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Linus Torvalds
1dc51b8288 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...
2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
Joe Perches
d1aa1ab33d MAINTAINERS: BCACHE: Kent Overstreet has changed email address
Kent's email address in MAINTAINERS seems to be invalid.
This was his last sign-off address, so use that if appropriate.

Fix the S: status entry while there.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30 19:45:01 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
958b43384e bcache: use kvfree() in various places
Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30 19:45:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6aaf0da872 md updates for 4.2
A mixed bag
  - a few bug fixes
  - some performance improvement that decrease lock contention
  - some clean-up
 
 Nothing major.
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Merge tag 'md/4.2' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "A mixed bag

   - a few bug fixes
   - some performance improvement that decrease lock contention
   - some clean-up

  Nothing major"

* tag 'md/4.2' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: clear Blocked flag on failed devices when array is read-only.
  md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.
  md: clear mddev->private when it has been freed.
  md: fix a build warning
  md/raid5: ignore released_stripes check
  md/raid5: per hash value and exclusive wait_for_stripe
  md/raid5: split wait_for_stripe and introduce wait_for_quiescent
  wait: introduce wait_event_exclusive_cmd
  md: convert to kstrto*()
  md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data()
2015-06-29 11:10:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22165fa798 - Revert block and DM core changes the removed request-based DM's
ability to handle partial request completions -- otherwise with the
   current SCSI LLDs these changes could lead to silent data corruption.
 
 - Fix two DM version bumps that were missing from the initial 4.2 DM
   pull request (enabled userspace lvm2 to know certain changes have been
   made).
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Merge tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
 "Apologies for not pressing this request-based DM partial completion
  issue further, it was an oversight on my part.  We'll have to get it
  fixed up properly and revisit for a future release.

   - Revert block and DM core changes the removed request-based DM's
     ability to handle partial request completions -- otherwise with the
     current SCSI LLDs these changes could lead to silent data
     corruption.

   - Fix two DM version bumps that were missing from the initial 4.2 DM
     pull request (enabled userspace lvm2 to know certain changes have
     been made)"

* tag 'dm-4.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache policy smq: fix "default" version to be 1.4.0
  dm: bump the ioctl version to 4.32.0
  Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"
  Revert "dm: do not allocate any mempools for blk-mq request-based DM"
2015-06-26 12:35:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
47a469421d Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - lots of misc things

 - procfs updates

 - printk feature work

 - updates to get_maintainer, MAINTAINERS, checkpatch

 - lib/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (96 commits)
  exit,stats: /* obey this comment */
  coredump: add __printf attribute to cn_*printf functions
  coredump: use from_kuid/kgid when formatting corename
  fs/reiserfs: remove unneeded cast
  NILFS2: support NFSv2 export
  fs/befs/btree.c: remove unneeded initializations
  fs/minix: remove unneeded cast
  init/do_mounts.c: add create_dev() failure log
  kasan: remove duplicate definition of the macro KASAN_FREE_PAGE
  fs/efs: femove unneeded cast
  checkpatch: emit "NOTE: <types>" message only once after multiple files
  checkpatch: emit an error when there's a diff in a changelog
  checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
  checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY
  checkpatch: suggest using eth_zero_addr() and eth_broadcast_addr()
  checkpatch: fix processing of MEMSET issues
  checkpatch: suggest using ether_addr_equal*()
  checkpatch: avoid NOT_UNIFIED_DIFF errors on cover-letter.patch files
  checkpatch: remove local from codespell path
  checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe to show filenames
  ...
2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
Mike Snitzer
b5451e4568 dm cache policy smq: fix "default" version to be 1.4.0
Commit bccab6a0 ("dm cache: switch the "default" cache replacement
policy from mq to smq") should've incremented the "default" policy's
version number to 1.4.0 rather than reverting to version 1.0.0.

Reported-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-26 10:14:28 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
78d8e58a08 Revert "block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones"
This reverts commit 5f1b670d0b.

Justification for revert as reported in this dm-devel post:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00160.html

this change should not be pushed to mainline yet.

