Use xenbus_read_unsigned() instead of xenbus_scanf() when possible.
This requires to change the type of one read from int to unsigned,
but this case has been wrong before: negative values are not allowed
for the modified case.
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: roger.pau@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
- ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms.
- Generic steal time support for arm and x86.
- Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if
in-guest kexec is used).
- Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various
places.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
"Features and fixes for 4.8-rc0:
- ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms.
- Generic steal time support for arm and x86.
- Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if
in-guest kexec is used).
- Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various
places"
* tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (47 commits)
xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops
xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU
xen/evtchn: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base
x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to shared_info
x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping
x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage
x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7
xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT
xen-blkback: really don't leak mode property
xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group"
xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
xen: support runqueue steal time on xen
arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall
xen: update xen headers
xen-pciback: drop superfluous variables
xen-pciback: short-circuit read path used for merging write values
...
Commit 9d092603cc ("xen-blkback: do not leak mode property") left one
path unfixed; correct this.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The functions these get passed to have been taking pointers to const
since at least 2.6.16.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
... for single items being collected: It is more typesafe (as the
compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to variable match)
and requires one less parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Instead of overloading the discard support with the REQ_SECURE flag.
Use the opportunity to rename the queue flag as well, and remove the
dead checks for this flag in the RAID 1 and RAID 10 drivers that don't
claim support for secure erase.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Now that we converted everything to the newer block write cache
interface, kill off the queue flush_flags and queueable flush
entries.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The processes names are truncated to 17, while we had the length
of the process as name 20 - which meant that while we filled
it out with various details - the last 3 characters (which had
the queue number) never surfaced to the user-space.
To simplify this and be able to fit the device name, domain id,
and the queue number we remove the 'blkback' from the name.
Prior to this patch the device name is "blkback.<domid>.<name>"
for example: blkback.8.xvda, blkback.11.hda.
With the multiqueue block backend we add "-%d" for the queue.
But sadly this is already way past the limit so it gets stripped.
Possible solution had been identified by Ian:
http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-05/msg03516.html
"
If you are pressed for space then the "xvd" is probably a bit redundant
in a string which starts blkbk.
The guest may not even call the device xvdN (iirc BSD has another
prefix) any how, so having blkback say so seems of limited use anyway.
Since this seems to not include a partition number how does this work in
the split partition scheme? (i.e. one where the guest is given xvda1 and
xvda2 rather than xvda with a partition table)
[It will be 'blkback.8.xvda1', and 'blkback.11.xvda2']
Perhaps something derived from one of the schemes in
http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/vbd-interface.txt might be a
better fit?
After a bit of discussion (see
http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg01588.html)
we settled on dropping the "blback" part.
This will make it possible to have the <domid>.<name>-<queue>:
[1.xvda-0]
[1.xvda-1]
And we enough space to make it go up to:
[32100.xvdfg9-5]
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
There's no reason to defer this until the connect phase, and in fact
there are frontend implementations expecting this to be available
earlier. Move it into the probe function.
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This patch fixs two memleaks:
backtrace:
[<ffffffff817ba5e8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x50
[<ffffffff81205e3b>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xbb/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81534028>] xen_blkbk_probe+0x58/0x230
[<ffffffff8146adb6>] xenbus_dev_probe+0x76/0x130
[<ffffffff81511716>] driver_probe_device+0x166/0x2c0
[<ffffffff815119bc>] __device_attach_driver+0xac/0xb0
[<ffffffff8150fa57>] bus_for_each_drv+0x67/0x90
[<ffffffff81511ab7>] __device_attach+0xc7/0x120
[<ffffffff81511b23>] device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff8151059a>] bus_probe_device+0x9a/0xb0
[<ffffffff8150f0a1>] device_add+0x3b1/0x5c0
[<ffffffff8150f47e>] device_register+0x1e/0x30
[<ffffffff8146a9e8>] xenbus_probe_node+0x158/0x170
[<ffffffff8146abaf>] xenbus_dev_changed+0x1af/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8146b1bb>] backend_changed+0x1b/0x20
[<ffffffff81468ca6>] xenwatch_thread+0xb6/0x160
unreferenced object 0xffff880007ba8ef8 (size 224):
backtrace:
[<ffffffff817ba5e8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x50
[<ffffffff81205c73>] __kmalloc+0xd3/0x1e0
[<ffffffff81534d87>] frontend_changed+0x2c7/0x580
[<ffffffff8146af12>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xa2/0xb0
[<ffffffff8146b2c0>] frontend_changed+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffff81468ca6>] xenwatch_thread+0xb6/0x160
[<ffffffff810d3e97>] kthread+0xd7/0xf0
[<ffffffff817c4a9f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
unreferenced object 0xffff8800048dcd38 (size 224):
The first leak is caused by not put() the be->blkif reference
which we had gotten in xen_blkif_alloc(), while the second is
us not freeing blkif->rings in the right place.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Make st_* statistics per ring and the VBD sysfs would iterate over all the
rings.
