Graft AIX partitions enumeration into partitions/msdos.c
There is already a AIX disks detection logic in msdos.c. When an AIX disk
has been found, and if configured to, call the aix partitions recognizer.
This avoids removal of AIX disks protection from msdos.c, avoids code
duplication, and ensures that AIX partitions enumeration is called before
plain msdos partitions enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c.
AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple
slices of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the
"logical volumes" which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a
slice being a contiguous disk area. The code also detects "logical
volumes" made of multiple slices on the probed disk, but can not
describe them to the partition layer, because the partition layer
generic code does not support that. When such non-contiguous "logical
volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is printed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity.
- About half the MM queue
- Some backlight bits
- Various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- zillions more little rtc patches
- ptrace
- signals
- exec
- procfs
- rapidio
- nbd
- aoe
- pps
- memstick
- tools/testing/selftests updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits)
tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
selftests: add .gitignore for vm
selftests: add hugetlbfstest
self-test: fix make clean
selftests: exit 1 on failure
kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
aoe: update internal version number to v83
aoe: update copyright date
aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
...
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.
CVE-2013-2851
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a hole in struct hd_geometry, so we have to zero the struct on
stack before copying it to user-space.
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"This is the bulk of the s390 patches for the 3.11 merge window.
Notable enhancements are: the block timeout patches for dasd from
Hannes, and more work on the PCI support front. In addition some
cleanup and the usual bug fixing."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set
s390/dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute
block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out()
block/dasd: detailed I/O errors
s390/dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors
s390/dasd: Implement block timeout handling
s390/dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet
s390/dasd: make number of retries configurable
s390/dasd: Clarify comment
s390/hwsampler: Updated misleading member names in hws_data_entry
s390/appldata_net_sum: do not use static data
s390/appldata_mem: do not use static data
s390/vmwatchdog: do not use static data
s390/airq: simplify adapter interrupt code
s390/pci: remove per device debug attribute
s390/dma: remove gratuitous brackets
s390/facility: decompose test_facility()
s390/sclp: remove duplicated include from sclp_ctl.c
s390/irq: store interrupt information in pt_regs
s390/drivers: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch"
...
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
changes necessary at this point.
The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads
to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.
This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
less effective.
Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
block: queue work on power efficient wq
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
rq_timed_out_fn might have been unset while the request
was in flight, so we need to check for it in blk_rq_timed_out().
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The DASD driver is using FASTFAIL as an equivalent to the
transport errors in SCSI. And the 'steal lock' function maps
roughly to a reservation error. So we should be returning the
appropriate error codes when completing a request.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
In blk_post_runtime_resume, an autosuspend request will be initiated for
the device. Since we are holding the queue lock, we can't sleep and thus
we should use the async version to initiate an autosuspend, i.e.
pm_request_suspend instead of pm_runtime_suspend, which might sleep.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Block layer uses workqueues for multiple purposes. There is no real dependency
of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them.
On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to
service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the
scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one.
This patch replaces normal workqueues with power efficient versions.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
- Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.
- Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
bypass operation.
- Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
discard bios.
- Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
workqueue mechanism.
- Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
tree.
- A few random fixes.
* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
block: fix max discard sectors limit
blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
raid1: use bio_copy_data()
pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
block: Add bio_copy_data()
...
I dived into lguest again, reworking the pagetable code so we can move
the switcher page: our fixmaps sometimes take more than 2MB now...
Cheers,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull virtio & lguest updates from Rusty Russell:
"Lots of virtio work which wasn't quite ready for last merge window.
Plus I dived into lguest again, reworking the pagetable code so we can
move the switcher page: our fixmaps sometimes take more than 2MB now..."
Ugh. Annoying conflicts with the tcm_vhost -> vhost_scsi rename.
Hopefully correctly resolved.
* tag 'virtio-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (57 commits)
caif_virtio: Remove bouncing email addresses
lguest: improve code readability in lg_cpu_start.
virtio-net: fill only rx queues which are being used
lguest: map Switcher below fixmap.
lguest: cache last cpu we ran on.
lguest: map Switcher text whenever we allocate a new pagetable.
lguest: don't share Switcher PTE pages between guests.
lguest: expost switcher_pages array (as lg_switcher_pages).
lguest: extract shadow PTE walking / allocating.
lguest: make check_gpte et. al return bool.
lguest: assume Switcher text is a single page.
lguest: rename switcher_page to switcher_pages.
lguest: remove RESERVE_MEM constant.
lguest: check vaddr not pgd for Switcher protection.
lguest: prepare to make SWITCHER_ADDR a variable.
virtio: console: replace EMFILE with EBUSY for already-open port
virtio-scsi: reset virtqueue affinity when doing cpu hotplug
virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support
virtio-scsi: push vq lock/unlock into virtscsi_vq_done
virtio-scsi: pass struct virtio_scsi to virtqueue completion function
...
