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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:
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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;
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-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
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for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
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ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
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sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
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sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
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sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
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hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
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nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
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nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
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- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
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for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
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for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
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for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch fixes build error of recent mmotm.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix broken build when CONFIG_BLOCK=n by pulling common stuff out into a
new header.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fix warnings
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fs/aio.c needs bio.h, move bio_endio_batch() declaration somewhere rational
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When completing a kiocb, there's some fixed overhead from touching the
kioctx's ring buffer the kiocb belongs to. Some newer high end block
devices can complete multiple IOs per interrupt, much like many network
interfaces have been for some time.
This plumbs through infrastructure so we can take advantage of multiple
completions at the interrupt level, and complete multiple kiocbs at the
same time.
Drivers have to be converted to take advantage of this, but it's a simple
change and the next patches will convert a few drivers.
To use it, an interrupt handler (or any code that completes bios or
requests) declares and initializes a struct batch_complete:
struct batch_complete batch;
batch_complete_init(&batch);
Then, instead of calling bio_endio(), it calls
bio_endio_batch(bio, err, &batch). This just adds the bio to a list in
the batch_complete.
At the end, it calls
batch_complete(&batch);
This completes all the bios all at once, building up a list of kiocbs;
then the list of kiocbs are completed all at once.
Also, in order to batch up the kiocbs we have to add a different bio_endio
function to struct bio, that takes a pointer to the batch_complete - this
patch converts the dio code's bio_endio function. In order to avoid
changing every bio_endio function in the kernel (there are many), we
currently use a union and a flag to indicate what kind of bio endio
function to call. This is admittedly a hack, but should suffice for now.
For batching to work through say md or dm devices, the md/dm bio_endio
functions would have to be converted, much like the dio code. That is
left for future patches.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Thanks to Zach Brown's work to rip out the retry infrastructure, we don't
need this anymore - ki_retry was only called right after the kiocb was
initialized.
This also refactors and trims some duplicated code, as well as cleaning up
the refcounting/error handling a bit.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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ki_key wasn't actually used for anything previously - it was always 0.
Drop it to trim struct kiocb a bit.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fix build
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fix build
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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a little tidy
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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percpu-refcount: Documentation
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Here's some more fixes, the percpu refcount code is now sparse clean for
me. It's kind of ugly, but I'm not sure it's really any uglier than it
was before. Seem reasonable?
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This implements a refcount with similar semantics to
atomic_get()/atomic_dec_and_test(), that starts out as just an atomic_t
but dynamically switches to per cpu refcounting when the rate of gets/puts
becomes too high.
It also implements two stage shutdown, as we need it to tear down the
percpu counts. Before dropping the initial refcount, you must call
percpu_ref_kill(); this puts the refcount in "shutting down mode" and
switches back to a single atomic refcount with the appropriate barriers
(synchronize_rcu()).
It's also legal to call percpu_ref_kill() multiple times - it only returns
true once, so callers don't have to reimplement shutdown synchronization.
For the sake of simplicity/efficiency, the heuristic is pretty simple - it
just switches to percpu refcounting if there are more than x gets in one
second (completely arbitrarily, 4096).
It'd be more correct to count the number of cache misses or something else
more profile driven, but doing so would require accessing the shared ref
twice per get - by just counting the number of gets(), we can stick that
counter in the high bits of the refcount and increment both with a single
atomic64_add(). But I expect this'll be good enough in practice.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Previously, allocating a kiocb required touching quite a few global (well,
per kioctx) cachelines... so batching up allocation to amortize those was
worthwhile. But we've gotten rid of some of those, and in another couple
of patches kiocb allocation won't require writing to any shared
cachelines, so that means we can just rip this code out.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The cancellation changes were fubar - we can't cancel a kiocb if it
doesn't actually have a cancellation callback.
The use of xchg() in aio_complete() was right - there we're marking the
kiocb as completed - but we need to use cmpxchg() in kiocb_cancel() - a
lock isn't sufficient since we're synchronizing with aio_complete() which
isn't taking any locks.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Cancelling kiocbs requires adding them to a per kioctx linked list, which
is one of the few things we need to take the kioctx lock for in the fast
path. But most kiocbs can't be cancelled - so if we just do this lazily,
we can avoid quite a bit of locking overhead.
While we're at it, instead of using a flag bit switch to using ki_cancel
itself to indicate that a kiocb has been cancelled/completed. This lets
us get rid of ki_flags entirely.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fix description of `timeout' arg
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Analagous to wait_event_timeout() and friends, this adds
wait_event_hrtimeout() and wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout().
Note that unlike the versions that use regular timers, these don't return
the amount of time remaining when they return - instead, they return 0 or
-ETIME if they timed out. because I was uncomfortable with the semantics
of doing it the other way (that I could get it right, anyways).
If the timer expires, there's no real guarantee that expire_time -
current_time would be <= 0 - due to timer slack certainly, and I'm not
sure I want to know the implications of the different clock bases in
hrtimers.
If the timer does expire and the code calculates that the time remaining
is nonnegative, that could be even worse if the calling code then reuses
that timeout. Probably safer to just return 0 then, but I could imagine
weird bugs or at least unintended behaviour arising from that too.
I came to the conclusion that if other users end up actually needing the
amount of time remaining, the sanest thing to do would be to create a
version that uses absolute timeouts instead of relative.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Freeing a kiocb needed to touch the kioctx for three things:
* Pull it off the reqs_active list
* Decrementing reqs_active
* Issuing a wakeup, if the kioctx was in the process of being freed.
This patch moves these to aio_complete(), for a couple reasons:
* aio_complete() already has to issue the wakeup, so if we drop the
kioctx refcount before aio_complete does its wakeup we don't have to
do it twice.
* aio_complete currently has to take the kioctx lock, so it makes sense
for it to pull the kiocb off the reqs_active list too.
* A later patch is going to change reqs_active to include unreaped
completions - this will mean allocating a kiocb doesn't have to look
at the ringbuffer. So taking the decrement of reqs_active out of
kiocb_free() is useful prep work for that patch.
This doesn't really affect cancellation, since existing (usb) code that
implements a cancel function still calls aio_complete() - we just have
to make sure that aio_complete does the necessary teardown for cancelled
kiocbs.
It does affect code paths where we free kiocbs that were never
submitted; they need to decrement reqs_active and pull the kiocb off the
reqs_active list. This occurs in two places: kiocb_batch_free(), which
is going away in a later patch, and the error path in io_submit_one.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it
safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()). Just kill
it.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.
We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It
retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of
the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO
submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This
design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use
retry-based AIO.
This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery.
The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around
the unused run list in the submission path.
This has only been compiled.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Comment in eventfd.h referred to 'include/asm-generic/fcntl.h'
while the correct path is 'include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h'.
Signed-off-by: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Given the obvious distinction between kernel and userspace supported
by uapi/, it seems unnecessary to comment on that.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The current idr interface is very cumbersome.
* For all allocations, two function calls - idr_pre_get() and
idr_get_new*() - should be made.
* idr_pre_get() doesn't guarantee that the following idr_get_new*()
will not fail from memory shortage. If idr_get_new*() returns
-EAGAIN, the caller is expected to retry pre_get and allocation.
* idr_get_new*() can't enforce upper limit. Upper limit can only be
enforced by allocating and then freeing if above limit.
* idr_layer buffer is unnecessarily per-idr. Each idr ends up keeping
around MAX_IDR_FREE idr_layers. The memory consumed per idr is
under two pages but it makes it difficult to make idr_layer larger.
This patch implements the following new set of allocation functions.
* idr_preload[_end]() - Similar to radix preload but doesn't fail.
The first idr_alloc() inside preload section can be treated as if it
were called with @gfp_mask used for idr_preload().
* idr_alloc() - Allocate an ID w/ lower and upper limits. Takes
@gfp_flags and can be used w/o preloading. When used inside
preloaded section, the allocation mask of preloading can be assumed.
If idr_alloc() can be called from a context which allows sufficiently
relaxed @gfp_mask, it can be used by itself. If, for example,
idr_alloc() is called inside spinlock protected region, preloading can
be used like the following.
idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock(lock);
id = idr_alloc(idr, ptr, start, end, GFP_NOWAIT);
spin_unlock(lock);
idr_preload_end();
if (id < 0)
error;
which is much simpler and less error-prone than idr_pre_get and
idr_get_new*() loop.
