If register_cache_set() failed, we would touch ca->set after
it had already been freed. Also, fix an assertion to catch
this.
Change-Id: I748e5f5b223e2d9b2602075dec2f997cced2394d
If we goto out_nocoalesce after we free new_nodes[0], we end up freeing
new_nodes[0] again. This was generating a lockdep warning. The fix is
to set new_nodes[0] to NULL, since the out_nocoalesce path safely
ignores NULL entries in the new_nodes array.
This regression was introduced in 2d7f9531.
Change-Id: I76564d7257800583214376b4bacf236cda90c89c
When running with multiple cache devices, if one of the devices has a completely
empty journal but we'd already found some journal entries on a previosu device
we'd go into an infinite loop.
Change-Id: I1dcdc0d738192746de28f40e8b08825b0dea5e2b
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
There's no point in blocking on these allocations, since our fallback paths will
probably go faster than blocking.
Change-Id: I733ca202c25cb36bde02607a0a60552229a4241c
this was very wrong - mempool_alloc() only guarantees success with GFP_WAIT.
bcache uses GFP_NOWAIT in various other places where we have a fallback,
circuits must've gotten crossed when writing this code or something.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
There were two issues here:
- writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty
- writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running
Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of
1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and
the load average is near 0.00 as expected.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Tested:
- sometimes bcache_tier test would hang on startup with a failure
to allocate the btree root -- no longer seeing this
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
while loop was executing infinitely.
This fix ends the while loop gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Surbhi Palande <sap@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
After detaching a backing device from a cache set, a bit wasn't getting
reset meaning the second detach wouldn't work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Uninlined nested functions can cause crashes when using ftrace, as they don't
follow the normal calling convention and confuse the ftrace function graph
tracer as it examines the stack.
Also, nested functions are supported as a gcc extension, but may fail on other
compilers (e.g. llvm).
Signed-off-by: John Sheu <john.sheu@gmail.com>
gc_gen was a temporary used to recalculate last_gc, but since we only need
bucket->last_gc when gc isn't running (gc_mark_valid = 1), we can just update
last_gc directly.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This was originally added as at optimization that for various reasons isn't
needed anymore, but it does add a lot of nasty corner cases (and it was
responsible for some recently fixed bugs). Just get rid of it now.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This changes the bucket allocation reserves to use _real_ reserves - separate
freelists - instead of watermarks, which if nothing else makes the current code
saner to reason about and is going to be important in the future when we add
support for multiple btrees.
It also adds btree_check_reserve(), which checks (and locks) the reserves for
both bucket allocation and memory allocation for btree nodes; the old code just
kinda sorta assumed that since (e.g. for btree node splits) it had the root
locked and that meant no other threads could try to make use of the same
reserve; this technically should have been ok for memory allocation (we should
always have a reserve for memory allocation (the btree node cache is used as a
reserve and we preallocate it)), but multiple btrees will mean that locking the
root won't be sufficient anymore, and for the bucket allocation reserve it was
technically possible for the old code to deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
With the locking rework in the last patch, this shouldn't be needed anymore -
btree_node_write_work() only takes b->write_lock which is never held for very
long.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Add a new lock, b->write_lock, which is required to actually modify - or write -
a btree node; this lock is only held for short durations.
This means we can write out a btree node without taking b->lock, which _is_ held
for long durations - solving a deadlock when btree_flush_write() (from the
journalling code) is called with a btree node locked.
Right now just occurs in bch_btree_set_root(), but with an upcoming journalling
rework is going to happen a lot more.
This also turns b->lock is now more of a read/intent lock instead of a
read/write lock - but not completely, since it still blocks readers. May turn it
into a real intent lock at some point in the future.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This isn't a bulletproof fix; btree_node_free() -> bch_bucket_free() puts the
bucket on the unused freelist, where it can be reused right away without any
ordering requirements. It would be better to wait on at least a journal write to
go down before reusing the bucket. bch_btree_set_root() does this, and inserting
into non leaf nodes is completely synchronous so we should be ok, but future
patches are just going to get rid of the unused freelist - it was needed in the
past for various reasons but shouldn't be anymore.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This means the garbage collection code can better check for data and metadata
pointers to the same buckets.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This will potentially save us an allocation when we've got inode/dirent bkeys
that don't fit in the keylist's inline keys.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Change the invalidate tracepoint to indicate how much data we're invalidating,
and change the alloc tracepoints to indicate what offset they're for.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Deadlock happened because a foreground write slept, waiting for a bucket
to be allocated. Normally the gc would mark buckets available for invalidation.