In alloc_read_gpt_entries and alloc_read_gpt_header, the kzalloc'ated
zones are either totally overwritten by the following read_lba call,
or freed. As kmalloc is cheaper than kzalloc, use kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete.
cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which
used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a
bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path().
- device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu.
- perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy.
- A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated
by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this
point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately,
cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies
to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag
is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to
implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag
won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled
implicitly along with unified hierarchy.
The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core
and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm),
which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is
partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy
support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without
introducing a full separate set of control knobs.
This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but
at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping
the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which
is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely
to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think
it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that
it's supportable in the long term.
Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but
shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think
it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able
to drop it in a decade.
Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc
that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun.
* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits)
cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n
cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race
cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll()
cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs
cgroup: fix broken file xattrs
devcg: remove parent_cgroup.
memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior
cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup
cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option
move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h
cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix
cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes
Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys."
perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical
cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant()
cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children
cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys.
devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag
cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held()
...
Here's the merge request for the driver core tree for 3.10-rc1
It's pretty small, just a number of driver core and sysfs updates and
fixes, all of which have been in linux-next for a while now.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core update from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the merge request for the driver core tree for 3.10-rc1
It's pretty small, just a number of driver core and sysfs updates and
fixes, all of which have been in linux-next for a while now.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"
Fixed conflict in kernel/rtmutex-tester.c, the locking tree had a better
fix for the same sysfs file mode problem.
* tag 'driver-core-3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
PM / Runtime: Idle devices asynchronously after probe|release
driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs change
driver core: devtmpfs: fix compile failure with CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
devtmpfs: add base.h include
driver core: add uid and gid to devtmpfs
sysfs: check if one entry has been removed before freeing
sysfs: fix crash_notes_size build warning
sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write and readdir
rtmutex-tester: fix mode of sysfs files
Documentation: Add ABI entry for crash_notes and crash_notes_size
sysfs: Add crash_notes_size to export percpu note size
driver core: platform_device.h: fix checkpatch errors and warnings
driver core: platform.c: fix checkpatch errors and warnings
driver core: warn that platform_driver_probe can not use deferred probing
sysfs: use atomic_inc_unless_negative in sysfs_get_active
base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions on device attributes
device: separate all subsys mutexes
This reverts commit 3a366e614d.
Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.
Jens says:
"It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).
The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
queueing up a revert and pull request."
Reported-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Requested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that devtmpfs is caring about uid/gid, we need to use the correct
internal types so users who have USER_NS enabled will have things work
properly for them.
Thanks to Eric for pointing this out, and the patch review.
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some drivers want to tell userspace what uid and gid should be used for
their device nodes, so allow that information to percolate through the
driver core to userspace in order to make this happen. This means that
some systems (i.e. Android and friends) will not need to even run a
udev-like daemon for their device node manager and can just rely in
devtmpfs fully, reducing their footprint even more.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This reverts commit 8761a3dc1f.
There are situations where the destruction path is called
with the bdev->bd_mutex already held, which then deadlocks in
loop_clr_fd(). The normal partition cleanup does a trylock()
on the mutex, but it'd be nice to have a more bullet proof
method in loop. So punt this more involved fix to the next
merge window, and just back out this buggy fix for now.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
As found by gcc-4.8, the QUEUE_SYSFS_BIT_FNS macro creates functions
that use a value generated by queue_var_store independent of whether
that value was set or not.
block/blk-sysfs.c: In function 'queue_store_nonrot':
block/blk-sysfs.c:244:385: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
Unlike most other such warnings, this one is not a false positive,
writing any non-number string into the sysfs files indeed has
an undefined result, rather than returning an error.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tejun writes:
-----
This is the pull request for the earlier patchset[1] with the same
name. It's only three patches (the first one was committed to
workqueue tree) but the merge strategy is a bit involved due to the
dependencies.
* Because the conversion needs features from wq/for-3.10,
block/for-3.10/core is based on rc3, and wq/for-3.10 has conflicts
with rc3, I pulled mainline (rc5) into wq/for-3.10 to prevent those
workqueue conflicts from flaring up in block tree.
* Resolving the issue that Jan and Dave raised about debugging
requires arch-wide changes. The patchset is being worked on[2] but
it'll have to go through -mm after these changes show up in -next,
and not included in this pull request.
