/proc/diskstats would display a strange output as follows.

$ cat /proc/diskstats |grep sda
   8       0 sda 90524 7579 102154 20464 0 0 0 0 0 14096 20089
   8       1 sda1 19085 1352 21841 4209 0 0 0 0 4294967064 15689 4293424691
                                                ~~~~~~~~~~
   8       2 sda2 71252 3624 74891 15950 0 0 0 0 232 23995 1562390
   8       3 sda3 54 487 2188 92 0 0 0 0 0 88 92
   8       4 sda4 4 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   8       5 sda5 81 2027 2130 138 0 0 0 0 0 87 137

Its reason is the wrong way of accounting hd_struct->in_flight. When a bio is
merged into a request belongs to different partition by ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE.

The detailed root cause is as follows.

Assuming that there are two partition, sda1 and sda2.

1. A request for sda2 is in request_queue. Hence sda1's hd_struct->in_flight
   is 0 and sda2's one is 1.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

2. A bio belongs to sda1 is issued and is merged into the request mentioned on
   step1 by ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE. The first sector of the request is changed
   from sda2 region to sda1 region. However the two partition's
   hd_struct->in_flight are not changed.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |          0
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

3. The request is finished and blk_account_io_done() is called. In this case,
   sda2's hd_struct->in_flight, not a sda1's one, is decremented.

        | hd_struct->in_flight
   ---------------------------
   sda1 |         -1
   sda2 |          1
   ---------------------------

The patch fixes the problem by caching the partition lookup
inside the request structure, hence making sure that the increment
and decrement will always happen on the same partition struct. This
also speeds up IO with accounting enabled, since it cuts down on
the number of lookups we have to do.

When reloading partition tables, quiesce IO to ensure that no
request references to the partition struct exists. When it is safe
to free the partition table, the IO for that device is restarted
again.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Previously we tracked whether the integrity metadata had been remapped
using a request flag. This was fine for low-level retries. However, if
an I/O was redriven by upper layers we would end up remapping again,
causing the retry to fail.

Deprecate the REQ_INTEGRITY flag and introduce BIO_MAPPED_INTEGRITY
which enables filesystems to notify lower layers that the bio in
question has already been remapped.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Commit 3839e4b2 introduced a kobject_put but failed to remove the
kmem_cache_free beneath it, leading to a double free.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Physical block size was declared unsigned int to accomodate the maximum
size reported by READ CAPACITY(16).  Make sure we use the right type in
the related functions.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o User can specify max iops value of 32bit (UINT_MAX), through cgroup
  interface. If a user has specified say 4294967294 (UNIT_MAX  - 2), then
  on 32bit platform, following multiplication can overflow.

  io_allowed = (tg->iops[rw] * jiffy_elapsed_rnd)

o Explicitly cast the multiplication to 64bit and then perform division and
  then check whether result is still great then UNINT_MAX.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

- Limit max iops value to UINT_MAX and return error to user if value is more
  than that instead of accepting bigger values and truncating implicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Do not convert jiffies to mili seconds as it is not required. Just work
  with jiffies and HZ.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Randy Dunlap reported following linux-next failure. This patch fixes it.

on i386:

blk-throttle.c:(.text+0x1abb8): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
blk-throttle.c:(.text+0x1b1dc): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'

o bytes_per_second interface is 64bit and I was continuing to do 64 bit
  division even on 32bit platform without help of special macros/functions
  hence the failure.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Currently any cgroup throttle limit changes are processed asynchronousy and
  the change does not take affect till a new bio is dispatched from same group.

o It might happen that a user sets a redicuously low limit on throttling.
  Say 1 bytes per second on reads. In such cases simple operations like mount
  a disk can wait for a very long time.

o Once bio is throttled, there is no easy way to come out of that wait even if
  user increases the read limit later.

o This patch fixes it. Now if a user changes the cgroup limits, we recalculate
  the bio dispatch time according to new limits.

