bcache: avoid extra memory allocation from mempool c->fill_iter

Mempool c->fill_iter is used to allocate memory for struct btree_iter in
bch_btree_node_read_done() to iterate all keys of a read-in b

bcache: avoid extra memory allocation from mempool c->fill_iter

Mempool c->fill_iter is used to allocate memory for struct btree_iter in
bch_btree_node_read_done() to iterate all keys of a read-in btree node.

The allocation size is defined in bch_cache_set_alloc() by,
mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&c->fill_iter, 1, iter_size))
where iter_size is defined by a calculation,
(sb->bucket_size / sb->block_size + 1) * sizeof(struct btree_iter_set)

For 16bit width bucket_size the calculation is OK, but now the bucket
size is extended to 32bit, the bucket size can be 2GB. By the above
calculation, iter_size can be 2048 pages (order 11 is still accepted by
buddy allocator).

But the actual size holds the bkeys in meta data bucket is limited to
meta_bucket_pages() already, which is 16MB. By the above calculation,
if replace sb->bucket_size by meta_bucket_pages() * PAGE_SECTORS, the
result is 16 pages. This is the size large enough for the mempool
allocation to struct btree_iter.

Therefore in worst case every time mempool c->fill_iter allocates, at
most 4080 pages are wasted and won't be used. Therefore this patch uses
meta_bucket_pages() * PAGE_SECTORS to calculate the iter size in
bch_cache_set_alloc(), to avoid extra memory allocation from mempool
c->fill_iter.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: add bucket_size_hi into struct cache_sb_disk for large bucket

The large bucket feature is to extend bucket_size from 16bit to 32bit.

When create cache device on zoned device (e.g. zoned NVM

bcache: add bucket_size_hi into struct cache_sb_disk for large bucket

The large bucket feature is to extend bucket_size from 16bit to 32bit.

When create cache device on zoned device (e.g. zoned NVMe SSD), making
a single bucket cover one or more zones of the zoned device is the
simplest way to support zoned device as cache by bcache.

But current maximum bucket size is 16MB and a typical zone size of zoned
device is 256MB, this is the major motiviation to extend bucket size to
a larger bit width.

This patch is the basic and first change to support large bucket size,
the major changes it makes are,
- Add BCH_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_LARGE_BUCKET for the large bucket feature,
INCOMPAT means it introduces incompatible on-disk format change.
- Add BCH_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FUNCS(large_bucket, LARGE_BUCKET) routines.
- Adds __le16 bucket_size_hi into struct cache_sb_disk at offset 0x8d0
for the on-disk super block format.
- For the in-memory super block struct cache_sb, member bucket_size is
extended from __u16 to __32.
- Add get_bucket_size() to combine the bucket_size and bucket_size_hi
from struct cache_sb_disk into an unsigned int value.

Since we already have large bucket size helpers meta_bucket_pages(),
meta_bucket_bytes() and alloc_meta_bucket_pages(), they make sure when
bucket size > 8MB, the memory allocation for bcache meta data bucket
won't fail no matter how large the bucket size extended. So these meta
data buckets are handled properly when the bucket size width increase
from 16bit to 32bit, we don't need to worry about them.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: handle btree node memory allocation properly for bucket size > 8MB

Currently the bcache internal btree node occupies a whole bucket. When
loading the btree node from cache device into memory

bcache: handle btree node memory allocation properly for bucket size > 8MB

Currently the bcache internal btree node occupies a whole bucket. When
loading the btree node from cache device into memory, mca_data_alloc()
will call bch_btree_keys_alloc() to allocate memory for the whole bucket
size, ilog2(b->c->btree_pages) is send to bch_btree_keys_alloc() as the
parameter 'page_order'.

c->btree_pages is set as bucket_pages() in bch_cache_set_alloc(), for
bucket size > 8MB, ilog2(b->c->btree_pages) is 12 for 4KB page size. By
default the maximum page order __get_free_pages() accepts is MAX_ORDER
(11), in this condition bch_btree_keys_alloc() will always fail.

Because of other over-page-order allocation failure fails the cache
device registration, such btree node allocation failure wasn't observed
during runtime. After other blocking page allocation failures for bucket
size > 8MB, this btree node allocation issue may trigger potentical risk
e.g. infinite dead-loop to retry btree node allocation after failure.