The three commits are located in the following git branch.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git writeback-workqueue
Pulling it into block/for-3.10/core produces a conflict in
drivers/md/raid5.c between the following two commits.
e3620a3ad5 ("MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available")
2f6db2a707 ("raid5: use bio_reset()")
The conflict is trivial - one removes an "if ()" conditional while the
other removes "rbi->bi_next = NULL" right above it. We just need to
remove both. The merged branch is available at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git block-test-merge
so that you can use it for verification. The test merge commit has
proper merge description.
While these changes are a bit of pain to route, they make code simpler
and even have, while minute, measureable performance gain[3] even on a
workload which isn't particularly favorable to showing the benefits of
this conversion.
----
Fixed up the conflict.
Conflicts:
drivers/md/raid5.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Just a little convenience macro - main reason to add it now is preparing
for immutable bio vecs, it'll reduce the size of the patch that puts
bi_sector/bi_size/bi_idx into a struct bvec_iter.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
CC: dm-devel@redhat.com
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
CC: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Converts it to use bio_advance(), simplifying it quite a bit in the
process.
Note that req_bio_endio() now always calls bio_advance() - which means
it always loops over the biovec, not just on partial completions. Don't
expect it to affect performance, but worth noting.
Tested it by forcing partial updates, and dumping before and after on
various bio/bvec fields when doing a partial update.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When a request is added:
If device is suspended or is suspending and the request is not a
PM request, resume the device.
When the last request finishes:
Call pm_runtime_mark_last_busy().
When pick a request:
If device is resuming/suspending, then only PM request is allowed
to go.
The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add runtime pm helper functions:
void blk_pm_runtime_init(struct request_queue *q, struct device *dev)
- Initialization function for drivers to call.
int blk_pre_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q)
- If any requests are in the queue, mark last busy and return -EBUSY.
Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDING and return 0.
void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err)
- If the suspend succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.
Otherwise set it to RPM_ACTIVE and mark last busy.
void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q)
- Set q->rpm_status to RPM_RESUMING.
void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err)
- If the resume succeeded then set q->rpm_status to RPM_ACTIVE
and call __blk_run_queue, then mark last busy and autosuspend.
Otherwise set q->rpm_status to RPM_SUSPENDED.
The idea and API is designed by Alan Stern and described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133727953625963&w=2
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Any partitions added by user space to the loop device were being
left in place after detaching the loop device. This was because
the detach path issued a BLKRRPART to clean up partitions if
LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN was set, meaning that the partitions were auto
scanned on attach. Replace this BLKRRPART with code that
unconditionally cleans up partitions on detach instead.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Modified by Jens to export delete_partition().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This is useful in places that recycle the same scatterlist multiple
times, and do not want to incur the cost of sg_init_table every
time in hot paths.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can
be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access
a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold
a longer name.
As accessing dentry->name must be protected by dentry->d_lock or
parent inode's i_mutex, while on the other hand cgroup-path() can
be called with some irq-safe spinlocks held, we can't generate
cgroup path using dentry->d_name.
Alternatively we make a copy of dentry->d_name and save it in
cgrp->name when a cgroup is created, and update cgrp->name at
rename().
v5: use flexible array instead of zero-size array.
v4: - allocate root_cgroup_name and all root_cgroup->name points to it.
- add cgroup_name() wrapper.
v3: use kfree_rcu() instead of synchronize_rcu() in user-visible path.
v2: make cgrp->name RCU safe.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:
- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.
- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.
- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"
Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").
* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
...
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so
it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition,
especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage,
MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure.
This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct
parsed_partitions to try to address the issue:
- make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can
fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved
- vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is
still a bit big for kmalloc
- given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only
allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It isn't necessary to read the information of partitions whose number is
equal and more than state->limit since only maximum state->limit
partitions will be added inside rescan_partitions().
That is also what other kind of partitions are doing.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
UEFI 2.3.1D will include a change to the spec language mandating that a
GPT header must be greater than *or equal to* the size of the defined
structure. While verifying that this would work on Linux, I discovered
that we're not actually checking the minimum bound at all.
The result of this is that when we verify the checksum, it's possible that
on a malformed header (with header_size of 0), we won't actually verify
any data.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AIX formatted disks do not always have the MSDOS 55aa signature.
This happens e.g. for unbootable AIX disks.
Up to now, such disks were not recognized as AIX disks, because of the
missing 55aa. Fix that by inverting the two tests. Let's first
check for the AIX magic strings, and only if that fails check for
the MSDOS magic word.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert to the much saner new idr interface. Both bsg and genhd
protect idr w/ mutex making preloading unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
idr allocation in blk_alloc_devt() wasn't synchronized against lookup
and removal, and its limit check was off by one - 1 << MINORBITS is
the number of minors allowed, not the maximum allowed minor.