o Can't take queueu lock under blkcg_lock, hence after the change I wake
  up the dispatch thread again which recalculates the time. So there are some
  variables being synchronized across two threads without lock and I had to
  make use of barriers. Hoping I have used barriers correctly. Any review of
  memory barrier code especially will help.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Currently all the dynamically allocated groups, except root grp is added
  to td->tg_list. This was not a problem so far but in next patch I will
  travel through td->tg_list to process any updates of limits on the group.
  If root group is not in tg_list, then root group's updates are not
  processed.

o It is better to root group also to tg_list instead of doing special
  processing for it during limit updates.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Now a cgroup list of blkg elements can contain blkg from multiple policies.
  Before sending an unlink event, make sure blkg belongs to they policy. If
  policy does not own the blkg, do not send update for this blkg.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently throttling related files were visible even if user had disabled
throttling using config options. It was switching off background throttling
of bio but not the cgroup files. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The bounce_pfn of the request queue in 64 bit systems is set to the
current max_low_pfn. Adding more memory later makes this incorrect.
Memory allocated beyond this boot time max_low_pfn appear to require
bounce buffers (bounce buffers are actually not allocated but used in
calculating segments that may result in "over max segments limit"
errors).
Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Revert "block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory"

This reverts commit c49825fa.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Ensure that 'sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs' is defined
even when CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set.
This way we can safely reference it without need for
ifdefs in the code elsewhere.  eg. in block/blk-exec.c
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The bounce_pfn of the request queue in 64 bit systems is set to the
current max_low_pfn. Adding more memory later makes this incorrect.
Memory allocated beyond this boot time max_low_pfn appear to require
bounce buffers (bounce buffers are actually not allocated but used in
calculating segments that may result in "over max segments limit"
errors).
Signed-off-by: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

During long I/O operations, the hang_check timer may fire,
trigger stack dumps that unnecessarily alarm the user.

Eg.  hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb  ## can take *hours* to complete

So, if hang_check is armed, we should wake up periodically
to prevent it from triggering.  This patch uses a wake-up interval
equal to half the hang_check timer period, which keeps overhead low enough.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Fsync performance for small files achieved by cfq on high-end disks is
lower than what deadline can achieve, due to idling introduced between
the sync write happening in process context and the journal commit.

Moreover, when competing with a sequential reader, a process writing
small files and fsync-ing them is starved.

This patch fixes the two problems by:
- marking journal commits as WRITE_SYNC, so that they get the REQ_NOIDLE
  flag set,
- force all queues that have REQ_NOIDLE requests to be put in the noidle
  tree.

Having the queue associated to the fsync-ing process and the one associated
 to journal commits in the noidle tree allows:
- switching between them without idling,
- fairness vs. competing idling queues, since they will be serviced only
  after the noidle tree expires its slice.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:

init/do_mounts.c:71: error: implicit declaration of function 'dev_to_part'
init/do_mounts.c:71: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
init/do_mounts.c:73: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
init/do_mounts.c:76: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
init/do_mounts.c:76: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
init/do_mounts.c:102: error: implicit declaration of function 'part_pack_uuid'
init/do_mounts.c:104: error: 'block_class' undeclared (first use in this function)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When a new disk is being discovered, add_disk() first ties the bdev to gendisk
(via register_disk()->blkdev_get()) and only after that calls
bdi_register_bdev(). Because register_disk() also creates disk's kobject, it
can happen that userspace manages to open and modify the device's data (or
inode) before its BDI is properly initialized leading to a warning in
__mark_inode_dirty().

Fix the problem by registering BDI early enough.

This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Documentation update
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o core logic of implementing IOPS throttling.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o cgroup changes for IOPS throttling rules.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Actual implementation of throttling policy in block layer. Currently it
  implements READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling logic. IOPS throttling
  comes in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o cgroup chagnes for throttle policy.

o Introduces READ and WRITE bytes per second throttling rules.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o This patch prepares the base for introducing new IO control policies.
  Currently all the code is written knowing there is only one policy
  and that is proportional bandwidth. Creating infrastructure for newer
  policies to come in.