The new interface uses per-pcu idr_layer buffer and thus the number of
idr's in the system doesn't affect the amount of memory used for
preloading.
idr_layer_alloc() is introduced to handle idr_layer allocations for
both old and new ID allocation paths. This is a bit hairy now but the
new interface is expected to replace the old and the internal
implementation eventually will become simpler.
v2: Improve idr_preload() comment a bit so that it's clear that
preemption is disabled while preloaded. Make idr_layer_alloc()
try kmem_cache first and then fall back to per-cpu buffer;
otherwise, non-preloading idr_alloc()s empty per-cpu buffers
makeing preloaders fill them, which, while not incorrect, still is
a bit unfair.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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idr uses -1, IDR_NEED_TO_GROW and IDR_NOMORE_SPACE to communicate
exception conditions internally. The return value is later translated
to errno values using _idr_rc_to_errno().
This is confusing. Drop the custom ones and consistently use -EAGAIN
for "tree needs to grow", -ENOMEM for "need more memory" and -ENOSPC
for "ran out of ID space".
Due to the weird memory preloading mechanism, [ra]_get_new*() return
-EAGAIN on memory shortage, so we need to substitute -ENOMEM w/
-EAGAIN on those interface functions. They'll eventually be cleaned
up and the translations will go away.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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* Move idr_for_each_entry() definition next to other idr related
definitions.
* Make id[r|a]_get_new() inline wrappers of id[r|a]_get_new_above().
This changes the implementation of idr_get_new() but the new
implementation is trivial. This patch doesn't introduce any
functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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* Tab align fields like a normal person.
* Drop the unnecessary 0 inits from IDR_INIT().
This patch is purely cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There was only one legitimate use of idr_remove_all() and a lot more
of incorrect uses (or lack of it). Now that idr_destroy() implies
idr_remove_all() and all the in-kernel users updated not to use it,
there's no reason to keep it around. Mark it deprecated so that we
can later unexport it.
idr_remove_all() is made an inline function calling __idr_remove_all()
to avoid triggering deprecated warning on EXPORT_SYMBOL().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There is only one user of bprm_mm_init, and it's inside the same file.
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_*
defines introduced in 54b501992dd ("coredump: warn about unsafe
suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo"). Remove the new ones, and use the
prior values instead.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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signalfd should be called with the flag SFD_RAW for that.
signalfd_siginfo is not full for siginfo with a negative si_code.
copy_siginfo_to_user() is copied a full siginfo to user-space, if si_code
is negative. signalfd_copyinfo() doesn't do that and can't be expanded,
because it has not compatible format with siginfo_t.
Another problem is that a constant __SI_* is removed from si_code. It's
not a problem for usual applications, because they expect a defined type
of siginfo (internal logic). When we want to dump pending signals, we
can't predict a type of siginfo, so we should get it from kernel.
The main idea of the raw format is that it should be enough for restoring
exactly the same siginfo for the current process.
This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There is no documented methods to mark FAT as dirty. Unofficially MS
started to use reserved Byte in boot sector for this purpose, at least
since Win 2000. With Win 7 user is warned if fs is dirty and asked to
clean it.
Different versions of Win, handle it in different ways, but always have
same meaning:
- Win 2000 and XP, set it on write operations and
remove it after operation was finnished
- Win 7, set dirty flag on first write and remove it on umount.
We will do it as follows:
- set dirty flag on mount. If fs was initially dirty, warn user,
remember it and do not do any changes to boot sector.
- clean it on umount. If fs was initially dirty, leave it dirty.
- do not do any thing if fs mounted read-only.
- TODO: leave fs dirty if we found some error after mount.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Later we will need "state" field to check if volume was cleanly unmounted.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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hfsplus: reworked support of extended attributes.