Firstly, Christoph has a newer version of the patch that fixes silent
data corruption problem:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00229.html

And the new version still depends on LLDDs to always complete requests
to the end when error happens, while block API doesn't enforce such a
requirement. If the assumption is ever broken, the inconsistency between
request and bio (e.g. rq->__sector and rq->bio) will cause silent data
corruption:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-June/msg00022.html

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-26 10:11:58 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
4e6e36c371 Revert "dm: do not allocate any mempools for blk-mq request-based DM"
This reverts commit cbc4e3c135.

Reported-by: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-26 10:11:07 -04:00
Rasmus Villemoes
90a9befb20 drivers/md/md.c: use strreplace()
There's no point in starting over when we meet a '/'.  This also
eliminates a stack variable and a little .text.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-25 17:00:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6597ac8a51 - DM core cleanups
- blk-mq request-based DM no longer uses any mempools now that partial
     completions are no longer handled as part of cloned requests
 
 - DM raid cleanups and support for MD raid0
 
 - DM cache core advances and a new stochastic-multi-queue (smq) cache
   replacement policy
   - smq is the new default dm-cache policy
 
 - DM thinp cleanups and much more efficient large discard support
 
 - DM statistics support for request-based DM and nanosecond resolution
   timestamps
 
 - Fixes to DM stripe, DM log-writes, DM raid1 and DM crypt
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Merge tag 'dm-4.2-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - DM core cleanups:

     * blk-mq request-based DM no longer uses any mempools now that
       partial completions are no longer handled as part of cloned
       requests

 - DM raid cleanups and support for MD raid0

 - DM cache core advances and a new stochastic-multi-queue (smq) cache
   replacement policy

     * smq is the new default dm-cache policy

 - DM thinp cleanups and much more efficient large discard support

 - DM statistics support for request-based DM and nanosecond resolution
   timestamps

 - Fixes to DM stripe, DM log-writes, DM raid1 and DM crypt

* tag 'dm-4.2-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (39 commits)
  dm stats: add support for request-based DM devices
  dm stats: collect and report histogram of IO latencies
  dm stats: support precise timestamps
  dm stats: fix divide by zero if 'number_of_areas' arg is zero
  dm cache: switch the "default" cache replacement policy from mq to smq
  dm space map metadata: fix occasional leak of a metadata block on resize
  dm thin metadata: fix a race when entering fail mode
  dm thin: fail messages with EOPNOTSUPP when pool cannot handle messages
  dm thin: range discard support
  dm thin metadata: add dm_thin_remove_range()
  dm thin metadata: add dm_thin_find_mapped_range()
  dm btree: add dm_btree_remove_leaves()
  dm stats: Use kvfree() in dm_kvfree()
  dm cache: age and write back cache entries even without active IO
  dm cache: prefix all DMERR and DMINFO messages with cache device name
  dm cache: add fail io mode and needs_check flag
  dm cache: wake the worker thread every time we free a migration object
  dm cache: add stochastic-multi-queue (smq) policy
  dm cache: boost promotion of blocks that will be overwritten
  dm cache: defer whole cells
  ...
2015-06-25 16:34:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e4bc13adfd Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...
2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bfffa1cc9d Merge branch 'for-4.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull core block IO update from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing really major in here, mostly a collection of smaller
  optimizations and cleanups, mixed with various fixes.  In more detail,
  this contains:

   - Addition of policy specific data to blkcg for block cgroups.  From
     Arianna Avanzini.

   - Various cleanups around command types from Christoph.

   - Cleanup of the suspend block I/O path from Christoph.

   - Plugging updates from Shaohua and Jeff Moyer, for blk-mq.

   - Eliminating atomic inc/dec of both remaining IO count and reference
     count in a bio.  From me.

   - Fixes for SG gap and chunk size support for data-less (discards)
     IO, so we can merge these better.  From me.

   - Small restructuring of blk-mq shared tag support, freeing drivers
     from iterating hardware queues.  From Keith Busch.