Note: xenvbd_sysfs_delif() is called in xen_blkbk_remove() before all rings
are torn down, so it's safe.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
v2: Aligned the variables on the same column.
With the multi-queue support we could fail at setting up
some of the rings and fail the connection. That meant that
all resources tied to rings[0..n-1] (where n is the ring
that failed to be setup). Eventually the frontend will switch
to the states and we will call xen_blkif_disconnect.
However we do not want to be at the mercy of the frontend
deciding when to change states. This allows us to do the
cleanup right away and freeing resources.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue/ring instead of
per-device to get better scalability.
Test was done based on null_blk driver:
dom0: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB "modprobe null_blk"
domu: v4.2-rc8 16vcpus 10GB
[test]
rw=read
direct=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
time_based
runtime=30
filename=/dev/xvdb
numjobs=16
iodepth=64
iodepth_batch=64
iodepth_batch_complete=64
group_reporting
Results:
iops1: After patch "xen/blkfront: make persistent grants per-queue".
iops2: After this patch.
Queues: 1 4 8 16
Iops orig(k): 810 1064 780 700
Iops1(k): 810 1230(~20%) 1024(~20%) 850(~20%)
Iops2(k): 810 1410(~35%) 1354(~75%) 1440(~100%)
With 4 queues after this commit we can get ~75% increase in IOPS, and
performance won't drop if increasing queue numbers.
Please find the respective chart in this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/agrcy2pbzbsvmwv/iops.png?dl=0
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Backend advertises "multi-queue-max-queues" to front, also get the negotiated
number from "multi-queue-num-queues" written by blkfront.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Preparatory patch for multiple hardware queues (rings). The number of
rings is unconditionally set to 1, larger number will be enabled in
"xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront".
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
v2: Align variables in the structures.
Split per ring information to an new structure "xen_blkif_ring", so that one vbd
device can be associated with one or more rings/hardware queues.
Introduce 'pers_gnts_lock' to protect the pool of persistent grants since we
may have multi backend threads.
This patch is a preparation for supporting multi hardware queues/rings.
Signed-off-by: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
v2: Align the variables in the structure.
Linux may use a different page size than the size of grant. So make
clear that the order is actually in number of grant.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
The PV block protocol is using 4KB page granularity. The goal of this
patch is to allow a Linux using 64KB page granularity behaving as a
block backend on a non-modified Xen.
It's only necessary to adapt the ring size and the number of request per
indirect frames. The rest of the code is relying on the grant table
code.
