write requests and associated data and log them to a separate device
for later replay. There is a userspace utility to do this replay. The
idea behind this is to give file system developers a tool to verify that
the file system is always consistent.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Use the normal return values for bool functions.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Add device specific modes to dm-verity to specify how corrupted
blocks should be handled. The following modes are defined:
- DM_VERITY_MODE_EIO is the default behavior, where reading a
corrupted block results in -EIO.
- DM_VERITY_MODE_LOGGING only logs corrupted blocks, but does
not block the read.
- DM_VERITY_MODE_RESTART calls kernel_restart when a corrupted
block is discovered.
In addition, each mode sends a uevent to notify userspace of
corruption and to allow further recovery actions.
The driver defaults to previous behavior (DM_VERITY_MODE_EIO)
and other modes can be enabled with an additional parameter to
the verity table.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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The 'trim' message wasn't ever implemented.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" is technically
OK but msecs_to_jiffies(val) is the cleaner solution and handles all
corner cases correctly.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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This fixes up a compile warning [-Wunused-but-set-variable] - given the
comment in userspace_set_region_sync() the non-reporting of errors is
intentional so the return value can be dropped to make gcc happy.
Also, fix typo in comment.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Return type of wait_for_completion_timeout() is unsigned long not int.
An appropriately named unsigned long is added and the assignment fixed.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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If a device is used as the root filesystem, it can't be built
off of devices which are within the root filesystem (just like
command line arguments to root=). For this reason, Linux has a
pseudo-filesystem for root= and MD initialization (based on the
function name_to_dev_t) which handles different ways of specifying
devices including PARTUUID and major:minor.
Switch to using name_to_dev_t() in dm_get_device(). Rather than
having DM assume that all things which are not major:minor are paths in
an already-mounted filesystem, change dm_get_device() to first attempt
to look up the device in the filesystem, and if not found it will fall
back to using name_to_dev_t().
In terms of backwards compatibility, there are some cases where
behavior will be different:
- If you have a file in the current working directory named 1:2 and
you initialze DM there, then it will try to use that file rather
than the disk with that major:minor pair as a backing device.
- Similarly for other bdev types which name_to_dev_t() knows how to
interpret, the previous behavior was to repeatedly check for the
existence of the file (e.g., while waiting for rootfs to come up)
but the new behavior is to use the name_to_dev_t() interpretation.
For example, if you have a file named /dev/ubiblock0_0 which is
a symlink to /dev/sda3, but it is not yet present when DM starts
to initialize, then the name_to_dev_t() interpretation will take
precedence.
These incompatibilities would only show up in really strange setups
with bad practices so we shouldn't have to worry about them.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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In the kernel command-line, previously, root=1:2jakshflaksjdhfa would
be accepted and interpreted just like root=1:2. This patch adds
stricter checking so that additional characters after major:minor are
rejected by root=.
The goal of this change is to help in unifying DM's interpretation of
its block device argument by using existing kernel code (name_to_dev_t).
But DM rejects malformed major:minor pairs, it seems reasonable for
root= to reject them as well.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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DM will switch its device lookup code to using name_to_dev_t() so it
must be exported. Also, the @name argument should be marked const.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.
Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq
This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md->io_pool and md->rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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dm_mq_queue_rq() is in atomic context so care must be taken to not
sleep -- as such GFP_ATOMIC is used for the md->bs bioset allocations
and dm-mpath's call to blk_get_request(). In the future the bioset
allocations will hopefully go away (by removing support for partial
completions of bios in a cloned request).
Also prepare for supporting DM blk-mq ontop of old-style request_fn
device(s) if a new dm-mod 'use_blk_mq' parameter is set. The kthread
will still be used to queue work if blk-mq is used ontop of old-style
request_fn device(s).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s). That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.
The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s). This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:
"Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
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Otherwise, for sequential workloads, the dm_request_fn can allow
excessive request merging at the expense of increased service time.
Add a per-device sysfs attribute to allow the user to control how long a
request, that is a reasonable merge candidate, can be queued on the
request queue. The resolution of this request dispatch deadline is in
microseconds (ranging from 1 to 100000 usecs), to set a 20us deadline:
echo 20 > /sys/block/dm-7/dm/rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline
The dm_request_fn's merge heuristic and associated extra accounting is
disabled by default (rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline is 0).
This sysfs attribute is not applicable to bio-based DM devices so it
will only ever report 0 for them.
By allowing a request to remain on the queue it will block others
requests on the queue. But introducing a short dequeue delay has proven
very effective at enabling certain sequential IO workloads on really
fast, yet IOPS constrained, devices to build up slightly larger IOs --
yielding 90+% throughput improvements. Having precise control over the
time taken to wait for larger requests to build affords control beyond
that of waiting for certain IO sizes to accumulate (which would require
a deadline anyway). This knob will only ever make sense with sequential
IO workloads and the particular value used is storage configuration
specific.
Given the expected niche use-case for when this knob is useful it has
been deemed acceptable to expose this relatively crude method for
crafting optimal IO on specific storage -- especially given the solution
is simple yet effective. In the context of DM multipath, it is
advisable to tune this sysfs attribute to a value that offers the best
performance for the common case (e.g. if 4 paths are expected active,
tune for that; if paths fail then performance may be slightly reduced).
Alternatives were explored to have request-based DM autotune this value
(e.g. if/when paths fail) but they were quickly deemed too fragile and
complex to warrant further design and development time. If this problem
proves more common as faster storage emerges we'll have to look at
elevating a generic solution into the block core.
Tested-by: Shiva Krishna Merla <shivakrishna.merla@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Add DM_ATTR_RW() macro and establish .store method in dm_sysfs_ops.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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