This patch fixes the potential problem by setting c->btree_pages to
meta_bucket_pages() in bch_cache_set_alloc(). In the condition that
bucket size > 8MB, meta_bucket_pages() will always return a number which
won't exceed the maximum page order of the buddy allocator.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: handle cache prio_buckets and disk_buckets properly for bucket size > 8MB

Similar to c->uuids, struct cache's prio_buckets and disk_buckets also
have the potential memory allocation failure

bcache: handle cache prio_buckets and disk_buckets properly for bucket size > 8MB

Similar to c->uuids, struct cache's prio_buckets and disk_buckets also
have the potential memory allocation failure during cache registration
if the bucket size > 8MB.

ca->prio_buckets can be stored on cache device in multiple buckets, its
in-memory space is allocated by kzalloc() interface but normally
allocated by alloc_pages() because the size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE.

So allocation of ca->prio_buckets has the MAX_ORDER restriction too. If
the bucket size > 8MB, by default the page allocator will fail because
the page order > 11 (default MAX_ORDER value). ca->prio_buckets should
also use meta_bucket_bytes(), meta_bucket_pages() to decide its memory
size and use alloc_meta_bucket_pages() to allocate pages, to avoid the
allocation failure during cache set registration when bucket size > 8MB.

ca->disk_buckets is a single bucket size memory buffer, it is used to
iterate each bucket of ca->prio_buckets, and compose the bio based on
memory of ca->disk_buckets, then write ca->disk_buckets memory to cache
disk one-by-one for each bucket of ca->prio_buckets. ca->disk_buckets
should have in-memory size exact to the meta_bucket_pages(), this is the
size that ca->prio_buckets will be stored into each on-disk bucket.

This patch fixes the above issues and handle cache's prio_buckets and
disk_buckets properly for bucket size larger than 8MB.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: handle c->uuids properly for bucket size > 8MB

Bcache allocates a whole bucket to store c->uuids on cache device, and
allocates continuous pages to store it in-memory. When the bucket size
e

bcache: handle c->uuids properly for bucket size > 8MB

Bcache allocates a whole bucket to store c->uuids on cache device, and
allocates continuous pages to store it in-memory. When the bucket size
exceeds maximum allocable continuous pages, bch_cache_set_alloc() will
fail and cache device registration will fail.

This patch allocates c->uuids by alloc_meta_bucket_pages(), and uses
ilog2(meta_bucket_pages(c)) to indicate order of c->uuids pages when
free it. When writing c->uuids to cache device, its size is decided
by meta_bucket_pages(c) * PAGE_SECTORS. Now c->uuids is properly handled
for bucket size > 8MB.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: introduce meta_bucket_pages() related helper routines

Currently the in-memory meta data like c->uuids or c->disk_buckets
are allocated by alloc_bucket_pages(). The macro alloc_bucket_pages()

bcache: introduce meta_bucket_pages() related helper routines

Currently the in-memory meta data like c->uuids or c->disk_buckets
are allocated by alloc_bucket_pages(). The macro alloc_bucket_pages()
calls __get_free_pages() to allocated continuous pages with order
indicated by ilog2(bucket_pages(c)),
#define alloc_bucket_pages(gfp, c) \
((void *) __get_free_pages(__GFP_ZERO|gfp, ilog2(bucket_pages(c))))

The maximum order is defined as MAX_ORDER, the default value is 11 (and
can be overwritten by CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER). In bcache code the
maximum bucket size width is 16bits, this is restricted both by KEY_SIZE
size and bucket_size size from struct cache_sb_disk. The maximum 16bits
width and power-of-2 value is (1<<15) in unit of sector (512byte). It
means the maximum value of bucket size in bytes is (1<<24) bytes a.k.a
4096 pages.

When the bucket size is set to maximum permitted value, ilog2(4096) is
12, which exceeds the default maximum order __get_free_pages() can
accepted, the failed pages allocation will fail cache set registration
procedure and print a kernel oops message for the exceeded pages order.

This patch introduces meta_bucket_pages(), meta_bucket_bytes(), and
alloc_bucket_pages() helper routines. meta_bucket_pages() indicates the
maximum pages can be allocated to meta data bucket, meta_bucket_bytes()
indicates the according maximum bytes, and alloc_bucket_pages() does
the pages allocation for meta bucket. Because meta_bucket_pages()
chooses the smaller value among the bucket size and MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES,
it still works when MAX_ORDER overwritten by CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER.