Note that the grant table code is allocating a Linux page per grant
which will result to waste 6OKB for every grant when Linux is using 64KB
page granularity. This could be improved by sharing the page between
multiple grants.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
This is due to commit 86839c56de
"xen/block: add multi-page ring support"
When using an guest under UEFI - after the domain is destroyed
the following warning comes from blkback.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 95 at
/home/julien/works/linux/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c:274
xen_blkif_deferred_free+0x1f4/0x1f8()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 95 Comm: kworker/2:1 Tainted: G W 4.2.0 #85
Hardware name: APM X-Gene Mustang board (DT)
Workqueue: events xen_blkif_deferred_free
Call trace:
[<ffff8000000890a8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x124
[<ffff8000000891dc>] show_stack+0x10/0x1c
[<ffff8000007653bc>] dump_stack+0x78/0x98
[<ffff800000097e88>] warn_slowpath_common+0x9c/0xd4
[<ffff800000097f80>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x20
[<ffff800000557a0c>] xen_blkif_deferred_free+0x1f0/0x1f8
[<ffff8000000ad020>] process_one_work+0x160/0x3b4
[<ffff8000000ad3b4>] worker_thread+0x140/0x494
[<ffff8000000b2e34>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0
---[ end trace 6f859b7883c88cdd ]---
Request allocation has been moved to connect_ring, which is called every
time blkback connects to the frontend (this can happen multiple times during
a blkback instance life cycle). On the other hand, request freeing has not
been moved, so it's only called when destroying the backend instance. Due to
this mismatch, blkback can allocate the request pool multiple times, without
freeing it.
In order to fix it, move the freeing of requests to xen_blkif_disconnect to
restore the symmetry between request allocation and freeing.
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Extend xen/block to support multi-page ring, so that more requests can be
issued by using more than one pages as the request ring between blkfront
and backend.
As a result, the performance can get improved significantly.
We got some impressive improvements on our highend iscsi storage cluster
backend. If using 64 pages as the ring, the IOPS increased about 15 times
for the throughput testing and above doubled for the latency testing.
The reason was the limit on outstanding requests is 32 if use only one-page
ring, but in our case the iscsi lun was spread across about 100 physical
drives, 32 was really not enough to keep them busy.
Changes in v2:
- Rebased to 4.0-rc6.
- Document on how multi-page ring feature working to linux io/blkif.h.
Changes in v3:
- Remove changes to linux io/blkif.h and follow the protocol defined
in io/blkif.h of XEN tree.
- Rebased to 4.1-rc3
Changes in v4:
- Turn to use 'ring-page-order' and 'max-ring-page-order'.
- A few comments from Roger.
Changes in v5:
- Clarify with 4k granularity to comment
- Address more comments from Roger
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This is a pre-patch for multi-page ring feature.
In connect_ring, we can know exactly how many pages are used for the shared
ring, delay pending_req allocation here so that we won't waste too much memory.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block driver pull request for 4.1. As with the core bits,
this is a relatively slow round. This pull request contains:
- Various fixes and cleanups for NVMe, from Alexey Khoroshilov, Chong
Yuan, myself, Keith Busch, and Murali Iyer.
- Documentation and code cleanups for nbd from Markus Pargmann.
- Change of brd maintainer to me, from Ross Zwisler. At least the
email doesn't bounce anymore then.
- Two xen-blkback fixes from Tao Chen"
* 'for-4.1/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
NVMe: Meta data handling through submit io ioctl
NVMe: Add translation for block limits
NVMe: Remove check for null
NVMe: Fix error handling of class_create("nvme")
xen-blkback: define pr_fmt macro to avoid the duplication of DRV_PFX
xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name
nbd: Return error pointer directly
nbd: Return error code directly
nbd: Remove fixme that was already fixed
nbd: Restructure debugging prints
nbd: Fix device bytesize type
nbd: Replace kthread_create with kthread_run
nbd: Remove kernel internal header
Documentation: nbd: Add list of module parameters
Documentation: nbd: Reformat to allow more documentation
NVMe: increase depth of admin queue
nvme: Fix PRP list calculation for non-4k system page size
NVMe: Fix blk-mq hot cpu notification
NVMe: embedded iod mask cleanup
NVMe: Freeze admin queue on device failure
...
Originally Xen PV drivers only use single-page ring to pass along
information. This might limit the throughput between frontend and
backend.
The patch extends Xenbus driver to support multi-page ring, which in
general should improve throughput if ring is the bottleneck. Changes to
various frontend / backend to adapt to the new interface are also
included.
Affected Xen drivers:
* blkfront/back
* netfront/back
* pcifront/back
* scsifront/back
* vtpmfront
The interface is documented, as before, in xenbus_client.c.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Define pr_fmt macro with {xen-blkback: } prefix, then remove all use
of DRV_PFX in the pr sentences. Replace all DPRINTK with pr sentences,
and get rid of DPRINTK macro. It will simplify the code.
