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  1. 07 Mar, 2011 4 commits
  3. 04 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of ../linux-2.6-block into block-for-2.6.39/core · e83a46bb
      Tejun Heo authored 
      This merge creates two set of conflicts.  One is simple context
conflicts caused by removal of throtl_scheduled_delayed_work() in
for-linus and removal of throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() in
for-2.6.39/core.

The other is caused by commit 255bb490 (block: blk-flush shouldn't
call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()) in for-linus
crashing with FLUSH reimplementation in for-2.6.39/core.  The conflict
isn't trivial but the resolution is straight-forward.

* __blk_run_queue() calls in flush_end_io() and flush_data_end_io()
  should be called with @force_kblockd set to %true.

* elv_insert() in blk_kick_flush() should use
  %ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE.

Both changes are to avoid invoking ->request_fn() directly from
request completion path and closely match the changes in the commit
255bb490.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      e83a46bb
  5. 03 Mar, 2011 5 commits
    • Petr Uzel's avatar
      block: kill loop_mutex · fd51469f
      Petr Uzel authored 
      Following steps lead to deadlock in kernel:

dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=512 count=1000
losetup -f img
mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/loop0 mnt
umount mnt/

Stacktrace:
[<c102ec04>] irq_exit+0x36/0x59
[<c101502c>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
[<c127f639>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[<c101df88>] mutex_spin_on_owner+0x54/0x5b
[<fe2250e9>] lo_release+0x12/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a4da5>] fput+0xd5/0x1aa
[<fe2250cf>] loop_clr_fd+0x1a9/0x1b1 [loop]
[<fe225110>] lo_release+0x39/0x67 [loop]
[<c10c4eae>] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[<c10a59d9>] deactivate_locked_super+0x17/0x36
[<c10b6f37>] sys_umount+0x27e/0x2a5
[<c10b6f69>] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
[<c1002897>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Regression since 2a48fc0a, which introduced the private
loop_mutex as part of the BKL removal process.

As per [1], the mutex can be safely removed.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1341930

Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669394
Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29172Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      fd51469f
    • Tao Ma's avatar
      blktrace: Remove blk_fill_rwbs_rq. · 2d3a8497
      Tao Ma authored 
      If we enable trace events to trace block actions, We use
blk_fill_rwbs_rq to analyze the corresponding actions
in request's cmd_flags, but we only choose the minor 2 bits
from it, so most of other flags(e.g, REQ_SYNC) are missing.
For example, with a sync write we get:
write_test-2409  [001]   160.013869: block_rq_insert: 3,64 W 0 () 258135 + =
8 [write_test]

Since now we have integrated the flags of both bio and request,
it is safe to pass rq->cmd_flags directly to blk_fill_rwbs and
blk_fill_rwbs_rq isn't needed any more.

With this patch, after a sync write we get:
write_test-2417  [000]   226.603878: block_rq_insert: 3,64 WS 0 () 258135 +=
 8 [write_test]
Signed-off-by: default avatarTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      2d3a8497
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      block: Move blk_throtl_exit() call to blk_cleanup_queue() · da527770
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is
written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue()
there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around.

Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported
one problem.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86

  And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue().

        commit 7ad58c02
        Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
        Date:   Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200

        block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code

This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the
throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to
throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid
the problem reported by Ingo.

blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be
using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its
own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures
used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn()
or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work.

In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might
happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later
with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might
never be dispatched.

Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and
blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling
blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related
data structures are cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      da527770
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      loop: No need to initialize ->queue_lock explicitly before calling blk_cleanup_queue() · cd25f549
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      Now we initialize ->queue_lock at queue allocation time so driver does
not have to worry about initializing it before calling
blk_cleanup_queue().
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      cd25f549
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      block: Initialize ->queue_lock to internal lock at queue allocation time · c94a96ac
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.

In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.

Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.

      - If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
        blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
	driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
	then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
	initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
	noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
	exist in other drivers too.

      - If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
        before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.

So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.

block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      c94a96ac
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