Following patches will use these helper routines to decide maximum pages
can be allocated for different meta data buckets. If the bucket size is
larger than meta_bucket_bytes(), the bcache registration can continue to
success, just the space more than meta_bucket_bytes() inside the bucket
is wasted. Comparing bcache failed for large bucket size, wasting some
space for meta data buckets is acceptable at this moment.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: move bucket related code into read_super_common()

Setting sb->first_bucket and checking sb->keys indeed are only for cache
device, it does not make sense to do them in read_super() for backi

bcache: move bucket related code into read_super_common()

Setting sb->first_bucket and checking sb->keys indeed are only for cache
device, it does not make sense to do them in read_super() for backing
device too.

This patch moves the related code piece into read_super_common()
explicitly for cache device and avoid the confusion.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: increase super block version for cache device and backing device

The new added super block version BCACHE_SB_VERSION_BDEV_WITH_FEATURES
(5) BCACHE_SB_VERSION_CDEV_WITH_FEATURES value (6), is

bcache: increase super block version for cache device and backing device

The new added super block version BCACHE_SB_VERSION_BDEV_WITH_FEATURES
(5) BCACHE_SB_VERSION_CDEV_WITH_FEATURES value (6), is for the feature
set bits.

Devices have super block version equal to the new version will have
three new members for feature set bits in the on-disk super block,
__le64 feature_compat;
__le64 feature_incompat;
__le64 feature_ro_compat;

They are used for further new features which may introduce on-disk
format change, and avoid unncessary super block version increase.

The very basic features handling code skeleton is also initialized in
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: fix super block seq numbers comparision in register_cache_set()

In register_cache_set(), c is pointer to struct cache_set, and ca is
pointer to struct cache, if ca->sb.seq > c->sb.seq, it me

bcache: fix super block seq numbers comparision in register_cache_set()

In register_cache_set(), c is pointer to struct cache_set, and ca is
pointer to struct cache, if ca->sb.seq > c->sb.seq, it means this
registering cache has up to date version and other members, the in-
memory version and other members should be updated to the newer value.

But current implementation makes a cache set only has a single cache
device, so the above assumption works well except for a special case.
The execption is when a cache device new created and both ca->sb.seq and
c->sb.seq are 0, because the super block is never flushed out yet. In
the location for the following if() check,
2156 if (ca->sb.seq > c->sb.seq) {
2157 c->sb.version = ca->sb.version;
2158 memcpy(c->sb.set_uuid, ca->sb.set_uuid, 16);
2159 c->sb.flags = ca->sb.flags;
2160 c->sb.seq = ca->sb.seq;
2161 pr_debug("set version = %llu\n", c->sb.version);
2162 }
c->sb.version is not initialized yet and valued 0. When ca->sb.seq is 0,
the if() check will fail (because both values are 0), and the cache set
version, set_uuid, flags and seq won't be updated.

The above problem is hiden for current code, because the bucket size is
compatible among different super block version. And the next time when
running cache set again, ca->sb.seq will be larger than 0 and cache set
super block version will be updated properly.

But if the large bucket feature is enabled, sb->bucket_size is the low
16bits of the bucket size. For a power of 2 value, when the actual
bucket size exceeds 16bit width, sb->bucket_size will always be 0. Then
read_super_common() will fail because the if() check to
is_power_of_2(sb->bucket_size) is false. This is how the long time
hidden bug is triggered.

This patch modifies the if() check to the following way,
2156 if (ca->sb.seq > c->sb.seq || c->sb.seq == 0) {
Then cache set's version, set_uuid, flags and seq will always be updated
corectly including for a new created cache device.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: disassemble the big if() checks in bch_cache_set_alloc()

In bch_cache_set_alloc() there is a big if() checks combined by 11 items
together. When this big if() statement fails, it is difficul

bcache: disassemble the big if() checks in bch_cache_set_alloc()

In bch_cache_set_alloc() there is a big if() checks combined by 11 items
together. When this big if() statement fails, it is difficult to tell
exactly which item fails indeed.

This patch disassembles this big if() checks into 11 single if() checks,
which makes code debug more easier.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: add more accurate error information in read_super_common()

The improperly set bucket or block size will trigger error in
read_super_common(). For large bucket size, a more accurate error mes

bcache: add more accurate error information in read_super_common()

The improperly set bucket or block size will trigger error in
read_super_common(). For large bucket size, a more accurate error message
for invalid bucket or block size is necessary.

This patch disassembles the combined if() checks into multiple single
if() check, and provide more accurate error message for each check
failure condition.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: add read_super_common() to read major part of super block

Later patches will introduce feature set bits to on-disk super block and
increase super block version. Current code in read_super()

bcache: add read_super_common() to read major part of super block

Later patches will introduce feature set bits to on-disk super block and
increase super block version. Current code in read_super() which reads
common part of super block for version BCACHE_SB_VERSION_CDEV and version
BCACHE_SB_VERSION_CDEV_WITH_UUID will be shared with the new version.

