The BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag is only needed when a make_request_fn might
do two allocations from the one bioset, and the second one could block
until the first bio completes.

dm_io() is called from make_request_fn() context.  The closest it comes
to multiple allocations is in chunk_io() in dm-snap-persistent.  But
there the code uses a separate thread to avoid problems.

So BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER is not needed.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

The BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag is only needed when a make_request_fn might
do two allocations from the one bioset, and the second one could block
until the first bio completes.

dm-crypt does allocate from this bioset inside the dm make_request_fn,
but does so using GFP_NOWAIT so that the allocation will not block.

So BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER is not needed.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Clarify that dm_accept_partial_bio isn't allowed for REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET
bios.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Cleanup, no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

No need to calculate the reshaping progress because
mddev->curr_resync_completed holds it.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

During reshape, 'A' chars were reported in status rather than 'a'.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

In order to avoid redoing synchronization/recovery/reshape partially,
the raid set got frozen until after all passed in table line flags had
been cleared.  The related table reload sequence had to be precisely
followed, or reshaping may lead to data corruption caused by the active
mapping carrying on with a reshape when the inactive mapping already
had retrieved a stale reshape position.

Harden by retrieving the actual resync/recovery/reshape position
during resume whilst the active table is suspended thus avoiding
to keep the raid set frozen altogether.  This prevents superfluous
redoing of an already resynchronized or recovered segment and,
most importantly, potential for redoing of an already reshaped
segment causing data corruption.

Fixes: d39f0010 ("dm raid: fix raid_resume() to keep raid set frozen as needed")
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Verifying the current raid sets redundancy based on retrieved
superblock content has to use the superblock's raid level (e.g. raid0),
not the constructor requested one (e.g. raid10).

Using the requested raid level of raid10 lead to a "divide error"
on raid0 which defines data copies divided by to be zero.

Also check for bogus data copies.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Also update Documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Move raid_resume()'s setting of 'rw' and 'in_sync' to just prior to
mddev_resume().

Also, remove unused 'bitmap_loaded' member from "struct raid_set".

No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Fix various sync state issues causing racy/bogus sync ratio,
sync_action ad health chars in dm_status() info output.

Sync ratio could be N/N (i.e. 100%) shortly after raid set
creation, i.e. creating a new RaidLV or upconverting a linear LV to
raid1 thus:
  "0 2097152 raid raid1 2 Aa 2097162/2097152 recover 0 0 -"
instead of:
  "0 2097152 raid raid1 2 Aa 0/2097152 idle 0 0 -"

Sync action could be non-idle, when the MD thread was done with io.

Health chars could be 'A' when they should be 'a' for a short time
before a resynchonization started.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

The raid_status() function passes the bool array_in_sync variable around
providing synchronization state of the MD array.  Replace it with a
runtime flag.  This will avoid a pattern of having to pass discrete
variables to various functions.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

The MD sync thread updates recovery flags providing state of any
running, idle, frozen, recovering, reshaping, ... activity it performs
and updates respective flags asynchronously versus dm processing
raid_status().  To close that race window, take a single copy of the
flags and pass it into its callees.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

During a reshape request: if userspace reloads a "raid" table multiple
times, resulting in multiple superblock reads, the raid set needs to
stay frozen until all config changes (chunk size, layout data_offset,
delta_disks) have been stored in the superblocks and respective flags
cleared.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Check all component data device sizes versus calculated size.
Reject if device(s) are too small.  Otherwise, MD will fail the
operation by accessing beyond the end of the data device.

An example use-case is that growing bitmap won't fit any more and the MD
runtime will report an error when DM raid should catch this earlier.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

The raid set size is being revalidated unconditionally before a
reshaping conversion is started.  MD requires the size to only be
reduced in case of a stripe removing (i.e. shrinking) reshape but not
when growing because the raid array has to stay small until after the
growing reshape finishes.