Current mainline implementation of hfsplus file system driver treats as
extended attributes only two fields (fdType and fdCreator) of user_info
field in file description record (struct hfsplus_cat_file). It is
possible to get or set only these two fields as extended attributes. But
HFS+ treats as com.apple.FinderInfo extended attribute an union of
user_info and finder_info fields as for file (struct hfsplus_cat_file) as
for folder (struct hfsplus_cat_folder). Moreover, current mainline
implementation of hfsplus file system driver doesn't support special
metadata file - attributes tree.
Mac OS X 10.4 and later support extended attributes by making use of the
HFS+ filesystem Attributes file B*-tree feature which allows for named
forks. Mac OS X supports only inline extended attributes, limiting their
size to 3802 bytes. Any regular file may have a list of extended
attributes. HFS+ supports an arbitrary number of named forks. Each
attribute is denoted by a name and the associated data. The name is a
null-terminated Unicode string. It is possible to list, to get, to set,
and to remove extended attributes from files or directories.
It exists some peculiarity during getting of extended attributes list by
means of getfattr utility. The getfattr utility expects prefix "user."
before any extended attribute's name. So, it ignores any names that don't
contained such prefix. Such behavior of getfattr utility results in
unexpected empty output of extended attributes list even in the case when
file (or folder) contains extended attributes. It needs to use empty
string as regular expression pattern for names matching (getfattr
--match="").
For support of extended attributes in HFS+:
1. It was added necessary on-disk layout declarations related to Attributes
tree into hfsplus_raw.h file.
2. It was added attributes.c file with implementation of functionality of
manipulation by records in Attributes tree.
3. It was reworked hfsplus_listxattr, hfsplus_getxattr, hfsplus_setxattr
functions in ioctl.c. Moreover, it was added hfsplus_removexattr method.
This patch:
Add osx.* prefix for handling namespace of Mac OS X extended attributes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Reported-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix set time and sync time issue, add some delay when set pxa rtc timer
according to spec
Signed-off-by: Leo Song <liangs@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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It is not currently possible to reliably delete epoll items when using the
same epoll set from multiple threads. After calling epoll_ctl with
EPOLL_CTL_DEL, another thread might still be executing code related to an
event for that epoll item (in response to epoll_wait). Therefore the
deleting thread does not know when it is safe to delete resources
pertaining to the associated epoll item because another thread might be
using those resources.
The deleting thread could wait an arbitrary amount of time after calling
epoll_ctl with EPOLL_CTL_DEL and before deleting the item, but this is
inefficient and could result in the destruction of resources before
another thread is done handling an event returned by epoll_wait.
This patch enhances epoll_ctl to support EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, which disables
an epoll item. If epoll_ctl returns -EBUSY in this case, then another
thread may handling a return from epoll_wait for this item. Otherwise if
epoll_ctl returns 0, then it is safe to delete the epoll item. This
allows multiple threads to use a mutex to determine when it is safe to
delete an epoll item and its associated resources, which allows epoll
items to be deleted both efficiently and without error in a multi-threaded
environment. Note that EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE is only useful in conjunction
with EPOLLONESHOT, and using EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE on an epoll item without
EPOLLONESHOT returns -EINVAL.
This patch also adds a new test_epoll self-test program to both
demonstrate the need for this feature and test it.
Signed-off-by: Paton J. Lewis <palewis@adobe.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Holland <pholland@adobe.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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WARNING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully
#45: FILE: drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig:380:
+config BACKLIGHT_LP8788
ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
#446: FILE: include/linux/mfd/lp8788.h:242:
+^I^I Only valid when bl_mode is LP8788_BL_COMB_PWM_BASED$
total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 403 lines checked
NOTE: whitespace errors detected, you may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or
scripts/cleanfile
./patches/backlight-add-new-lp8788-backlight-driver.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: "Kim, Milo" <Milo.Kim@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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TI LP8788 PMU supports regulators, battery charger, RTC, ADC, backlight
dri= ver and current sinks. This patch enables LP8788 backlight module.
(Brightness mode)
The brightness is controlled by PWM input or I2C register.
All modes are supported in the driver.
