Commit 73c10101 ("block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging")
removed calls to elv_bio_merged() when @bio merged with @req. Re-add them.

This in turn will update merged stats in associated group. That
should be safe as long as request has got reference to the blkio_group.
Signed-off-by: NNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We don't need them anymore, so kill:

- REQ_ON_PLUG checks in various places
- !rq_mergeable() check in plug merging
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently, all the cfq_group or throtl_group allocations happen while
we are holding ->queue_lock and sleeping is not allowed.

Soon, we will move to per cpu stats and also need to allocate the
per group stats. As one can not call alloc_percpu() from atomic
context as it can sleep, we need to drop ->queue_lock, allocate the
group, retake the lock and continue processing.

In throttling code, I check the queue DEAD flag again to make sure
that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() in the mean time.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Let's check a scenario:
1. blk_delay_queue(q, SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY);
2. blk_run_queue_async();
the second one will became a noop, because q->delay_work already has
WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT set, so the delayed work will still run after
SCSI_QUEUE_DELAY. But blk_run_queue_async actually hopes the delayed
work runs immediately.

Fix this by doing a cancel on potentially pending delayed work
before queuing an immediate run of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We don't pass in a 'force_kblockd' anymore, get rid of the
stsale comment.
Reported-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe
to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd.
But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to
kblockd, which hurts performance.

The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export
the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's
room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async
call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that
up in due time.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

With all drivers and file systems converted, we only have
in-core use of this function. So remove the export.
Reporteed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.

This reverts commit f7566457.

Conflicts:

	block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.

So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

For the explicit unplugging, we'd prefer to kick things off
immediately and not pay the penalty of the latency to switch
to kblockd. So let blk_finish_plug() do the run inline, while
the implicit-on-schedule-out unplug will punt to kblockd.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It's a bit of a mess currently. task->plug is being cleared
and reset in __blk_finish_plug(), and blk_finish_plug() is
testing for a NULL plug which cannot happen even from schedule()
anymore since it uses blk_needs_flush_plug() to determine
whether to call into this function at all.

So get rid of some of the cruft.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There are worries that we are now consuming a lot more stack in
some cases, since we potentially call into IO dispatch from
schedule() or io_schedule(). We can reduce this problem by moving
the running of the queue to kblockd, like the old plugging scheme
did as well.

This may or may not be a good idea from a performance perspective,
depending on how many tasks have queue plugs running at the same
time. For even the slightly contended case, doing just a single
queue run from kblockd instead of multiple runs directly from the
unpluggers will be faster.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The original use for this dates back to when we had to track write
requests for serializing around barriers. That's not needed anymore,
so kill it.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This was removed with the queue plug state. But we can easily readd
by checking if this is the first request going to this queue. It's
good information to have when tracing to see how effective the
plugging is.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

MD would like to know when a queue is unplugged, so it can flush
it's bitmap writes. Add such a callback.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It's done at the top to avoid doing it for every queue we unplug.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

If the request_fn ends up blocking, we could be re-entering
the plug flush. Since the list is protected by explicitly
not allowing schedule events, this isn't a terribly good idea.

Additionally, it can cause us to recurse. As request_fn called by
__blk_run_queue is allowed to 'schedule()' (after dropping the queue
lock of course), it is possible to get a recursive call:

 schedule -> blk_flush_plug -> __blk_finish_plug -> flush_plug_list
      -> __blk_run_queue -> request_fn -> schedule

We must make sure that the second schedule does not call into
blk_flush_plug again.  So instead of leaving the list of requests on
blk_plug->list, move them to a separate list leaving blk_plug->list
empty.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Comparison function for list_sort() must be anticommutative,
otherwise it is not sorting in ordinary meaning.

But fortunately list_sort() always check ((*cmp)(priv, a, b) <= 0)
it not distinguish negative and zero, so comparison function can
implement only less-or-equal instead of full three-way comparison.
Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently we just dump a non-informative 'request botched' message.
Lets actually try and print something sane to help debug issues
around this.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

When the queue work handler was converted to delayed work, the
stopping was inadvertently made sync as well. Change this back
to being async stop, using __cancel_delayed_work() instead of
cancel_delayed_work().
Reported-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Reported-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

With the introduction of the on-stack plugging, we would assume
that any request being inserted was a normal file system request.
As flush/fua requires a special insert mode, this caused problems.

Fix this up by checking for this in flush_plug_list() and use
the appropriate insert mechanism.

Big thanks goes to Markus Tripplesdorf for tirelessly testing
patches, and to Sergey Senozhatsky for helping find the real
issue.
Reported-by: NMarkus Tripplesdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

One of the disadvantages of on-stack plugging is that we potentially
lose out on merging since all pending IO isn't always visible to
everybody. When we flush the on-stack plugs, right now we don't do
any checks to see if potential merge candidates could be utilized.

Correct this by adding a new insert variant, ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE.
It works just ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT, but first checks whether we can
merge with an existing request before doing the insertion (if we fail
merging).

This fixes a regression with multiple processes issuing IO that
can be merged.