Fix by avoiding the size revalidation in preresume unless a shrinking
reshape is requested.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Pay attention to existing reshape space to define if a raid set needs
resizing.  Otherwise we can hit "Can't resize a reshaping raid set"
when a reshape is being requested.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

The md raid personalities call md_finish_reshape() at the end of a
reshape conversion which adjusts rdev->sectors.

Correct/check rdev->sectors before initiating a reshape and raise the
recovery pointer accordingly.

Otherwise, the DM raid coordinated reshape will fail.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

md_stop_writes() is called in raid_presuspend() causing deadlocks on
bios submitted afterwards -- which happens on loaded raid sets with
conversion requests.

Fix by moving md_stop_writes() to raid_postsuspend().  NOTE: when the
recovery's frozen (MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN), writes haven't been started (or
are already stopped) so don't stop them again.

Also remove superfluous readonly setting.
Signed-off-by: NHeinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

When system is under memory pressure it is observed that dm bufio
shrinker often reclaims only one buffer per scan. This change fixes
the following two issues in dm bufio shrinker that cause this behavior:

1. ((nr_to_scan - freed) <= retain_target) condition is used to
terminate slab scan process. This assumes that nr_to_scan is equal
to the LRU size, which might not be correct because do_shrink_slab()
in vmscan.c calculates nr_to_scan using multiple inputs.
As a result when nr_to_scan is less than retain_target (64) the scan
will terminate after the first iteration, effectively reclaiming one
buffer per scan and making scans very inefficient. This hurts vmscan
performance especially because mutex is acquired/released every time
dm_bufio_shrink_scan() is called.
New implementation uses ((LRU size - freed) <= retain_target)
condition for scan termination. LRU size can be safely determined
inside __scan() because this function is called after dm_bufio_lock().

2. do_shrink_slab() uses value returned by dm_bufio_shrink_count() to
determine number of freeable objects in the slab. However dm_bufio
always retains retain_target buffers in its LRU and will terminate
a scan when this mark is reached. Therefore returning the entire LRU size
from dm_bufio_shrink_count() is misleading because that does not
represent the number of freeable objects that slab will reclaim during
a scan. Returning (LRU size - retain_target) better represents the
number of freeable objects in the slab. This way do_shrink_slab()
returns 0 when (LRU size < retain_target) and vmscan will not try to
scan this shrinker avoiding scans that will not reclaim any memory.

Test: tested using Android device running
<AOSP>/system/extras/alloc-stress that generates memory pressure
and causes intensive shrinker scans
Signed-off-by: NSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Commit ca5beb76 ("dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to
MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH") caused bio-based DM-multipath to fail mptest's
"test_02_sdev_delete".

Restoring the logic that existed prior to commit ca5beb76 fixes this
bio-based DM-multipath regression.  Also verified all mptest tests pass
with request-based DM-multipath.

This commit effectively reverts commit ca5beb76 -- but it does so
without reintroducing the need to take the m->lock spinlock in
must_push_back_{rq,bio}.

Fixes: ca5beb76 ("dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.12+
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

A NULL pointer is seen if two concurrent "vgchange -ay -K <vg name>"
processes race to load the dm-thin-pool module:

