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Revision tags: openbmc-20160606-1
# 3a5e02ce 05-Jun-2016 Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>

block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation

This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests wi

block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation

This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# c2df40df 05-Jun-2016 Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>

drivers: use req op accessor

The req operation REQ_OP is separated from the rq_flag_bits
definition. This converts the block layer drivers to
use req_op to get the op from the reques

drivers: use req op accessor

The req operation REQ_OP is separated from the rq_flag_bits
definition. This converts the block layer drivers to
use req_op to get the op from the request struct.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# a8ebb056 05-Jun-2016 Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>

block, drivers, cgroup: use op_is_write helper instead of checking for REQ_WRITE

We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs
like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next pa

block, drivers, cgroup: use op_is_write helper instead of checking for REQ_WRITE

We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs
like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next patches where we
no longer set up the op as a bitmap, we will not be able to
detect a operation direction like writesame by testing if REQ_WRITE is
set.

This patch converts the drivers and cgroup to use the
op_is_write helper. This should just cover the simple
cases. I did dm, md and bcache in their own patches
because they were more involved.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# 24b9f0cf 17-May-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"On top of the core pull request, this is the drivers pull request for

Merge branch 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"On top of the core pull request, this is the drivers pull request for
this merge window. This contains:

- Switch drivers to the new write back cache API, and kill off the
flush flags. From me.

- Kill the discard support for the STEC pci-e flash driver. It's
trivially broken, and apparently unmaintained, so it's safer to
just remove it. From Jeff Moyer.

- A set of lightnvm updates from the usual suspects (Matias/Javier,
and Simon), and fixes from Arnd, Jeff Mahoney, Sagi, and Wenwei
Tao.

- A set of updates for NVMe:

- Turn the controller state management into a proper state
machine. From Christoph.

- Shuffling of code in preparation for NVMe-over-fabrics, also
from Christoph.

- Cleanup of the command prep part from Ming Lin.

- Rewrite of the discard support from Ming Lin.

- Deadlock fix for namespace removal from Ming Lin.

- Use the now exported blk-mq tag helper for IO termination.
From Sagi.

- Various little fixes from Christoph, Guilherme, Keith, Ming
Lin, Wang Sheng-Hui.

- Convert mtip32xx to use the now exported blk-mq tag iter function,
from Keith"

* 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (74 commits)
lightnvm: reserved space calculation incorrect
lightnvm: rename nr_pages to nr_ppas on nvm_rq
lightnvm: add is_cached entry to struct ppa_addr
lightnvm: expose gennvm_mark_blk to targets
lightnvm: remove mgt targets on mgt removal
lightnvm: pass dma address to hardware rather than pointer
lightnvm: do not assume sequential lun alloc.
nvme/lightnvm: Log using the ctrl named device
lightnvm: rename dma helper functions
lightnvm: enable metadata to be sent to device
lightnvm: do not free unused metadata on rrpc
lightnvm: fix out of bound ppa lun id on bb tbl
lightnvm: refactor set_bb_tbl for accepting ppa list
lightnvm: move responsibility for bad blk mgmt to target
lightnvm: make nvm_set_rqd_ppalist() aware of vblks
lightnvm: remove struct factory_blks
lightnvm: refactor device ops->get_bb_tbl()
lightnvm: introduce nvm_for_each_lun_ppa() macro
lightnvm: refactor dev->online_target to global nvm_targets
lightnvm: rename nvm_targets to nvm_tgt_type
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Revision tags: v4.6.1, v4.4.12, openbmc-20160521-1, v4.4.11, openbmc-20160518-1, v4.6, v4.4.10, openbmc-20160511-1, openbmc-20160505-1, v4.4.9, v4.4.8
# a7297a6a 15-Apr-2016 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: fix filesystem corruption in case of aio/dio

Starting from commit e36f620428(block: split bios to max possible length),
block core starts to split bio in the middle of bvec.

block: loop: fix filesystem corruption in case of aio/dio

Starting from commit e36f620428(block: split bios to max possible length),
block core starts to split bio in the middle of bvec.

Unfortunately loop dio/aio doesn't consider this situation, and
always treat 'iter.iov_offset' as zero. Then filesystem corruption
is observed.

This patch figures out the offset of the base bvevc via
'bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done' and fixes the issue by passing the offset
to iov iterator.