Therefore this patch moves the reusable part into read_super_common(),
this preparation patch will make later patches more simplier and only
focus on new feature set bits.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: avoid nr_stripes overflow in bcache_device_init()

For some block devices which large capacity (e.g. 8TB) but small io_opt
size (e.g. 8 sectors), in bcache_device_init() the stripes number ca

bcache: avoid nr_stripes overflow in bcache_device_init()

For some block devices which large capacity (e.g. 8TB) but small io_opt
size (e.g. 8 sectors), in bcache_device_init() the stripes number calcu-
lated by,
DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL(sectors, d->stripe_size);
might be overflow to the unsigned int bcache_device->nr_stripes.

This patch uses the uint64_t variable to store DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL()
and after the value is checked to be available in unsigned int range,
sets it to bache_device->nr_stripes. Then the overflow is avoided.

Reported-and-tested-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1783075
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: allocate meta data pages as compound pages

There are some meta data of bcache are allocated by multiple pages,
and they are used as bio bv_page for I/Os to the cache device. for
example cach

bcache: allocate meta data pages as compound pages

There are some meta data of bcache are allocated by multiple pages,
and they are used as bio bv_page for I/Os to the cache device. for
example cache_set->uuids, cache->disk_buckets, journal_write->data,
bset_tree->data.

For such meta data memory, all the allocated pages should be treated
as a single memory block. Then the memory management and underlying I/O
code can treat them more clearly.

This patch adds __GFP_COMP flag to all the location allocating >0 order
pages for the above mentioned meta data. Then their pages are treated
as compound pages now.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: Fix typo in Kconfig name

registraion -> registration

Fixes: 0c8d3fceade2 ("bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental")
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de

bcache: Fix typo in Kconfig name

registraion -> registration

Fixes: 0c8d3fceade2 ("bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental")
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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writeback: remove bdi->congested_fn

Except for pktdvd, the only places setting congested bits are file
systems that allocate their own backing_dev_info structures. And
pktdvd is a deprecated driver

writeback: remove bdi->congested_fn

Except for pktdvd, the only places setting congested bits are file
systems that allocate their own backing_dev_info structures. And
pktdvd is a deprecated driver that isn't useful in stack setup
either. So remove the dead congested_fn stacking infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[axboe: fixup unused variables in bcache/request.c]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations

The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in
struct request_queue instead of an operation vector. Replace it wit

block: move ->make_request_fn to struct block_device_operations

The make_request_fn is a little weird in that it sits directly in
struct request_queue instead of an operation vector. Replace it with
a block_device_operations method called submit_bio (which describes much
better what it does). Also remove the request_queue argument to it, as
the queue can be derived pretty trivially from the bio.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: stop setting ->queuedata

Nothing in bcache actually uses the ->queuedata field.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

bcache: pr_info() format clean up in bcache_device_init()

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports following warning for patch
("bcache: check and adjust logical block size for backing devices"),
WARNING:

bcache: pr_info() format clean up in bcache_device_init()

scripts/checkpatch.pl reports following warning for patch
("bcache: check and adjust logical block size for backing devices"),
WARNING: quoted string split across lines
#146: FILE: drivers/md/bcache/super.c:896:
+ pr_info("%s: sb/logical block size (%u) greater than page size "
+ "(%lu) falling back to device logical block size (%u)",

There are two things to fix up,
- The kernel message print should be in a single line.
- pr_info() won't automatically add new line since v5.8, a '\n' should
be added.

This patch just does the above cleanup in bcache_device_init().

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: use delayed kworker fo asynchronous devices registration

This patch changes the asynchronous registration kworker to a delayed
kworker. There is probability queue_work() queues the async reg

bcache: use delayed kworker fo asynchronous devices registration

This patch changes the asynchronous registration kworker to a delayed
kworker. There is probability queue_work() queues the async registration
kworker to the same CPU (even though very little), then the process
which writing sysfs interface to reigster bcache device may won't return
immeidately. queue_delayed_work() in this patch will delay 10 jiffies
before insert the kworker to run queue, which makes sure the registering
process may always returns to user space in time.

Fixes: 9e23ccf8f0a22 ("bcache: asynchronous devices registration")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: check and adjust logical block size for backing devices

It's possible for a block driver to set logical block size to
a value greater than page size incorrectly; e.g. bcache takes
the value

bcache: check and adjust logical block size for backing devices

It's possible for a block driver to set logical block size to
a value greater than page size incorrectly; e.g. bcache takes
the value from the superblock, set by the user w/ make-bcache.