 PID: 25992 TASK: ffff883cd7d23500 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "vgchange"
  #0 [ffff883cd743d600] machine_kexec at ffffffff81038fa9
  0000001 [ffff883cd743d660] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c5992
  0000002 [ffff883cd743d730] oops_end at ffffffff81515c90
  0000003 [ffff883cd743d760] no_context at ffffffff81049f1b
  0000004 [ffff883cd743d7b0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8104a1a5
  0000005 [ffff883cd743d800] bad_area at ffffffff8104a2ce
  0000006 [ffff883cd743d830] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8104aa6f
  0000007 [ffff883cd743d950] do_page_fault at ffffffff81517bae
  0000008 [ffff883cd743d980] page_fault at ffffffff81514f95
     [exception RIP: kmem_cache_alloc+108]
     RIP: ffffffff8116ef3c RSP: ffff883cd743da38 RFLAGS: 00010046
     RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffffffff81121b90 RCX: ffff881bf1e78cc0
     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 0000000000000000
     RBP: ffff883cd743da68 R8: ffff881bf1a4eb00 R9: 0000000080042000
     R10: 0000000000002000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000d0
     R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: 0000000000000246
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
  0000009 [ffff883cd743da70] mempool_alloc_slab at ffffffff81121ba5
 0000010 [ffff883cd743da80] mempool_create_node at ffffffff81122083
 0000011 [ffff883cd743dad0] mempool_create at ffffffff811220f4
 0000012 [ffff883cd743dae0] pool_ctr at ffffffffa08de049 [dm_thin_pool]
 0000013 [ffff883cd743dbd0] dm_table_add_target at ffffffffa0005f2f [dm_mod]
 0000014 [ffff883cd743dc30] table_load at ffffffffa0008ba9 [dm_mod]
 0000015 [ffff883cd743dc90] ctl_ioctl at ffffffffa0009dc4 [dm_mod]

The race results in a NULL pointer because:

Process A (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target not registered;
 	c. modprobe dm_thin_pool and wait until end.

Process B (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target registered;
 	c. table_load->dm_table_add_target->pool_ctr;
 	d. _new_mapping_cache is NULL and panic.
Note:
 	1. process A and process B are two concurrent processes.
 	2. pool_target can be detected by process B but
 	_new_mapping_cache initialization has not ended.

To fix dm-thin-pool, and other targets (cache, multipath, and snapshot)
with the same problem, simply dm_register_target() after all resources
created during module init (as labelled with __init) are finished.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nmonty <monty_pavel@sina.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Multiple refcounts are needed if the device was already added.  The
micro-optimization of setting the refcount to 1 on first added (rather
than fall thru to a common refcount_inc) lost sight of the fact that the
refcount_inc is also needed for the case when the device already exists
and the mode need not be upgraded.

Fixes: 2a0b4682 ("dm: convert dm_dev_internal.count from atomic_t to refcount_t")
Reported-by: NZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

Pull ARM fix from Russell King:
 "Just one fix this time around, for the late commit in the merge window
  that triggered a problem with qemu. Qemu is apparently also going to
  receive a fix for the discovered issue"

* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: avoid faulting on qemu

Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
 "Here are two bugfixes for I2C, fixing a memleak in the core and irq
  allocation for i801.

  Also three bugfixes for the at24 eeprom driver which Bartosz collected
  while taking over maintainership for this driver"

* 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
  eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments
  eeprom: at24: fix reading from 24MAC402/24MAC602
  eeprom: at24: correctly set the size for at24mac402
  i2c: i2c-boardinfo: fix memory leaks on devinfo
  i2c: i801: Fix Failed to allocate irq -2147483648 error

Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.15-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging

Pull hwmon fixes from Guenter Roeck:
 "Fixes:

   - Drop reference to obsolete maintainer tree

   - Fix overflow bug in pmbus driver

   - Fix SMBUS timeout problem in jc42 driver

  For the SMBUS timeout handling, we had a brief discussion if this
  should be considered a bug fix or a feature. Peter says "it fixes real
  problems where the application misbehave due to faulty content when
  reading from an eeprom", and he needs the patch in his company's v4.14
  images. This is good enough for me and warrants backport to stable
  kernels"

* tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.15-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  hwmon: (jc42) optionally try to disable the SMBUS timeout
  hwmon: (pmbus) Use 64bit math for DIRECT format values
  hwmon: Drop reference to Jean's tree

Merge tag 'at24-4.15-fixes-for-wolfram' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux into i2c/for-current

Please consider pulling the following fixes for v4.15. While it doesn't
fix any regression introduced in the v4.15 merge window, we have a
feature in at24 since linux v4.8 - reading the mac address block from
at24mac series - which turned out to be not working.

