bcache: remove bcache device self-defined readahead

commit 1616a4c2ab1a80893b6890ae93da40a2b1d0c691 upstream.

For read cache missing, bcache defines a readahead size for the read I/O
request to the backing device for the missing data. This readahead size
is initialized to 0, and almost no one uses it to avoid unnecessary read
amplifying onto backing device and write amplifying onto cache device.
Considering upper layer file system code has readahead logic allready
and works fine with readahead_cache_policy sysfile interface, we don't
have to keep bcache self-defined readahead anymore.

This patch removes the bcache self-defined readahead for cache missing
request for backing device, and the readahead sysfs file interfaces are
removed as well.

This is the preparation for next patch to fix potential kernel panic due
to oversized request in a simpler method.

Reported-by: Alexander Ullrich <ealex1979@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Diego Ercolani <diego.ercolani@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jan Szubiak <jan.szubiak@linuxpolska.pl>
Reported-by: Marco Rebhan <me@dblsaiko.net>
Reported-by: Matthias Ferdinand <bcache@mfedv.net>
Reported-by: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Reported-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Rolf Fokkens <rolf@rolffokkens.nl>
Reported-and-tested-by: Thorsten Knabe <linux@thorsten-knabe.de>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607125052.21277-2-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
index 29c231758293..ab8ff18df32a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
@@ -880,7 +880,6 @@ static int cached_dev_cache_miss(struct btree *b, struct search *s,
 				 struct bio *bio, unsigned int sectors)
 {
 	int ret = MAP_CONTINUE;
-	unsigned int reada = 0;
 	struct cached_dev *dc = container_of(s->d, struct cached_dev, disk);
 	struct bio *miss, *cache_bio;
 
@@ -892,14 +891,7 @@ static int cached_dev_cache_miss(struct btree *b, struct search *s,
 		goto out_submit;
 	}
 
-	if (!(bio->bi_opf & REQ_RAHEAD) &&
-	    !(bio->bi_opf & (REQ_META|REQ_PRIO)) &&
-	    s->iop.c->gc_stats.in_use < CUTOFF_CACHE_READA)
-		reada = min_t(sector_t, dc->readahead >> 9,
-			      get_capacity(bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk) -
-			      bio_end_sector(bio));
-
-	s->insert_bio_sectors = min(sectors, bio_sectors(bio) + reada);
+	s->insert_bio_sectors = min(sectors, bio_sectors(bio));
 
 	s->iop.replace_key = KEY(s->iop.inode,
 				 bio->bi_iter.bi_sector + s->insert_bio_sectors,
@@ -933,9 +925,6 @@ static int cached_dev_cache_miss(struct btree *b, struct search *s,
 	if (bch_bio_alloc_pages(cache_bio, __GFP_NOWARN|GFP_NOIO))
 		goto out_put;
 
-	if (reada)
-		bch_mark_cache_readahead(s->iop.c, s->d);
-
 	s->cache_miss	= miss;
 	s->iop.bio	= cache_bio;
 	bio_get(cache_bio);