Add locking and rename MAX_EXT_DEVT to NR_EXT_DEVT and fix limit
checking.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While adding and removing a lot of disks disks and partitions this
sometimes shows up:
WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:512 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130() (Not tainted)
Hardware name:
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/dev/block/259:751'
Modules linked in: raid1 autofs4 bnx2fc cnic uio fcoe libfcoe libfc 8021q scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt garp stp llc sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table mperf ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log power_meter microcode dcdbas serio_raw amd64_edac_mod edac_core edac_mce_amd i2c_piix4 i2c_core k10temp bnx2 sg ixgbe dca mdio ext4 mbcache jbd2 dm_round_robin sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic pata_acpi pata_atiixp ahci mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas dm_multipath dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 44103, comm: async/16 Not tainted 2.6.32-195.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130
sysfs_do_create_link+0x12b/0x170
sysfs_create_link+0x13/0x20
device_add+0x317/0x650
idr_get_new+0x13/0x50
add_partition+0x21c/0x390
rescan_partitions+0x32b/0x470
sd_open+0x81/0x1f0 [sd_mod]
__blkdev_get+0x1b6/0x3c0
blkdev_get+0x10/0x20
register_disk+0x155/0x170
add_disk+0xa6/0x160
sd_probe_async+0x13b/0x210 [sd_mod]
add_wait_queue+0x46/0x60
async_thread+0x102/0x250
default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
async_thread+0x0/0x250
kthread+0x96/0xa0
child_rip+0xa/0x20
kthread+0x0/0xa0
child_rip+0x0/0x20
This most likely happens because dev_t is freed while the number is
still used and idr_get_new() is not protected on every use. The fix
adds a mutex where it wasn't before and moves the dev_t free function so
it is called after device del.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Apply the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block device so
that PM core will teach mm to not allocate memory with GFP_IOFS when
calling the runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback for block
devices and its ancestors.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While stress-running very-small container scenarios with the Kernel Memory
Controller, I've run into a lockdep-detected lock imbalance in
cfq-iosched.c.
I'll apologize beforehand for not posting a backlog: I didn't anticipate
it would be so hard to reproduce, so I didn't save my serial output and
went directly on debugging. Turns out that it did not happen again in
more than 20 runs, making it a quite rare pattern.
But here is my analysis:
When we are in very low-memory situations, we will arrive at
cfq_find_alloc_queue and may not find a queue, having to resort to the oom
queue, in an rcu-locked condition:
if (!cfqq || cfqq == &cfqd->oom_cfqq)
[ ... ]
Next, we will release the rcu lock, and try to allocate a queue, retrying
if we succeed:
rcu_read_unlock();
spin_unlock_irq(cfqd->queue->queue_lock);
new_cfqq = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cfq_pool,
gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO,
cfqd->queue->node);
spin_lock_irq(cfqd->queue->queue_lock);
if (new_cfqq)
goto retry;
We are unlocked at this point, but it should be fine, since we will
reacquire the rcu_read_lock when we retry.
Except of course, that we may not retry: the allocation may very well fail
and we'll keep on going through the flow:
The next branch is:
if (cfqq) {
[ ... ]
} else
cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
And right before exiting, we'll issue rcu_read_unlock().
Being already unlocked, this is the likely source of our imbalance. Since
cfqq is either already NULL or made NULL in the first statement of the
outter branch, the only viable alternative here seems to be to return the
oom queue right away in case of allocation failure.
Please review the following patch and apply if you agree with my analysis.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The block device doesn't use percpu rw-semaphore anymore, so don't select
it for compilation.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without
needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling
schemes of jbd2. The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot
page contents instead of waiting.
For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking
(which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and
setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock
dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude. If we're
going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the
complaints about high latency will likely return. We might as well
centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset ("stable page writes, part 2") makes some key
modifications to the original 'stable page writes' patchset. First, it
provides creators (devices and filesystems) of a backing_dev_info a flag
that declares whether or not it is necessary to ensure that page
contents cannot change during writeout. It is no longer assumed that
this is true of all devices (which was never true anyway). Second, the
flag is used to relaxed the wait_on_page_writeback calls so that wait
only occurs if the device needs it. Third, it fixes up the remaining
disk-backed filesystems to use this improved conditional-wait logic to
provide stable page writes on those filesystems.
It is hoped that (for people not using checksumming devices, anyway)
this patchset will give back unnecessary performance decreases since the
original stable page write patchset went into 3.0. Sorry about not
fixing it sooner.