Fixes: e36f6204288088f (block: split bios to max possible length)
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.5)
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.4.7
# 21d0727f 30-Mar-2016 Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

loop: switch to using blk_queue_write_cache()

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 54ef2b96 09-Oct-2015 Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

Merge branch 'for-4.4/core' into for-4.4/drivers

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


Revision tags: openbmc-20160329-2, openbmc-20160329-1, openbmc-20160321-1, v4.4.6, v4.5, v4.4.5, v4.4.4, v4.4.3, openbmc-20160222-1, v4.4.2, openbmc-20160212-1, openbmc-20160210-1, openbmc-20160202-2, openbmc-20160202-1, v4.4.1, openbmc-20160127-1, openbmc-20160120-1, v4.4, openbmc-20151217-1, openbmc-20151210-1, openbmc-20151202-1, openbmc-20151123-1, openbmc-20151118-1, openbmc-20151104-1, v4.3, openbmc-20151102-1, openbmc-20151028-1
# f4829a9b 27-Sep-2015 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

blk-mq: fix racy updates of rq->errors

blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currentl

blk-mq: fix racy updates of rq->errors

blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq->errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.

Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq->errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.3-rc1, v4.2, v4.2-rc8
# bc07c10a 16-Aug-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: support DIO & AIO

There are at least 3 advantages to use direct I/O and AIO on
read/write loop's backing file:

1) double cache can be avoided, then memory usage get

block: loop: support DIO & AIO

There are at least 3 advantages to use direct I/O and AIO on
read/write loop's backing file:

1) double cache can be avoided, then memory usage gets
decreased a lot

2) not like user space direct I/O, there isn't cost of
pinning pages

3) avoid context switch for obtaining good throughput
- in buffered file read, random I/O top throughput is often obtained
only if they are submitted concurrently from lots of tasks; but for
sequential I/O, most of times they can be hit from page cache, so
concurrent submissions often introduce unnecessary context switch
and can't improve throughput much. There was such discussion[1]
to use non-blocking I/O to improve the problem for application.
- with direct I/O and AIO, concurrent submissions can be
avoided and random read throughput can't be affected meantime

xfstests(-g auto, ext4) is basically passed when running with
direct I/O(aio), one exception is generic/232, but it failed in
loop buffered I/O(4.2-rc6-next-20150814) too.

Follows the fio test result for performance purpose:
4 jobs fio test inside ext4 file system over loop block

1) How to run
- KVM: 4 VCPUs, 2G RAM
- linux kernel: 4.2-rc6-next-20150814(base) with the patchset
- the loop block is over one image on SSD.
- linux psync, 4 jobs, size 1500M, ext4 over loop block
- test result: IOPS from fio output

2) Throughput(IOPS) becomes a bit better with direct I/O(aio)
-------------------------------------------------------------
test cases |randread |read |randwrite |write |
-------------------------------------------------------------
base |8015 |113811 |67442 |106978
-------------------------------------------------------------
base+loop aio |8136 |125040 |67811 |111376
-------------------------------------------------------------

- somehow, it should be caused by more page cache avaiable for
application or one extra page copy is avoided in case of direct I/O

3) context switch
- context switch decreased by ~50% with loop direct I/O(aio)
compared with loop buffered I/O(4.2-rc6-next-20150814)

4) memory usage from /proc/meminfo
-------------------------------------------------------------
| Buffers | Cached
-------------------------------------------------------------
base | > 760MB | ~950MB
-------------------------------------------------------------
base+loop direct I/O(aio) | < 5MB | ~1.6GB
-------------------------------------------------------------

- so there are much more page caches available for application with
direct I/O

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/612483/

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# ab1cb278 16-Aug-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: introduce ioctl command of LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO

If loop block is mounted via 'mount -o loop', it isn't easy
to pass file descriptor opened as O_DIRECT, so this patch
intro

block: loop: introduce ioctl command of LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO

If loop block is mounted via 'mount -o loop', it isn't easy
to pass file descriptor opened as O_DIRECT, so this patch
introduces a new command to support direct IO for this case.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# 2e5ab5f3 16-Aug-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO

This patches provides one interface for enabling direct IO
from user space:

- userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' whi

block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO

This patches provides one interface for enabling direct IO
from user space:

- userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' which is
opened/fcntl as O_DIRECT

Also __loop_update_dio() is introduced to check if direct I/O
can be used on current loop setting.

The last big change is to introduce LO_FLAGS_DIRECT_IO flag
for userspace to know if direct IO is used to access backing
file.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# e03a3d7a 16-Aug-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: use kthread_work

The following patch will use dio/aio to submit IO to backing file,
then it needn't to schedule IO concurrently from work, so
use kthread_work for decrea

block: loop: use kthread_work

The following patch will use dio/aio to submit IO to backing file,
then it needn't to schedule IO concurrently from work, so
use kthread_work for decreasing context switch cost a lot.

For non-AIO case, single thread has been used for long long time,
and it was just converted to work in v4.0, which has caused performance
regression for fedora live booting already. In discussion[1], even
though submitting I/O via work concurrently can improve random read IO
throughput, meantime it might hurt sequential read IO performance, so
better to restore to single thread behaviour.