   - A few cfq-iosched tweaks, from Tahsin Erdogan and me.  Makes the
     IOPS mode the default for non-rotational storage"

* 'for-4.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (35 commits)
  cfq-iosched: fix other locations where blkcg_to_cfqgd() can return NULL
  cfq-iosched: fix sysfs oops when attempting to read unconfigured weights
  cfq-iosched: move group scheduling functions under ifdef
  cfq-iosched: fix the setting of IOPS mode on SSDs
  blktrace: Add blktrace.c to BLOCK LAYER in MAINTAINERS file
  block, cgroup: implement policy-specific per-blkcg data
  block: Make CFQ default to IOPS mode on SSDs
  block: add blk_set_queue_dying() to blkdev.h
  blk-mq: Shared tag enhancements
  block: don't honor chunk sizes for data-less IO
  block: only honor SG gap prevention for merges that contain data
  block: fix returnvar.cocci warnings
  block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones
  block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io
  block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part()
  block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part()
  suspend: simplify block I/O handling
  block: collapse bio bit space
  block: remove unused BIO_RW_BLOCK and BIO_EOF flags
  block: remove BIO_EOPNOTSUPP
  ...
2015-06-25 14:29:53 -07:00
Neil Brown
ab16bfc732 md: clear Blocked flag on failed devices when array is read-only.
The Blocked flag indicates that a device has failed but that this
fact hasn't been recorded in the metadata yet.  Writes to such
devices cannot be allowed until the metadata has been updated.

On a read-only array, the Blocked flag will never be cleared.
This prevents the device being removed from the array.

If the metadata is being handled by the kernel
(i.e. !mddev->external), then we can be sure that if the array is
switch to writable, then a metadata update will happen and will
record the failure.  So we don't need the flag set.

If metadata is externally managed, it is upto the external manager
to clear the 'blocked' flag.

Reported-by: XiaoNi <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-25 17:16:49 +10:00
NeilBrown
9a8c0fa861 md: unlock mddev_lock on an error path.
This error path retuns while still holding the lock - bad.

Fixes: 6791875e2e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-06-25 17:14:09 +10:00
NeilBrown
bd6919228d md: clear mddev->private when it has been freed.
If ->private is set when ->run is called, it is assumed to be
a 'config'  prepared as part of 'reshape'.

So it is important when we free that config, that we also clear ->private.
This is not often a problem as the mddev will normally be discarded
shortly after the config us freed.
However if an 'assemble' races with a final close, the assemble can use
the old mddev which has a stale ->private.  This leads to any of
various sorts of crashes.

So clear ->private after calling ->free().

Reported-by: Nate Clark <nate@neworld.us>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
Fixes: afa0f557cb ("md: rename ->stop to ->free")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
2015-06-25 17:14:09 +10:00
Miklos Szeredi
2726d56620 vfs: add seq_file_path() helper
Turn
	seq_path(..., &file->f_path, ...);
into
	seq_file_path(..., file, ...);

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-23 18:01:07 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
9bf39ab2ad vfs: add file_path() helper
Turn
	d_path(&file->f_path, ...);
into
	file_path(file, ...);

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-23 18:00:05 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
e262f34741 dm stats: add support for request-based DM devices
This makes it possible to use dm stats with DM multipath.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-17 12:40:41 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
dfcfac3e4c dm stats: collect and report histogram of IO latencies
Add an option to dm statistics to collect and report a histogram of
IO latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-17 12:40:40 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
c96aec344d dm stats: support precise timestamps
Make it possible to use precise timestamps with nanosecond granularity
in dm statistics.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-17 12:40:40 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
dd4c1b7d0c dm stats: fix divide by zero if 'number_of_areas' arg is zero
If the number_of_areas argument was zero the kernel would crash on
div-by-zero.  Add better input validation.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.12+
2015-06-17 12:40:39 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
bccab6a01a dm cache: switch the "default" cache replacement policy from mq to smq
The Stochastic multiqueue (SMQ) policy (vs MQ) offers the promise of
less memory utilization, improved performance and increased adaptability
in the face of changing workloads.  SMQ also does not have any
cumbersome tuning knobs.

Users may switch from "mq" to "smq" simply by appropriately reloading a
DM table that is using the cache target.  Doing so will cause all of the
mq policy's hints to be dropped.  Also, performance of the cache may
degrade slightly until smq recalculates the origin device's hotspots
that should be cached.