And if the pr sentences miss a \n, add it in the end. If the DPRINTK
sentences have redundant \n, remove it. It will format the code.
These all make the readability of the code become better.
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
The blkback name is like blkback.domid.xvd[a-z], if domid has four digits
(means larger than 1000), then the backmost xvd wouldn't be fully shown.
Define a BLKBACK_NAME_LEN macro to be 20, enlarge the array size of
blkback name, so it will be fully shown in any case.
Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <boby.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Prior to the existance of 64-bit backends using the X86_64 ABI,
frontends used the X86_32 ABI. These old frontends do not specify the
ABI and when used with a 64-bit backend do not work.
On x86, default to the X86_32 ABI if one is not specified. Backends
on ARM continue to default to their NATIVE ABI.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Pull block layer driver update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block driver pull request for 3.18. Not a lot in there
this round, and nothing earth shattering.
- A round of drbd fixes from the linbit team, and an improvement in
asender performance.
- Removal of deprecated (and unused) IRQF_DISABLED flag in rsxx and
hd from Michael Opdenacker.
- Disable entropy collection from flash devices by default, from Mike
Snitzer.
- A small collection of xen blkfront/back fixes from Roger Pau Monné
and Vitaly Kuznetsov"
* 'for-3.18/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices
xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request()
xen-blkback: fix leak on grant map error path
xen/blkback: unmap all persistent grants when frontend gets disconnected
rsxx: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
block: hd: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
drbd: use RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS() to define augment callbacks
drbd: compute the end before rb_insert_augmented()
drbd: Add missing newline in resync progress display in /proc/drbd
drbd: reduce lock contention in drbd_worker
drbd: Improve asender performance
drbd: Get rid of the WORK_PENDING macro
drbd: Get rid of the __no_warn and __cond_lock macros
drbd: Avoid inconsistent locking warning
drbd: Remove superfluous newline from "resync_extents" debugfs entry.
drbd: Use consistent names for all the bi_end_io callbacks
drbd: Use better variable names
The DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() macro looks a bit weird and causes sparse
errors.
Replace the uses with standard structure definitions instead. This is
similar to pci and usb device registration.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
blkback does not unmap persistent grants when frontend goes to Closed
state (e.g. when blkfront module is being removed). This leads to the
following in guest's dmesg:
[ 343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x445 still in use!
[ 343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x42a still in use!
...
When load module -> use device -> unload module sequence is performed multiple times
it is possible to hit BUG() condition in blkfront module:
[ 343.243825] kernel BUG at drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:954!
[ 343.243825] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 343.243825] Modules linked in: xen_blkfront(-) ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: xen_blkfront]
...
[ 343.243825] Call Trace:
[ 343.243825] [<ffffffff814111ef>] ? unregister_xenbus_watch+0x16f/0x1e0
[ 343.243825] [<ffffffffa0016fbf>] blkfront_remove+0x3f/0x140 [xen_blkfront]
...
[ 343.243825] RIP [<ffffffffa0016aae>] blkif_free+0x34e/0x360 [xen_blkfront]
[ 343.243825] RSP <ffff88001eb8fdc0>
We don't need to keep these grants if we're disconnecting as frontend might already
forgot about them. Solve the issue by moving xen_blkbk_free_caches() call from
xen_blkif_free() to xen_blkif_disconnect().
Now we can see the following:
[ 928.590893] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x587 still in use!
[ 928.591861] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x372 still in use!
...
[ 929.592146] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x587
[ 929.597174] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x372
...
Backend does not keep persistent grants any more, reconnect works fine.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Currently xenwatch blocks in VBD disconnect, waiting for all pending I/O
requests to finish. If the VBD is attached to a hot-swappable disk, then
xenwatch can hang for a long period of time, stalling other watches.
INFO: task xenwatch:39 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
ffff880057f01bd0 0000000000000246 ffff880057f01ac0 ffffffff810b0782
ffff880057f01ad0 00000000000131c0 0000000000000004 ffff880057edb040
ffff8800344c6080 0000000000000000 ffff880058c00ba0 ffff880057edb040
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810b0782>] ? irq_to_desc+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff8128f761>] ? list_del+0x11/0x40
[<ffffffff8147a080>] ? wait_for_common+0x60/0x160
[<ffffffff8147bcef>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
[<ffffffff8147bd49>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x20
[<ffffffff8147a26a>] schedule+0x3a/0x60
[<ffffffffa018fe6a>] xen_blkif_disconnect+0x8a/0x100 [xen_blkback]
[<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffffa018ffce>] xen_blkbk_remove+0xae/0x1e0 [xen_blkback]
[<ffffffff8130b254>] xenbus_dev_remove+0x44/0x90
[<ffffffff81345cb7>] __device_release_driver+0x77/0xd0
[<ffffffff81346488>] device_release_driver+0x28/0x40
[<ffffffff813456e8>] bus_remove_device+0x78/0xe0
[<ffffffff81342c9f>] device_del+0x12f/0x1a0
[<ffffffff81342d2d>] device_unregister+0x1d/0x60
[<ffffffffa0190826>] frontend_changed+0xa6/0x4d0 [xen_blkback]
[<ffffffffa019c252>] ? frontend_changed+0x192/0x650 [xen_netback]
[<ffffffff8130ae50>] ? cmp_dev+0x60/0x60
[<ffffffff81344fe4>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x94/0xa0
[<ffffffff8130b06e>] xenbus_otherend_changed+0xbe/0x120
[<ffffffff8130b4cb>] frontend_changed+0xb/0x10
[<ffffffff81309c82>] xenwatch_thread+0xf2/0x130
[<ffffffff81079f70>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffff81309b90>] ? xenbus_directory+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff810799d6>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
[<ffffffff81485934>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff814839f3>] ? int_ret_from_sys_call+0x7/0x1b
[<ffffffff8147c17c>] ? retint_restore_args+0x5/0x6
[<ffffffff81485930>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
With this patch, when there is still pending I/O, the actual disconnect
is done by the last reference holder (last pending I/O request). In this
case, xenwatch doesn't block indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Priescu <priescuv@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Kady <stevkady@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Noonan <snoonan@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Newer toolstacks may provide a boolean property "discard-enable" in the
backend node. Its purpose is to disable discard for file backed storage
to avoid fragmentation. Recognize this setting also for physical
storage. If that property exists and is false, do not advertise
"feature-discard" to the frontend.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Initialize persistent_purge_work work_struct on xen_blkif_alloc (and
remove the previous initialization done in purge_persistent_gnt). This
prevents flush_work from complaining even if purge_persistent_gnt has
not been used.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Introduce a new variable to keep track of the number of in-flight
requests. We need to make sure that when xen_blkif_put is called the
request has already been freed and we can safely free xen_blkif, which
was not the case before.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
I've at least identified two possible memory leaks in blkback, both
related to the shutdown path of a VBD:
- blkback doesn't wait for any pending purge work to finish before
cleaning the list of free_pages. The purge work will call
put_free_pages and thus we might end up with pages being added to
the free_pages list after we have emptied it. Fix this by making
sure there's no pending purge work before exiting
xen_blkif_schedule, and moving the free_page cleanup code to
xen_blkif_free.
- blkback doesn't wait for pending requests to end before cleaning
persistent grants and the list of free_pages. Again this can add
pages to the free_pages list or persistent grants to the
persistent_gnts red-black tree. Fixed by moving the persistent
grants and free_pages cleanup code to xen_blkif_free.
Also, add some checks in xen_blkif_free to make sure we are cleaning
everything.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@amazon.com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The use of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is
obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block IO driver bits from Jens Axboe:
"As I mentioned in the core block pull request, due to real life
circumstances the driver pull request would be late. Now it looks
like -rc2 late... On the plus side, apart form the rsxx update, these
are all things that I could argue could go in later in the cycle as
they are fixes and not features. So even though things are late, it's
not ALL bad.
The pull request contains:
- Updates to bcache, all bug fixes, from Kent.
- A pile of drbd bug fixes (no big features this time!).
- xen blk front/back fixes.
- rsxx driver updates, some of them deferred form 3.10. So should be
well cooked by now"
* 'for-3.11/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (63 commits)
bcache: Allocation kthread fixes
bcache: Fix GC_SECTORS_USED() calculation
bcache: Journal replay fix
bcache: Shutdown fix
bcache: Fix a sysfs splat on shutdown
bcache: Advertise that flushes are supported
bcache: check for allocation failures
bcache: Fix a dumb race
bcache: Use standard utility code
bcache: Update email address
bcache: Delete fuzz tester
bcache: Document shrinker reserve better
bcache: FUA fixes
drbd: Allow online change of al-stripes and al-stripe-size
drbd: Constants should be UPPERCASE
drbd: Ignore the exit code of a fence-peer handler if it returns too late
drbd: Fix rcu_read_lock balance on error path
drbd: fix error return code in drbd_init()
drbd: Do not sleep inside rcu
bcache: Refresh usage docs
...
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string
content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Check that the ring does not have an insane amount of requests
(more than there could fit on the ring).
If we detect this case we will stop processing the requests
and wait until the XenBus disconnects the ring.
The existing check RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW which checks for how
many responses we have created in the past (rsp_prod_pvt) vs
requests consumed (req_cons) and whether said difference is greater or
equal to the size of the ring, does not catch this case.
Wha the condition does check if there is a need to process more
as we still have a backlog of responses to finish. Note that both
of those values (rsp_prod_pvt and req_cons) are not exposed on the
shared ring.
To understand this problem a mini crash course in ring protocol
response/request updates is in place.
There are four entries: req_prod and rsp_prod; req_event and rsp_event
to track the ring entries. We are only concerned about the first two -
which set the tone of this bug.
The req_prod is a value incremented by frontend for each request put
on the ring. Conversely the rsp_prod is a value incremented by the backend
for each response put on the ring (rsp_prod gets set by rsp_prod_pvt when
pushing the responses on the ring). Both values can
wrap and are modulo the size of the ring (in block case that is 32).
Please see RING_GET_REQUEST and RING_GET_RESPONSE for the more details.
The culprit here is that if the difference between the
req_prod and req_cons is greater than the ring size we have a problem.
Fortunately for us, the '__do_block_io_op' loop:
rc = blk_rings->common.req_cons;
rp = blk_rings->common.sring->req_prod;
while (rc != rp) {
..
blk_rings->common.req_cons = ++rc; /* before make_response() */
}
will loop up to the point when rc == rp. The macros inside of the
loop (RING_GET_REQUEST) is smart and is indexing based on the modulo
of the ring size. If the frontend has provided a bogus req_prod value
we will loop until the 'rc == rp' - which means we could be processing
already processed requests (or responses) often.
The reason the RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW is not helping here is
b/c it only tracks how many responses we have internally produced
and whether we would should process more. The astute reader will
notice that the macro RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW provides two
arguments - more on this later.
For example, if we were to enter this function with these values:
blk_rings->common.sring->req_prod = X+31415 (X is the value from
the last time __do_block_io_op was called).
blk_rings->common.req_cons = X
blk_rings->common.rsp_prod_pvt = X
The RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW(&blk_rings->common, blk_rings->common.req_cons)
is doing:
req_cons - rsp_prod_pvt >= 32
Which is,
X - X >= 32 or 0 >= 32
And that is false, so we continue on looping (this bug).
If we re-use said macro RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW and pass in the rp
instead (sring->req_prod) of rc, the this macro can do the check:
req_prod - rsp_prov_pvt >= 32
Which is,
X + 31415 - X >= 32 , or 31415 >= 32
which is true, so we can error out and break out of the function.
Unfortunatly the difference between rsp_prov_pvt and req_prod can be
at 32 (which would error out in the macro). This condition exists when
the backend is lagging behind with the responses and still has not finished
responding to all of them (so make_response has not been called), and
the rsp_prov_pvt + 32 == req_cons. This ends up with us not being able
to use said macro.
Hence introducing a new macro called RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW which does
a simple check of:
req_prod - rsp_prod_pvt > RING_SIZE
And with the X values from above:
X + 31415 - X > 32
Returns true. Also not that if the ring is full (which is where
the RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW triggered), we would not hit the
same condition:
X + 32 - X > 32
Which is false.
Lets use that macro.
Note that in v5 of this patchset the macro was different - we used an
earlier version.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[v1: Move the check outside the loop]
[v2: Add a pr_warn as suggested by David]
[v3: Use RING_REQUEST_CONS_OVERFLOW as suggested by Jan]
[v4: Move wake_up after kthread_stop as suggested by Jan]
[v5: Use RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW instead]
[v6: Use RING_REQUEST_PROD_OVERFLOW - Jan's version]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
gadsa
Currently xen-blkback passes the logical sector size over xenbus and
xen-blkfront sets up the paravirt disk with that logical block size.
But newer drives usually have the logical sector size set to 512 for
compatibility reasons and would show the actual sector size only in
physical sector size.
This results in the device being partitioned and accessed in dom0 with
the correct sector size, but the guest thinks 512 bytes is the correct
block size. And that results in poor performance.
To fix this, blkback gets modified to pass also physical-sector-size
over xenbus and blkfront to use both values to set up the paravirt
disk. I did not just change the passed in sector-size because I am
not sure having a bigger logical sector size than the physical one
is valid (and that would happen if a newer dom0 kernel hits an older
domU kernel). Also this way a domU set up before should still be
accessible (just some tools might detect the unaligned setup).
[v2: Make xenbus write failure non-fatal]
[v3: Use xenbus_scanf instead of xenbus_gather]
[v4: Rebased against segment changes]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Allocate pending requests in smaller chunks instead of allocating them
all at the same time.
This change also removes the global array of pending_reqs, it is no
longer necessay.
Variables related to the grant mapping have been grouped into a struct
called "grant_page", this allows to allocate them in smaller chunks,
and also improves memory locality.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation
(BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments
in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of
blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a
request.
The proposed implementation sets the maximum number of indirect grefs
(frames filled with blkif_request_segment_aligned) to 256 in the
backend and 32 in the frontend. The value in the frontend has been
chosen experimentally, and the backend value has been set to a sane
value that allows expanding the maximum number of indirect descriptors
in the frontend if needed.
The migration code has changed from the previous implementation, in
which we simply remapped the segments on the shared ring. Now the
maximum number of segments allowed in a request can change depending
on the backend, so we have to requeue all the requests in the ring and
in the queue and split the bios in them if they are bigger than the
new maximum number of segments.
[v2: Fixed minor comments by Konrad.
[v1: Added padding to make the indirect request 64bit aligned.
Added some BUGs, comments; fixed number of indirect pages in
blkif_get_x86_{32/64}_req. Added description about the indirect operation
in blkif.h]
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v3: Fixed spaces and tabs mix ups]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Remove the last dependency from blkbk by moving the list of free
requests to blkif. This change reduces the contention on the list of
available requests.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This mechanism allows blkback to change the number of grants
persistently mapped at run time.
The algorithm uses a simple LRU mechanism that removes (if needed) the
persistent grants that have not been used since the last LRU run, or
if all grants have been used it removes the first grants in the list
(that are not in use).
The algorithm allows the user to change the maximum number of
persistent grants, by changing max_persistent_grants in sysfs.
Since we are storing the persistent grants used inside the request
struct (to be able to mark them as "unused" when unmapping), we no
longer need the bitmap (unmap_seg).
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Using balloon pages for all granted pages allows us to simplify the
logic in blkback, especially in the xen_blkbk_map function, since now
we can decide if we want to map a grant persistently or not after we
have actually mapped it. This could not be done before because
persistent grants used ballooned pages, whereas non-persistent grants
used pages from the kernel.
This patch also introduces several changes, the first one is that the
list of free pages is no longer global, now each blkback instance has
it's own list of free pages that can be used to map grants. Also, a
run time parameter (max_buffer_pages) has been added in order to tune
the maximum number of free pages each blkback instance will keep in
it's buffer.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
These values shouldn't be negative, but after an overflow their value
can turn into negative, if they are signed. xentop can show bogus
values in this case.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Ichiro Ogino <ichiro.ogino@citrix.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
"be->mode" is obtained from xenbus_read(), which does a kmalloc() for
the message body. The short string is never released, so do it along
with freeing "be" itself, and make sure the string isn't kept when
backend_changed() doesn't complete successfully (which made it
desirable to slightly re-structure that function, so that the error
cleanup can be done in one place).