This pull request contains changes that fix it together with a patch
that hardens the read and write argument sanitization with
out-of-bounds checks that were missing.

Pull NFS client fixes from Anna Schumaker:
 "These patches fix a problem with compiling using an old version of
  gcc, and also fix up error handling in the SUNRPC layer.

   - NFSv4: Ensure gcc 4.4.4 can compile initialiser for
     "invalid_stateid"

   - SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH

   - SUNRPC: Handle ENETDOWN errors"

* tag 'nfs-for-4.15-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs:
  SUNRPC: Handle ENETDOWN errors
  SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH
  NFSv4: Ensure gcc 4.4.4 can compile initialiser for "invalid_stateid"

Pull xfs fixes from Darrick Wong:
 "Here are some bug fixes for 4.15-rc2.

   - fix memory leaks that appeared after removing ifork inline data
     buffer

   - recover deferred rmap update log items in correct order

   - fix memory leaks when buffer construction fails

   - fix memory leaks when bmbt is corrupt

   - fix some uninitialized variables and math problems in the quota
     scrubber

   - add some omitted attribution tags on the log replay commit

   - fix some UBSAN complaints about integer overflows with large sparse
     files

   - implement an effective inode mode check in online fsck

   - fix log's inability to retry quota item writeout due to transient
     errors"

* tag 'xfs-4.15-fixes-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
  xfs: Properly retry failed dquot items in case of error during buffer writeback
  xfs: scrub inode mode properly
  xfs: remove unused parameter from xfs_writepage_map
  xfs: ubsan fixes
  xfs: calculate correct offset in xfs_scrub_quota_item
  xfs: fix uninitialized variable in xfs_scrub_quota
  xfs: fix leaks on corruption errors in xfs_bmap.c
  xfs: fortify xfs_alloc_buftarg error handling
  xfs: log recovery should replay deferred ops in order
  xfs: always free inline data before resetting inode fork during ifree

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-4.15-rc2_cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux

Pull RISC-V cleanups and ABI fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:
 "This contains a handful of small cleanups that are a result of
  feedback that didn't make it into our original patch set, either
  because the feedback hadn't been given yet, I missed the original
  emails, or we weren't ready to submit the changes yet.

  I've been maintaining the various cleanup patch sets I have as their
  own branches, which I then merged together and signed. Each merge
  commit has a short summary of the changes, and each branch is based on
  your latest tag (4.15-rc1, in this case). If this isn't the right way
  to do this then feel free to suggest something else, but it seems sane
  to me.

  Here's a short summary of the changes, roughly in order of how
  interesting they are.

   - libgcc.h has been moved from include/lib, where it's the only
     member, to include/linux. This is meant to avoid tab completion
     conflicts.

   - VDSO entries for clock_get/gettimeofday/getcpu have been added.
     These are simple syscalls now, but we want to let glibc use them
     from the start so we can make them faster later.

   - A VDSO entry for instruction cache flushing has been added so
     userspace can flush the instruction cache.

   - The VDSO symbol versions for __vdso_cmpxchg{32,64} have been
     removed, as those VDSO entries don't actually exist.

   - __io_writes has been corrected to respect the given type.

   - A new READ_ONCE in arch_spin_is_locked().

   - __test_and_op_bit_ord() is now actually ordered.

   - Various small fixes throughout the tree to enable allmodconfig to
     build cleanly.

   - Removal of some dead code in our atomic support headers.