(Platform data)
Configurable data can be defined in the platform side.
name : backlight driver name. (default: "lcd-backlight")
initial_brightness : initial value of backlight brightness
bl_mode : brightness control by PWM or lp8788 register
dim_mode : dimming mode selection
full_scale : full scale current setting
rise_time : brightness ramp up step time
fall_time : brightness ramp down step time
pwm_pol : PWM polarity setting when bl_mode is PWM based
period_ns : platform specific PWM period value. unit is nano.
The default values are set in case no platform data is defined.
Signed-off-by: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: "devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Two rt tasks bind to one CPU core.
The higher priority rt task A preempts a lower priority rt task B which
has already taken the write seq lock, and then the higher priority rt task
A try to acquire read seq lock, it's doomed to lockup.
rt task A with lower priority: call write
i_size_write rt task B with higher priority: call sync, and preempt task A
write_seqcount_begin(&inode->i_size_seqcount); i_size_read
inode->i_size = i_size; read_seqcount_begin <-- lockup here...
So disable preempt when acquiring every i_size_seqcount *write* lock will
cure the problem.
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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smp_call_function_single()
I'm testing swapout workload in a two-socket Xeon machine. The workload
has 10 threads, each thread sequentially accesses separate memory region.
TLB flush overhead is very big in the workload. For each page, page
reclaim need move it from active lru list and then unmap it. Both need a
TLB flush. And this is a multthread workload, TLB flush happens in 10
CPUs. In X86, TLB flush uses generic smp_call)function. So this workload
stress smp_call_function_many heavily.
Without patch, perf shows:
+ 24.49% [k] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt
- 21.72% [k] _raw_spin_lock
- _raw_spin_lock
+ 79.80% __page_check_address
+ 6.42% generic_smp_call_function_interrupt
+ 3.31% get_swap_page
+ 2.37% free_pcppages_bulk
+ 1.75% handle_pte_fault
+ 1.54% put_super
+ 1.41% grab_super_passive
+ 1.36% __swap_duplicate
+ 0.68% blk_flush_plug_list
+ 0.62% swap_info_get
+ 6.55% [k] flush_tlb_func
+ 6.46% [k] smp_call_function_many
+ 5.09% [k] call_function_interrupt
+ 4.75% [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
+ 2.18% [k] find_next_bit
swapout throughput is around 1300M/s.
With the patch, perf shows:
- 27.23% [k] _raw_spin_lock
- _raw_spin_lock
+ 80.53% __page_check_address
+ 8.39% generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt
+ 2.44% get_swap_page
+ 1.76% free_pcppages_bulk
+ 1.40% handle_pte_fault
+ 1.15% __swap_duplicate
+ 1.05% put_super
+ 0.98% grab_super_passive
+ 0.86% blk_flush_plug_list
+ 0.57% swap_info_get
+ 8.25% [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
+ 7.55% [k] call_function_interrupt
+ 7.47% [k] smp_call_function_many
+ 7.25% [k] flush_tlb_func
+ 3.81% [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
+ 3.78% [k] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt
swapout throughput is around 1400M/s. So there is around a 7%
improvement, and total cpu utilization doesn't change.
Without the patch, cfd_data is shared by all CPUs.
generic_smp_call_function_interrupt does read/write cfd_data several times
which will create a lot of cache ping-pong. With the patch, the data
becomes per-cpu. The ping-pong is avoided. And from the perf data, this
doesn't make call_single_queue lock contend.
Next step is to remove generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() from arch
code.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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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>
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Create a helper function to check if a backing device requires stable page
writes and, if so, performs the necessary wait. Then, make it so that all
points in the memory manager that handle making pages writable use the
helper function. This should provide stable page write support to most
filesystems, while eliminating unnecessary waiting for devices that don't
require the feature.
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 stable page guarantees 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.
Here's the result of using dbench to test latency 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, the maximum write latency drops considerably with this
patch enabled. The other filesystems (ext3/ext4/xfs/btrfs) behave
similarly, but see the cover letter for those results.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.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: 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>
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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>
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Introduce a new set of vm event counters to keep track of ballooned pages
compaction activity.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This member of struct netns_ipvs is calculated from nr_free_buffer_pages
so change its type to unsigned long in case of overflow.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This variable is calculated from nr_free_pagecache_pages so
change its type to unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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