Complaints were registered by several people about the long write
latencies introduced by the original stable page write patchset.
Generally speaking, the kernel ought to allocate as little extra memory
as possible to facilitate writeout, but for people who simply cannot
wait, a second page stability strategy is (re)introduced: snapshotting
page contents. The waiting behavior is still the default strategy; to
enable page snapshotting, a superblock flag (MS_SNAP_STABLE) must be
set. This flag is used to bandaid^Henable stable page writeback on
ext3[1], and is not used anywhere else.
Given that there are already a few storage devices and network FSes that
have rolled their own page stability wait/page snapshot code, it would
be nice to move towards consolidating all of these. It seems possible
that iscsi and raid5 may wish to use the new stable page write support
to enable zero-copy writeout.
Thank you to Jan Kara for helping fix a couple more filesystems.
Per Andrew Morton's request, here are the result of using dbench to measure
latencies on ext2:
3.8.0-rc3:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
WriteX 109347 0.028 59.817
ReadX 347180 0.004 3.391
Flush 15514 29.828 287.283
Throughput 57.429 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=287.290 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 105556 0.029 4.273
ReadX 335004 0.005 4.112
Flush 14982 30.540 298.634
Throughput 55.4496 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=298.650 ms
As you can see, for ext2 the maximum write latency decreases from ~60ms
on a laptop hard disk to ~4ms. I'm not sure why the flush latencies
increase, though I suspect that being able to dirty pages faster gives
the flusher more work to do.
On ext4, the average write latency decreases as well as all the maximum
latencies:
3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 85624 0.152 33.078
ReadX 272090 0.010 61.210
Flush 12129 36.219 168.260
Throughput 44.8618 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=168.276 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 86082 0.141 30.928
ReadX 273358 0.010 36.124
Flush 12214 34.800 165.689
Throughput 44.9941 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=165.722 ms
XFS seems to exhibit similar latency improvements as ext2:
3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 125739 0.028 104.343
ReadX 399070 0.005 4.115
Flush 17851 25.004 131.390
Throughput 66.0024 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=131.406 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 123529 0.028 6.299
ReadX 392434 0.005 4.287
Flush 17549 25.120 188.687
Throughput 64.9113 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=188.704 ms
...and btrfs, just to round things out, also shows some latency
decreases:
3.8.0-rc3:
WriteX 67122 0.083 82.355
ReadX 212719 0.005 2.828
Flush 9547 47.561 147.418
Throughput 35.3391 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=147.433 ms
3.8.0-rc3 + patches:
WriteX 64898 0.101 71.631
ReadX 206673 0.005 7.123
Flush 9190 47.963 219.034
Throughput 34.0795 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=219.044 ms
Before this patchset, all filesystems would block, regardless of whether
or not it was necessary. ext3 would wait, but still generate occasional
checksum errors. The network filesystems were left to do their own
thing, so they'd wait too.
After this patchset, all the disk filesystems except ext3 and btrfs will
wait only if the hardware requires it. ext3 (if necessary) snapshots
pages instead of blocking, and btrfs provides its own bdi so the mm will
never wait. Network filesystems haven't been touched, so either they
provide their own wait code, or they don't block at all. The blocking
behavior is back to what it was before 3.0 if you don't have a disk
requiring stable page writes.
This patchset has been tested on 3.8.0-rc3 on x64 with ext3, ext4, and
xfs. I've spot-checked 3.8.0-rc4 and seem to be getting the same
results as -rc3.
[1] The alternative fixes to ext3 include fixing the locking order and
page bit handling like we did for ext4 (but then why not just use
ext4?), or setting PG_writeback so early that ext3 becomes extremely
slow. I tried that, but the number of write()s I could initiate dropped
by nearly an order of magnitude. That was a bit much even for the
author of the stable page series! :)
This patch:
Creates a per-backing-device flag that tracks whether or not pages must
be held immutable during writeout. Eventually it will be used to waive
wait_for_page_writeback() if nothing requires stable pages.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull async changes from Tejun Heo:
"These are followups for the earlier deadlock issue involving async
ending up waiting for itself through block requesting module[1]. The
following changes are made by these commits.
- Instead of requesting default elevator on each request_queue init,
block now requests it once early during boot.
- Kmod triggers warning if invoked from an async worker.
- Async synchronization implementation has been reimplemented. It's
a lot simpler now."
* 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
async: initialise list heads to fix crash
async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items
async: keep pending tasks on async_domain and remove async_pending
async: use ULLONG_MAX for infinity cookie value
async: bring sanity to the use of words domain and running
async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers
block: don't request module during elevator init
init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot