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The
branch contains:
- A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
situation on individual pulls can be improved.
- A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.
- Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a
generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
also using it.
- A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.
- Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
to be used as an identifier."
* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
drbd: Remove obsolete check
drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
xen-blkfront: free allocated page
xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
cciss: use check_signature()
cciss: cleanup bitops usage
drbd: use copy_highpage
drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
...
This patch contains fixes for persistent grants implementation v2:
* handle == 0 is a valid handle, so initialize grants in blkback
setting the handle to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE instead of 0. Reported
by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
* new_map is a boolean, use "true" or "false" instead of 1 and 0.
Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
* blkfront announces the persistent-grants feature as
feature-persistent-grants, use feature-persistent instead which is
consistent with blkback and the public Xen headers.
* Add a consistency check in blkfront to make sure we don't try to
access segments that have not been set.
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v1: The new_map int->bool had already been changed]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
are performing I/O.
Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
queue. This was granted to dom0; dom0 performed the I/O and wrote
directly into the grant-mapped memory and unmapped it; blkfront then
removed foreign access for that grant. The cost of unmapping scales
badly with the number of CPUs in Dom0. An experiment showed that when
Dom0 has 24 VCPUs, and guests are performing parallel I/O to a
ramdisk, the IPIs from performing unmap's is a bottleneck at 5 guests
(at which point 650,000 IOPS are being performed in total). If more
than 5 guests are used, the performance declines. By 10 guests, only
400,000 IOPS are being performed.
This patch improves performance by only unmapping when the connection
between blkfront and back is broken.
On startup blkfront notifies blkback that it is using persistent
grants, and blkback will do the same. If blkback is not capable of
persistent mapping, blkfront will still use the same grants, since it
is compatible with the previous protocol, and simplifies the code
complexity in blkfront.
To perform a read, in persistent mode, blkfront uses a separate pool
of pages that it maps to dom0. When a request comes in, blkfront
transmutes the request so that blkback will write into one of these
free pages. Blkback keeps note of which grefs it has already
mapped. When a new ring request comes to blkback, it looks to see if
it has already mapped that page. If so, it will not map it again. If
the page hasn't been previously mapped, it is mapped now, and a record
is kept of this mapping. Blkback proceeds as usual. When blkfront is
notified that blkback has completed a request, it memcpy's from the
shared memory, into the bvec supplied. A record that the {gref, page}
tuple is mapped, and not inflight is kept.
Writes are similar, except that the memcpy is peformed from the
supplied bvecs, into the shared pages, before the request is put onto
the ring.
Blkback stores a mapping of grefs=>{page mapped to by gref} in
a red-black tree. As the grefs are not known apriori, and provide no
guarantees on their ordering, we have to perform a search
through this tree to find the page, for every gref we receive. This
operation takes O(log n) time in the worst case. In blkfront grants
are stored using a single linked list.
The maximum number of grants that blkback will persistenly map is
currently set to RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, to
prevent a malicios guest from attempting a DoS, by supplying fresh
grefs, causing the Dom0 kernel to map excessively. If a guest
is using persistent grants and exceeds the maximum number of grants to
map persistenly the newly passed grefs will be mapped and unmaped.
Using this approach, we can have requests that mix persistent and
non-persistent grants, and we need to handle them correctly.
This allows us to set the maximum number of persistent grants to a
lower value than RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, although
setting it will lead to unpredictable performance.
In writing this patch, the question arrises as to if the additional
cost of performing memcpys in the guest (to/from the pool of granted
pages) outweigh the gains of not performing TLB shootdowns. The answer
to that question is `no'. There appears to be very little, if any
additional cost to the guest of using persistent grants. There is
perhaps a small saving, from the reduced number of hypercalls
performed in granting, and ending foreign access.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Fixed up the misuse of bool as int]
Juergen Gross