But the moving_gc was stuck waiting for outstanding writes to complete.
These writes used the bcache_wq, the same queue foreground writes used.
This fix gives moving_gc its own work queue, so it was still finish moving
even if foreground writes are stuck waiting for allocation. It also makes
work queue a parameter to the data_insert path, so moving_gc can use its
workqueue for writes.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The on disk bucket gens are allowed to be out of date, when we reuse buckets
that didn't have any live data in them. To deal with this, the initial gc has to
update the bucket gen when we find a pointer gen newer than the bucket's gen.
Unfortunately we weren't doing this for pointers in the journal that we're about
to replay.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
On recovery we weren't correctly keeping track of what journal buckets had open
journal entries, thus it was possible for them to be overwritten until we'd
written all new journal entries.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The code was using sectors to count the number of sectors it was zeroing... but
then it passed it to bio_advance()... after it had been set to 0. Amusing...
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Pull block IO driver changes from Jens Axboe:
- bcache update from Kent Overstreet.
- two bcache fixes from Nicholas Swenson.
- cciss pci init error fix from Andrew.
- underflow fix in the parallel IDE pg_write code from Dan Carpenter.
I'm sure the 1 (or 0) users of that are now happy.
- two PCI related fixes for sx8 from Jingoo Han.
- floppy init fix for first block read from Jiri Kosina.
- pktcdvd error return miss fix from Julia Lawall.
- removal of IRQF_SHARED from the SEGA Dreamcast CD-ROM code from
Michael Opdenacker.
- comment typo fix for the loop driver from Olaf Hering.
- potential oops fix for null_blk from Raghavendra K T.
- two fixes from Sam Bradshaw (Micron) for the mtip32xx driver, fixing
an OOM problem and a problem with handling security locked conditions
* 'for-3.14/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (47 commits)
mg_disk: Spelling s/finised/finished/
null_blk: Null pointer deference problem in alloc_page_buffers
mtip32xx: Correctly handle security locked condition
mtip32xx: Make SGL container per-command to eliminate high order dma allocation
drivers/block/loop.c: fix comment typo in loop_config_discard
drivers/block/cciss.c:cciss_init_one(): use proper errnos
drivers/block/paride/pg.c: underflow bug in pg_write()
drivers/block/sx8.c: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()
drivers/block/sx8.c: use module_pci_driver()
floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding to block0 read
bcache: Fix auxiliary search trees for key size > cacheline size
bcache: Don't return -EINTR when insert finished
bcache: Improve bucket_prio() calculation
bcache: Add bch_bkey_equal_header()
bcache: update bch_bkey_try_merge
bcache: Move insert_fixup() to btree_keys_ops
bcache: Convert sorting to btree_keys
bcache: Convert debug code to btree_keys
bcache: Convert btree_iter to struct btree_keys
bcache: Refactor bset_tree sysfs stats
...
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but
various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request
contains:
- Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major
here, just minor fixes and cleanups.
- Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
from Christian Engelmayer.
- Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
- Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
bio_vecs:
- dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
- btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
- bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"
* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
block: fixup for generic bio chaining
block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Kill bio_pair_split()
...
The BUG_ON at the end of __bch_btree_mark_key can be triggered due to
an integer overflow error:
BITMASK(GC_SECTORS_USED, struct bucket, gc_mark, 2, 13);
...
SET_GC_SECTORS_USED(g, min_t(unsigned,
GC_SECTORS_USED(g) + KEY_SIZE(k),
(1 << 14) - 1));
BUG_ON(!GC_SECTORS_USED(g));
In bcache.h, the SECTORS_USED bitfield is defined to be 13 bits wide.