o Also there were many functions which were generated using macro. It was
  very confusing. Got rid of those.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Kill extra "dev weight" header which is printed when somebody reads
  blkio.weight_device file. This really seems to be out of convention. No other
  blkio files are printing any header at the start of file. I think it is ok
  to just print values and how to interpret values should be part of
  documentation.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It is also called outside the scope of init functions. Stephen
reports:

WARNING: init/mounts.o(.text+0x21a): Section mismatch in reference from the function name_to_dev_t() to the function .init.text:match_dev_by_uuid()
The function name_to_dev_t() references
the function __init match_dev_by_uuid().
This is often because name_to_dev_t lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of match_dev_by_uuid is wrong.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

2nd argument of blk_rq_aligned() has changed to 'unsigned long' by
the previous commit 'block: fix an address space warning in blk-map.c'.
That commit neglected to update a user of that function.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This is the third patch in a series which adds support for
storing partition metadata, optionally, off of the hd_struct.

One major use for that data is being able to resolve partition
by other identities than just the index on a block device.  Device
enumeration varies by platform and there's a benefit to being able
to use something like EFI GPT's GUIDs to determine the correct
block device and partition to mount as the root.

This change adds that support to root= by adding support for
the following syntax:

  root=PARTUUID=hex-uuid
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This change extends the partition_meta_info structure to
support EFI GPT-specific metadata and ensures that data
is copied in on partition scanning.
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a1
(2.6.36-rc3).

Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?

This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.

This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Change type of 2nd parameter of blk_rq_aligned() into unsigned long
and remove unnecessary casting. Now we can call it with 'uaddr'
instead of 'ubuf' in __blk_rq_map_user() so that it can remove
following warnings from sparse:

 block/blk-map.c:57:31: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
 block/blk-map.c:57:31:    expected void *addr
 block/blk-map.c:57:31:    got void [noderef] <asn:1>*ubuf

However blk_rq_map_kern() needs one more local variable to handle it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

When sending DIX integrity segments with an I/O request, the
restriction for the maximum number of segments is still the same for
the zfcp hardware. Report the new sg_prot_tablesize for the SCSI host,
so that the number of integrity segments plus the number of data
segments is not larger than the hardware limit. This results in using
half of the hardware segments for integrity data and the other half
for regular data.
Reviewed-by: Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>

Some controllers have a hardware limit on the number of protection
information scatter-gather list segments they can handle.

Introduce a max_integrity_segments limit in the block layer and provide
a new scsi_host_template setting that allows HBA drivers to provide a
value suitable for the hardware.

Add support for honoring the integrity segment limit when merging both
bios and requests.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>

We have several users of min_not_zero, each of them using their own
definition.  Move the define to kernel.h.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>

* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: PIT: free irq source id in handling error path
  KVM: destroy workqueue on kvm_create_pit() failures
  KVM: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: (58 commits)
  drm/i915,intel_agp: Add support for Sandybridge D0
  drm/i915: fix render pipe control notify on sandybridge
  agp/intel: set 40-bit dma mask on Sandybridge
  drm/i915: Remove the conflicting BUG_ON()
  drm/i915/suspend: s/IS_IRONLAKE/HAS_PCH_SPLIT/
  drm/i915/suspend: Flush register writes before busy-waiting.
  i915: disable DAC on Ironlake also when doing CRT load detection.
  drm/i915: wait for actual vblank, not just 20ms
  drm/i915: make sure eDP PLL is enabled at the right time
  drm/i915: fix VGA plane disable for Ironlake+
  drm/i915: eDP mode set sequence corrections
  drm/i915: add panel reset workaround
  drm/i915: Enable RC6 on Ironlake.
  drm/i915/sdvo: Only set is_lvds if we have a valid fixed mode.
  drm/i915: Set up a render context on Ironlake
  drm/i915 invalidate indirect state pointers at end of ring exec
  drm/i915: Wake-up wait_request() from elapsed hang-check (v2)
  drm/i915: Apply i830 errata for cursor alignment
  drm/i915: Only update i845/i865 CURBASE when disabled (v2)
  drm/i915: FBC is updated within set_base() so remove second call in mode_set()
  ...