Thanks to Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> for testing and fixing
an accounting bug.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Currently we use plugging for that, but as plugging is going away,
we need an alternative mechanism.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Move blk_throtl_exit() in blk_cleanup_queue() as blk_throtl_exit() is
written in such a way that it needs queue lock. In blk_release_queue()
there is no gurantee that ->queue_lock is still around.

Initially blk_throtl_exit() was in blk_cleanup_queue() but Ingo reported
one problem.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/23/86

  And a quick fix moved blk_throtl_exit() to blk_release_queue().

        commit 7ad58c02
        Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
        Date:   Sat Oct 23 20:40:26 2010 +0200

        block: fix use-after-free bug in blk throttle code

This patch reverts above change and does not try to shutdown the
throtl work in blk_sync_queue(). By avoiding call to
throtl_shutdown_timer_wq() from blk_sync_queue(), we should also avoid
the problem reported by Ingo.

blk_sync_queue() seems to be used only by md driver and it seems to be
using it to make sure q->unplug_fn is not called as md registers its
own unplug functions and it is about to free up the data structures
used by unplug_fn(). Block throttle does not call back into unplug_fn()
or into md. So there is no need to cancel blk throttle work.

In fact I think cancelling block throttle work is bad because it might
happen that some bios are throttled and scheduled to be dispatched later
with the help of pending work and if work is cancelled, these bios might
never be dispatched.

Block layer also uses blk_sync_queue() during blk_cleanup_queue() and
blk_release_queue() time. That should be safe as we are also calling
blk_throtl_exit() which should make sure all the throttling related
data structures are cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

There does not seem to be a clear convention whether q->queue_lock is
initialized or not when blk_cleanup_queue() is called. In the past it
was not necessary but now blk_throtl_exit() takes up queue lock by
default and needs queue lock to be available.

In fact elevator_exit() code also has similar requirement just that it
is less stringent in the sense that elevator_exit() is called only if
elevator is initialized.

Two problems have been noticed because of ambiguity about spin lock
status.

      - If a driver calls blk_alloc_queue() and then soon calls
        blk_cleanup_queue() almost immediately, (because some other
	driver structure allocation failed or some other error happened)
	then blk_throtl_exit() will run into issues as queue lock is not
	initialized. Loop driver ran into this issue recently and I
	noticed error paths in md driver too. Similar error paths should
	exist in other drivers too.

      - If some driver provided external spin lock and zapped the lock
        before blk_cleanup_queue(), then it can lead to issues.

So this patch initializes the default queue lock at queue allocation time.

block throttling code is one of the users of queue lock and it is
initialized at the queue allocation time, so it makes sense to
initialize ->queue_lock also to internal lock. A driver can overide that
lock later. This will take care of the issue where a driver does not have
to worry about initializing the queue lock to default before calling
blk_cleanup_queue()
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly
or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed.
blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose
kblockd.  Add @force_kblockd.

All the current users are converted to specify %false for the
parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new
        blk-flush implementation.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio
  throttling testing.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173

o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as
  queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening
  because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling
  work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not
  finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request
  descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep.

o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and
  throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for
  such cases.

o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and
  does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NDominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net>
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Classify severity of I/O errors for target, nexus, and
transport errors.
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Skip elevator initialization for flush requests by passing priv=0 to
blk_alloc_request() in get_request().  As such elv_set_request() is
never called for flush requests.
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The current FLUSH/FUA support has evolved from the implementation
which had to perform queue draining.  As such, sequencing is done
queue-wide one flush request after another.  However, with the
draining requirement gone, there's no reason to keep the queue-wide
sequential approach.

This patch reimplements FLUSH/FUA support such that each FLUSH/FUA
request is sequenced individually.  The actual FLUSH execution is
double buffered and whenever a request wants to execute one for either
PRE or POSTFLUSH, it queues on the pending queue.  Once certain
conditions are met, a flush request is issued and on its completion
all pending requests proceed to the next sequence.

This allows arbitrary merging of different type of flushes.  How they
are merged can be primarily controlled and tuned by adjusting the
above said 'conditions' used to determine when to issue the next
flush.

This is inspired by Darrick's patches to merge multiple zero-data
flushes which helps workloads with highly concurrent fsync requests.

* As flush requests are never put on the IO scheduler, request fields
  used for flush share space with rq->rb_node.  rq->completion_data is
  moved out of the union.  This increases the request size by one
  pointer.

  As rq->elevator_private* are used only by the iosched too, it is
  possible to reduce the request size further.  However, to do that,
  we need to modify request allocation path such that iosched data is
  not allocated for flush requests.

* FLUSH/FUA processing happens on insertion now instead of dispatch.

- Comments updated as per Vivek and Mike.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

bio's for flush are completed twice - once during the data phase and
one more time after the whole sequence is complete.  The first
completion shouldn't notify completion to the issuer.

This was achieved by skipping all bio completion steps in
req_bio_endio() for the first completion; however, this has two
drawbacks.

* Error is not recorded in bio and must be tracked somewhere else.

* Partial completion is not supported.

Both don't cause problems for the current users; however, they make
further improvements difficult.  Change req_bio_endio() such that it
only skips the actual notification part for the first completion.  bio
completion is implemented with partial completions on mind anyway so
this is as simple as moving the REQ_FLUSH_SEQ conditional such that
only calling of bio_endio() is skipped.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>