In the future the "mq" policy will just silently make use of "smq" and
the mq code will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
2015-06-17 12:40:38 -04:00
Joe Thornber
6096d91af0 dm space map metadata: fix occasional leak of a metadata block on resize
The metadata space map has a simplified 'bootstrap' mode that is
operational when extending the space maps.  Whilst in this mode it's
possible for some refcount decrement operations to become queued (eg, as
a result of shadowing one of the bitmap indexes).  These decrements were
not being applied when switching out of bootstrap mode.

The effect of this bug was the leaking of a 4k metadata block.  This is
detected by the latest version of thin_check as a non fatal error.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-06-17 10:09:23 -04:00
Firo Yang
4e02361232 md: fix a build warning
Warning like this:

drivers/md/md.c: In function "update_array_info":
drivers/md/md.c:6394:26: warning: logical not is only applied
to the left hand side of comparison [-Wlogical-not-parentheses]
      !mddev->persistent  != info->not_persistent||

Fix it as Neil Brown said:
mddev->persistent != !info->not_persistent ||

Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <firogm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 10:00:38 +10:00
Shaohua Li
713bc5c2de md/raid5: ignore released_stripes check
conf->released_stripes list isn't always related to where there are
free stripes pending. Active stripes can be in the list too.
And even free stripes were active very recently.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 10:00:33 +10:00
Yuanhan Liu
e9e4c377e2 md/raid5: per hash value and exclusive wait_for_stripe
I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe() with fsmark
multiple thread write workloads.

Here is how this hot contention comes from. We have limited stripes, and
it's a multiple thread write workload. Hence, those stripes will be taken
soon, which puts later processes to sleep for waiting free stripes. When
enough stripes(>= 1/4 total stripes) are released, all process are woken,
trying to get the lock. But there is one only being able to get this lock
for each hash lock, making other processes spinning out there for acquiring
the lock.

Thus, it's effectiveless to wakeup all processes and let them battle for
a lock that permits one to access only each time. Instead, we could make
it be a exclusive wake up: wake up one process only. That avoids the heavy
spin lock contention naturally.

To do the exclusive wake up, we've to split wait_for_stripe into multiple
wait queues, to make it per hash value, just like the hash lock.

Here are some test results I have got with this patch applied(all test run
3 times):

`fsmark.files_per_sec'
=====================

next-20150317                 this patch
-------------------------     -------------------------
metric_value     ±stddev      metric_value     ±stddev     change      testbox/benchmark/testcase-params
-------------------------     -------------------------   --------     ------------------------------
      25.600     ±0.0              92.700     ±2.5          262.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      25.600     ±0.0              77.800     ±0.6          203.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      32.000     ±0.0              93.800     ±1.7          193.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      32.000     ±0.0              81.233     ±1.7          153.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      48.800     ±14.5             99.667     ±2.0          104.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
       6.400     ±0.0              12.800     ±0.0          100.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
      63.133     ±8.2              82.800     ±0.7           31.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
     245.067     ±0.7             306.567     ±7.9           25.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-f2fs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
      17.533     ±0.3              21.000     ±0.8           19.8%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
     188.167     ±1.9             215.033     ±3.1           14.3%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync
     254.500     ±1.8             290.733     ±2.4           14.2%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-1t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-NoSync

`time.system_time'
=====================

next-20150317                 this patch
-------------------------    -------------------------
metric_value     ±stddev     metric_value     ±stddev     change       testbox/benchmark/testcase-params
-------------------------    -------------------------    --------     ------------------------------
    7235.603     ±1.2             185.163     ±1.9          -97.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    7666.883     ±2.9             202.750     ±1.0          -97.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-btrfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
   14567.893     ±0.7             421.230     ±0.4          -97.1%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3697.667     ±14.0            148.190     ±1.7          -96.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    5572.867     ±3.8             310.717     ±1.4          -94.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    5565.050     ±0.5             313.277     ±1.5          -94.4%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-4BRD_12G-RAID5-ext4-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    2420.707     ±17.1            171.043     ±2.7          -92.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-9BRD_6G-RAID5-xfs-4M-30G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3743.300     ±4.6             379.827     ±3.5          -89.9%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-ext4-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose
    3308.687     ±6.3             363.050     ±2.0          -89.0%     ivb44/fsmark/1x-64t-3HDD-RAID5-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose

Where,

     1x: where 'x' means iterations or loop, corresponding to the 'L' option of fsmark

     1t, 64t: where 't' means thread

     4M: means the single file size, corresponding to the '-s' option of fsmark
     40G, 30G, 120G: means the total test size

     4BRD_12G: BRD is the ramdisk, where '4' means 4 ramdisk, and where '12G' means
               the size of one ramdisk. So, it would be 48G in total. And we made a
               raid on those ramdisk

As you can see, though there are no much performance gain for hard disk
workload, the system time is dropped heavily, up to 97%. And as expected,
the performance increased a lot, up to 260%, for fast device(ram disk).

v2: use bits instead of array to note down wait queue need to wake up.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 10:00:27 +10:00
Yuanhan Liu
b1b4648648 md/raid5: split wait_for_stripe and introduce wait_for_quiescent
I noticed heavy spin lock contention at get_active_stripe(), introduced
at being wake up stage, where a bunch of processes try to re-hold the
spin lock again.

After giving some thoughts on this issue, I found the lock could be
relieved(and even avoided) if we turn the wait_for_stripe to per
waitqueue for each lock hash and make the wake up exclusive: wake up
one process each time, which avoids the lock contention naturally.

Before go hacking with wait_for_stripe, I found it actually has 2
usages: for the array to enter or leave the quiescent state, and also
to wait for an available stripe in each of the hash lists.

So this patch splits the first usage off into a separate wait_queue,
wait_for_quiescent, and the next patch will turn the second usage into
one waitqueue for each hash value, and make it exclusive, to relieve
the lock contention.

v2: wake_up(wait_for_quiescent) when (active_stripes == 0)
    Commit log refactor suggestion from Neil.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 10:00:21 +10:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4c9309c0cc md: convert to kstrto*()
Convert away from deprecated simple_strto*() functions.

Add "fit into sector_t" checks.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 10:00:06 +10:00
Kent Overstreet
c31df25f20 md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data()
Refactor sync_request_write() of md/raid10 to use bio_copy_data()
instead of open coding bio_vec iterations.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: add more description in commit message]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-17 09:59:57 +10:00
NeilBrown
ea358cd0d2 md: make sure MD_RECOVERY_DONE is clear before starting recovery/resync
MD_RECOVERY_DONE is normally cleared by md_check_recovery after a
resync etc finished.  However it is possible for raid5_start_reshape
to race and start a reshape before MD_RECOVERY_DONE is cleared.  This
can lean to multiple reshapes running at the same time, which isn't
good.

To make sure it is cleared before starting a reshape, and also clear
it when reaping a thread, just to be safe.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown  <neilb@suse.de>
2015-06-12 20:16:33 +10:00
NeilBrown
8e8e2518fc md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.
Checking ->sync_thread without holding the mddev_lock()
isn't really safe, even after flushing the workqueue which
ensures md_start_sync() has been run.

While this code is waiting for the lock, md_check_recovery could reap
the thread itself, and then start another thread (e.g. recovery might
finish, then reshape starts).  When this thread gets the lock
md_start_sync() hasn't run so it doesn't get reaped, but
MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING gets cleared.  This allows two threads to start
which leads to confusion.

So don't both if MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING isn't set, but if it is do
the flush and the test and the reap all under the mddev_lock to
avoid any race with md_check_recovery.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fixes: 6791875e2e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0+)
2015-06-12 20:16:26 +10:00
NeilBrown
c008f1d356 md: don't return 0 from array_state_store
Returning zero from a 'store' function is bad.
The return value should be either len length of the string
or an error.

So use 'len' if 'err' is zero.

Fixes: 6791875e2e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel (v4.0+)
2015-06-12 20:16:16 +10:00
Joe Thornber
b1f11aff04 dm thin metadata: fix a race when entering fail mode
In dm_thin_find_block() the ->fail_io flag was checked outside the
metadata device's root_lock, causing dm_thin_find_block() to race with
the setting of this flag.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:06 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
fd467696e8 dm thin: fail messages with EOPNOTSUPP when pool cannot handle messages
Use EOPNOTSUPP, rather than EINVAL, error code when user attempts to
send the pool a message.  Otherwise usespace is led to believe the
message failed due to invalid argument.

Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:05 -04:00
Joe Thornber
34fbcf6257 dm thin: range discard support
Previously REQ_DISCARD bios have been split into block sized chunks
before submission to the thin target.  There are a couple of issues with
this:

 - If the block size is small, a large discard request can
   get broken up into a great many bios which is both slow and causes
   a lot of memory pressure.

 - The thin pool block size and the discard granularity for the
   underlying data device need to be compatible if we want to passdown
   the discard.

This patch relaxes the block size granularity for thin devices.  It
makes use of the recent range locking added to the bio_prison to
quiesce a whole range of thin blocks before unmapping them.  Once a
thin range has been unmapped the discard can then be passed down to
the data device for those sub ranges where the data blocks are no
longer used (ie. they weren't shared in the first place).

This patch also doesn't make any apologies about open-coding portions
of block core as a means to supporting async discard completions in the
near-term -- if/when late bio splitting lands it'll all get cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:05 -04:00
Joe Thornber
6550f075f5 dm thin metadata: add dm_thin_remove_range()
Removes a range of blocks from the btree.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:04 -04:00
Joe Thornber
a5d895a90b dm thin metadata: add dm_thin_find_mapped_range()
Retrieve the next run of contiguously mapped blocks.  Useful for working
out where to break up IO.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:03 -04:00
Joe Thornber
4ec331c3ea dm btree: add dm_btree_remove_leaves()
Removes a range of leaf values from the tree.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:03 -04:00
Pekka Enberg
0f24b79b52 dm stats: Use kvfree() in dm_kvfree()
Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:02 -04:00
Joe Thornber
fba10109a4 dm cache: age and write back cache entries even without active IO
The policy tick() method is normally called from interrupt context.
Both the mq and smq policies do some bottom half work for the tick
method in their map functions.  However if no IO is going through the
cache, then that bottom half work doesn't occur.  With these policies
this means recently hit entries do not age and do not get written
back as early as we'd like.

Fix this by introducing a new 'can_block' parameter to the tick()
method.  When this is set the bottom half work occurs immediately.
'can_block' is set when the tick method is called every second by the
core target (not in interrupt context).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:01 -04:00
Mike Snitzer
b61d950962 dm cache: prefix all DMERR and DMINFO messages with cache device name
Having the DM device name associated with the ERR or INFO message is
very helpful.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:01 -04:00
Joe Thornber
028ae9f76f dm cache: add fail io mode and needs_check flag
If a cache metadata operation fails (e.g. transaction commit) the
cache's metadata device will abort the current transaction, set a new
needs_check flag, and the cache will transition to "read-only" mode.  If
aborting the transaction or setting the needs_check flag fails the cache
will transition to "fail-io" mode.

Once needs_check is set the cache device will not be allowed to
activate.  Activation requires write access to metadata.  Future work is
needed to add proper support for running the cache in read-only mode.

Once in fail-io mode the cache will report a status of "Fail".

Also, add commit() wrapper that will disallow commits if in read_only or
fail mode.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:00 -04:00
Joe Thornber
88bf5184fa dm cache: wake the worker thread every time we free a migration object
When the cache is idle, writeback work was only being issued every
second.  With this change outstanding writebacks are streamed
constantly.  This offers a writeback performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:13:00 -04:00
Joe Thornber
66a6363566 dm cache: add stochastic-multi-queue (smq) policy
The stochastic-multi-queue (smq) policy addresses some of the problems
with the current multiqueue (mq) policy.

Memory usage
------------

The mq policy uses a lot of memory; 88 bytes per cache block on a 64
bit machine.

SMQ uses 28bit indexes to implement it's data structures rather than
pointers.  It avoids storing an explicit hit count for each block.  It
has a 'hotspot' queue rather than a pre cache which uses a quarter of
the entries (each hotspot block covers a larger area than a single
cache block).

All these mean smq uses ~25bytes per cache block.  Still a lot of
memory, but a substantial improvement nontheless.