For the following AIO support, it is better to use multi hw-queue
with per-hwq kthread than current work approach suppose there is so
high performance requirement for loop.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=143082678400002&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# 5b5e20f4 16-Aug-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: set QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES for request queue of loop

It doesn't make sense to enable merge because the I/O
submitted to backing file is handled page by page.

Signed-of

block: loop: set QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES for request queue of loop

It doesn't make sense to enable merge because the I/O
submitted to backing file is handled page by page.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.2-rc7, v4.2-rc6, v4.2-rc5, v4.2-rc4, v4.2-rc3
# 2bb4cd5c 14-Jul-2015 Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

block: have drivers use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors()

Some drivers use it now, others just set the limits field manually.
But in preparation for splitting this into a hard and soft lim

block: have drivers use blk_queue_max_discard_sectors()

Some drivers use it now, others just set the limits field manually.
But in preparation for splitting this into a hard and soft limit,
ensure that they all call the proper function for setting the hw
limit for discards.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# 1dc51b82 04-Jul-2015 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes.
fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The
file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
make simple_positive() public
ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
remove the pointless include of lglock.h
fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
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# 6a398a3e 25-Jun-2015 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'for-4.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This contains:

- a few race fixes for null_blk, from Akinobu Mi

Merge branch 'for-4.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
"This contains:

- a few race fixes for null_blk, from Akinobu Mita.

- a series of fixes for mtip32xx, from Asai Thambi and Selvan Mani at
Micron.

- NVMe:
* Fix for missing error return on allocation failure, from Axel
Lin.

* Code consolidation and cleanups from Christoph.

* Memory barrier addition, syncing queue count and queue
pointers. From Jon Derrick.

* Various fixes from Keith, an addition to support user
issue reset from sysfs or ioctl, and automatic namespace
rescan.

* Fix from Matias, avoiding losing some request flags when
marking the request failfast.

- small cleanups and sparse fixups for ps3vram. From Geert
Uytterhoeven and Geoff Lavand.

- s390/dasd dead code removal, from Jarod Wilson.

- a set of fixes and optimizations for loop, from Ming Lei.

- conversion to blkdev_reread_part() of loop, dasd, ndb. From Ming
Lei.

- updates to cciss. From Tomas Henzl"

* 'for-4.2/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
mtip32xx: Fix accessing freed memory
block: nvme-scsi: Catch kcalloc failure
NVMe: Fix IO for extended metadata formats
nvme: don't overwrite req->cmd_flags on sync cmd
mtip32xx: increase wait time for hba reset
mtip32xx: fix minor number
mtip32xx: remove unnecessary sleep in mtip_ftl_rebuild_poll()
mtip32xx: fix crash on surprise removal of the drive
mtip32xx: Abort I/O during secure erase operation
mtip32xx: fix incorrectly setting MTIP_DDF_SEC_LOCK_BIT
mtip32xx: remove unused variable 'port->allocated'
mtip32xx: fix rmmod issue
MAINTAINERS: Update ps3vram block driver
block/ps3vram: Remove obsolete reference to MTD
block/ps3vram: Fix sparse warnings
NVMe: Automatic namespace rescan
NVMe: Memory barrier before queue_count is incremented
NVMe: add sysfs and ioctl controller reset
null_blk: restart request processing on completion handler
null_blk: prevent timer handler running on a different CPU where started
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Revision tags: v4.2-rc2, v4.2-rc1, v4.1
# 9bf39ab2 19-Jun-2015 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

vfs: add file_path() helper

Turn
d_path(&file->f_path, ...);
into
file_path(file, ...);

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-b

vfs: add file_path() helper

Turn
d_path(&file->f_path, ...);
into
file_path(file, ...);

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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Revision tags: v4.1-rc8, v4.1-rc7, v4.1-rc6, v4.1-rc5
# 6a927007 20-May-2015 Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

loop: remove (now) unused 'out' label

gcc, righfully, complains:

drivers/block/loop.c:1369:1: warning: label 'out' defined but not used [-Wunused-label]

Kill it.

S

loop: remove (now) unused 'out' label

gcc, righfully, complains:

drivers/block/loop.c:1369:1: warning: label 'out' defined but not used [-Wunused-label]

Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.1-rc4, v4.1-rc3
# 06f0e9e6 05-May-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: fix another reread part failure

loop_clr_fd() can be run piggyback with lo_release(), and
under this situation, reread partition may always fail because
bd_mutex has bee

block: loop: fix another reread part failure

loop_clr_fd() can be run piggyback with lo_release(), and
under this situation, reread partition may always fail because
bd_mutex has been held already.

This patch detects the situation by the reference count, and
call __blkdev_reread_part() to avoid acquiring the lock again.