While the SET_ code tries to ensure that the field doesn't overflow by
clamping it to (1<<14)-1 == 16383, this is incorrect because 16383
requires 14 bits. Therefore, if GC_SECTORS_USED() + KEY_SIZE() =
8192, the SET_ statement tries to store 8192 into a 13-bit field. In
a 13-bit field, 8192 becomes zero, thus triggering the BUG_ON.
Therefore, create a field width constant and a max value constant, and
use those to create the bitfield and check the inputs to
SET_GC_SECTORS_USED. Arguably the BITMASK() template ought to have
BUG_ON checks for too-large values, but that's a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming
kernfs conversion.
- cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is
moved to memcg.
- pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file.
Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior. cgroup
documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it
has been for quite some time.
- All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file. This is
to prepare for kernfs conversion. In addition, all operations are
restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations.
- Other cleanups and low-pri fixes"
* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits)
cgroup: trivial style updates
cgroup: remove stray references to css_id
doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys()
cgroup: implement for_each_css()
cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css()
cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create()
cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create()
cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex
cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex
cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling
cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show()
cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files
cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file
cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used
cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string()
cgroup: remove cftype->read(), ->read_map() and ->write()
hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype->read()
...
Trivial: remove the few stray references to css_id, which itself
was removed in v3.13's 2ff2a7d03b "cgroup: kill css_id".
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
We need to return -EINTR after a split because we invalidated iterators
(and freed the btree node) - but if we were finished inserting, we don't
want to redo the traversal.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
When deciding what order to reuse buckets we take into account both the bucket's
priority (which indicates lru order) and also the amount of live data in that
bucket. The way they were scaled together wasn't as correct as it could be...
this patch improves and documents it.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Checks if two keys have equivalent header fields.
(good enough for replacement or merging)
Used in bch_bkey_try_merge, and replacing a key
in the btree.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Added generic header checks to bch_bkey_try_merge,
which then calls the bkey specific function
Removed extraneous checks from bch_extent_merge
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
We're in the process of turning bset.c into library code, so none of the code in
that file should know about struct cache_set or struct btree - so, move the
btree traversal part of the stats code to sysfs.c.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
More disentangling bset.c from the rest of the bcache code - soon, the
sorting routines won't have any dependencies on any outside structs.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Only use extent comparison for comparing extents, so we're not using
START_KEY() on other key types (i.e. btree pointers)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Getting away from KEY_PTRS and moving toward KEY_U64s - and getting rid of magic
2s
Also - split out the part that checks against journal entry size so as to avoid
a dependancy on struct cache_set in bset.c
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Now that we've got code for raid5/6 stripe awareness, bcache just needs
to know about the stripes and when writing partial stripes is expensive
- we probably don't want to enable this optimization for raid1 or 10,
even though they have stripes. So add a flag to queue_limits.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
This error path shouldn't have been hit in practice.. and we've got reworked
reserve code coming soon so that it shouldn't _ever_ be bit... but if we've got
code for this error path it should be correct.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
We need a reserve for allocating buckets for new btree nodes - and now that
we've got multiple btrees, it really needs to be per btree.
This reworks the reserves so we've got separate freelists for each reserve
instead of watermarks, which seems to make things a bit cleaner, and it adds
some code so that btree_split() can make sure the reserve is available before it
starts.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Unnecessary since a bucket that has dirty pointers pointing to it can
never be invalidated - and skipping it is a measurable performance
boost, since the bucket gen will usually be a cache miss.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
We were unnecessarily waiting on a journal write to complete when we just needed
to start a journal write and start setting up the next one.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The real fix is where we check the bytes we need against how much is
remaining - we also need to check for a journal entry bigger than our
buffer, we'll never write those and it would be bad if we tried to read
one.
Also improve the diagnostic messages.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The code that handles overlapping extents that we've just read back in from disk
was depending on the behaviour of the code that handles overlapping extents as
we're inserting into a btree node in the case of an insert that forced an
existing extent to be split: on insert, if we had to split we'd also insert a
new extent to represent the top part of the old extent - and then that new
extent would get written out.