   - Improvements to various comments in our atomic support headers"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-4.15-rc2_cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux: (23 commits)
  RISC-V: __io_writes should respect the length argument
  move libgcc.h to include/linux
  RISC-V: Clean up an unused include
  RISC-V: Allow userspace to flush the instruction cache
  RISC-V: Flush I$ when making a dirty page executable
  RISC-V: Add missing include
  RISC-V: Use define for get_cycles like other architectures
  RISC-V: Provide stub of setup_profiling_timer()
  RISC-V: Export some expected symbols for modules
  RISC-V: move empty_zero_page definition to C and export it
  RISC-V: io.h: type fixes for warnings
  RISC-V: use RISCV_{INT,SHORT} instead of {INT,SHORT} for asm macros
  RISC-V: use generic serial.h
  RISC-V: remove spin_unlock_wait()
  RISC-V: `sfence.vma` orderes the instruction cache
  RISC-V: Add READ_ONCE in arch_spin_is_locked()
  RISC-V: __test_and_op_bit_ord should be strongly ordered
  RISC-V: Remove smb_mb__{before,after}_spinlock()
  RISC-V: Remove __smp_bp__{before,after}_atomic
  RISC-V: Comment on why {,cmp}xchg is ordered how it is
  ...

Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "The critical one here is a fix for fpsimd register corruption across
  signals which was introduced by the SVE support code (the register
  files overlap), but the others are worth having as well.

  Summary:

   - Fix FP register corruption when SVE is not available or in use

   - Fix out-of-tree module build failure when CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y

   - Missing 'const' generating errors with LTO builds

   - Remove unsupported events from Cortex-A73 PMU description

   - Removal of stale and incorrect comments"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: context: Fix comments and remove pointless smp_wmb()
  arm64: cpu_ops: Add missing 'const' qualifiers
  arm64: perf: remove unsupported events for Cortex-A73
  arm64: fpsimd: Fix failure to restore FPSIMD state after signals
  arm64: pgd: Mark pgd_cache as __ro_after_init
  arm64: ftrace: emit ftrace-mod.o contents through code
  arm64: module-plts: factor out PLT generation code for ftrace
  arm64: mm: cleanup stale AIVIVT references

Olaf said: Here's a short series of patches that produces a working
allmodconfig. Would be nice to see them go in so we can add build
coverage.

I've dropped patches 8 and 10 from the original set:

* [PATCH 08/10] (RISC-V: Set __ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT to pick up generic
  version) has a better fix that I've sent out for review, we don't want
  renameat.
* [PATCH 10/10] (input: joystick: riscv has get_cycles) has already been
  taken into Dmitry Torokhov's tree.

This merge contains the user-visible, ABI-breaking changes that we want
to make sure we have in Linux before our first release.   Highlights
include:

* VDSO entries for clock_get/gettimeofday/getcpu have been added.  These
  are simple syscalls now, but we want to let glibc use them from the
  start so we can make them faster later.
* A VDSO entry for instruction cache flushing has been added so
  userspace can flush the instruction cache.
* The VDSO symbol versions for __vdso_cmpxchg{32,64} have been removed,
  as those VDSO entries don't actually exist.

Conflicts:
        arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h

This patch set is the result of some feedback that filtered through
after our original patch set was reviewed, some of which was the result
of me missing some email.  It contains:

* A new READ_ONCE in arch_spin_is_locked()
* __test_and_op_bit_ord() is now actually ordered
* Improvements to various comments
* Removal of some dead code

Whoops -- I must have just been being an idiot again.  Thanks to Segher
for finding the bug :).

CC: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>

Introducing a new include/lib directory just for this file totally
messes up tab completion for include/linux, which is highly annoying.

Move it to include/linux where we have headers for all kinds of other
lib/ code as well.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>

Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Two fixes for nasty kexec/kdump crashes in certain configurations.

  A couple of minor fixes for the new TIDR code.

  A fix for an oops in a CXL error handling path.

  Thanks to: Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Lombard, David Gibson, Mahesh
  Salgaonkar, Vaibhav Jain"

* tag 'powerpc-4.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc: Do not assign thread.tidr if already assigned
  powerpc: Avoid signed to unsigned conversion in set_thread_tidr()
  powerpc/kexec: Fix kexec/kdump in P9 guest kernels
  powerpc/powernv: Fix kexec crashes caused by tlbie tracing
  cxl: Check if vphb exists before iterating over AFU devices