This causes a BUG/NULL pointer dereference in the path:

__blkdev_get()
-> set_init_blocksize() // set i_blkbits based on ...
-> bdev_logical_block_size()
-> queue_logical_block_size() // ... this value
-> bdev_disk_changed()
...
-> blkdev_readpage()
-> block_read_full_page()
-> create_page_buffers() // size = 1 << i_blkbits
-> create_empty_buffers() // give size/take pointer
-> alloc_page_buffers() // return NULL
.. BUG!

Because alloc_page_buffers() is called with size > PAGE_SIZE,
thus it initializes head = NULL, skips the loop, return head;
then create_empty_buffers() gets (and uses) the NULL pointer.

This has been around longer than commit ad6bf88a6c19 ("block:
fix an integer overflow in logical block size"); however, it
increased the range of values that can trigger the issue.

Previously only 8k/16k/32k (on x86/4k page size) would do it,
as greater values overflow unsigned short to zero, and queue_
logical_block_size() would then use the default of 512.

Now the range with unsigned int is much larger, and users w/
the 512k value, which happened to be zero'ed previously and
work fine, started to hit this issue -- as the zero is gone,
and queue_logical_block_size() does return 512k (>PAGE_SIZE.)

Fix this by checking the bcache device's logical block size,
and if it's greater than page size, fallback to the backing/
cached device's logical page size.

This doesn't affect cache devices as those are still checked
for block/page size in read_super(); only the backing/cached
devices are not.

Apparently it's a regression from commit 2903381fce71 ("bcache:
Take data offset from the bdev superblock."), moving the check
into BCACHE_SB_VERSION_CDEV only. Now that we have superblocks
of backing devices out there with this larger value, we cannot
refuse to load them (i.e., have a similar check in _BDEV.)

Ideally perhaps bcache should use all values from the backing
device (physical/logical/io_min block size)? But for now just
fix the problematic case.

Test-case:

# IMG=/root/disk.img
# dd if=/dev/zero of=$IMG bs=1 count=0 seek=1G
# DEV=$(losetup --find --show $IMG)
# make-bcache --bdev $DEV --block 8k
< see dmesg >

Before:

# uname -r
5.7.0-rc7

[ 55.944046] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
[ 55.949742] CPU: 3 PID: 610 Comm: bcache-register Not tainted 5.7.0-rc7 #4
...
[ 55.952281] RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x1a/0x100
...
[ 55.966434] Call Trace:
[ 55.967021] create_page_buffers+0x48/0x50
[ 55.967834] block_read_full_page+0x49/0x380
[ 55.972181] do_read_cache_page+0x494/0x610
[ 55.974780] read_part_sector+0x2d/0xaa
[ 55.975558] read_lba+0x10e/0x1e0
[ 55.977904] efi_partition+0x120/0x5a6
[ 55.980227] blk_add_partitions+0x161/0x390
[ 55.982177] bdev_disk_changed+0x61/0xd0
[ 55.982961] __blkdev_get+0x350/0x490
[ 55.983715] __device_add_disk+0x318/0x480
[ 55.984539] bch_cached_dev_run+0xc5/0x270
[ 55.986010] register_bcache.cold+0x122/0x179
[ 55.987628] kernfs_fop_write+0xbc/0x1a0
[ 55.988416] vfs_write+0xb1/0x1a0
[ 55.989134] ksys_write+0x5a/0xd0
[ 55.989825] do_syscall_64+0x43/0x140
[ 55.990563] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[ 55.991519] RIP: 0033:0x7f7d60ba3154
...

After:

# uname -r
5.7.0.bcachelbspgsz

[ 31.672460] bcache: bcache_device_init() bcache0: sb/logical block size (8192) greater than page size (4096) falling back to device logical block size (512)
[ 31.675133] bcache: register_bdev() registered backing device loop0

# grep ^ /sys/block/bcache0/queue/*_block_size
/sys/block/bcache0/queue/logical_block_size:512
/sys/block/bcache0/queue/physical_block_size:8192

Reported-by: Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org>
Reported-by: Sebastian Marsching <sebastian@marsching.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental

In order to avoid the experimental async registration interface to
be treated as new kernel ABI for common users, this patch makes

bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental

In order to avoid the experimental async registration interface to
be treated as new kernel ABI for common users, this patch makes it
as an experimental kernel configure BCACHE_ASYNC_REGISTRAION.