The code that read the extents back in thus not bother with splitting extents -
if it saw an extent that ovelapped in the middle of an older extent, it would
trim the old extent to only represent the bottom part, assuming that the
original insert would've inserted a new extent to represent the top part.
I still haven't figured out _how_ it can happen, but I'm now pretty convinced
(and testing has confirmed) that there's some kind of an obscure corner case
(probably involving extent merging, and multiple overwrites in different sets)
that breaks this. The fix is to change the mergesort fixup code to split extents
itself when required.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core
Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.
Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Conflicts:
block/blk-flush.c
fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
fs/btrfs/scrub.c
fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
The old writeback PD controller could get into states where it had throttled all
the way down and take way too long to recover - it was too complicated to really
understand what it was doing.
This rewrites a good chunk of it to hopefully be simpler and make more sense,
and it also pays more attention to units which should make the behaviour a bit
easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
There is a possibility for a bucket to be invalidated by the allocator
while moving_gc was copying it's contents to another bucket, if the
bucket only held cached data. To prevent this moving checks for
a stale ptr (to an invalidated bucket), before and after reads.
It it finds one, it simply ignores moving that data. This only
affects bcache if the moving_gc was turned on, note that it's
off by default.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Garbage collector needs to check keys in the writeback keybuf to
make sure it's not invalidating buckets to which the writeback
keys point to.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Removed gc_move_threshold because picking buckets only by
threshold could lead moving extra buckets (ei. if there are
buckets at the threshold that aren't supposed to be moved
do to space considerations).
This is replaced by a GC_MOVE bit in the gc_mark bitmask.
Now only marked buckets get moved.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Swenson <nks@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Dirty data accounting wasn't quite right - firstly, we were adding the key we're
inserting after it could have merged with another dirty key already in the
btree, and secondly we could sometimes pass the wrong offset to
bcache_dev_sectors_dirty_add() for dirty data we were overwriting - which is
important when tracking dirty data by stripe.
NOTE FOR BACKPORTERS: For 3.10 (and 3.11?) there's other accounting fixes
necessary that got squashed in with other patches; the full patch against 3.10
is 408cc2f47eeac93a, available at:
git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git bcache-3.10-writeback-fixes
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
index 2a46036..4a12b2f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
@@ -1817,7 +1817,8 @@ static bool fix_overlapping_extents(struct btree *b, struct bkey *insert,
if (KEY_START(k) > KEY_START(insert) + sectors_found)
goto check_failed;
- if (KEY_PTRS(replace_key) != KEY_PTRS(k))
+ if (KEY_PTRS(k) != KEY_PTRS(replace_key) ||
+ KEY_DIRTY(k) != KEY_DIRTY(replace_key))
goto check_failed;
/* skip past gen */
at the beginning (schedule_timout_interuptible) and others
do his on their own
This prevents wrong load average calculation (load of 1 per thread)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Fixes the following sparse warning:
drivers/md/bcache/btree.c:2220:5: warning:
symbol 'btree_insert_fn' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The new bio_split() can split arbitrary bios - it's not restricted to
single page bios, like the old bio_split() (previously renamed to
bio_pair_split()). It also has different semantics - it doesn't allocate
a struct bio_pair, leaving it up to the caller to handle completions.
Then convert the existing bio_pair_split() users to the new bio_split()
- and also nvme, which was open coding bio splitting.
(We have to take that BUG_ON() out of bio_integrity_trim() because this
bio_split() needs to use it, and there's no reason it has to be used on
bios marked as cloned; BIO_CLONED doesn't seem to have clearly
documented semantics anyways.)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.
Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
- in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now that drivers have been converted to the new bvec_iter primitives,
there's no need to trim the bvec before we submit it; and we can't trim
it once we start sharing bvecs.
It used to be that passing a partially completed bio (i.e. one with
nonzero bi_idx) to generic_make_request() was a dangerous thing -
various drivers would choke on such things. But with immutable biovecs
and our new bio splitting that shares the biovecs, submitting partially
completed bios has to work (and should work, now that all the drivers
have been completed to the new primitives)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Slava Pestov