Level balancing
---------------

MQ places entries in different levels of the multiqueue structures
based on their hit count (~ln(hit count)).  This means the bottom
levels generally have the most entries, and the top ones have very
few.  Having unbalanced levels like this reduces the efficacy of the
multiqueue.

SMQ does not maintain a hit count, instead it swaps hit entries with
the least recently used entry from the level above.  The over all
ordering being a side effect of this stochastic process.  With this
scheme we can decide how many entries occupy each multiqueue level,
resulting in better promotion/demotion decisions.

Adaptability
------------

The MQ policy maintains a hit count for each cache block.  For a
different block to get promoted to the cache it's hit count has to
exceed the lowest currently in the cache.  This means it can take a
long time for the cache to adapt between varying IO patterns.
Periodically degrading the hit counts could help with this, but I
haven't found a nice general solution.

SMQ doesn't maintain hit counts, so a lot of this problem just goes
away.  In addition it tracks performance of the hotspot queue, which
is used to decide which blocks to promote.  If the hotspot queue is
performing badly then it starts moving entries more quickly between
levels.  This lets it adapt to new IO patterns very quickly.

Performance
-----------

In my tests SMQ shows substantially better performance than MQ.  Once
this matures a bit more I'm sure it'll become the default policy.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-06-11 17:12:59 -04:00
Tejun Heo
66114cad64 writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
Tejun Heo
4452226ea2 writeback: move backing_dev_info->state into bdi_writeback
Currently, a bdi (backing_dev_info) embeds single wb (bdi_writeback)
and the role of the separation is unclear.  For cgroup support for
writeback IOs, a bdi will be updated to host multiple wb's where each
wb serves writeback IOs of a different cgroup on the bdi.  To achieve
that, a wb should carry all states necessary for servicing writeback
IOs for a cgroup independently.

This patch moves bdi->state into wb.

* enum bdi_state is renamed to wb_state and the prefix of all enums is
  changed from BDI_ to WB_.

* Explicit zeroing of bdi->state is removed without adding zeoring of
  wb->state as the whole data structure is zeroed on init anyway.

* As there's still only one bdi_writeback per backing_dev_info, all
  uses of bdi->state are mechanically replaced with bdi->wb.state
  introducing no behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
0f1e5b5d19 Quite a few fixes for DM's blk-mq support thanks to extra DM multipath
testing from Junichi Nomura and Bart Van Assche.
 
 Also fix a casting bug in dm_merge_bvec() that could cause only a single
 page to be added to a bio (Joe identified this while testing dm-cache
 writeback).
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Merge tag 'dm-4.1-fixes-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device-mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
 "Quite a few fixes for DM's blk-mq support thanks to extra DM multipath
  testing from Junichi Nomura and Bart Van Assche.

  Also fix a casting bug in dm_merge_bvec() that could cause only a
  single page to be added to a bio (Joe identified this while testing
  dm-cache writeback)"

* tag 'dm-4.1-fixes-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm: fix casting bug in dm_merge_bvec()
  dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices
  dm: fix false warning in free_rq_clone() for unmapped requests
  dm: requeue from blk-mq dm_mq_queue_rq() using BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY
  dm mpath: fix leak of dm_mpath_io structure in blk-mq .queue_rq error path
  dm: fix NULL pointer when clone_and_map_rq returns !DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED
  dm: run queue on re-queue
2015-05-29 14:39:24 -07:00
Joe Thornber
40775257b9 dm cache: boost promotion of blocks that will be overwritten
When considering whether to move a block to the cache we already give
preferential treatment to discarded blocks, since they are cheap to
promote (no read of the origin required since the data is junk).

The same is true of blocks that are about to be completely
overwritten, so we likewise boost their promotion chances.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 14:19:07 -04:00
Joe Thornber
651f5fa2a3 dm cache: defer whole cells
Currently individual bios are deferred to the worker thread if they
cannot be processed immediately (eg, a block is in the process of
being moved to the fast device).

This patch passes whole cells across to the worker.  This saves
reaquiring the cell, and also collects bios destined for the same block
together, which allows them to be mapped with a single look up to the
policy.  This reduces the overhead of using dm-cache.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2015-05-29 14:19:06 -04:00