This interface is for extreme large cached data situation, to make sure
the bcache device can always created without the udev timeout issue. For
normal users the async or sync registration does not make difference.

In future when we decide to use the asynchronous registration as default
behavior, this experimental interface may be removed.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: asynchronous devices registration

When there is a lot of data cached on cache device, the bcach internal
btree can take a very long to validate during the backing device and
cache device reg

bcache: asynchronous devices registration

When there is a lot of data cached on cache device, the bcach internal
btree can take a very long to validate during the backing device and
cache device registration. In my test, it may takes 55+ minutes to check
all the internal btree nodes.

The problem is that the registration is invoked by udev rules and the
udevd has 180 seconds timeout by default. If the btree node checking
time is longer than udevd timeout, the registering process will be
killed by udevd with SIGKILL. If the registering process has pending
sigal, creating kthread for bcache will fail and the device registration
will fail. The result is, for bcache device which cached a lot of data
on cache device, the bcache device node like /dev/bcache<N> won't create
always due to the very long btree checking time.

A solution to avoid the udevd 180 seconds timeout is to register devices
in an asynchronous way. Which is, after writing cache or backing device
path into /sys/fs/bcache/register_async, the kernel code will create a
kworker and move all the btree node checking (for cache device) or dirty
data counting (for cached device) in the kwork context. Then the kworder
is scheduled on system_wq and the registration code just returned to
user space udev rule task. By this asynchronous way, the udev task for
bcache rule will complete in seconds, no matter how long time spent in
the kworker context, it won't be killed by udevd for a timeout.

After all the checking and counting are done asynchronously in the
kworker, the bcache device will eventually be created successfully.

This patch does the above chagne and add a register sysfs file
/sys/fs/bcache/register_async. Writing the registering device path into
this sysfs file will do the asynchronous registration.

The register_async interface is for very rare condition and won't be
used for common users. In future I plan to make the asynchronous
registration as default behavior, which depends on feedback for this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: fix refcount underflow in bcache_device_free()

The problematic code piece in bcache_device_free() is,

785 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
786 {
787 struct gen

bcache: fix refcount underflow in bcache_device_free()

The problematic code piece in bcache_device_free() is,

785 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
786 {
787 struct gendisk *disk = d->disk;
[snipped]
799 if (disk) {
800 if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP)
801 del_gendisk(disk);
802
803 if (disk->queue)
804 blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue);
805
806 ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx,
807 first_minor_to_idx(disk->first_minor));
808 put_disk(disk);
809 }
[snipped]
816 }

At line 808, put_disk(disk) may encounter kobject refcount of 'disk'
being underflow.

Here is how to reproduce the issue,
- Attche the backing device to a cache device and do random write to
make the cache being dirty.
- Stop the bcache device while the cache device has dirty data of the
backing device.
- Only register the backing device back, NOT register cache device.
- The bcache device node /dev/bcache0 won't show up, because backing
device waits for the cache device shows up for the missing dirty
data.
- Now echo 1 into /sys/fs/bcache/pendings_cleanup, to stop the pending
backing device.
- After the pending backing device stopped, use 'dmesg' to check kernel
message, a use-after-free warning from KASA reported the refcount of
kobject linked to the 'disk' is underflow.

The dropping refcount at line 808 in the above code piece is added by
add_disk(d->disk) in bch_cached_dev_run(). But in the above condition
the cache device is not registered, bch_cached_dev_run() has no chance
to be called and the refcount is not added. The put_disk() for a non-
added refcount of gendisk kobject triggers a underflow warning.

This patch checks whether GENHD_FL_UP is set in disk->flags, if it is
not set then the bcache device was not added, don't call put_disk()
and the the underflow issue can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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bcache: Convert pr_<level> uses to a more typical style

Remove the trailing newline from the define of pr_fmt and add newlines
to the uses.

Miscellanea:

o Convert bch_bkey_dump from multiple uses

bcache: Convert pr_<level> uses to a more typical style

Remove the trailing newline from the define of pr_fmt and add newlines
to the uses.

Miscellanea:

o Convert bch_bkey_dump from multiple uses of pr_err to pr_cont
as the earlier conversion was inappropriate done causing multiple
lines to be emitted where only a single output line was desired
o Use vsprintf extension %pV in bch_cache_set_error to avoid multiple
line output where only a single line output was desired
o Coalesce formats

Fixes: 6ae63e3501c4 ("bcache: replace printk() by pr_*() routines")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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