In the meantime, this patch switches to new kernel APIs
of blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# f8933667 05-May-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: don't hold lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open

The lo_ctl_mutex is held for running all ioctl handlers, and
in some ioctl handlers, ioctl_by_bdev(BLKRRPART) is called for
rereading

block: loop: don't hold lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open

The lo_ctl_mutex is held for running all ioctl handlers, and
in some ioctl handlers, ioctl_by_bdev(BLKRRPART) is called for
rereading partitions, which requires bd_mutex.

So it is easy to cause failure because trylock(bd_mutex) may
fail inside blkdev_reread_part(), and follows the lock context:

blkid or other application:
->open()
->mutex_lock(bd_mutex)
->lo_open()
->mutex_lock(lo_ctl_mutex)

losetup(set fd ioctl):
->mutex_lock(lo_ctl_mutex)
->ioctl_by_bdev(BLKRRPART)
->trylock(bd_mutex)

This patch trys to eliminate the ABBA lock dependency by removing
lo_ctl_mutext in lo_open() with the following approach:

1) make lo_refcnt as atomic_t and avoid acquiring lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open():
- for open vs. add/del loop, no any problem because of loop_index_mutex
- freeze request queue during clr_fd, so I/O can't come until
clearing fd is completed, like the effect of holding lo_ctl_mutex
in lo_open
- both open() and release() have been serialized by bd_mutex already

2) don't hold lo_ctl_mutex for decreasing/checking lo_refcnt in
lo_release(), then lo_ctl_mutex is only required for the last release.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# 4d4e41ae 05-May-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: avoiding too many pending per work I/O

If there are too many pending per work I/O, too many
high priority work thread can be generated so that
system performance can be

block: loop: avoiding too many pending per work I/O

If there are too many pending per work I/O, too many
high priority work thread can be generated so that
system performance can be effected.

This patch limits the max_active parameter of workqueue as 16.

This patch fixes Fedora 22 live booting performance
regression when it is booted from squashfs over dm
based on loop, and looks the following reasons are
related with the problem:

- not like other filesyststems(such as ext4), squashfs
is a bit special, and I observed that increasing I/O jobs
to access file in squashfs only improve I/O performance a
little, but it can make big difference for ext4

- nested loop: both squashfs.img and ext3fs.img are mounted
as loop block, and ext3fs.img is inside the squashfs

- during booting, lots of tasks may run concurrently

Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca108001328aac0e8588edd15f1778
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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# f4aa4c7b 05-May-2015 Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

block: loop: convert to per-device workqueue

Documentation/workqueue.txt:
If there is dependency among multiple work items used
during memory reclaim, they should be

block: loop: convert to per-device workqueue

Documentation/workqueue.txt:
If there is dependency among multiple work items used
during memory reclaim, they should be queued to separate
wq each with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.

Loop devices can be stacked, so we have to convert to per-device
workqueue. One example is Fedora live CD.

Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca108001328aac0e8588edd15f1778
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.1-rc2
# 6cd18e71 26-Apr-2015 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.

Because of the peculiar way that md devices are created (automatically
when the device node is opened), a new device can be created an

block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.

Because of the peculiar way that md devices are created (automatically
when the device node is opened), a new device can be created and
registered immediately after the
blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
call in del_gendisk().

Therefore it is important that all visible artifacts of the previous
device are removed before this call. In particular, the 'bdi'.

Since:
commit c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info

moved the
device_unregister(bdi->dev);
call from bdi_unregister() to bdi_destroy() it has been quite easy to
lose a race and have a new (e.g.) "md127" be created after the
blk_unregister_region() call and before bdi_destroy() is ultimately
called by the final 'put_disk', which must come after del_gendisk().

The new device finds that the bdi name is already registered in sysfs
and complains

> [ 9627.630029] WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 3330 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x5a/0x70()
> [ 9627.630032] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/9:127'

We can fix this by moving the bdi_destroy() call out of
blk_release_queue() (which can happen very late when a refcount
reaches zero) and into blk_cleanup_queue() - which happens exactly when the md
device driver calls it.

Then it is only necessary for md to call blk_cleanup_queue() before
del_gendisk(). As loop.c devices are also created on demand by
opening the device node, we make the same change there.

Fixes: c4db59d31e39ea067c32163ac961e9c80198fd37
Reported-by: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Revision tags: v4.1-rc1, v4.0
# aa4d8616 07-Apr-2015 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


Revision tags: v4.0-rc7
# 283e7e5d 03-Apr-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch /dev/loop to vfs_iter_write()

all writable files that might be used as backing store for /dev/loop
already support ->write_iter()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux

switch /dev/loop to vfs_iter_write()

all writable files that might be used as backing store for /dev/loop
already support ->write_iter()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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